Another update was just rolled out, allowing users to delete their own giveaways.

If you view one of your giveaways, you'll see a Delete Giveaway button where the typical Report Giveaway button is located. If you click it, you'll be forwarded to a page where you can select a reason for the deletion from a dropdown menu (See below for the list). After selecting a reason, the giveaway will be instantly removed. I know there are going to be a lot of questions, so I'll try to summarize some of the mains points.

  • First off, about 20% of our support tickets come from users asking for deletes, so this will be a huge help at reducing the workload in support.
  • The site should be cleaner in general since the creator can now delete their own giveaway or beta key after realizing their mistake, instead of submitting to support and waiting on us.
  • Only giveaways which are open or coming soon can be deleted by the giveaway creator. This ensures they do not delete a giveaway after it ends simply because they don't agree with the winner.
  • Deleted giveaways remain on your View Created page. This way, if a moderator removes one of your giveaways, there's still a record in place so you can find out what happened.
  • Giveaways that have been deleted list a reason of why they were removed, and whether the action was performed by a moderator or the giveaway creator. For example, click here.
  • Points are automatically refunded to users that entered a deleted giveaway.
  • When you create a giveaway, there's a notification saying, 'Based on your current feedback score, you're able to create up to x additional gifts.' Deleted giveaways count towards this limit, so if you're able to create 5 additional gifts, and you create and delete them all, you'll be locked out. This prevents users from simply creating and removing giveaways, or trolling.

Available Reasons to Delete a Giveaway

  • Accident: This giveaway was created by accident and has been removed.

  • Beta Key, Guest Pass, or Coupon Code: At the moment, beta keys, guest passes, and coupon codes are not allowed to be given away on SteamGifts. Please refer to our FAQ to learn more.

  • Did Not Understand How the Site Works: The concept of the site was not fully understood by the giveaway creator and this giveaway has been removed. Please refer to our FAQ to learn more.

  • Exploited Key: Keys that take advantage of promotions using methods that were never intended are not allowed to be given away on SteamGifts. Please refer to our FAQ to learn more.

  • Fake Giveaway: This giveaway was never intended to be given away, reported as suspicious, or the creator never followed through with the gift.

  • Gift or Key No Longer Available: The gift or key intended to be given away is no longer available, and the giveaway has been removed.

  • Leaked Giveaway (Limited to private giveaways): The URL for this private giveaway has been leaked, and the giveaway removed.

  • Regifting a Previous Win: Gifts which were previously won can not be regifted or traded. Please refer to our FAQ to learn more.

  • Region Restricted Gift: Region restricted games are not allowed to be given away on SteamGifts. Please refer to our FAQ to learn more.

  • Selected Incorrect Game or Information: This giveaway was removed since incorrect information was provided, or the selected game did not match the gift. If we're missing a game, please contact support.

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Well this will be useful for the people whose dogs made giveaways while they were away... I sure hope it can't be abused to get points though.

Now would be nice if you got the mods back... there's quite a lot of chaos with out them. :/

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Long expected change the message to explain the why a giveaway got deleted, and the giveaway delete button helps surely. Thank you.

12 years ago
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Thank you cg for your hard work!

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Yey! Thanks!

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Thank you!

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very good, this shoud clean site. I hope

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cg: If you can, can you list all the upcoming/planned/unfinished features?

12 years ago
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YES! You rule Cg. Now people don't have to worry when they make a mistake on their giveaway. +1

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I only see one problem:

When you create a giveaway, there's a notification saying, 'Based on your current feedback score, you're able to create up to x additional gifts.' Deleted giveaways count towards this limit, so if you're able to create 5 additional gifts, and you create and delete them all, you'll be locked out. This prevents users from simply creating and removing giveaways, or trolling.

This will force these mindless people to be a leecher for the rest of their lifetime.

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If a user gets his count down to 0 and has no successful giveaway, he should just be banned.

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That's not gonna help my 4 week old tickets the slightest, but it's a good thing it's possible.

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Good option.

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One concern is to make the "Deleting counts towards giveaway limit" wear away eventually. I'm not sure what type of protection you have against a new person coming in and creating their first giveaway wrong, followed by deleting it and having 0 giveaway attempts left. Although much less frequent than the 'accident' people that come here, I am glad this was put in. Maybe after doing a giveaway successfully it also clears out one of the deletion 'penalties'. Idkmbffj ;0.

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Thank you very much cg!! :) I also think it would be good to add as a reason: non steam key, drm free game.

12 years ago
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This should help alot esp with all the fake giveaways i dont get why people would say they received them this if for the better for once.

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Wow, that's really good job, I've never seen such big site as SG that would introduce huge updates so frequently - and the most important - good updates, based on users feedback.

But I would rather want to see deleted giveaways.

We couldn't enter them, they would be like closed threads and accessible only through their URL. That's because I want to see who entered obviously fake giveaway or just comments and discussion.

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nice update to the website, well done.

12 years ago
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finally an awesome feature for this great site. good job cg.

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I love you

12 years ago
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Nice! Especially the fact that a deleted giveaway counts towards the gift limit.

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very nice feature.

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Nice update, definitely a solution for the bad case of "stupid" around here.

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I still don't believe in the "accident" one but ok.

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Great update. Nice work.

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Useful update. Thanks. :)

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Closed 12 years ago by cg.