Has anyone noticed recently that certain steam groups have been randomly popping up, sponsoring steam code giveaways in Gleam?

Its gotten to the point where its clear every single group that is sponsoring one of these giveaways is simply buying users to join their group so that they can spam users links to dodgy looking "CS:GO Raffles", "CS:GO Betting" , "CS:GO Trading" websites.

Not only that but they're regurgitating links to each other steam group involved in this, hooking people in with fake promises of 'Free CS:GO gun skins' and other similar crap...
Is this not against the Steam Group rules?

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if you look closely you will notice the ref links or ref codes with those csgo sites, and as usual both the user that uses the ref link and the person that shared it get something as a reward

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Its becoming an increasing annoyance, nearly every single announcement I'm seeing now is spouting the same dodgy looking CSGO site...

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most group owners/moderators don't care about what others think of those csgo website as long as they get their share of profit
for example many gleam giveaways will make you join multiple groups that (sometimes) will be owned by the same person and that same person will spam all of those groups with the exact same stuff, sometimes ref links, other times crappy greenlight games (which i doubt that are being advertised without getting nothing in return)

  1. Create a steam group
  2. Get a developer that will provide the keys for a giveaway that requires for the users to join your group
  3. Spam your ref links (must have fishy titles for maximum effect)
  4. ???
  5. I dunno, profit maybe?

but hey! I know nothing about that stuff, i just like to watch them all burn

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Hi Hedge

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Did anyone else read that as

"The Steam Groups Epidemic: Sperm"

Please don't tell me I am the only pervert around here!

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No no that's perfectly normal. Here's another one:

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I'm not sure which would be worse...

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