Autojoin Scripts

I liked the script, well, guess its back to clicking.

Wow! I knew that people using scripts to enter happened, but didn't realize that it was actually against the rules!
Nice addition!

for me this web isn't fun but more as depressing and frustrating, 1 year whitout win nothing i can't say more on how frustrating is it.

I like the idea.

I agree with your 2nd approach but I rly don't like the 1st..

points generating too fast? its only true for the high levels. but it seems now every user will "suffer" becouse of them,by reducing points. so now the scripts are the main problem. if someone has the spare time to check in, why you should punish them,while we are not the part of the problem.
hoping for the best

I hope my special skills (ctrl+m1, ctrl+tab) for faster speed joining wishlisted GA will not be banned :S

Many thanks with this post bro! :3

The points thing worries me. I mean I'm sure I'm the same as most people, 95% of the time I have loads of points. Then a Humble Bundle or something comes out, the site gets flooded with games on my wishlist, and I'm empty.

Not sure if theres a solution which doesn't make that effect worse, while helping what you're trying to do :/

I am going to start assigning suspensions to users that are using these scripts

How to proof that? Thats like finding a fake giveaway, everyone knows its a fake but the mods must wait 7 days to see if its exactly was a fake.

First do something about the regifters and the one who dont activate the gifts. Sometimes it takes months till these users get the suspension.

Kill them all, (except Archibot he is nice)

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fucking LOL at all the scripters coming out of the woodwork

Please don't lower point distribution. As I'm sure you can tell, I don't use scripts. Just suspend the people using scripts. Don't punish me too.

So will be insta and permaban?
I use a lot of scripts but none for autojoin (anymore).

What if some of my scripts/extensions trigger a ban? Extensions like Easy Steam Gifts or Extended Steam Gifts.

Good move! Big Blue Approval!

Here are my thoughts on the topic:

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I hope that I will have better winning chance in the future. :) No more offline people will enter giveaways.

This is a great change and I hope it stops the autojoiners, but I'm not sure how you are detecting the script users and I hope there is a good way to detect them without false positives. I have never used a script, but I pretty much live on this site and do a few things that may look suspicious. Ever since the Labyrinth puzzles where you have to check 100 giveaways on each page to find the correct one, I started using LinkClump which allows you to right click and highlight as many links as you want and open them all at the same time in new tabs. I use this all the time when someone posts a lot of giveaway links without saying what games they are. This happens often with ESGST giveaways because they just show up as stars next to the users name and you can't see what games they are giving away, so I just open them all at the same time in new tabs and look through them since there is no other way to see what they are.

Also, I usually only have 2-4 pages of giveaways on the main list because I have over 8000 blocked, so it doesn't take long to look through all the pages. The way I enter giveaways every day is to go through each page and open each giveaway I want to enter in a new tab and leave it open. When I am ready to enter them I will use Control+Tab to quickly switch through them all and click enter on each page. I do this because it is quick and I want to read the description on every giveaway if there is one. Most giveaways don'e have a description or it is just a few words, so I often enter giveaways a a high rate, probably 2 or 3 a second.

Hi, is fine used others UserScript for example "RaChart™ Enhancer!" ?

Great if you can get it to work. Thanks for your good work.

In order to lessen the number of bots currently on the site one would have to lessen the incentive for using one (reducing point generation) and set up anti-botting checks,
along with suspensions of course, and even permanent ones.

The question ought to be how certain we can be of one's usage of such material, in regards to a possible false positive.
If we can't practically commit to saying that there would be no false positives, I feel there shouldn't be absolute punishments.
And yes, considering SGTools protected giveaways, a suspension, even if it was for a day, can still be considered kind of absolute.

In turn, if we can't have such a foolproof system so that we can give away suspensions like candy (to users who have gone out of their way to cheat the system, mind you),
I feel like Yirg's suggestion has merit, where no heavy-handed punishment is meted out, but instead an antibotting check for an extensive amount of time.

Also, I'd like to know if we have any statistics on the matter, as they may shed some light onto how many use such scripts, the distribution of offenders between levels and so on.

disgusting news. had to do a poll on the main page and let the community decided. huge mistake, I am very upset by these innovations.

good update

Oh, what a glorious day for steamgifts! Finally there's something done against the autojoin leeches.