r/GiftofGames • u/Miniboyss Radar Technician • Jun 28 '19

ANNOUNCEMENT [IMPORTANT, READ BEFORE POSTING OFFERS] "Hey, why is my flair locked?" Details about the update to user flair

tl;dr

ALL FLAIR IS CONTROLLED BY THE GIFTER TYPING "!gift u/ReceiversUsername Some Game"

YOU CAN NO LONGER EDIT YOUR FLAIR YOURSELF. [GOG] THREADS ARE STILL REQUIRED.

You may remember we recently had an [ANNOUNCEMENT] regarding possible changes to Gifted/Grabbed flair, as well our [ANNOUNCEMENT] regarding closing posts. With our sub growing, it's required more and more oversight while the moderation team hasn't grown significantly. As such, we, and the community, agreed more automation would be best. Thanks to the incredible talent of u/hacksorskill, our bot now manages all of the standard user flair! Everyone, I believe a round of applause is in order. (For the sake of clarity, there are no changes to submission flair (i.e. [OFFER], [REQUEST], etc.))

How flair works for an [OFFER]

The gifter can comment "!gift u/ReceiversUsername Some Game" (without quotes) on someone else's top level comment (an entry).

  • After the gifter post this command in a comment, the receiver's flair will automatically have 1 added to "Grabbed" and will add "Gifted" flair to the gifter if they do not have it already.
    • The bot will comment "Flaired!" upon successfully updating the user flair.
    • There may be some delay between your flair being updated and you receiving the gift. Please be patient. If there has been a significant delay (i.e. at least a day) please contact the moderators.
    • An intentional side effect of this is gifters may now choose to not have their gift count towards "grabbed" flair.
    • This will ensure hoarders cannot hide how many games they've received, making abuse more apparent.
  • The gifter may post this command on as many comments as they wish. This is to enable gifters to gift many games in one thread.
  • Any custom flair will not be affected. How user flair works for a [REQUEST] The gifter can comment "!gift u/ReceiversUsername" as a top-level comment on your [REQUEST]
  • After the gifter post this command in a comment, the receiver's flair will automatically have 1 added to "Grabbed" and will add "Gifted" flair to the gifter if they do not have it already.
    • The bot will comment "Flaired!" upon successfully updating the user flair.
  • Posting this command will close and lock the [REQUEST], as there should only ever be one item requested at a time.
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u/I_May_Say_Stuff Aug 18 '26

Does this !gift command still work? I've gifted a few games now but this hasn't been working for me.

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u/GuacamoleAnamoly Aug 26 '26

Same here doesnt seem to work

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u/jujoking Aug 22 '26

I've been wondering the same thing, as I gave two gifts, but neither them or I have the flairs

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u/jujoking Jul 25 '26

I'm super confused: my comments are being auto removed even though I post my steam ID. I've trying to contact about this and no response

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u/NV_editz Aug 10 '26

You need 300 comment karma

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u/Caspid Dec 23 '25

What does my flair mean?

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u/confused-immigrant Nov 01 '22

I am a bit confused. Do I post the gift prompt in the thank you thread or if there is a thank you thread already I don't need to do the gift prompt?

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u/LordGhoul Nov 24 '19

Whoops I forgot to do that before locking my threads. Can I do that on their GOG thread instead or will that cause issues with the bot?

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u/quickhakker Nov 11 '19

hyjacking this post to ask why the frick is there a commic sans thing on this sub

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u/Evanlyn_Winter Sep 05 '19 edited Sep 05 '19

Whats a [GOG] thread?

Edit: oh, im dumb