What do YOU think?

Gyarados!

the real problem is identifying bots from the real people who copy paste "thanx "

You may use blacklist however you want. But you can never be sure if somebody uses scripts or not.

Someone please link that giveaway where the creator directly stated he will blacklist anyone who enters. If I recall correctly, there was a lot of "thanks" comments, but I wonder how many non-bot-using people just didn't read it.

whaat arre youuu tarlking a-bout, herrre, arrre nooo bots

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Bots are people too! They should have the same rights! D:

I don't really care. Unless the description has a specific discussion, I don't go around writing a novel just to prove I'm not a "thanks-bot" either. Sure, you could vary it by saying thanks/cheers/thank you/ty etc. with various emoticons at the end or whatever, but it's still the same thing in the end. In any case, I really only blacklist people that break the rules, and using bots doesn't fall under that category.

Bots as in auto-enter anything on the page without human interaction, or bots as in people using the one-click enter function of a browser plugin?

I remember back in SG1.0 there was an addon called EZSG or something like that that automatically entered you into any giveaway on your steam wishlist at a button press, it was quite popular. Now in SG2.0 I hear people cursing damn bots! blacklist them all! what changed? is it just that you no longer have access to said automation?

I'm not a bot and sometimes I just said Thanks ;)

Not easy to know if bot or not ^^'

I will not be blacklisted just cause i'm polite lool

Honestly i don't care about bots. It's 300p for all of us to be spent around, so everyone has its way to spend them. Sure, bots are ethically bad, but a rigged system is way worse.

What i mean? I just marked my 270th entrance in cheap bundle giveaways without win, all in 3 days, all between 15-200 entries = mean chance around 1,5%. I'm this close to believe that the system is rigged or i'm being blocked from the "random" winner selection. For some days now i keep entering and entering giveaways to test the system's "randomness" of giving out gifts without considering any more variables than the entering ballot.

Please i reassure you, there's no whining here! It's just pure statistics, any trully random system will balance after a long run to mean chances eg. when i have 1,5% it means i'll get 2 gifts in every 300 entries on the long run, it can be 1000entries to get 15 gfits, or it may give me 3 gifts in the first 100 entries and then nothing. RIght now i'm struggling catching an 1:1 ratio but i'm constantly behind because of a peculiar jinx, while I can see more and more players that keep winning 3-4-5 gifts in a row , while their ratio is far from the ideal 1:1, it's feels more like leeching.

Just to be clear i enter GAs without using any bot or any other auto-entering mechanism. I simply click & enter giveaways, i comment on some of them. I only use SG++ when on firefox which is rather helpful. Also i've managed to make my own script to show "Chances" of a giveaway (a simple: copies/entries*100= chance%) which i'll make publicly available as soon as i beautify it. :)

Anyway, i voted YES which is morally correct, but from my point of view, bots are not disturbing me. Humans might. ;)

I'm not sure if they even exist.
What's the proof that a "bot" is not just a normal person?

" I think, yes ! "
-@The Man,Who Never Reads.

i have no brain so i can not answer this question , sorry .

Not only people who use bots are greedy, a lot who do it manually are also greedy. Look at win/give ratios. Although some people can't afford to gift.

Is there an Option to get only entries from People who have the game on their wishlist?

I mean ... i dont like anyone who is just Hoarding games for the sake of... reasons .
So yeah ... blacklisting bots its a nice idea.

I got a couple of my friends in steam in my blacklist here just cause they use bot to enter GA's .
(thats not calling out i think )

okey i am kinda asocial skyrim player, i just ended my 39 hours of gaming session, so before returning to my virtual world, i am asking you humans

WHAT IS BOTS, WHAT SHOULD I KNOW ABOUT THEM, AND WHAT SHALL I DO?

I actually wanted to make a thread about this as well. Good I'm not alone with my thoughts, well, they expand to more than just the bots.

I recently bought the GMG birthday packs, because I am a cheap mofo and wanted to give them all away. So I am constantly making giveaways right now, because that are a shitload of keys I have. As I create multiple batches of giveaways I of course also get a lot of comments. This way I can see how people make similiar comments all the time. Most of them even in a row. When I open my messages it's just "user x: thank you" times 6.

I had a few giveaways in the past where I explicitly said that I don't want thank yous and that I can't stand them, and boy, I've got a lot of generic copy/pasted thank yous.
And of course I blacklist the shit out of those people, because I asked for one thing and they ignore it. It's a way of showing disrespect imho since they are getting something for free there.
(I told ppl in the GA that they should post something funny if they have to comment anything at all)

But back to my current giveaway spree.

I look at all the comments I get and take a look at each and every profile, because I want to know who these people are that thank me.
Not only that it's always the same comment on each and every giveaway, it's that people don't seem to understand the concept of this page.

I can't stress this enough, and I probably said it a million times, but I registered for karma related reasons to make it short and yes, I gave away mostly bundled shit but it's the best I can do atm, but when I look at all these profiles I come across people that I instantly blacklist.
People that, and I am not exaggerating here, have won games worth over 1.000,- $ and gifts sents worth nothing to 50,- $ max. Some even registered for only 6 months. Some for 3 years with one giveaway they made when they registered.
Some only make group giveaways and not one public, but that's another story.

My point is that it's not only the bots, but that I can't stand the permament thought that the games I give away go to people that are most likely not worth it. People who don't deserve it.
But still here I am, giving away games. Fuck me.

(Sorry for bad englush, my aporogeez.)

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^I have tried telling people to say the word "chum" anywhere in their comment so that I dont blacklist them. It worked better than expected but still not good on the outcome.