How do you decide to whitelist people?

Whitelists mean nothing.

Blacklists mean everything.

Well. do not know.
However, those who "provide a topic on something that people in other countries don't know" will be preferred.
I have heard that others say that "Won: Send" prefers to be nearly equal.

If there are a few comments, you will feel that you can communicate and be trusted.
For example, if you are a Turkish merchant, you may "talk with tea" in the store to speak more slowly?(o'ω')🍵☕('Θ'o)
I feel that there is an element similar to that.

The easy thing is to say "Thank you firmly."
There are a lot of people who do "appropriate response" when one does not say even if we win.

I hope you have a great day.d(･Θ･｡)

The white list says that you definitely will not give the game to bots.
The blacklist says that you have already given the game to one of the bots and you do not want him to win your game again.

I add to the white list of people who gave a lot to the community, but won little.

Welcome to SG! I hope you really enjoy it here!

How people whitelist varies from person to person and time to time. A WL serves as both a reminder (Oh, yeah, I liked this person!--Even more so if you have ESGST turned on and WL'd people tagged or highlghted) and as an elite group. As such, I cannot tell you all the reasons people have, but I can tell you of some.

Reasons that I can find sufficient to WL (especially if more than one of them is true) include the following:

• Being among my Good Friends (IRL or internet)
• Being very helpful, kind, caring, etc to me (or to others).
• Being an all-around nice and courteous person (realizing that of course yes, we all can get ticked off and say something we later regret, but hopefully these occasions are rare and overall we are of a calm and pleasant demeanor).
• Funny
• An outstanding ratio of games or value sent vs won, especially if the user in question has not won very much.
• As a way of saying "thank you" for a favor done freely, without expecting anything in return,
• For the sake of Auld Lang Syne and good times we have had together, even if we have now gone our separate ways (for the most part, anyway).
• For being someone who I see as being unfairly picked upon by trolls (or otherwise unpleasant people/people having an unpleasant moment) for a statement they said or an action they did which was not immediately popular with those heaping scorn, insults, etc. This goes double if I agree with the statement or action in question.
• Being among my favorite people.
• As an unsought, unasked for "thanks" for being WL'd.
• In order to get five entries for a WL-only or WL-plus-group giveaway which acquired far fewer entries than I had anticipated. (There is even a whole thread dedicated to the same)
• Because they asked nicely, I'd had previous positive interactions with them on discord, steam, or especially SG (or recognize them as having had nice interactions with others), and I felt generous.
• Because, for some other quantifiable or unquantifiable reason, I decided to.

I hope this list is of some help to you!

Thank you very much for your generosity, even though I am not entering this one (I already own it).

For some reasons I don’t often do public gibs
So I’d whitelist below SGers cuz I hope they could have chance to win sth from me 🍀

1. In my friend list cuz I like them 💕
2. Random creators when I join their public gibs 💝
3. Who posted interesting threads or comments in Discussion channel like puzzles 🧩

P.S. I have a 900+ whitelist and I update the list frequently, so I never ask for blue heart or promise to do whitelist for whitelist 🎃

Simple. If I'd want to spend some time with people I put them onto my whitelist. If I'd avoid to spend time with them, they are candidates for the blacklist.

Nate's whitelist reasons:

 • Level 5+. (Not achieved mainly by 1$ bundles)
 • Lots of public / open groups GA's. (Recent too)
 • Don't have too many region restricted GA's. (In %)
 • Have and maintain a ratio greater than 1.337 1.10 (Real CV)
 • Average GA length, 24 hrs or more. (One world =/= one time zone)

All those from whom I have won a game, except for errors or omissions, are on my white list.

Also those that when I have opened a thread have participated in a useful way or have been kind or funny

Also those who have done the above in other people's threads.

Finally, some people who have said something or done something worth mentioning, in my twisted scale of values. (I basically add them because XDDDDDD)

As my list is short, it is my wish that it be so, when it reaches 70 people I erase those people who do not remember who they are or who I think I have already fulfilled "my obligation" to give them the opportunity to earn something. Some I delete immediately after winning something of mine.

1. Not being a douche-bag.
2. See number 1.

- be nice on sg
- play your wins
- reply to whitelist giveaways
- don't ally with the enemy ^^

in general nice people, from here, steam, discord, games with good sg stats

I whitelist if someone wins a game and says thank you, or if I win a game from them (I always say thank you).
I will usually save my nicer giveaways for whitelist only. That way I know those special gems will be going to someone who will appreciate them.

I only blacklist people who don't redeem games they've won.

“It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
— Deitrich Bonheiffer

Oh, it's a train

I tend to focus on certain factors whether they are active on the forums and promote/contribute to the community in a positive way, stats/ratio/games given to some extent, whether they are helpful on the forums especially when people ask for/need help, if they're funny although this can be hard to read sometimes etc.

Its your whitelist so you can put who you want on it for any reason you wish.

Looking at the people responding to your thread, I am pretty sure even without checking them that most are already on it.

I have a long list of whitelisted people, which were chosen with the following idea in mind - "If you're an active, friendly member of this community, I've most likely whitelisted you". These days though, I don't update the list anymore, mainly because of my lack of SG activity outside of obligatory ratio-based group giveaways. I even ended up having some whitelisted people blacklist me, still not sure why, and I personally feel no bitterness against them (although I have to admit it kinda made me sad when I realized it), so I never removed them from my whitelist. :D

As for blacklists, I like to believe I use it "wisely" only towards people who are exceedingly rude, racist/discriminatory and disrespectful, or people who willingly break the website rules (while fully aware that what they are doing is wrong). In general, you have to do something so damn bad I wouldn't feel comfortable giving you something if you happened to win my giveaway. That's quite the exploit, especially when my blacklist counts 27 users (opposed to my 276 whitelisted). None of these are active users nowadays and most are banned now.

My preferences aside, whitelisting/blacklisting is a choice entirely up to the user. Some people will blacklist you for your ratio, opinion, attitude, putting pineapple on pizza, or liking k-pop (I don't blame them... just kidding, just kidding!). They'll whitelist you for being nice, funny, entertaining, having been whitelisted, ratio, giveaways, or even putting pineapple on your pizza (ALRIGHT WHO'S THE MONSTER??).

Point is... don't let others tell you how, where and when to use your ability to whitelist/blacklist. The whitelist feature is an especially useful tool to use when you need to create giveaways for a "group", without having to invite everyone to a Steam group. The blacklist could be even used practically as part of an event etc, to prevent "eliminated" users from entering the giveaways, etc. These two can be used in many ways, and how you decide to use them is up to you.

I am not really active anymore but when i used to use whitelist it's for people whom i enjoyed interacting with and i know they will care about the game if they would win. Because mostly i had created the games i have enjoyed or well recieved reviews for my whitelist.

i mostly whitelis activet ppl with a good ratio and lots of public giveaways and if they are active in forums.

i can add a person to my BL/WL on a whim(ratio after winning from me, having a conversation with them, reading their comments, seeing threads they open, heck even their profile picture).
guess what, that's the same for everyone.
if it matters to you, you will get BL for opening threads, you will get BL for making GA's, you will get BL for breathing, and you will get WL for the same reasons, just be a good person, try to help the community, and sooner or later you will get your WL's in addition.

I'm trying to add to my whitelist people who, in my opinion, make SG a better place.

I dont really bother with whitelist giveaways so I only have 49. Out of those people they are typically people I've talked to or respect. The rest would be people that have whitelisted me that I think deserve a whitelist back. I wouldn't personally do a wl thread since damn do those people get so many comments but hey it certainly gets all the people together

I'm more curious to know why on earth some people have whitelisted me. No complaining tho

So if someone blacklists you does that mean they also can't enter giveaways made by the person they blacklisted ?

Coz that would be uncool
,someone who takes things so seriously that they don't want you entering their giveaways but they can still enter yours.

I tend to whitelist anyone that participated in any of my karaoke threads, other then that I use https://www.steamgifts.com/account/steam/friends as people on my steam friends list are a good place to start

I'd like a tit-4-tat button :)
Wouldn't have to show any names.
Just a pop-up notification ,"You have just been blacklisted ,do you wish to blacklist back ?" :)

Why not ? Makes sense to me ,if you have to take a site down this blacklisting road.