Cheaters on GA: do they exists? (serious question)

Apologies, it was not intended as an accusation. It was only a not well formulated question.

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anyway I have checked your profile and you are very different to whom I was referring. I won high level GAs with very few contenders.
I was speaking of someone who hase a low level and has lot of victories in few months in GAs with many contenders.
Really your profile is very different from that kind of partecipants I was talking about. You do GAs (a lot of), you leave comments, I presume you thank when you win.

I know you ^^

I have broken the record then... :-P

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15 wins in month? I have 1 per year xD huh

I am sorry, I did not get the pun.

Also if pure probability determines a winner there's always a chance that some people will never win anything in their lifetime no matter how many giveways they join.

that's true indeed

love this

I am not interested in the fact that I win or not, but since I sometimes do some giveaways, I would like to be sure that it has been won by someone that has not cheated so please be cautious to call someone paranoid.
I accept the fact that my basis are fallacious, for that very reasons I asked for different opinions.

fraud, stop counting, the russians are hacking steamgifts

Almost all data regarding GA is public. If you know the math you can actually use it to caclulate if the GAs is fair.

That demonstrates that my logic was fallacious, I did not considered what you call the "real ratio".

There are people with private groups doing "circle jerks", there are people that use bots (which you can prevent a little by setting some level but higher levels cheat too), there are people that trying to cheat their way with Cv, it happens with the amount of members this site has.

I had days i won several games a day, now maybe barely 1 a week, it depends a lot what you enter (whitelist, group, amount of entries) now i got 9000+ games i usually see 3-5 pages of giveaways at most, thus that for me also already decreases chances on winning something, others like to filter out 9000 games themselves.
And there are a lot less active people (and giveaways) over the last few years due all sorts of reasons.

As to the outcome that is just completely up to randomness, noone can influence that.

No.

Now, I've only taken one university-level class in programming and probability, respectively, but I still know enough mathematics to know that the SG code would have to be absurdly bad and broken for cheating to be possible. Nobody without access to the code can know for certain, but the people with access to the code know, and I strongly doubt they're stupid enough to make a cheatable system with one account.

I don't doubt that there are people who use several accounts to cheat though, obviously having a higher win probability in a giveaway than someone with just one entry.

Depends on what you call a cheater I think. If the win algorithm is predictable we don't know like Mully already said.

But there are a lot of people using autojoin scripts which can give you a little advance or people who have multiple accounts. If you would call this cheating, then yes there are a lot of them here.

may I presume that who win my giveaways has won only by lucky?

Yes. There's no way to make SG let you win, anyone who wins just gets lucky. I've seen people win 3 games on the same day, just by being lucky.

The only ways to cheat on SG is to use bots to enter more giveaways or to exploit ways to gain CV to raise your level to allow you to enter level restricted giveaways.

that fucker wins everything

I humbly apologise for having forgotten Mr. Anonymous. I am really, really sorry.
I am sure that he really deserved his prize: clicking on all that "enter giveaway"s is really tedious.
:)

made me the day xD

Calling people out (unintentionally or not) is against SG's rules.

gameshark, obviously

Create a select group of "friends" with low number of entries - it's called cheating the system to make your stats look good (and so that you can enter higher level giveaways) - but in the long run to continue this would be pointless, cos those games have to come from somewhere.
I guess the only other way to get heaps of wins (not cheat) is a combination of being part of a lot of groups, and entering everything you can, (regardless of whether you even want those games).
I'm thankful for what I've won, but I always wish we won more - I foolishly refuse to be part of groups, so my loss ;)

You can be rich and at the same time bet on the races of horses. Until you do not dope the horse which you bet on and win fairly the answer to your question is obviously not.

At the same time someone, who doesn't really understand how the races work, but knows that there are cheaters in the world, can legitimately ask if there are cheaters even among the gamblers or if there is any way to guide the result of a race. ...it is a legitimate question, not a proposition.
(obviously the second part was not addressed to you) ;)

My winnings instead follow the flow of the number of my comments. I have seen that I started to win only after that I started to leave comments and when I do not leave any comments I do not win until I write something again. :D

the way 'randomness' in scripts works can vary depending on the coder. if you really think about it, nothing is truly random and can be predicted given enough information, at least theoretically. you can use really anything that can be deemed 'random enough' and translate it into code. white noise or radioactive decay of an atom are good examples. if i had to take a random guess hah on how sg does it is by making some kind of algorithm based off several variables, mash them together at end then take the first x amount of digits needed - boom - you have a 'random' number. variables could be something like date/time began, date/time ended, number of entrants, number of comments.. really anything unique to that particular giveaway. you could assign a number value to each letter in the alphabet, then do a little math and get a final value to use based off the title of the game, the gifter, the 1st entrant.. you get the point. in order to cheat this system you would need to know the algorithm, all the variables, and be able to place yourself as the correct entrant # in order to succeed.

You got seven full dots: you are clearly a cheater because I do not have all that full dots. That's logic! :D