Why does SG have a comment counter? (Are referral links bannable? - Got my answer)

Heads.

thanks

Well, I've always been of the opinion that 'Thank you' has lost all its meaning here. The ratio of people who are genuinely thankful is watered down by people keeping their comment per entry ratio up. I still appreciate it and if a giveaway is just what I wish for and doesn't have a gazillion comments already I type a sincere thank you message to the creator.

So, I roughly follow the rule: Public, don't bother. Relatively unpopulated private giveaway, hell yes.

Also: No, I'm not gonna vote for your game on Greenlight. That's bribery and I only have like a 0.01% chance of getting what you're trying to bribe me with.

Thanks for the report

Thanks for the opportunity!

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EDIT: Also, nobody knows why they have a comment counter. Just like nobody knows why there is Giveaways entered column. Maybe because they needed a filler stat to make it all nice looking?

Usually I don't thank in giveaways unless the OP ask for a comment. Rest of my comments are from discussions and some from Trades

"What's a vowel? Eh, screw it! I'll just write Thank you!"

Is this the real life?

"a" "dog "cat" "7" "head"
Feels better ? i'm pretty much like you, feeling the comment counter is a bit too much. But, you can't except people don't care about saying thanks. I mean i was raised by saying thanks when i'm given somethings. For me, getting somethings free (and even paying for it) i just say thanks, because that's the way life is for me (even if in my country now many people are just impolite more and more)

About referral links:

They are against the rules and yes posting referral links might get the poster banned/suspended if noticed/reported.

However, that's only if the the link is posted on SG. If someone from SG posts a referral link to you on Steam or anywhere else then that might be against the rules of that service and should be reported to the support team of that page.

oh and also

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the coin apparently defied gravity and does not want to fall down... its just stuck up there.... spinning.... i think this coin needs a priest, call for help

u / wagon / matress / 9 / heads

a vowel, two words, 5 heads.

1) Make it a private giveaway, then (with support approval) you can make your instructions binding (Anyone who just says 'thanks' will get rerolled!).

2) That's not really SG's responsibility. He might have found your username here, but the chat, and the 'trade' took place on steam. I would think you might have better luck on PB, at least get your referral bonus removed from him. You could also consider negative rep on steamrep/steamtrades for failing to honor his 'trade'.

"Long ago (like a month) a guy from steamgifts added me on steam and asked if I want to join to Playbink with his referral link, and if I do I will get Sleeping Dogs from him, I registered, he left and blocked me."

That's funny, I know exactly who it is, quite a lot of persons have been had by that same guy, he promised Sleeping Dogs to all of them.

about other matters :

• support doesn't inform you about actions taken against reported users. Because that's not your business. Reporting is, the sanction is their problem.

1) Show your activeness on the site. (Even though, like any site, if one really wanted to, they could spam for comments.)

2) Yes it is, however because they linked off the site of SG, and you accepted the ref link, they may have decided to do nothing about it, or maybe he had a short ban and you didn't notice.

@The ban thing, I reported someone who won my giveaway of fallout 3 GOTY and never activated the game. Nothing seems to have come from it. Someone has activated it, but not the guy I gave it to.

Doesn't feel very good when your generosity is underhanded by someone abusing the system. The guy has won around 11 giveaways as well, which is an fair amount of games potentially traded or hoarded, whatever he's doing with them.

• vowel
• two words
• 9
• tails

He's suspended from steamtrades, maybe due to the reports about the playblink/Sleeping Dogs thing ?

I think they just ban you here for infractions here.

You can prove that he is a bad person in real life, or on Steam, or on SteamTrades to your hearts content, but I do not think that will get him banned here.

We don't suspend users over personal messaging. Whatever happens outside of SteamGifts does not lie under our jurisdiction.

The users who created the reports are not notified about the actions taken, like DavidSarif said. Suspensions are between users and support staff only, and is no one else's business. Rest assured that necessary actions / marks are being made.

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There should be a "thank you!" button in the giveaways
People could show that they like it and could discuss st else in the comment section

Hmm, just asks for Sleeping dogs upfront, or no deal. Sadly, you only get to be polite and generous with those you know OR feel you can be, and they are cool too. It's too hard (wink!) to know this for sure and not be wrong or fooled, I know, luckily most of the times I choose to trust someone that I knew from before or that I felt I could trust this person, it went ok.. most of the times!
So, this is what I've learned: don't put your trust ONLY on support, they're good and might solve your problem, but since you are not the only one and they prob are way over their heads it will take some time. Problem is that we want all and we want it now, and it's not gonna happen any time soon. Now, always take screencaps/logs, try to take it small, baby steps, if he/she wants to hurry, then it's signal to no go, 90% of the time, if is pushing, avoid.

Lastly, J, time money, 7, heads

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www.kamsac.pl/projects/thanks_inverter :3