Wow, never knew that such feature now exists. Thanks for the reminder, Az. :)

Oh, right, this group. Long time no see, since I enabled the giveway filtering on the forum I just forgot about its existance. I should check it out one of these days, but steamgifts makes me set my profile as public for syncing and it feels like such a chore...

Sometimes I think I'm going to hit some kind of maximum value for laziness, but I always manage to outdo myself afterwards.

That's a welcome change! Hope it evens the field some.

Liking the new rule.

That is a very helpful tool indeed and a nice new rule.
Also thank you to all the moderators for keeping this group civil and friendly.

=)

Ah, time to unpack those bundles lying on the shelf, thanks for the reminder. :-)

Allowed gift difference is too high I think, it should be close to 0 imho. I didn't know there was a group stat feature btw, thanks :D

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Thank you for the updated rules. It's a shame it had come to these drastic measures since the group always gave me the feeling it really appreciated all giveaways done. No empty thank you's, but felt appreciation of the gifter's generosity.

I first thought you were too lenient with the allowed giveaway difference, but after reading the next paragraphs the users, who were leeching till now, will either create more giveaways or will be kicked for joining giveaways while the 'must correct ratio NOW'-rule is active. So it's all good.:)

Excellent idea and a great change. :)

BTW, since it turns out I am indeed to lazy to sync my steamgifts account... I don't even know if I'm safe or not. Assuming I'm not, how will offenders be contacted? PM I hope, I probably wouldn't even notice otherwise. I may not use the group anymore, but I like the idea of it still being there for me if I ever feel like it.

The gift difference score is not dependent on syncing with your Steam account. Just go to http://www.steamgifts.com/group/f2hXw/goggift/users find your user (you can search in the search field) and see you gift different score.

I don't seem to find myself. I thought I would still be in there since I'm on the steam group, but maybe not? I haven't been keeping up with the latest changes(meaning, the last year or more) so I could have been kicked out already.

Now I'm curious, I'm going to go check and sync my account.

Ah no, there I am. Maybe the user wouldn't show up if I was not in sync, maybe I search wrong. Whatever.

I'm at +6 it seems. That should keep me safe for a while.

May I join, please?
steamcommunity.com/id/sleazy89/

Honesty, I find the new rules a bit too harsh. As far as I know, I'm well within my "safety limit", but honestly, I don't like to feel forced to give away games, which is what the current rules basically do. While I can understand the need for some anti-leaching measures, I think the current gift difference is too low, at least for higher numbers of games won. Instead I honestly think a ratio system would be better, say 4:1 (you are allowed to win 4 times as many games as you give away) or at least 2 games/year, or something like that. Gifting should mainly be something that you do because you feel like being nice to someone else, not because you have to give away games.