What's the purpose of putting a level on giveaways?

To make sure that only users who contributed to the site is able to join.

different reasons.

1. to give something back, to the users tthat helped the community
2. to avoid lechers
3. to be sure the people know how the page works (noregifting and stuff like that)

but at least 2 and 3 can even happen in high levels

Reward people who have gamed the system!

Also it's rather noticeable that higher the level less the issues.

Well, some people like to be selective. x) But, to be frank, most of them just think they'll avoid rule-breakers this way.

Contributor's giveaways were originally created as a way to thank those who are generous enough to give away games to other members.

People have various reasons for using them, but that's the original intention behind it.

higher level = more generous

If you weren't able to select a level for giveaways, then there would be no point for the level system to exist at all.

lets be honest, you have made 20 giveaways public with no level. you HAVE to know the reason why by now haha heck if i do a public i end up having to reroll at least once before i find a real winner. and its annoying as heck.

like 2 out of 5 people that win have to be rerolled. its a huge time waster ive probably had to reroll about 100 people over the course of my giveaways, sometimes the no level ones im rerolling the people who won via a reroll,

had one giveaway where i had to reroll like 5 winners and it was only a single copy giveaway lol

if you never rerolled a winner, then that just means you dont check your winners for rule breaking on sgtools. which means you are giving games to people who are bad people xD i wont even do non-level restricted giveaways anymore. 2+ works well

too many leeches/bots. Just about every level 0 giveaway I create, when I see the winner I get disappointed.

To avoid leeching russians.

encourage people to make contribution

elitism <3

Much too many extreme leechers/bots/exploiters/people that don't have basic manners (and know no thanks as example).
So the minimum is lvl 2+ by "open for all" to avoid at least a big part of them and hold the stress/reroll level a bit lower

[under level 2 i had 90% "bad" people, at lvl 2+ 40%, with sgtools and a 0.5 ratio ... no problem anymore... so the first choice should be sgtools]

To show everyone you are the best.

I don't care about it at all. All my giveaways were always open to all levels and will always be even when I'll have money to give better games away

Generosity + imposing rules = bullshit

Because gifting someone who has won hundreds of gifts, played none of them and sent nothing is kinda discouraging, especially when a lot of your money went into that giveaway. But it's not like those problems stop at low level users. If you don't care about who gets the game, any level should be fine for that (though as others have said there are a lot of bots are at level 0), but if you want the game to be played you might as well opt out to a group where games have to be played or use SGTools to allow people to enter the giveaway if it's on their wishlist. In the end it only matters what the giveaway creator wants from their giveaway, any giveaway in existence has always served a purpose whether it be advertisement, clicks or just entertainment. Here people want to be generous, but how many people want to be generous towards a leech?

I would love to create all my simple giveaways at level 0. But sometimes is very discouraging. I really admire people that give really cool games at that level not caring about the auto join scripts. It would be amazing If CG could give some stats about how the limited points controlled auto joiners.

Since I choose at least lvl 2 for my GAs (with some exeptions) I had just to ask one time for a reroll. That spares some time of the moderators and they can concentrate on the important tickets.

Wow, I didn't know there was so much to this, I had never even heard of sgtools. Is there another thread that gives a rundown of these issues? (other than this thread)

I usually just set it to lv 2-3 on bad bundle games, which is sort of a sweet spot where I get enough entries and least bots and people with 2 games given away lol
which reminds me that I should stop being lazy and make giveaways for the games I bought long time ago lol

as you can see in the statistics the majority of steamgifts users are people who never gave anything away. its for preventing people to win if they never gave anything in the first place. the higher your level the more giveaways you made or giveaways with high value. you are rewarding them. also it helps preventing any problems.

Actually its not that hard to answer the question for yourself, so i guess it was criticism against user who use that feature?!

That's why I decided to make puzzles rather than regular public giveaways.
If someone is willing to put some time and mental effort just to get a mere chance of winning a game, in my book they're fully deserving of the prize.

for me i just do it to give back the people who gave before

Do a lvl 0 giveaway and find out.

I DARE YOU.