The MyGaming Steam Community giveaways complaints and meta-discussion thread

[mottamort]

Very well, I will start the poll. But I will certainly be disappointed by this community if it decides to exile one of it's own.
[MENTION=18030]phalen[/MENTION] - it also doesn't say that one thread is exempt.

Hi...did you not read my post? I copied directly from page 1 rules of the forum. It is the very next rule after the one Eugene posted (which you quoted). It explicitly states what phalen was trying to convey....

[PsychoFish]

Rules and guidelines

These giveaways are being done by MyGaming community members, for fellow members that contribute in a positive way to the MyGaming forum, and as such we will show NO leniency to spammers or people who do not follow the rules as decided by the community.

These giveaways are for long standing, active members of the MyGaming.co.za forums only.

• You need to be a member on the forums for a minimum of two months to be eligible to enter.
• If you want to join the MyGaming Community Steam group, post a link to your Steam profile in this thread. It will look something like this: http://steamcommunity.com/id/metalsoup/
• You must be actively posting on the forums during the last two months (at least 20 decent posts per month, no spam, no nonsense)
• If you are not active on the MyGaming forums, outside this thread and during activity based competitions, for long periods of time you will be removed from the Steam group.
• If you aren't well known to the person who's giveaway you are entering, please leave a comment with your forum username if it's different from your Steam name on their Giveaway comment section.
• If you want to create giveaways, please make them exclusive to members of the MyGaming community group
• If you see anybody in the group that you don't think deserves to be there, please send me a PM with your reason.

Good luck and have fun, and a special thanks to all contributors!

There it is, seems like it requires a re-read.

[Wyzak]

The poll is up: http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthre...mmunity-thread

Hi...did you not read my post? I copied directly from page 1 rules of the forum. It is the very next rule after the one Eugene posted (which you quoted). It explicitly states what phalen was trying to convey....

I read your post. What is a long period of time? A day, a week, a month, 6 months? How much activity outside the thread is required to be deemed active? He is active outside the thread, but apparently not active enough.

[StaggerLee]

Wow guys. It's pretty disappointing that a thread that is supposed to encourage community has degenerated into a petty argument about who should and who should not be here.

Thanks for all the giveaways guys, I have sincerely appreciated it and I have enjoyed the games. I don't think I'll be participating here anymore. I think I am going to try BeoTek's pay it forward suggestion instead. Good luck finding a resolution to this mess because it is only going to fracture the small community that we have here already.

Additionally, this should rather be in the MyGaming Steam Community Giveaways - Ethics and Discussion thread, not here.

[MetalSoup]

I read your post. What is a long period of time? A day, a week, a month, 6 months? How much activity outside the thread is required to be deemed active? He is active outside the thread, but apparently not active enough.

Perhaps it would be easier for you to understand if I combine these two rules, since you seem to think the one invalidates the other.

You must be actively posting on the forums during the last two months (at least 20 decent posts per month, no spam, no nonsense)
If you are not active on the MyGaming forums, outside this thread and during activity based competitions, for long periods of time you will be removed from the Steam group.

[Wyzak]

Perhaps it would be easier for you to understand if I combine these two rules, since you seem to think the one invalidates the other.

You must be actively posting on the forums during the last two months (at least 20 decent posts per month, no spam, no nonsense)
If you are not active on the MyGaming forums, outside this thread and during activity based competitions, for long periods of time you will be removed from the Steam group.

Yes certainly, and specify the length of a long time.

[MetalSoup]

Yes certainly, and specify the length of a long time.

Last two months. It's in bold. Can your device differentiate between bold and non-bold?

[Wlad]

I'm also not a fan of doing GA's with steamgifts anymore. No particular reason, I just decided to start doing my own thing when I want to gift something. Like with Grim Dawn where I looked for people who had it on their wishlist and the "guess my fav Borderlands character" GA I did.

I really like BeoTek's Pay it Forward idea which is why I bought another BL2 GOTY copy yesterday and looked for a member of Mygaming who had it on their wishlist and PM'd them the steam key.

I might still post GA's in this thread from time to time, but I'll probably use BeoTek's idea primarily for any future GA's.

[Wyzak]

I really like BeoTek's Pay it Forward idea which is why I bought another BL2 GOTY copy yesterday and looked for a member of Mygaming who had it on their wishlist and PM'd them the steam key.

I might still post GA's in this thread from time to time, but I'll probably use BeoTek's idea primarily for any future GA's.

Looks like that is the way to go yes.

[dampi256]

as indicated by the quote you made from Eugene's post



now, when i read that, it is very clear to me that the 'forums' indicate the entire forum base - not a specific thread like the steam community giveaways thread.

Eugene also said this, not sure if you saw it.:


you also said to let the majority vote on this - you seem to be the only one who is uneasy with this decision. everyone else who have commented on this said it was a fair decision.

on his 33 gifts donated - very nice. i also see that you won 11 of them in the past (first 25 on page, i cant see the 2nd page for some reason, only 1-25 of 34). is it perhaps loyalty that sparked your unrest about the matter?

Just my 5c worth on this and then I'm gone.

Granted, I was not very active on this entire forum on a whole because I have other online forums/mediums I visit regularly.

Yes, I have not been playing many of the games I've won mainly because my current laptop, which I used for work, recording music and gaming for the past 2 years, is old and out dated. Luckily I have received a relatively game worthy PC so that will change.

I totally accept and understand the ruling and have no issues with it as I can totally see how my actions in the past have also made some of you very unhappy nl. getting banned (because I did not read the GA rules) for being naive enough to regift some GA's to someone, at times to people in the group that entered those GA's, that I felt really wanted the game more than me at the moment. (Don't do that.)

Thing is that I see I have reached 1000 posts today, lol, and that looks like loads to me as I am someone that cannot be on the forum and post loads every day. That is why I don't even enter the 25 or 50 top forum member comps anymore as I just can't keep posting to get to that level and I am not willing to go to a thread where I have to post nonsense just to get my post count up to acceptable levels.

So, it looks like I will unfortunately not be able to post a tone worth of articles or comments in other areas of this forum as I have a YouTube channel I am building up, posting in other forums and web sites and I play games on console as well as mobile.. oh, and work. Point I want to make is that, if MyGaming was the only forum I frequented on a daily basis and it was my only source of IT related info or way to connect to the gaming community, then I would be lank busy on it and be one of the top "posters", but it isn't and that is unfortunately going to mean that I will probably never be able to participate in this GA group, which for me is a shame.

I love sharing with the community and giving stuff away when I have finances to do so. That means I will have to be doing open GA's and not group specific ones, which I really want to do as I would much rather want my GA's to go to a small group of gamers which I have grown to like and know rather than to some Russian syndicate gamer person thing.

That is just how I feel about it and how I see a group like this. A bunch of like minded gamers that want to be generous and giving whether they receive anything back or not.

Ta.