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Good luck and happy holidays!

A quick question for short discussion:
My 10 giveaways finished today and already half of the keys are claimed. However, I found myself on 6 blacklists. I'm blacklisted 6 times in total, and all 6 came in today.

I'm not particularly bothered by it as I more give than take. However, the reasoning is what interests me, not who. What would be the reason for blacklisting me?

Why do people blacklist you?

Edit:
It seems the most likely reason is me making level-restricted giveaways. People get pissed and blacklist me :-)
No harm was done though as if they can't enter level 2 GAs, chances are high they aren't donating anything in the first place :-)

Thank you all for sharing your thoughts (over my four currently active GA discussions lol). I've added you all to my whitelist <3

Happy holidays!!!

It would either have to be a personal reason or I'd think that the person did something foul.

6 years ago
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There are 6 people, on the same day. I'm leaning towards me doing something foul. Problem is - what? :-)

6 years ago
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Hard to say without any context.
Something could have been wrong with the GAs, like region-locked, giving keys late or bad keys or w/e.
If everything went "smooth" with the GAs, then it could be something as simple as a comment you made in a thread or a GA.

People can be really petty but it also doesn't really matter.
It only matters, if you did something "wrong" or in bad manners; so you could fix that.
Other than that, can't please everyone anyway.
And if people have personal issues, then they shouldn't be your issues too.

6 years ago
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All the GAs went through nicely, so I don't believe that's the reason.
I also don't comment or write on forums, aside from thanking the creator if I win the key. Although I was horribly late on some (read - a year late :)

But you are correct. I will not concern myself with it. I just wanted to see what could be the possible reason for random blacklistsing :-)

6 years ago
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People BL for ANYTHING.
Mostly because you have a other opinion. A lot can't handle this.
I think a lot of them have not learned that you must not have the same opinion(s), must not be the best friends and can still respect and/or accept the other one or his different opinion.

I personaly BL for:

  • Insult me
  • Not know a thanks after winning stuff from me (i wait normaly a few days) -i not need a thanks from the people that jump into a GA-
  • Use Autojoiners
  • Extreme Leeching (examples: 3 years on sg with only 1 GA to be lvl 1, years on sg with statistics that say 200 won, 20 gift or stuff like that, since 1 year no GA made but won -big- in that time, only region restricted GA's -normaly 90% CIS and 10% South America-)
  • and NEW ... for joining DLCs but have it already and/or have shady entries at sgtools (by that point i am very frustrated because at DLC's i have at least 3 rerolls each time.... much to much for "mistakes". So its clear for me most of them use autojoiners -_- ... but i not BL all of them, because mistakes can happen. You see it at the words they write... mostly came only a "reroll" ... nothing else. Friendly looks different).

At one of my last GA's, open for all with lvl 2 -i thinked i avoid a lot of the autojoiners, leechers and stuff.... but wrong thinked- i was so frustrated that i looked very close on the entries...
337 entries for my GA gave around 180 new entries on my Blacklist.
Thats the hard facts.

Open for all are complete infested (and all the rerolls make a lot of work for the support and the GA creators) :o(

I hope my explanations helping you :o)

6 years ago
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Oh, you opened my eyes right now!

  • I haven't had a case when I was insulted, and really think SG is a very wrong place for that. But I can see how you'd like someone blacklisted for it.
  • Regarding not getting a "thanks", I wasn't thinking about this much. And I figured out I haven't thanked people in the past properly either! It was an oversight, but I became aware how jarring it is only when I started giving stuff away. I have a lot more money than I had before, and this is my way of giving back in a way that was given to me. Yep, "Thank you" is a nice thing to say.
  • How do you tell when someone uses an AutoJoiner? Until I googled the way to figure out who blacklisted me I wasn't even aware of the bots.
  • Extreme leeching is bad. I agree. I will start checking my winners now, and reroll + blacklist if I find a case like that. I also started using level 2 limits now, exactly to avoid that type of situations.

Thank you very much for your comment Masafor, you helped me a lot! Also, thank you for being such a good person and donating a lot of games to others!

6 years ago
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I blacklisted a guy for a while, explicitly because he went out of his way to bother people. I found that distasteful and so I chose to not give him things I may give away. Of course I later removed him because he earned a spot in an event giveaway. Never did anyone else, I generally curate winners by selecting groups and levels instead.

Thanks for putting this up.

6 years ago
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Thanks for your insight. Someone suggested that I created too many level-restricted giveaways on the same day. This now looks like the most likely reason. Hurt feelings :'(

And you are welcome :-)

6 years ago
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You said thank you
You didn't said thank you
someone just wants to made everyone win once
You won too much
Some different opinions
His mood is not good
Your personal homepage is not good
Your picture is not good
you friend is not good
he don't won
lvl 2 GA.

6 years ago
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Hahahahahahha :)))))))
Thank you for the laugh <3 <3 <3

6 years ago
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bless

6 years ago
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Looks like you've gotten plenty input on potential reasons already. But it's their loss, not yours <3 I'm sure I missed a lot of level GAs before I started trying to hold GAs of my own, but BL for that seems a bit petty. Don't let it get you down, and thanks for spreading the GA love <3

6 years ago
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You are an amazing person Kijame <3
Have a great start of the year and happy holidays!

6 years ago
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Same to you! Hope it will be a great year <3

6 years ago
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Gracias ^_^

6 years ago
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