Well for one, if it's only viewable to the mods/admin, how do you expect the winner to add them? Sometimes winners add the giveawayer to give them a friendly reminder, in-case the person who started the giveaway forgot. Though any of them should either add the winner via link on the giveaway page, (Which leads to you your profile/steam as you know) and do it that way to ensure the person says who they really are, or like as pointed out in the sticky, send it via the email the winner provided. If the email is somehow wrong, that's on the winner, not the host of the giveaway.
Second is for users to be able to check the host's actual profile to 'guesstimate' if they're hosting a 'legit' or 'fake' giveaway, which does determine if people take part or not. Having the ability to check to see if the person giving the game away actually has the game or any games in their profile besides free/exploited ones. Can help save people from wasting points. Yes, they get refunded if found fake, but why bother taking the risk if you can look up yourself to give you a bit of a guess, and save yourself the trouble. If you can't search it, or if the giveaway host doesn't notify it on the page, the report button would be moot.
Yes, some people do use the ability to see the winner and host as ways to scam them, but there are methods available for people to avoid the problem by clicking for the actual profile/comparing steam id numbers, and just use good practice by skipping all that and sending the gift via the provided email.
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A slightly less impractical idea: Don't disclose the winner of a giveaway to the public until he either marks the gift as received, or one week later (when he can report the gift as "not received").
Scammers wouldn't know who to impersonate, but it wouldn't help with people dumb enough to not even check the name of who won on SG.
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I'd like a system that gives points back if the gift is marked as not received. Also +1
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Ok, so you don't like it. Anyway, the point system is weak as well, so combining tickets with the ability to increase their maximum amount per account by creating giveaways, would be a good replacement for points. And that thing with hiding the winner's name is good too.
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Yeah you can't do that because everyone has the right to know the credentials of the giver. I heard a post though before that suggested the site should not release the names of the winners of the giveaways. I am in full support of this. but i think it would take away from the site looking legit. New people can't just look around and see how random the winners are. However, this being said, why cant we just hide the names of the winners until after they receive their gift?
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Once a user creates at least one giveaway, the site should mark him as a "giveawayer", and thus make his profile viewable by moders/admins only from now on. Would increase the safety of new giveawayers, who might still remain unfamiliar with the phenomena of Steam scam.
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