I'm not interested, but have a bump and happy new year!
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Guidelines
When posting links or content, that content should not force users, encourage users through reward, or PRIMARILY EXIST AS A TRAFFIC SOURCE FOR USERS TO PERFORM AN ACTION FOR PROMOTIONAL, COMMERCIAL, OR MONETARY BENEFIT. Such actions include but are not limited to clicking a referral link, liking a Facebook page, following a Twitter account, joining a Steam group, completing a survey, or making a donation. (Please note, in giveaway descriptions we do allow users and developers to link to their related Steam Greenlight, group, and store pages, as well as their social media channels. Users are also able to reference their group giveaways when posting in the Group Recruitment category of our forum.)
Considering that the third link contains a pay to use website on which you promote your relative, I'd say that it fits the monetary benefit aspect of the rule.
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Any promotional giveaway in SG has monetary benefit as the end goal, since all promoted services/ products are pay to use in one way or another.
There is a huge difference between having a monetary benefit if and when someone decides to actually buy services/ products just because you informed them that they exist, and having a monetary benefit by an action required to win a game. Users may click on the links and get some information that they might find useful or interesting, that it all. There is no actual benefit from someone clicking on the links.
You missed right below your caps "in giveaway descriptions we do allow users and developers to link to their related Steam Greenlight, group, and store pages, as well as their social media channels". Users are not forced or encouraged to do anything for a reward in our giveaway, please don't take words out of context to make a point. And in the actual giveaway description we didn't even include that site. It's only in the forum post.
You are free to enter in any case and we are happy for anyone to win the game.
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The specific guideline doesn't refer to giveaway descriptions, as it specifically says "When posting links or content". Unless I'm blind, there is a link on your post.
There is no difference between you being benefited directly or indirectly as the outcome is the same in either case, with the difference being what course of actions the user on the other end has to take.
I'll give you a simple example. The sponsor that advertises on TV doesn't earn anything from you watching the commercial, unless you buy the said product/service, yet that's advertisement. That's exactly the case here. You are advertising a service from which you may or may not get benefited. It doesn't matter whether I end up using it or not, your cause remains the monetary gain and posting links for that cause is forbidden.
I'll be glad to see a mod step up and say whether I'm wrong here or not. However, I'm more than certain they won't as they never apply the said rules the same way for every case. Thank you for the GA, but I'm not interested in Public ones that last more than 1-2 hours and are not on my WL.
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Hello everyone!
First, the GA : -) [(https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/m8hPn/shadowrun-dragonfall-directors-cut)]
This is a game offered by my sister, so I could pitch in in the festivities in SG.
Although it is not required in any way to do any action other than click "Enter", in case any of you or anyone you know are interested in learning Greek and/ or French, you can check her pages here
[(https://www.facebook.com/ekpaideutikoepistegasma/)]
[(http://epistegasma.com/en-home/)]
[(http://www.italki.com/teacher/1753362)]
Good luck and Happy New Year!
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