It's easy to farm keys. This is why you shouldn't post plain keys
But it's easy to fool bots too:
DK7UW-6Y070-3FVUY
BKVDO-06MZE-WYB7S
1W7F4-TGKH1-Q4Z8F
VEM19-E78OA-AMNJ8
GQAMO-VZYLH-D3KP5
D22OY-IH4SR-XYLVO
XC4QQ-ZTZMI-HUFY1
DBNAG-WGLH3-RR5YE
J1OSC-YI25S-WC0BI
DFM1Y-W4N8T-J57LA
How could poor bots tell these are fake, muahahaaha....
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H0WM4-NYB4D-C0D3S
MUST8-3ENT3-R3DT0
BL0CK-4DD1N-GN3VV
C0D3S-0NST3-4M4CC
0UNT1-VV0ND-3RXDD
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Unfortunately, there're softwares that automate giveaway entries, whether by automatically entering giveaways by themselves, or just adding the "Enter Giveaway" button to the homepage for their user to click.
With people being generally lazy, and treating this site like a grab-bag for free games, it's only natural that such things exist.
They're forbidden by the rules, though, so users caught using them can (and will) be banned.
Giveaways aren't really bot-proof, unless they're created as invite-only.
And most bot/script users are level 0, level 1 at most, so making giveaways level 2+ or more would keep the majority of them away.
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Quick answer: No.
However: Users who enter giveaways very quickly or send too many requests to the server will be suspended for 24 hours.
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I think something Captcha-like would be good just in case. I get suspicious of seeing all the copy/pasted thank yous from the same people like "Rely thanx for gifway"
To me, I both hope they aren't a bot, and (this might make me seem mean) I wish they would put sincerity in the thanks instead of just pasting the same thank you, because it means nothing otherwise and is therefore only wasting my time checking the notifications.
Sorry if that last part seemed mean ._.
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I wonder, if it's THAT easy to farm reddits and the like for steam keys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7zXExnToeI
are there bots circulating for a standard user 'enter giveaway' routine?
I'm NOT asking for one, but I wonder if such tools, were they widely proliferated, - a matter of time perhaps - wouldn't best be countered with some tiny playful mini-puzzle to enter a giveaway ... given the already prevailing 'earn via puzzle' orientation in here?
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