Suggestion: Mod-created giveaway to locate scripted entries

yah who needs illiterates anyways?

Well there aren't all too many 50p games, right. Reducing the points will increase the chance of false positives, ergo more drama.

Also, you will never be able to convince people that they will be banned once they enter the giveaway. They'll think it's a joke, no matter how serious a warning you put. Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity, a wise man once said.

The integrity of the site will decrease. If I heard of a site where mods put up giveaways for which you could be banned for, why would I bother? Newbies would easily be tricked into entering these giveaways through trolls, and overall... its just a dumb idea.

There's no point in it, and could only cause problems, not solve them... the scammer demographic is so low that its not worth it.

Bypassable (Yes, even ReCAPTCHA - I can go into more detail, but I think it's against the site rules)

That would never work. If it was scripted chances are the "scripter" would be entering so many giveaways they wouldn't have enough points.

I'd notice it.

Thing is, there is no way a bot operated account would have enough points to enter every giveaway. Meaning they much already have something to ignore giveaways the bot operator isn't interested in. There are two easy ways to do this:

• The bot has a list of games. It only enters giveaways for those games, it ignores anything else. Including your "ENTERING THIS WILL GET YOU BANNED" giveaway. If I was making a bot, this is how I would do it, as the bot wouldn't be entering giveaway for obviously crap games* that have only just shown up on Steam Gifts for the first time.
• The bot has a list of games to ignore. It enters all other giveaways. Your proposal would catch it. But only a few times, then the bot would be programmed to check the like to the Steam store (unless it's a known bundle), and ignore giveaways which don't have a link or the title of the linked page doesn't match the giveaway title.

*Or just games I don't like.

Is there even a bot problem ?