A suggestion: How to handle the autojoins on GA's

1. So bad idea it will be so boring when you want entry more GA.... And all captcha you can cheat with script/bot (google recaptcha too so it's bad idea)
2. If you do not need point so you no need to entry if you do not want 300 points its okey no more no low
3. It will be so boring if you want reply for all your big GA comment... So its so bad idea, cooldown with entry it's bad idea too

@MachinesAreHuman
Point 1: Maybe.
Point 2: No, it's fine as it is.
Point 3: Useless, it's very easy to do that for a bot.

What kind of captcha? If it's a simple "click here to prove you're not a robot", maybe. If I have to do even a single one of those obnoxious "Select all images with Pizza" things I'm quitting entering GAs. I mean considering I win around 1 game per 800 GAs I enter, even if it only appeared once every 10 entries, I could probably buy the game for myself with the money I'd make working that amount of time at minimum wage(Around 1 minute per captcha, so 80 minutes per game, which is enough to earn 23.6$ which is enough to buy most games)

I don't like the captcha buttons purely out of laziness. I mean it would be fine on login. Maybe for a giveaway or two but it quickly becomes a pain in the ass for us normal non-bot users as well... even if I only had to do it once a day, I think I would probably start coming to SG less if there were captchas.... and you might think "one less competitor for winning my precious gibs" but it cuts both ways (look at my ratio; i give away quite a bit more than I win). That said, maybe I would finally become more productive lol.

Anyway, I haven't had a lot of issues with this kind of thing and frankly if someone wants to enter my GAs with a script, then more power to them *(as long as they don't enter dlcs/packages for shit they already own). Anyway, if the mods really thought it was an issue I could live with more passive things like cooldowns and/or less points. Just not a fan of captchas in general and especially not for things I do with any frequency.

I was reading until seeing the word "reCAPTCHA". Seriously, even humans can't overpass reCAPTCHA sometimes.

By the way, "MachinesAreHuman" is a pretty funny nickname to use on a thread like this. Come on! Bots are machines. Which side are you on?

Given that Google is offering an invisible reCAPTCHA, I think it would be no problem if that's added to all giveaways.

The downside I see is that it will prevent scripts which allow to enter giveaways from the main page, or other such legitimate time saving options that don't go to the actual giveaway page.

as much as I hate autojoins, entering a giveaway shouldn't be more difficult.

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but, it's not against the rules 😱
i mean, a lot of people do it. there are even groups with well-known users in them, also they make and post scripts on the forums to autojoin, and nothing is done to suspend or ban them.

it doesn't matter if it's in the terms of service, it's obvious cg doesn't care at all about people using scripts.

maybe we are idiots for not using scripts to join everything we want?

I have no problem with solving captcha from time to time. But it would be very annoying if on every GA.

For me best solution is to show captcha only when you entering GAs too fast. For example if you enter 5 or more GAs in 10 seconds then you'll have captcha on every GA for a hour for example. Or we can put other numbers here. I find this idea are best to me. With manual browsing you probably never hit that limit. Or when you arrive after some time and see many GAs you want ending soon and entering all of them in a rush... well i'm fine to solve captcha few times. But i'll be sure i know it come from my recent actions, rather than it will randomly appear on some GAs or on any every GA.

Also note that here are already exist some protection from autojoin scripts. It automaticaly put you on 24h suspension if it find you using autojoin scripts.

I hate you, and I hope you will die painfully. Captcha is worst thing in the world (and reRaptchat is worst of captchas), how could you seriously suggest it? Don't you understand that this is humiliation of human dignity?

I feel like this issue has become a bigger concern after the whole new way of gifting on Steam. I understand some people don´t even care now If a SG user is entering a GA only because a +1 on the library, for farming cards, because of auto join scripts, etc...but this way of thinking is (IMO) because they can´t do anything about It besides create GAs on the discussion forums or small groups.

I don´t know... I like the public giveaways. To be honest, It´s a bit annoying for me that my odds of winning are less because somebody is just entering everything automatically or the fact that I´m giving a small game to a person that doesn´t even care. I´m pretty sure most of the GA creators would preffer to have 1K people that want to try the game at some point, than 1K people that only want a +1 library, farming cards etc.

So +1 to a solution to get rid of all the auto join scripts. It will benefit everybody.