I can't believe that we made it.

It's July 11th 2023 (CET).

10 Years and 100.000 Members!


It's incredible that such a small idea became that big.


Back then I started with inviting only some of my STEAM friends/ (Playbuddies) etc.
I even promoted some of them to moderators.
I started with 10 groups. (10-100)

It was growing so fast and STEAM-User levels reached the 100 in days
that I had to find a way to create more then 10 groups.

Now it was kind of a race between me and some who tried to reserve some higher level group URL's.
They had no chance. ;P
And so we now have 100 offical Level Collector Groups. (10-1000)

A while later the amount of invite requests, manually written as comments into our (Level 0 Group)
or on admins/ moderators profiles or elsewhere were not to handle anymore.

The implication of the Invite Bot helped a lot even if STEAM doesn't really like Bots.

I made a suggestion in the official STEAM suggestion board
which really got implemented a long while later.

The "Invite Request" Button.

Now we had way more control and could easily Accept/Ignore request.


The rest is history.


Thank you all for being part of it!
Now let's go for the next 10 years and the 1.000.000 members milestone!!!


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Anyway, there is a giveaway.

To give everyone the same chance I can not simply make a word grid game for example.
It's almost impossible to handle with so many members.
Also time-zones and so on.

So I will make it easy and will use random.org to find 10 random members.

How?
The memberlist of Level 10 Collectors has at moment ~1981 pages à ~51 members.

I will randomly take 10 pages out of these 1981.
I will randomly take 1 member out of the 51 on each of these pages.
So at the end I will have 10 random members.

These members have to be active on STEAM.
If they are offline for longer then 3 days or have their profile set to private then I will choose another one.

Excluded from winning are Admins, Moderators, Close Friends,
Bot Profiles, member with level lower as 10, private profiles
and member who join after this announcement.

I will add these 10 members to my friendlist.
Don't forget to acept my friend request if you got choosen!
We have to be STEAM Friends for at least 3 days before I can send anything.

I give away 10x 10€(~$11) to these lucky ones.

Good Luck to everyone, don't feel sad if you won't get contacted.

A quickie

Level Collectors is going celebrate it's 10th year anniversary very soon.

This is just a quickie, and I may have missed the mark to the day, however, I wanted to say Happy Birthday to ALL Level Collectors.

9 years ago Level Collectors was formed!!! Yay!!

Nine years of all of you supporting Level Collectors, adding your input, creating profiles, making videos, editing profile backgrounds. You've not only shaped Level Collectors, but Steam as well!

You deserve a big round of applause!


The Beginnings
I wanted to touch up on where it all began, before many of you joined (myself included), a bit of nostalgia, if you will:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/level10collector/announcements/listing?p=36

That aside....

As we go into the 10th year of Level Collectors, I wanted to let you know that... Something is upcoming..!! (not cancelled this time)

     

Recently, someone has contacted me about scammers and wanting something done about it. I thought I'd take this time to address Scammers, both trading and account.

Here in Level Collectors, we do not condone scamming in any form. We believe our members are smart enough to identify a scammer, however, there is a time that there may be a reminder needed
To help our members, and to keep you informed, we offer this FAQ from Steam Support:
Steam Support Scam FAQ
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/70E6-991B-233B-A37B

A few things that are suggested:

Enable Steam Guard
Only trade with people YOU trust
Check profile of person trading (it may be 'signed' by someone, but... see next step)
Check yourself; Don't worry about 'impressing' anyone. If you don't feel comfortable trading, then don't! It's your item, do what YOU want!

Take Care, Level Collectors
Have a Merry Christmas 2021
and see you before New Years
     

A quick thing,

While you've been all been Collecting Levels, there is something else in the works.

I'll keep you posted!