Suggestion: Warning / explaination page for your first giveaway, if it looks odd.

This has been suggested before, but it's impossible to force people to read something, isn't it?

Also- I've seen people who've made a giveaway for a sale game, and they already own it, and it's not their first giveaway, and it's still obviously fake.

All in all- I agree, but there really isn't an efficient way of doing this.

To be honest, if people can't read the FAQ or the warning box when creating a giveaway then maybe it's best if they leave and don't come back!

One less idiot never did a community any harm.

Better, have a waiting period after joining before being able to make giveaways. It could be anything from 2 weeks to a month. It will force them to enter other giveaways and go to forum and read the rules. After that if they still make a fake giveaway they shouldn't be on the internet.

It all comes down to the saying "You can take a horse to water, but you can't force him to drink it" You can do everything you want to make people read, but they often will not. Not just because they don't understand English either. Often the people who fail to read can read English just fine, they are just lazy. It doesn't matter how much you shove it in their face, how big and bold you make the text, you cannot force them to read it.

Actually, forget your complicated criteria. Only have a warning pop up when someone tries to create a giveaway for any Call of Duty game. Even if it's not their first. And that's from someone who has CoD on their wishlist.

It's an internet - if some window with warning pop up person who don't bother to read all the previous rules and announcments will probably simply click Next without reading anyway ;)

Steamgifts should require newbies to answer an easy quiz before their first giveaway, with obvious questions like "Do you have the game you plan on giving away?". Some people don't seem to understand the simplest things, and quizzes like that would help a lot.

I tend to think that new comers should always read the FAQ first, and that creating fake giveaways is not tolerable.

Suppose everyone's tired of this topic. :)

As has been mentioned by many people, you can't force someone to read a FAQ. You can put it on their screen, but they will simply click on the "OK" or "I agree" button like they do everywhere else. :)

I can imagine an automated process... For my first giveaway, my inventory is checked. I can give away anything that's visible. So I can't give away Black Ops unless there's a Black Ops gift visible. Then, after I've managed that successfully, I can give away keys or whatever.

Of course, that would punish the guy who only has keys from amazon or somesuch. Don't know the solution...

Also, put a picture of a muffin up there in case they want one

either they will learn their lesson or get the Boot :D

I have bought and given away copies of games that I don't have in my account, as have many others here

It would be a lot better if there were a lot of warnings on the create a giveaway site.

something like "you have to give the game" in around 10 langugaes and 5 different colours.

actually what i think SHOULD be done, is a quick questionnaire that they must get 100% correct before they can use the site, with such questions as 'when i am making a giveaway, i must "a: wish upon a star, b: lie through my teeth, c: give the game to the winner of my giveaway, etc..

this way they cant argue they dont understand, you make sure they can read and understand english, and that they hopefully understand that this website is not magical. also if people make fake giveaways, you can permaban them without worry of being unjust.

Maybe they should have to type a sentence from an image for their first giveaway, saying something like, "I agree to gift this Steam game to the person who wins my giveaway through Steam or email within one week of the giveaway ending."