Lately, there have been several posts of people linking to CS:GO skins they've created. Some looking for feedback, some asking for votes.

Though I don't get involved in CS:GO or workshop stuff, as I understand it, if skins get enough votes, they could be added to the game and the creator would profit off of it. Therefore, we've been closing such threads and suspending for advertising. Some users may legitimately be looking for constructive criticism, but it's difficult to differentiate between that and those purely looking for more votes/exposure for their creations. So all such posts will be treated the same.

Bottom line: Do not post these in the forums. If you want to link them in your giveaway descriptions, that's fine.

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I thought one of the rules was if you contact support then maybe you're allowed to advertise? Does that still apply?

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If someone is looking just for criticism he/she may just post screenshots of templates without any link to actual workshop I guess.

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Thank you for the clarification.

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I see, I thought this post was going to be vaguely different.

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Pizza advertising is still allowed, i hope?

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Only if you care to share some with us.

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You mean with *Jonex

because I'm selfish when it comes to food

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Perfect haha :3

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I don't have anything like that atm, but how about this small preview of honey which i'm making out of yellow dandelions right now?

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ARE YOU A BEE?!

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B+

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Why are people asking for votes in workshop get suspended for advertising when people who disguises their giveaway (and not a giveaway in steamgifts infact) as vote begging from a contest aren't??

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What I was referring to was a forum post with a giveaway that links to a 3rd party app to pick the winner. Don't want to point out so I guess I'll just make a report since looks like this thread has been under the support's radar.

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Please do, I'm not sure what you're referring to.

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Letting people benefit from posting on the forums just encourages a ton of spam topics. It's not spam when it's in a giveaway description.

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I think that what he meant is: "Why do people who promote their workshop items on the forum get suspended while people who post "giveaways" that take part on third party websites get away with it?"

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Thank you so much, those threads had been bugging me quite a bit.

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Thanks for this statement.

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at last! thanks!

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Thank god. Mostly because I'm fed up with Counter Strike.

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So if you create a skin and then post screenshots asking for feedback without the actual link, would that be acceptable?

I don't make skins, just wondering.

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I think that would be fine, but idk

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So what is the difference between people posting workshop items, and people advertising for greenlight votes?

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Including giveaways, I guess.

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Closed 10 years ago by bobofatt.