I find sometime when i post a GA that after the confirmation of the GA if it doesnt load the next page, if I refresh the browser it double post the GA.

I'va had this happen once on a GA that i put 10 copies lol (good thing i had another 10 keys to modify all the keys once the GA ended)

Just wondering if you guys and girls consider this, as most people will not have 2 keys for the GA, which one of them will they honor? I usually steer away from them

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Yes, especially if the two giveaways were created back to back and has a high entry cost.

9 years ago
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Yes, unless there is a difference (different ending time, different level, etc...) or I wouldn't mind losing those pooints if the GA gets deleted.

9 years ago
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Does this still happen? It has happened to me a few times in the past, but the last time there was some kind of an automagic system that recognized two identical entries in a short time period and canceled the last one.

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Is it safe to say the fail-safe is failing then? Or maybe it actually did prevent pressing the confirm button again, which did previously create multiple giveaways and just doesn't work in case of refreshing the page. Hmm. Anyway, it did actually show me a message telling me what happened and why.

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I think the fail-safe only works for comments not for giveaways

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Those priorities seem kind of backwards.

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Hmm, not so confident that has ever happened to me.

Had to test it then. If there was a failing fail-safe it failed to load. Just got a blank page and double entry ... though I did press it three times, so I failed in failing properly.

Subsequently, Game Tycoon 1.5 anyone?
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/BQhvr/game-tycoon-15
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/c4p1n/game-tycoon-15

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I think ive seen one of those message too, you are about to create the exact same GA, it may not always work

9 years ago
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And then 2 weeks ago it happened to me again (just glad i usually buy more then one =))

9 years ago
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That happened sometimes to me lately, but when i refreshed the page, i had only one giveaway created.

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Maybe they modified something in the last 2 week then?

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Maybe.
Or i was just lucky :)

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Actually I think i saw that happen to some of my GA as well, there was two, then refresh and one is done, Alswider must be right, it may just not work all the time

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But it clearly still happen, just look at those 2 GA from someone else, this is why i started discussion hehe

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/PjBaV/pacific-storm
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/JhoNf/pacific-storm

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Sometimes it happens to me. When the next page doesn't correctly load, I look if it is registered on my 'created' tab... if it isn't I again create the giveaway, if it is all the better. That way I haven't had any problem since joining ths site.

To answer your question, I'm weary of entering such giveaways. But may do so, if the I wouldn't mind loosing the points or the creator has no 'not received' marks on ther profile.

9 years ago
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No, worst case is I get nothing - not that different from skipping. Also some ppl think that making multiple GA instead of multicopy somehow is better.

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I didn't use to care, unless I was short on points. But, recently I've read that the current system does not refund you the points from your entry in a later deleted giveaway.
So, now I try to figure out if it is a person making the reload mistake, or somebody trying to promote something hard by making multiple giveaways instead of a single multi copy one.

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Happened to me a month ago, on a Kotor 2 giveaway.

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I guess this happens because the user who's creating the giveaway click the "Create Giveaway" twice. Normal first click, and second when the user thinks that the first click doesn't work, so the form is submited twice, and 2 GA are created from the same form.
A way to avoid this, is disable the button when it's clicked for first time.

If they don't do this, be sure to click the Create Giveaway only once, if the page doesn't load, check if the GA wasn't created and create again

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