How do you determine what level you should make your Givaway?

level 3 and 4 (but mostly 4 i think i used to do)
because that was when i started getting into the gifting spirit

But with the addition of filters from sgtools, that helped filter absurd ratios and rule breakers, i lowered it to 3 mainly for invite only giveaways

for groups that already have filters to be admitted into group i'd remove the level limit or make it the minimum that was required to join

for groups that dont have those basic ratio/rule breaker ratios , i'd still be inclined to make a level limit since i cant use sgtools on group giveaways

today i did a challenge where i made 1 public giveaways for all levels 0-10 so yeah sometimes the levels just get picked based on little momentary things
funny thing tho
one of the winners was actually my friend who i had met a year ago on KF2, never knew he was on SG what a small world we live in,
one winner was an absurd leecher 201 won to 12 sent ratio which is why i like sgtools to filter out ratios ,
one winner was an incredible gifter who has a 29 won to 561 sent ratio with a majority of it being lvl 0 public giveaways)

but otherwise i really stray away from public giveaways , ive only done a couple to get my "public cv up a bit" but in the end i just rather have fun doing invite only/thread based giveaways

and maybe one day ill use my die, its a pretty blue clear die i like to keep around as my own special charm

If it's cheap crap i just want to get rid of, it's lvl0, average game goes to lvl1, and good games are lvl2 (only recently made lvl3, so i might have to rethink this:P)

Honestly, I wouldn't dream of doing a public GA for level 0 or 1. There's thousands of users on here who win tens of thousands of games while contributing nothing, or as close to nothing as makes no difference, and I just have no inclination of giving them any more... And, of course, there's the practical consideration that those same users are probably the ones most likely to cause problems with not marking wins as received, or requiring re-rolls for previous rule breaks.

I click somewhere in the middle of the bar and just accept whatever it landed on. So it's usually 4,5,6,7 :^)

Private ones: lvl 3
Occasional public ones: lvl 5
Group/WL: none with just a few exceptions (but I usually only WL lvl 4+)

0.

Any restriction I want to impose (read: keeping them limited to people who're active on these forums) , I can do by making the GA's invite-only and dropping a link where I want to.

I suggest that you start with Level 0, because it matches the level of giveaways that you can enter at this stage.

Later on if you want to reward contributors and avoid having to deal with rule breakers all the time, you can switch to SGTools-filtered giveaways. They make life easy and are much more flexible than Level-based giveaways.

I practically do only Level 0 giveaways, but have used contributor-focused SGTools-filtered ones in the past and will probably do them again at some point in time.

Most of the times i just go level1 to lock out the pure leechers that don't give anything at all. Should i ever get around to actually give away non-bundled games i probably go with 3... maybe 4.

Most of the time I don't use level restrictions but they can help filter rulebreakers :p

I use random.org to choose a number between 1 and 10, then multiply it by 0.

if i make a forum GA i aim for lv3 because it's easy to reach that ($50). for public, lv5+.

2+ aka ex-30.01 :)

it depends on how angry i am at the time

If it's a bundle extra I go for lower levels than myself (minimum of Level 1 or 2, usually) and if I spent money to specifically buy that game to give away, then a minimum of my level.

i hate when someone with 0 level winning AAA game here, its very frustrating and unfair for me

I roll d1000 for level. Not my fault SG doesn't let me create GA p

lvl 2+ with few exceptions. Too easy for regifters/leechers at lower lvl's. At least lvl 2 require some effort.
I do quite a few higher lvl GA's for the giving people of this site.

0 - never (wont support leechers under any circumstances)
1 - never ^^ (still leecher, u can giveaway anything to get lvl 1... it can be 0,10€ dlc, still leecher)
2 - never (still almost leecher, some better bundle game is enough)
3 - for some low games
4 - for some low games
5 + better games

Never above my current level. Often level1 and 2.

Low enough for plenty of people to get a chance, not level 0 though, that's risky, might get bots.

I usually use my actual level, before the current system I aimed at $30.01 contribution. I really should start to clear my inventory again...

For public GAs of bundled games (or long trains), generally 2-5. If the game has cards, then at least level 3 since most people are just entering to farm cardz and make profitz.
For most unbundled games, 5+.
For group/whitelist, level 0.

Welcome to Steamgifts!

I usually go with Level 1 but it depends. I think this is something each giveaway creator just has to determine on their own.

So far i've went:

• Game so bad no one should have it ever: level 0
• Bundled game that isn't actually that bad: level 1
• Quality bundled game / Meh-to-okay unbundled game: level 2
• Bundled game that shouldn't have been bundled/Kinda decent unbundled game: level 3
• Quality unbundled game - level 4

I'll need to revise this system later on because there's a lot of unused space in it.