Does a suspension absolve users from unactivated wins?

I doubt there's a fix for this. While the solutions, which have been offered by a lot of SG users look fair enough, not everyone would care enough to fix their mistakes (or have the opportunity to do so for some other reason), especially if they're unactive on forums and less likely to be noticed.

SGTools might not be official but as you can use it for grounds for a reroll it has effectively been endorsed.

is this really necessary? -.-
users have 2 chances to get suspended for unactivated wins, a 3rd time means a perma-suspension.

if everyone followed what khalaq said here, we wouldn't have people complaining they found a user with 5+ unactivated/multiple wins at once.
this site runs based on teamwork, not just support and automatic rules making it better, users also have to help...

Nope. You should take care of it and fix your profile. My opinion is the same for multiple wins (though, like you said, it is more difficult to fix these, so I'm lenient if they happened on, say, the same day, but if they're months apart it means there was a non-activation followed by a second win) and I don't think it's fair to give games to people who break rules and don't try to fix it.

Skipping the question of whether the suspension system is appropriate for non-activated wins and looking more at the need to report / have staff respond aspect -

If a user is being suspended for non-activation of giveways, an option would be to have the giveaway(s) for which the suspension was handed out marked in some way as "completed" so that the user isn't reported again for the same giveaway. I don't know what the support staff tools for these things look like, but it would seem like at the time the suspension is handed out, staff could simply put a check next to the giveaway(s) warranting the suspension if that was the reason for the action, so that the next time, it would be readily apparent whether the infractions are old or require further report.. Presumably SGTools could then check for this as well and report "time served" non-activations in a different way.

There's a simpler solution. If a user has had their suspension it should be stated in the list of their wins. Then a GA creator etc. can see it and doesn't need to request a reroll.
Edit: Zupe00 above just wrote practically the same thing.

How about this.

If someone gets suspension for not activating giveaway, the winner for that giveaway is changed to CG.

GA creator gets his CV, suspended user can no longer be reported for that activated win.

CG can't be suspended because hes admin.

We then have a proof this site is a scam because admin takes wins for himself :P

mistakes get made, and people should be given the chance to fix it, but, activate your fucking wins

I don't really mind as I rarely make a lot of public GAs at the same time, however, I see how that could be a problem for people who do.
Simple solution - remove the won, not activated, punished wins from their profile.

Totally agree with OP here. Started going through this burden once I began enforcing rule checking after losing trust in winners.

There's nothing good that can be said over those that win a gift but don't activate it and even worse those that re-gift or re-trade the won gift.

SG rules should popup for a mandatory read for everyone when logging into Steamgifts and when registering on Steamgifts.

Also I find that the three strikes rule is too lenient and should be changed to perma-ban on the second infraction so that every (new) SG user knows that not activating won gifts is one of the worst offences that can be made on SG.

It would be very simple:

1) First infraction: warning and a seven days suspension
2) Second infraction: perma-ban

In all honesty I think that only the regifters themselves, some of their buddies and maybe those that are unaware of how low and how bad not activating a won gift is would vote against this...

SGT giveaways with the three most used reqs (all activated, no multiple wins and no VAC bans) are imho the best way to go to counter the worst that SG has to offer.

That's why I thought another idea of someone who posted in the forums recently was good: Display on profile how many days ago a user served a suspension (if it's within the last 2 months). And yes, I just recommend everyone to activate their god damn keys. I almost made that mistake in the beginning of me being here too, but if that would happen I would have just bought the game and activate it. It's worse than people think, I've blacklisted tons of people for that or multiple wins (especially when they already served a suspension and I have to send them the game + they still didn't think it was necessary getting the non-activated game somewhere to add to their account... Then I'm EXTRA-blacklisting them. MEH :/)

I still think all suspensions and their reasons should be mentioned in everyones profile. The whole "public shaming" and whatnot is crap. We were suspended for the reasons we were suspended for. Is that something to hide? If everybody realized that there is nothing to hide and no reason to be ashamed, there can be no "public shaming" because nobody gives a crap.

Yirg, I like your idea "Add an option like the one in SGTools ("[x] Activated all won games") and make it the default for all giveaways"

I would be fine with the current "time served" policy if the penalties were harsher, but how punishing is a suspension of just a few days really? I mean if you aren't a daily site addict (like most of us here in the forum) you might serve a suspension without even noticing. Hardly seems like "time served" to me.

Nope.
There is no month I'd not see member of one of groups i'm part of looking to trade for a key that for some reason turned out to be invalid/duplicated. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes they buy new copy from the store. They could take not-received or delete the GA under "key no longer available" reason, but instead choose to fix the mistake on theirs end. Why regifters can't do the same is beyond me (except rare cases where it's next to impossible to by that particular game) and I'd hearthily welcome checkbox "no unactivated wins" on GA creation page. Suspension is only discipline tool, it doesn't take off responsibility to fix mistakes

Hey Yirg, I thought of another analogy with which we might make our case: the military concept of "stolen valor":

"The law amends the federal criminal code to make it a crime for a person to fraudulently claim having received a valor award specified in the Act, with the intention of obtaining money, property, or other tangible benefit by convincing another that he or she received the award."
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Valor_Act_of_2013

This is a criminal act in the U.S. and many other countries, and I think it may be comprehensible to more people. My thread is still going (https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/0uN99/suggestion-re-gifters-should-be-required-to-clear-their-record-of-unactivated-wins) but it's readily apparent that none of the site staff were convinced. So we perhaps can try this approach next time.

By the way, I sent you a Steam friend request, but I'll take no offense if you decline.

I'm bumping this thread. I believe that the current system is far too lenient on Unactivated Wins.
I just blacklisted a user for 10 Unactivated Wins (7 of which have been Regifted so far) in the past 14 months.
We need tougher penalties for users who flagrantly break the rules. At which point will a user like that finally be
permabanned? They clearly do not belong or deserve to be on this website.

EDIT: Godly Staff, the user in question has been permabanned due to the report.

I just recently started to check winners and was really shocked how many had inactivated wins
I reported 10 and 8 got suspended