My opinion is cherries should be removed after winning in the GROUP giveaway, but if a person has alot of wins in outside giveaways they should not accepted in the group. IT IS easier to keep manage of.

But what do u think is best?

Maybe those who win outside of the group are suggested to leave of their own accord (ie, state it as one of the rules/faqs), but once you win a group giveaway, you're definitely removed. Most people will follow the first rule, I think, and those who really want to 'cheat' the system will eventually be kicked out. :)

I was under the assumption that the default entry criteria should be no wins at all, with the removal of cherries when they win, regardless of where they won it. After all, isn't the main purpose of the group letting unlucky people win? Can hardly be considered unlucky if they've won stuff already :P. That way more unlucky people can be catered to as well, as there's always a stream of people flowing in and out.

I think it defeats the purpose to allow people into the group who have already won something. And if they finally DO win something they no longer need their cherries popped by this smaller group.
Vote: Any win counts.

Edit I should have realized it was you, Tubber ;)

Any win counts, otherwise the whole point of the group (as I see it) disappears. There is no need for moderation really, it takes like 5 seconds from the popper making a giveaway to check if the winner has won something before or not.

Aye, things tend to get a bit more exciting when chances rise from around 1:500 to somewhere 1:3.

with 7 wins?

It is nice to find people who are willing to gift the joy of gaming.

No need to be, good sir. I hope that those fists will open into a friendly handshake in the future.

I wanna be Batman

It is easy to spot the clear ones that pretty much fit into the profile you described. Things start to get a bit less clear after them. Here are couple examples that I think will greatly divide opinions who is in and who is out.

• no wins, 400 entries, 2 months in but very active and helpful in the forums/community
• won single DLC, 2000 entries
• won indie bundle game, 1300 entries, valid contribution of 400 dollars
• won Dwarfs and/or Faerie Solitaire from developer giveaways, other stats are pretty high

I have made group guidelines pretty loose now for two reasons. First just to get things started and moving and second two allow it to have room to expand into any direction poppers see fit. I will in the future discuss with other poppers about topics like cherry criteria, entry application and guidelines in general and things will change accordingly.

For now, there is the escape route of using special rule "zero wins" in group giveaways but having different rules in every giveaways makes the group useless. Thus some level of consensus is required in the long run.

This was what I was about too ask considering poppers can't win anything.

Well, considering 1 popper gives away a game very six too eight weeks, and we can only have 30 charries at max, the current number of application or 6 poppers. Means a game could be provided every week or two, and gives a 1 in 30 chance of winning and then getting replaced. It would be fairly safe too say, that the ratio right now is fairly decent and the group has yet too officially accept anyone.

There should still be a nice pool with people over 1000 entries and no wins (or similar conditions). I have heard rumours that cg is planning some sort of mechanism for unlucky people but have no more knowledge about that.

Once group has started, I will discuss with other poppers how they would like the process to go. In the end, they are to source that keeps the system running.

The group name is S.Cherry Poppers if I recall correctly.

EDIT: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/scherrypoppers

They were taken so I used the naming convention standardized by previous groups.