Giveaways for science, results are in

Interesting.

maybe in public giveaway a lot of bots?
good work

I guess I'm one of the rare few who will read and click.
Interesting, thanks for posting!

This seems to support all those that say level 0 is full of bots.

I just typed a long-ass comment and when I tried to submit it, the page went white so here's the tl;dr version:
Mine usually had a participation rate of at least 1/10 (up to about 1/2!) of the public giveaway (which also goes up with the level of the public gib), though my goal never was to gather data but more to reward people who actually read descriptions (which is why I also never hid the giveaway link at all).

results:

people use autojoin scripts

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Yep, definitely improving compared to previous results:
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/EWTuj/so-about-this-whole-reading-descriptions-thing-another-experiment

Interesting info

i made some test giveaways week ago
I put extra-giveaway link not in description, but in first comment. And guess what? Only 4-5% of level 6+ users open giveaway page 💮

Done that but in smaller scale - 1/10 enters private ga.
Also I have possible answer why 2nd hidden ga have less entries. I don't know if that was yours or somebody had the same idea - but I entered fisrt private ga and left second for one hour to gather more points (it was open in new tab). I noticed that tab week later when ga was already over xD

I'd be interested in seeing if perceived value of the game would also be a factor in how many/what percentage of entries you would get in the bonus giveaways. I feel like people are much more likely to read the description of/enter a hidden GA for a new AAA title than they are for something that's currently in an indiegala bundle for example.

but to be fair, most public giveaway have nothing written in there. so its easy to miss the links

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People don't read descriptions. This is already a universal problem on every site out there. Doesn't matter if you're on a dating site, selling shit on ebay, or giving stuff away: people click that button without reading.

Obviously in the forums people are keeping an eye out for trains and such and will typically at least skim a description, but it's far from guaranteed.

So don't take this as evidence of bots - I have no doubt there are bots out there but tests like this doesn't in any way differentiate between humans and bots.

I had a puzzle train, that had 14 GA's. The very last one stated that they weren't finished yet and there was a hidden link. 9 people read this message and another 4 could have found it if they had seen it. The hidden GA had 2 people comment and only 1 of them entered. not 100% accurate but fair to say not many went looking for it.