As I'm a newbie on this site, I'm still learning the ropes around here. Now, after finishing a few GAs, I have a few questions: Are the rules about activation and multiple wins absolute? Should I enforce them with a pedantic attitude?

I understand the need for the rules, and the philosophy behind them. After all, it's like I wrote them myself. Still, in my GAs so far, there's been a not-so-insignificant number of winners with small offences on their record.

There are two scenarios standing out:

  1. The winner didn't activate a (trash) game more than a year ago.
  2. The winner (probably entering multiple simultaneous GAs) won two copies of the same game within a few days last year.

According to the rules/FAQ/general community consensus, I should report these and ask for a re-roll.

I tried that.

After three days, and the re-roll ticket still pending, I became aware of the fact that winners may already have been punished by SG for previous misbehaviour, but there would be no way for me to know. So I had to choose, should I be pedantic and bother SG support with every little misbehaviour (which may already have been punished), or should I let the small fish slip through. I chose the latter, mostly because I couldn't create more new GAs since unfinished GAs held up my available spots, causing a queue to build up. Now, I'm allowed to have more simultaneous GAs, so I can reconsider my choice.

In a perfect world, I'd report and re-roll any offence against the two rules. But I'm not sure if the world is perfect enough.

What do you think? What do you do?

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Do you request a re-roll if a winner has previously broken the rules (as reported by SGTools, and manually verified)?

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Yes! Every. Single. Time.
In general, yes.
Usually not.
Nah! I don't care.

if you wanna be sure, report everything and let support check if your winner was already suspended.
it's usually a waste of time (most users with old unactivated wins were already punished) but it helps to find offenders that "others" ignore/avoid.

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My reaction depends on the winner. If he is a (extreme) leecher and/or MAYBE a autojoiner i report for the little ones too.
If the user looks "normal" i send, mostly, a ticket if it is more then 1 break/unclear thing and if i don't know the games as deleted (that gives false positives that you don't get under the "maybe false positive" section). If i know the game got kicked from steam all are fine :o).

From my experiences i can say that a high part of the "old things" are never punished before.
And from that i think it is important to wrote a ticket to punish at least a few of the rulebreakers (mostly they are extreme leechers and partly autojoiner too).

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