Hi SG, we just rolled out an update to the way blacklists work, and I wanted to create a quick announcement to explain the difference. Previously, if you blacklisted a user, they would not be able to enter your giveaways, or see them on the homepage. Now, there is one addition: If you blacklist a user, you will also not be able to enter their giveaways, or see them on the homepage.

There are two reasons for the change...

  1. It's more fair to giveaway creators, and it prevents users from quietly blacklisting a giveaway creator, while continuing to enter their giveaways.
  2. It will encourage users to put more thought into their reason for blacklisting another user, and it should discourage blacklisting over minor grievances.

This might leave you wondering, is there anything preventing you from unblacklisting a user, entering their giveaways, and then blacklisting them again? Yes. When unblacklisting a user, there is a delay between one second and one day week until you once again see their giveaways on the homepage, and have access to entering them. If you try to directly open their giveaways sooner, you will see an error, such as "You do not have permission to view this giveaway for another 35 minutes, since you previously blacklisted the giveaway creator.". The length of the delay is proportional to the amount of time you had the user blacklisted (i.e. if you blacklisted a user for 5 hours, you'll need to wait 5 hours after unblacklisting the user), up to the maximum of one day week.

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HAPPY CAKE DAY, CG! Now change my username please.

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Back to origins?

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Yeah, I already went back on Steam and everywhere else, just waiting for cg to see my ticket here. Hopefully that happens before 1 year, otherwise I can change it myself.

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why the switch back & forth?

7 years ago
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You can't change your account name on Steam, so I was getting annoyed to log in using my old username. Plus revilheart is just cooler and that's what most people know me for anyway.

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Revilheart sound like a girl name and rafaelgs like a boy name.

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I don't see it, but I don't care. :P

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Finally you saw the light \o/

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Read below. xD

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why ;__;

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I was struck by the whole "better to have your real name as username" thing again. Only reason I was getting back to revilheart is because Steam forces me to use that name to log in, and I hate that so much, but I think I can live with it. Maybe Steam can allow us to log in using email or community name in the future (crosses fingers).

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If you feel so strongly about it that's a good reason then :p Actually I wonder why steam doesn't make us login with our email since it's usually the most common way to do it;

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Actually, nevermind, I'll stick to rafaelgs18. :P

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Why not both? evilheartrafa18 :3 thought of rafaelevilheart18 first but that might have been read as Rafaele, which sounds femenine in this non binary world xD

7 years ago
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I dislike usernames longer than 10 letters. :P

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EvilRafa18, 10 letters!

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I dislike capital letters in usernames. :P Plus I'm not evil, I just have an evil heart.

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I like the change where the person blacklisted can't join your giveaways either. In the past I had manually blacklisted people who had blacklisted me.

7 years ago
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This update halved the number of blacklists I'm on. Only on 1 now :D Thanks for that

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i also like the change where the person blacklisted can't join your giveaways either , i find this very fair .. good work SG

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Great decision, and the delay from one day to one week seems pretty fair! Thanks cg and support!

10/10

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thanks :)

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pun intended

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Thank you very much! :D

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Happy cakeday! :)

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Hoot hoot and thank you! :D

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Thank you, kind sir <3

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Happy Cake Day!

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Thank you very very much :)

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Happy cake day!
and happy -recent- birthday if I remember correctly from your comments :D

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Many thanks! :D Yes, that's right it was my birthday about a week ago too :)

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Ohhh I see, so that's why 4 people unblacklisted me, interesting

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If you'd like, I can blacklist you to fill that void.. <3

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You're certainly free to do so <3

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But what about old blacklist?

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Every blacklist will function like this - if I blacklisted someone 2 years ago then I still can't enter their giveaways today, it doesn't only apply to new blacklisting.

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Double penetration..SeemsGood

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You're making it awkward now :p

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Good.

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I wonder how many blacklists the OP has gotten as a joke?

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I think OP don't care of BL ^^

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Cool, from my experience some people even used the blacklist for filtering out winners of their previous giveaways.... now maybe the list of people that have blacklisted me for no apparent reason goes down... maybe.

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Thank you

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this is old news now, please unpin. xD

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+1

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That's a great idea. I applaud it!

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Thank you

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Thanks!

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thank

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I wonder if it will stop the number of people who invent social games around "blacklist me!"
It still baffles me how people could seriously get so bored with their empty blacklists that they actually did this. :u

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Also there is a thread twere the OP offers blacklisting to people who asks for it. A lot of people did it just for fun and the OP did it really many times. I wonder if he/she has all those people in blacklist. :D

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you guys need to add one more thing if someone blacklist me I want to black list him back even when he get me out of his blacklist i don't want to let him in to my giveaways anyway for ever .

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+1

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