Read and write?
Quite interesting, thanks for this 'experiment'. :)
I don't want to be too harsh on the people who don't read; certainly not all of those are bots. It's not a surprise that the majority of users don't come to the forums and also not a surprise that the majority has never created a giveaway.
But there are plenty of people who have lots of things to do and prefer to spend their time doing other things than Steamgifts. I don't blame them for 'drive-by entering' some giveaways every day or so.
And for GA creators there are plenty of options these days (forum GA's, high level GA, SGTools, etc.) so everyone can do what feels best to them.
All in all, the system here is pretty good, I'd say.
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Agreed ^^ It's like another game people can play or not play. Have fun, that's all that matters!
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You've inspired me to do my own experiment.
I've created two giveaways of the same game, both level 1, one private, both using the same text in the descriptions as yours. Let's see what the results will be. :)
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Here's the (sad) results: https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/9ws52/another-surprise-for-the-literates
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Very nice! Having 2 of the same games makes the result much more trustworthy.
Thanks for sharing!
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bump for solved the puzzle of reading words
interesting to see those final stats
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I always read descriptions. It's my main way to show gratitude to the giveaway creator. Maybe someone had a rough day and need a cheer up gif or a nice song or a video, even an advice. I always read them and reply back according to what he/she wrote. In a side note, I could saw your giveaway in the list while surfing SG but I'm pretty sure I didn't opened it because the amount of entries. Otherwise, I would have seen your private giveaway and comment there just to prove I can read ;)
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aww~ hugs
It's ok, you've already proven your reading and writing abilities 10 folds now!
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I do read because people sometime put hidden giveaway :3 something interested. I do love write too.
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it's not that hard if you just stop PROcrastinating on it!
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Well that legitimately sucks because I really want Rocket League but I don't own any human pets with which to play Keep Talking, so it's not on my wishlist, hence I saw neither the giveaway nor the link in the description.
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I can read.. not so good at righting though, but i will get their eventually!
chairs for the giveaway!
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Thank you for the giveaways.:) I couldn't seem to find that third giveaway. I must not be able to link-hunt well enough.:)
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Nice experiment... Btw, you might also think about those users not speaking English: they might join first giveaway and don't read the description because... Well, they can't read >.< They might join the giveaway and not leave a single comment because their English is not sufficient enough... Or they think it's not sufficient enough which results in the same lack of reaction.
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huh... I think you may have made a mistake there somewhere :)
I posted in the second giveaway yet I'm not invited to the whitelist cry
Not interested in Rocket League either so no biggie, but maybe you should double check those who are :)
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oh no! I missed your comment somehow. :O
fixed ^^ There're still time for Rocket League so I'll be able to double check everyone.
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Have a bump.
CJ made a similar experiment a while ago, even more tricky since it wasn't a public gib but a forum one, and it was saying in the description NOT to enter or you'd be banned. You wouldn't imagine how many people even coming from forums don't read the description >_<
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wow :D That'll be interesting to see. I suspect some people are entering just for kicks though. (pun?)
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Yes, another one of those "Do you read giveaway descriptions?" posts, with a tiny twist. I figured I should share it with y'all. ^^
I made a public giveaway for Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. In the giveaway description, I put a link to an invite-only giveaway, where I asked people to please leave a comment. (Yes I was nice, I said please :3)
Both giveaways ran for 10 days. Public one end with 5381 entries, whereas the private one had 122 entries and 132 unique commenters.
Let's wildly assume that 40% of the people commented without joining, and 20% of the people clicked the link without either joining or commenting. Then an (gu)estimation of ~240 people who found and clicked the link in the public giveaway description.
....Which is less than 5% of people who read and clicked! Less than 5%! :O
Furthermore, for everyone who actually left a comment as per the second giveaway's request in the description, I added them to my whitelist, where they'll find a surprise Rocket League gib waiting for them :3
I assume this will be on many's wishlist. All they had to do was read and write.
Unexpected gifts are the best, right?
Here's to celebrate literacy!
Note: Stats above aren't meant to be accurate or conclusive. This is just a post for fun, don't take it too seriously ^^
TL;DR: Would be too ironic to put a tl;dr. So, sorry, go read the whole post :<
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