Steamgifts Social Experiment

I like social experiments, but since this is the third time I see this one, I voted no. :3

If you want an experiment like that to prove anything you have to do it multiple times with varying games. Right now all you could be proving is that 50% of the people who own saints row 2 and who comment also own risen and that the 1000 whatever entries all mostly own an older semi cheap bundle game as well
not trying to hate on your research, just pointing this out. Social experiments are always fun

Ffs, it's steamgifts here, guys. xD What's next? The Stanford prison experiment? :P

So, I guess it's all bots? Or just ones that zombie trough all giveaways?

I prefer experiments that end in fire and/or explosion.

To really make the experiment objective, you should use two copies of the exact same game. This ensures that each 'test subject' has the possibility to enter both, or at the very least, if he has the points to enter only one of them, there is no point to choose the public over the private one. Thus, your results will be pure.

You could also try just asking people to comment on the linked GA even if they don't want to enter as part of the experiment. I don't think that will do much to negatively affect the results since the goal is to find out how many people don't read the descriptions and those people won't read anything posted there anyway. I'm not sure how much it would help in getting more accurate results either given how many uncontrollable variables are involved here and it's pretty likely that at least some people who read the description won't comment anyway.

I did the same thing 3 years ago. Although I did it slightly different. I had mine in giant bold text.

Although it's been so long I don't know if I would get the same result if I did it today.

There is no need to prove that people are lazy, this should be an obvious fact for everyone.

There is also no need to prove that majority doesn't read. If people are lazy, they don't read either.

The sooner everybody accepts the fact that public giveaways are mostly won my rule-breakers, lazy people and leechers, the better. If you want to reward people that pay at least a little attention - you create a thread, and if you want to reward for effort, you make a puzzle, or even a jigsaw if you have no idea for actual puzzle.

Ah, and there is also 4th variant, the one I like the most - you can just give games to people you like, either through a whitelist or a group.

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I often enough think that cg is already doing a social experiment, in form of this project. I'm pretty sure that you'd be able to gain some very interesting and valuable data, for many disciplines of study.

Be prepared for my own social experiment very soon. Had an idea for some weeks now but wanted to wait for the summer sale ;)
It's not to proove that people are lazy (what Archi thinks these are for), it's to add more people to my blacklist muhahaa..
Jokes aside, I'm curious about how it stands with the logic of people. It's not about being lazy to not follow simple rules..

In real and online life I hate social experiment ideas. But in steamgifts I like them :3 bring more of them and one step at a time and we will get to Stanford experiment.

Keep in mind that with the steamgifts extension you can enter into a giveaway without open the giveaway itself.

I know a guy who likes to do social experiments. A... a Mr. Hilter, I presume. Such a chap from an Austrian town.

I really like social experiments. If you do any others, I'd like to hear the results. I did something like this, but with a cheap 3-point bundle game. 717 entries for the public, and 7 for the private (same game for both). Sometimes I even leave extra keys in the description, and they usually last several hours (although they are usually also for cheap bundle games).

It's just a social experiment bro

Make both giveaways for the same game. That means people who pay attention get 2 chances instead of one and will reduce the factor of passing one over out of lack of desire or already owning it.

You should have masked the hidden giveaway URL to something like Fallout 4, GTA V, Skyrim, or some other AAA game...
That said, these social experiment are really fun (and useful), aren't they?

Well if you're giving away more stuff, go ahead and do your experiments.

I think it's a really good idea, it shows how many (or how little, in theses cases) people actually bother to read the descriptions. The absolute best one I've ever seen was on a giveaway for Alien Shooter 2 - in the description, the user said everyone who entered that giveaway would get blacklisted, and the winner would still receive the game, but he posted a link to a private giveaway for two copies of the same game... from what I remember, only about 13 people actually entered the private giveaway.

I'll say it again: social experiments are useful!
Thanks to my currently running one, I got 3 users permanently suspended (they had 6, 7 and 10 unactivated wins).
And I still have over 1000 entrants to check...

Your main variable completely ruins your results...the game.

People may have entered the public GA, seen the private and already owned it. For more accurate results you need to give the same game away twice. That way if they already want the first, they obviously will want the second.

That's Steamgifts, what do you expect? Always been fucked like that. :D

Where's I don't care option? -.-

I expect that using a triple A game for the private GA and a similar game for the public one would net better results.
But too broke to actually try that.

In any case you'd need to use the same game in both GA's for it to actually work as an experiment.