IMO what would be even better would be to be able to delete a giveaway without losing a slot if it is deleted within a minute from its creation.
Not only it would help with duplicates, but also if you messed up something in the settings (ending date, making it public instead of private, forgetting the level requirement, ...)
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Id say a great solution be that if a second giveaway is made for a game you already made one for, yoy be given a notification saying "oh, we see you already have a giveaway for thus title, would you like to add a/these extra copies to the existing giveaway, or was thus made on accident?". Or something like that.
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only click once when making the giveaway, the better solution is to buy a second key for your unexpected winner rather than removing the giveaway to save your slots. I have have had not this issue but i do see your point and frustrations
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If I remember correctly, a safeguard was put in when the site underwent a revamp a few months ago. It can still happen if you spam click the create ga button though. If anything, you could always ask for more slots or just more giveaways to recoup them.
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Just be patient.
not that hard... never had that problem, but my surf speed is fast, so that could be it
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wouldn't a unique id generated/assigned to the giveaway creation prevent this? so you can't create a giveaway with same unique id.
so even if the form data was resent either by fast clicking or refreshing or lag, it would only create one giveaway.
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Like I said , i'm not the first person who got in this problem , and it's not the first topic about this .
Example BUG: Creating Giveaways white page/duplicate submissions!
I am not mad about loosing giveaway slots , this was just a reminder that the problem is still active .
Maybe the owner of steamgifts can look for a solution when he will have time .
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I'm not the first person with this problem , I have read about other people who , at the end of the giveaway were surprised that where created two giveaways instead of one .
Can we do something about this duplicate giveaways , for duplicate post I know that now there is a protection that don't allow duplicate posts .
First time I didn't realized only after the giveaways were finished , so I got two "not received gift" because of that .
Now I check every time for duplicate giveaways , and it happened again , three times , I deleted the duplicates but I lost nine giveaway slots because of this .
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