Sorry but this is a little bit too harsh bullshit

If you want to make comments about fake giveaways, make a Fake Giveaway Notification steam group and post your announcements for the world there. Calling out will never be allowed on SG.

I may have forgotten how to speak English, but it seems like this whole thread is calling someone out.

I never really understood why people bother with the "reported"/"this guy has been reported" comments between it not accomplishing anything generally, and it kind of being against site rules. The only time I told someone I was going to report them, was in some email correspondence that I stupidly initiated with a craigslist troll. Pretty sure clicking the report button in the email removed his only way of trolling me without giving me his actual email. Of course he could have spent 30 seconds creating a throw-away email, but that requires thinking....

To be honest that is a really bad example. Sure maybe the mods have cracked down a little hard on calling out recently but I think it was pretty obvious what that commentors intentions were.

Maybe it was the picture of Teemo.

JUST fyi, if you think that's stupid, i once got a suspension from this site by a mod, simply for doing what you did (saying i thought the rule was silly) - except i didn't make a new thread about it, i didn't type more than one sentence about it, and i called it 'silly' not 'bullshit'...

so if you get permanently banned for this thread, don't be too surprised :) You simply have to say a rule is silly (not even break it yourself OR incite OTHERS to break it) to get into trouble here.

Meanwhile people who make fake giveaways just to draw attention to their facebook pages and groups and such, get off completely free :P

This thread seems legit.

(Don't ban meeee)

I've been suspended for much less. I advice just to not say anything that could even partially be considered. Just report and move on.

Part of me thinks it might be best for them to just to disable comments on giveaways all together. Though I did ask a question on one of my giveaways to try and get responses besides just "thanks" :P ( think it was anime related.. been a little bit and I am tired right now lol. )

That's why i never comment. Comments section supposed to be for comments. If it's allowed only for saying "thanks" then it should be removed and instead they should make a thanks or like button.

check ur privilege

The report button should be removed anyway. I have never seen any effect before the giveaway ended; before there was one lucky "winner"..

So if we cant question the legitimacy of the giveaway, maybe we are atleast allowed to write poetry ?

It should be totally fine to ask the comment section if they know a word that rhymes with "sake" for my japanese haiku, right ?

There are so many comments here that no one is going to bother reading this one or care about my opinion, but I like it when people call out because it helps ME recognize faulty giveaways. Not EVERY giveaway is suspicious looking on the giveaway page, and you can't expect EVERYONE to do research on every giveaway they enter. When one person "checks out" the giveaway/host in question, and finds that it might be fake or something, he should be able to warn people. I don't think anyone should be a dick about it but the right to at least give a warning should be allowed.

I honestly don't give a fuck and enter giveaways for whatever game I want. I don't even check if it's fake. THe majority of the giveaways on the front page are garbage so it's easy to sift through the shit and save your points.

After having read the arguments on this thread, I don't see something that hasn't been discussed before. This has been a rule ever since I can remember and most of the users mentioned are aware of the rule, but try to "bypass" it with questionable phrases.

Still, there is more calling out in this particular thread than in that giveaway so I will be closing the thread. The rules on calling out are not going to change any time soon. Users who feel they were suspended unfairly can create a ticket to have the decision reviewed.