What happened to Who's Gaming Now?

same provider? nope. same exit node? probably yes, but the thing is that depending on certain community chance of someone using same node is from very small to non-existant.

Imagine case of WGN: Your standard node will have anywhere from 20 to 50 exits. What is an actual chance that in the same node you're on not only there is another person among these 20-50 ppl that is a gamer? Pretty high - according to these studies clicky 58% of US population play any kind of Video Games. It will probably be lower in less wealthy cpountries, but I'll take this 58% for now. It means that out of your 50 Exit nodesa on average 29 will be accessed by "gamers". But what's probability That this person is an active Steam user? Lower but still high - excluding casuals playing their angry-birds and Farmvilles 65% of "gamers" play some sort of normal game. 63% play on their PC. It means that in total we can assume that 41% of gamers are PC gamers. So 29*41%=12. 12/50 of your exit nodes will statistically belong to PC gamers. And as there are no hard data on Steam Users % in this studies uses Steam I say we may assume that most of PC gamers will at least be aware of steam existence so let's say it's 75%. It means that on average 9/50 of exit nodes may be Steam Gamers.

But waht's the chance that this person is not using steam just to play, but is also aware community member and part of GiveAway communities? Well this is already pretty small. At Jan Steam had 75mil registered users. Now it may be 80-85mil. And what number of users biggest GA community has? SG has less than 650k registered users, meaning that less than 0.8% of Steam users even tried to register = are even aware of GA communities. That means that 0.072/50 exit nodes will be used by someone aware of GA communities. Now remember that WGN is even smaller community. When the group got closed they had what? 60k users? So now maybe they have up to 100k if we look on it in an optimistic way. So even if you will have steam gamers on your node there is only like ~0.1% chance of them being even aware of WGN existence. 0,009/50 exit nodes will belong to someone knowing about WGN. Now not to mention the fact that not every user will cheat. Actually only minority will usually try to cheat. What will it give us? 0,00009/50 if we assume that 1 in 100 members will try to cheat and get caught. It basically means that there is 0,00018% chance that if an admin bans WGN member banning his whole exit node range it will affect other user. In 100k users community it gives average 0.18 of users affected through whole community. 1/5 of a user. So in wordst case scenario 1 person will get wrongfully banned to prevent any cheater of repeating his attempts on his dynamic IP. And this one single person cas be easily dealt with personally - just whiteliist this one case and continue blocking all other fckers ;p

If it's a good game I vote for it honestly, and I don't expect keys obviously, because games that really deserve to be greenlit don't need to exploit the Greenlight system, and I buy them on Steam sales after.

Please tell me in what way I was harassing anybody? I just corrected the poster, in no way I was being rude or impolite

Geese, gotta love it when people are throwing in random nonsenses without even reading half of my comment >__<

Yes know that too, their system sometimes works bad and sometimes you don't receive keys you have voted for.