Posting this:

"Hello, you won a game from me on Steam Gifts. Could you please accept my friend request so I can send you the gift? Thank you."

On a profile of a winner.

This is fucking ridiculous.

What I wanna know is - was it reported by someone (namely, the person I wrote this comment for)? Or somehow Steam staff found it by themselves (which I doubt).

Edit: Steam admitted it was a mistake and lifted the restriction:

"It appears that your account has been locked for suspicious content. I just checked the content in question, and it appears that a mistake was made.

We've gone ahead and removed the lock.

If you have any further questions, please let us know - we will be happy to assist you."

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The answer is probably neither. Probably an automated system restricted you for using sus words such as "you won".

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Damn, that sucks, thanks!

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AI mods flagged it. It's better to say something like, "Hey, "x game" is waiting for you on SG. Cheers!" or somesuch. Don't mention giveaways or winning. There are too many Steam scams that use that terminology, so AI moderation is keyed to it.

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That sucks! Thanks!

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Think it is Steams automated scam detection system. There were some many threads here on SG about this over the last year.

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Thanks, this sucks tho!

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It's been happening a lot lately. Just open a ticket in support and explain the situation, as far as I know everyone has had the restriction removed after that.

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I already did, hopefully I won't have to wait long...

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I believe people recommend against saying gift or such, or even posting on Steam. But maybe "spacecat has visited" would be good.

Better to contact through SG.

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Too bad SG doesn't have "private message" option though :/

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In the future just leave a comment on one of their last giveaways.

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Good idea, thanks :)

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Is it like really fully taken away or just steam wallet option? (I can't use steam wallet but paypal etc. works that's why I'm asking)

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wallet option

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Are you sure? It's just that everyone is saying "I got my gifting feature removed" instead of I can't gift with my steam wallet anymore..

And you know why be so vague about such a bad issue and spread misinformation instead...

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vague? It’s a clear answer, not everything needs to be an essay

yes it’s wallet option, know 5+ people with this ban, kinda common for trading4profit

ironic you have that attitude but just run off one persons word lol

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here in steamgifts..
don't you think this sentence is vague?
"Hey, guys I just got my gifting feature blocked in steam, don't make a mistake of gifting too much"

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So much Deja vu. Why are people repeating the mistakes of others every week?

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Because not everyone is reading everything here. This is the only thread I was reading this week.

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So Steam admitted it was a mistake on their part and lifted my restriction:

"It appears that your account has been locked for suspicious content. I just checked the content in question, and it appears that a mistake was made.

We've gone ahead and removed the lock.

If you have any further questions, please let us know - we will be happy to assist you."

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I only send a steam message as a last resort. Always contact the winner through a giveaway they made or a comment on the forums if possible first. The mere mention of SG/giveaways/steamgifts will trigger the auto ai scam detection system. I would rather email them then send a messagevia steam because of what you and others have been through. Glad they fixed that mistake quite quickly. Best of luck and hope you get a quick reply from the winner!

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Glad you got it solved so quickly. It's always scary when something like this happens.
If you avoid words like "giveaway" in the comments in the future you should be fine.

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How strange.
As someone said already, the only reason I can think of is they may took you for a scammer.
I recently found some comments on my profile from Chinese accounts saying they wanted to take me to hotels and weird stuff like that. It was a friend of mine who told me about those messages. Obviously I don't know people from China. Probably there is a bot invasion and they are just being extra picky.

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It baffles me how frequent this has become lately. Maybe cg should add a warning on the profile of SG users, next to the link to their Steam profile.
"Don't tell them on their Steam profile that they won, fools. Or do you want to get banned like a generic scammer?"

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