Should I be pedantic?

I would say only report a user if it has something to do with your giveaway or something that is happening now, if not there is a very high chance the person got its punishment already, but that's just me.

What is the reason to reroll user who broke the rules in the past? I think it's against the rules. Because it's equivalent to "I don't like this winner, let's try others - maybe I'll like them" but the winner is chosen at random, not by someone else's will or desire.
But, you could make giveaway for groups or whitelists if you want to make GA for special group of users.

Also, I think it is discrimination to create GAs with avoiding users who broke rules once. But it's mine opinion.

On the choice of the winner
How are giveaway winners selected?
All giveaway entries are treated equally, and when a giveaway ends, the site will randomly select a winner. Users that are suspended during the selection process are unable to win, and their entries will be excluded when the winner is generated.

About reroll requirement
The winner has not redeemed my gift, and I'm unable to get into contact with them. How do I proceed?
If you've been unable to reach the winner of your giveaway using e-mail and Steam after seven days of your giveaway ending, and they have not yet activated or redeemed any keys or gifts you attempted to send, please contact support to request a new winner. When creating a ticket, we ask you to include data that suggests you made an adequate attempt to contact the winner, such as screenshots of e-mails, friend requests, or gifts pending on Steam. If the request is approved, a new winner will be generated by the site.

Yeah, I wish we'd be granted reroll even if the user already had their punishment in the case where it was a repeated offence. As it is now, I'd say just wait for the response and then act accordingly ;)

What I used to do if someone didn't activate a game that long ago: I checked if he won games after that not activated one and if that was the case, I usually didn't report them because chances are the other giveaway creators already reported them in the past.

I don't get why you should ask for a reroll since the issues you described are not related to your giveaways. If they made a mistake they will get suspended and that's about it.
But let's put it in another way: if someone did a small felony (let's say shoplifting) and served jail time accordingly, do you think it's right to keep making them pay for it anyway?

I ask for a reroll every single time (except non activated wins that are under a week old, then I will go ask the winner whats up with that first). I had to happen before that it got approved and the user suspended on an unactivated win that was over a year old. What you do its 100% up to you.

If it is over 3 months old, usually it is served already. It maybe worth to ask. If it is a year old, then it is not really worth to bother, the chances of the user never getting caught in that long timeframe is next to zero.

Only if the non activated win was within a month.

To avoid trouble you should only make sgtools protected giveaways on sgtools.info.
This helps to separate the sheeps from the goats? is this saying even correct? :D

Make a reroll ticket every time in both scenarios, that is what I was told by the support, no matter how old the rule breaking is.

Depends on the number of violations and the time that has passed since. If it's multiple violations or there is one within a 3 month window I'll send in a ticket, otherwise I'd probably opt to not clog the ticket queue

Yes. You are not to blame that you can't check if the rulebreaker had already been punished. Thus you don't have to feel pedantic. Furthermore you are not to blame that there are only few moderators. And you help the community to find these rulebreakers and let them either learn from it or get sorted out if they repeat these things.

Oh, and welcome to SG! :)

I always check my winners before sending the key/link. And if I see an infraction, no matter how long ago, I'll ask for a reroll.

Edit: In this thread support asks GA creators to check, and report if necessary, winners before sending the game.

I always check my winners for rulebreakers, already owning the game, and being a part or not of a specific group (when it applies).

And I always ask for a reroll when the offence is recent. When the user has been using steamgifts for a long time and has only broken the rules years ago, I assume they have corrected their ways/served suspension and let it stay at that.

I'm also a lot more lenient on multiple wins, particularly for games that were massively given away during a short period. Nowadays you can't win multiple times so it's one less thing to worry about :)

It's your choice, but I always request a reroll if those sgtools checker things find anything... Yes, it's a waste of everyone's time, but since we can't see who's already been punished, I don't know of an alternative...

Often old problems have been dealt with, but not always. Sometimes every single giveaway creator over a period of years has assumed someone else must have reported them by now, but nobody did.

Oh, one thing - you may be frustrated by the long delay in having your reroll request answered, and decide to give up... But please don't... That long delay for reroll requests is probably the fastest support thing you'll experience here. Check the graph at https://www.steamgifts.com/stats/community/support - if you just give them the game and decide to write a user report instead, ain't nobody ever going to read it...

Why would I punish people for past mistakes? Doesn't appear to be very humane to me. So, no.

Really its up to you, but if it were me I would report. If its been reported already and they have served their punishment, great, time to move on. If not, its time they learned to follow the rules of the site. Even if it was only for a trash game, perhaps the next infraction is that AAA game you entered and they sell it to someone, maybe even to yourself through a 3rd party.
By getting away with it once they may think they can do it again and again. One report of mine was for 13 unactivated wins.
In a perfect world we wouldn't even need rerolls.

i would say:
if you want to get rid of some trash games you get from bundles, i would say its not worth the time to check every winner... the game might be not worth the time (also for the support, checking and answerering your ticket)
if you create an expensive game you bought just to make somebody here happy: please invest the time and check your winner^^

I don't check every winner, honestly, there are games from really cheap bundles that I just give away to anyone who wins. When I check and I find and infraction, I usually ask for a re-roll only if it's in the last month, or if there are a lot of infractions.

Support told me to ask for a re-roll every time I find an infraction. They'd check and if the user has already been punished.

But really, I think it's up to you. You're the one giving the game, and if you want to give it to someone who broke the rules a long time ago, you should be allowed to do that.

You should only reroll for the exact reason. Like say somebody won Pillars of Eternity a year ago and then won the same giveaway of yours.

I wrote a few tickets about re-rolls for old non-activations and multi-wins.
Sometimes the re-roll is granted and the offender suspended and the support thanks me for the check, sometimes the support tells me that the user has already served a suspension and the re-roll isn't granted.
If you don't report the offenders, they will not be suspended.

I'd like to thank every support member for taking from his free time and working for our better experience <3

I used to not do it, but since giving more games, and having plenty of giveaway slots, I decided to check everyone with SGTools, and osmetimes manually (depending on the amount of hits on SGTools, less means manual check).
And, as others have said, sometimes old infractions are not yet punished, but sometimes those from 2 weeks ago have already been served.

I, for one, think it is on us as the community to keep the community nice and good, especially because you can't check everyone (1 million users now) with a small support team (15 people). I also believe more support members would help in making this whole run smoother, and I personally wouldn't mind spending some time on that. I think there are plenty more users who wold liek to help out.

On that note: thank you to all support members! You are awesome.
And thank you to the community, you are awesome too!