Giveaway Scheme

The system that is used to pick a winner gives everyone an equal chance of winning something.
And as to limiting the amount of people allowed to enter,this site is called SteamGIFTS for a reason..

I have also seen people with over 300 entries who haven't won

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Maybe Limiting is a good idea, but 20 - 30 ppl? Way too low. Say there's 100 giveaways but 35000 people. 100 * 30 = 3000 entries max.. So maybe 500 is perfect, before the users becomes 50k anyway

There should be an option for the creator when making the giveaway, to limit the number of entries. It could work like the time limit: Giveaway open for a certain amount of time and/or until it reaches a certain amount of entries.

I don't understand your complaints here... It's about getting lucky, you keep entering and eventually you'll win something. Your points regenerate, spend them and you'll eventually win. Even if it takes you a month or two to win something, its a free game that you wouldn't have otherwise had.

I agree. You should make it so that only a few dozen people can enter each giveaway.

This would incentivize the creation of bots to automatically enter desirable giveaways before everyone else, thus giving us programming-savvy folk an extra edge. This is a good thing because if benefits me, and probably some other people, but they aren't me so I don't care about them.

(For the dense: this is a terrible terrible idea what were you thinking)

Public giveaways should never have restrictions when it comes to how many members can enter. If you come in chat, get familiar with the community, you could be invited to a number of different private groups that offer group only giveaways.

Please, that is not how the site was suppose to run. Anyone can join public giveaways because that is how it is suppose to be. It is fair to everyone, everything is random and randomness is good.

You want to exclude people from giveaways? How DARE you sir? How DARE you

Everyone has an equal opportunity when entering a raffle. If you want to enter a raffle with lower numbers,find some private raffles.They are always significantly lower so there is no excuse to limit the public.

Dont change the Matrix, only causes problems..

The thing that messes with my head is that everyone has the same chance as you... so you technically have the same chance as any other person. However, the odds of you NOT winning are infinitely higher. So someone else will win, apart from you, despite the fact that you have an equal chance. Or something.

The current setup allows ANYONE to enter a public giveaway and have an EQUAL chance at winning.

What can be more fair than that?!?

And then there will be people who will miss out on any chance what so ever to enter contests because people will start making scripts to automatically enter any contest that is open. Which will only make things even more unfair with a smaller group winning all the contests. Right now this is fair.