I love doing public level 0 giveaways :P

i rarely do public giveaways but i always check winners in them (and in some event/christmas giveaways i made). i also check winners even in some sgtools protected giveaways i make because i almost always find some people that got the link from someone else so i have to check the winners to be sure they got the link themselves.

Until mid 2021 I didn't even know about sgtools. Then there was a period of time when I checked winners but during that time I only saw 1 unactivated gift, so after a while I stopped checking.

Keep up the good work. :)

You have reminded me of the importance of checking it and amazing work by the way. Thank you.

I like people who check :)

I've never thought about checking winners, and assumed SG autobanned those with infractions. Now i know to be more paranoid.

Thx for the proactive trolling with a purpose! o/

lol how on earth did you get 1000 copies of that game? Or did you make it?

Either way, thanks for the entertaining post.

I always check the winner like a gigaboss

I check all winners and hold off on delivering keys if I see issues with the account, one thing is doing multiple giveaways that end at the same time; I suddenly get 5+ messages within a second, and it makes it very convenient. :)
The only thing though is catching it within a minute, because putting your mouse on the timestamp doesn't tell you the exact second the comment was posted unfortunately. The majority of bot comments have been posted near the end of my giveaways, so when they get close to ending I tend to linger on site a bit.

that seems like a lot of work to check 1,000 winners. wouldnt be worth my time. but i also do check winners. but my biggest giveaway train was around 30 games.

Direct answer to the question: No***.

* Because I've always been paranoid and haven't done a "public" giveaway ever... Well, ok, the veeeery first one was (I don't really consider limiting it to Steamgifts' Steam group to mean much) but... it's complicated- back then limiting giveaway by Contribution was still new, so I still thought it meant anything, and the limit you could set to a giveaway was at most twice your own Contribution, so since I wanted to "protect" the freebie which I linked to directly in my first puzzle's description, I made a giveaway beforehand to have some Contribution already myself. Back then mass abuse of the way SG is set up wasn't really known so I was still naive. T.T
When my puzzle inspiration dried up I switched to limiting giveaways to groups made by people I trust (so, pretty much only puzzle makers). Later, at some point as depression started completely setting in, I kinda started noticing that a lot of winners weren't playing the games at all or were just farming them for cards (as if there's a difference...) which completely eliminated the whole point of those giveaways to begin with (I try to only make giveaways for games which I'm completely sure are good; it's SUCH A WASTE for them to remain unplayed). So over the course of a few breakdowns I started eliminating groups one by one due to bad apples and now I basically limit everything only to the two groups which survived the purge (I mean... they aren't exactly active but... still) and some very strict groups I added over time (Playing Matters and Playing Appreciated)... I know that I'm cutting off a lot of legitimate users that way but I just can't get myself to trust humanity. T.T

So TL;DR - I don't check winners, because anyone who'd break the rules (and many others... :/ ) wouldn't even be able to see my giveaways in the first place...

** I still sometimes notice and report re-gifters when they are being obvious with their public giveaways though. <.<

Erm... sorry about that rant... I... I'd really just want to give people nice games to make them happy like those games (used to...) do with me but... it's just impossible to trust the general public... because we humans are no better than any other animals.

Thank you for your great work.

I do check winners, but I wouldn't manually check 1000, that seems kind of crazy without some kind of automation. Thanks for putting in the work to make the community a better place :)

I remember that giveaway o3o, I also did check the winners out of curiosity and noticed the same. Personally I do vet who wins my keys these days although even with the game checkers its best to visit peoples steam libraries to see if they activated the game or not, however noticed some users having a private steam profile although sg rules states you have to be public would that be grounds to even report a user though?

I don't envy those of you who do 50+ game giveaways. I barely have the energy to deal with a few, much less hundreds of re-rolls. And I very much would check every single winner, even if it killed me, because I'm just OCD like that. Literally OCD, not the QuIrKy type.

I think anything more than 10 at once would drive me mad.

So... only about 40% of people do what needs to be done xD
Now I see why I sometimes have a re-roll granted for 2 years old infractions xD

Those are the reasons I don't do public GAs anymore. I still do check winners I don't know in groups GAs but rule breakers are much rarer.
Thank you for your service ;)

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Yes, but I have never run into any troublesome winners.

btw, can you tell me what things do you check for? I check just two things:

1. The winner shouldn't already own the game (as SG doesn't work well with everything)
2. Either the winner should have marked "received" all their previous games, or those should be less than 1%

Sometimes I also judge the winner based on how much they have given back if the account if old enough, though this might never be a deciding factor for me.

I only do a basic check of users, so I'm more likely to blacklist a user than I am to report them. I have better things to do with my time.

Is it possible to create a plugin that checks in sgtools with just one click?

I let ESGST check them for me, and then I can just decide what to do with the ones that have infractions. Saves a lot of time.

I don't pay much attention to weather they did any kind of infractions because I never actually met anyone to do anything wrong to me or others. I also never do a level 0 giveaway for the simple fact that there's a lot of issues where people win my games and keep me on hold for days although they are active without even writing a thank you for the giveaway.

Public level zero giveaways would be nice to make but too many problems leave a bad taste. Hence I use group giveaways which filter most of the problem cases away. Will still check the winners, though.

i check every winner and im kinda burned out from all the rerolls that take like a week...

i make sure they don't have the game i'm about to give them, but that's all i check. maybe shouldn't even bother to do that as never found any problems