I was thinking about the contribution giveaways, and I was wondering what is stopping users from creating group giveaways, entering with an alt steam account, and claiming that they received an expensive game that never existed? Surely its against the rules, but is it still possible, or would the moderators ban said steam account?

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Lokonopa is. He got the power of seeing IP addresses

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That means... Lokonopa is God!

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All Hail Lokonopa!!!

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I'm an atheist so I don't believe in Lokonopa

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Well , if i will download stuff from net . Police will find Lokonopa and as my IP ?!?!?!?!? -.-

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... what?

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That depends, do you have wifi? (I have WiFi)

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he forgot to put a K after the "as" i believe.

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They need $50 worth of games linked to their account to be able to register on steamgifts.

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You could still do this with a friend.

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Giveaways with only one entry don't count toward the total. Also, an account that looked like that would be pretty easy for the moderators to spot.

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It'd be easier to get a bunch of underpriced games via bundles or sales and just make legit giveaways. The site treats them as full price anyway. Pretty much what we've been seeing.

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How Can you do that? You only get one key for all the games...

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You have probably only been buying Humble Bundles. There are plenty more out there you know.

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Also 1 entry giveaways are not counted towards contribution. I think that they are also monitoring private giveaways to detect such behaviour. It has been thought of this problem since the contributor giveaways have been designed.

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2 entries giveaways with two alt accounts!

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_>

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There have been people in the past who have tried to "grind" their contribution value. The mods picked up on this quickly and I'm sure there's some kind of automatic system in place to combat this.

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This.

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every account requires $50 worth of games to register on SteamGifts. Giveaways with 1 entry do not count towards total contributions. Therefore, do do this, the person would have to spend $100 (less with sales, but you get the point). I hope that nobody is stupid enough to throw away that much money for a slight increase in odds.

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Closed 12 years ago by Caseyfam.