liquidsnakehpks: I see that many of our newer members have begun to make giveaways for the group that's awesome. I just wanted to alert to some proper checks that the gifter can do before he/she gifts the winner his/her game. Remember its not compulsory but doing so will eliminate any chances of something going wrong.
1. When your giveaway is complete , please check if the winner is a member of the gift group this is important since members get dropped when the rules are broken and the sync does not kick in asap(7 days) and hence they can still enter the giveaways.
If such a dropped member has won your giveaway,Steamgifts will only allow for re-roll for a new winner if the member was removed from the group before your giveaway ended. (In a recent case they did not allow for it to happen since the kick had happened after only 1 minute the giveaway ended).
2. The second most important thing is to check if the user already does not own the game or part of it ,a)people can enter for giveaways if they only own the base game and the giveaway is for a complete pack with dlcs etc. Make sure that you have specified in your giveaway clearly that if people with base game can enter or not. (re-roll will not be approved if this was not done), also the members must ask in the forum here that if its ok to enter if the gifter has not mentioned , if they don't ask and enter it blindly feel free to report such incidents.
3. Finally don't gift without checking out the steam profile once, if the steam profile is private ask the winner to temporarily set it to public or add you as a friend to allow the check , if they refuse or delay the request to the last 7th day do report it to the admins.
I hope this info helps out people when making giveaways, remember its not compulsory but this is just a basic checklist.
Just want to bump this.