Report giveaways if needed, don't call out the gifter

The problem is you might be publicly calling a truly generous person a liar simply because he is new to the community and "looks suspicious" to you. That is discouraging, hurtful and simply not nice.

a fake does no lasting harm. if caught before it ends points are refunded, if not points are free and regenerate easily anyway. the offender is corrected and/or punished as appropriate. and making accusations does little to help the mods resolve it. reporting is what actually brings it to their attention. as for why not do both the cons outweigh the pros(although both are fairly weak)

if you're right meh few read the comments and will even hear your warning and only a subset of them would actually heed it, and without your warning for those who fall for it that you could have "saved" the damage would be reversed anyway, the points refunded. it is meerly somewhat vexing or mildly inconvenient/disappointing.
if you're wrong you could make the community look like a bunch of suspicious combative bastards and with the weight first impressions often have potentially scare away somebody worth having. Would you hang around if the first people you tried to be nice to called you a liar and an idiot and then mildly cyberstalked you by checking up on steam attempting to "prove" their accusations? I for one might hesitate to give them anything else at least. probably leech more than gift less than I might have for ahwile.

although of course neither outcome is likely. your warning will have little effect, and the gifter rarely reacts that strongly. on the balance absolutely nothing happens either way so why bother, but if something did have an effect its possible drawbacks outweigh possible benefit

If they mention it's for the wrong game or have rules for a public, I've always considered that one fine to tell people what they did wrong. It's when users try (and fail miserably often) at roleplaying Sherlock, that's the issue.

i told people like 1000 times already that what they are doing is wrong in such cases. last time just 2-3 hours ago. i never got suspended for this. this is something completely different. when i do this, it is based on facts (e.g. the guy saying himself that he wants to give away another game instead), not suspicions.

its ok im glad to be part of that group of users, maybe i dont help anyone maybe i do, atleast i tried, and well since warning people from very posibles fakes GA is not on the rules more people are going to do it, but then its ok, atleast im not going to be one of those guys =)

But "Its a rakeee!" and ppl use them in witchunts fiercely

yep while giving the most expensive GA on the site so yeah i call it a trap (yeah i know that is not the point of this)

My english is not perfect, but I try to explain. First of all, FeiLing is right. It is a waste of time, all this suspensions. Everybody can thinking, but always is better to know more. If someone do something wrong or suspicious I prefer to know (the sooner the better). For example if most of people thinks that giveaway is fake, I don't enter, I don't waste my points and time to check the profile myself. I know that everything is free here. But also there is nothing worse than to enjoy the winning game which actually does not exist. I see nothing wrong in informing others. We still could "take a risk" and enter a giveaway, and the creator still have a chance to add a comment that he understand the rules.

Otherwise I suggest to add a warning on first page of creating a giveaway (in red and bolded), something like that: " I declare that I already have this game and I agree to give it to giveaway winner". Maybe this will help avoiding such situations.

We get called a scam no matter what we do. Would you have us stop suspending anyone who's ever given away so much as a spare bundle key, out of fear they'll call us scammers? We like to assume our users have at least the reasoning skills of a ten year old and can separate a fake gift from the whole site being fake. Innocent until proven guilty is a good method, rather than vice versa.

As for the 95% bundling, where exactly have you ever seen me agree with that practice?

I belonged to a number of private giveaway groups and hanging out in the chat and being active there regularly gets me some nice private giveaways. You'll notice a lot of my wins are private or group. This explains freaks like Toaster. The lower the entrants, the higher your odds, meaning both your estimated wins and your actual wins rise far faster than if you entered mostly large public giveaways.

Probably entered a lot more private GA's than you. e.g. with 20-30~ entries. it's based on percentages.

great move! get people to stop from commenting at all. problem solved and way less tickets to process!

seriously, Zomby2D sentence is just facts! and you make it borderline to pseudo-calling-out, wtf??

I believe we're looking into a way to change how announcements are made in the new site. There's a lot of things that are updating, too many to list, but that's one we've been pushing for for a long time (also ways to tell a member to knock something off, or alert them of issues, without suspending them (I've had to give five minute suspensions before to alert someone of a major issue that needed their attention when I couldn't contact them any other way)).

Go Ninja, go ninja go, go ninja, go ninja go... go, go... go

That was pretty clever. About the same caliber as your terrible idea. Please enlighten me then. How would you make it work?

You mean, like following the rules and not calling out?

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The FAW is at the bottom of every single page of the site. The notice currently there already says that gifts have to be your own if you have any reading comprehension whatsoever. If you don't, nothing we say would help you.

+1

that "nothing will change anyways" attitude really isnt cool

Plenty of them, both new and old, both the actual gifter and other commenters, sometimes people who haven't gifted at all. "Growing a thicker skin" as your comment implies is the only way to deal with it is not the issue here.