Multiple Steamgifts.com accounts: Detectable? Bannable?

Well, if he implemented a "One Account Per a Person/House." Rule, it could work, as it would be only 1 Account per an IP (Which I guess it could say that). But people could have brothers and sisters that want to enter.

Don't underestimate the power of cult.

User has been banned for using multiple accounts.

Execellent, the thread ypu linked showed that he really cheated and musted to be banned, iam mean not his account but his IP(dunno maybe then people got banned here they really get IP ban..), yeah its harsh but its the onlt way to prevent cheating in this website.
I have 1 idea that could change thatt too, i mean before creating a giveaway you MUST enter cd-key for game you are gifting if not you cant create giveaway. It's 1 of things that can really be usefull against fake subs.

He does not represent the entire FP community. They are nice, by my experience.

Edit: They also are calling what he did dumb.

How shocked am I.

for the most part i think the minimum account value stops this but i can see this becoming an issue with future "pay what you want" humble bundle style promotions as they can make an account have x$ worth of games for only 0.01 $ real cost

How do the various other web forums detect users who create multiple accounts? They seem to do a pretty good job of it. I guess one first trick might be to check if there are accounts that have logged in with the same ip address and also share the same password. Sound silly but I bet some people would do it. Call that the low hanging fruit if you will. Also might be worth checking the associated steam account details between the various userbase, as the site is using OAUTH to log into Steam and can obtain at least some details of the accounts, right? Check there for duplicate names. Of course everyone won't do that, but again it's more low hanging fruit. Actually, I just realised my password check idea won't work because the OAUTH mechanism won't support this, so perhaps focusing on matching certain steam user details could at least be one way.

Maybe a limit? or ID-card identification maybe.
Limit would be smarter though, because some dont have one.

I'd suggest like 3 accounts max.

registration to this site shall needs some 'tightening'

1. recaptcha (but remember it was already broken by automated bots)
2. resolving human computing image (typical example is show picture of some animals and ask what animal is 3rd from left)

this is not to solve the human made clones but would help a bit against automated bots

Maybe there should be more restrictions on invites when they come back. In that same thread I mentioned in the OP the member in question mentions entering 100s of giveaways on all of his accounts (more than 2?) and winning 6 or 7 of them. What a fuck. The only reason he could do that was because he could generate invites to give to himself.

I haven't used any invites, and I will probably only use one if I ever do. I wouldn't mind having a invite code generator that is only accessible by the mods.