Reasons:

  1. Fake giveaways
  2. Distuisting comments

Additional suggestion: if a person sets up a fake giveaway, the person who invited him/her, must be banned too. Thus, people will think twice who are they inviting.

Consequences:

no more giveaways like this one (read last comments)

no more stupid excuses "I don't understand English, also my little brother did this"
and no more stupid "FAKE!!!" comments

Have a nice Sunday

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But 100$ limit today... It's not work?

12 years ago
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Its easy to reach that limit with the indie bundles.

12 years ago
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Maybe use the same formula in calculating contributor points as when calculating the account value? That was it will be harder to reach the $100 limit when all your games are bundle games.

I am aware that this suggestion is flawed but just coming up with ideas off the top of my head.

12 years ago
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The account value is calculated outside SG. Just check steam calculator, even if you have a bunch of indie games, the site will count each game with the steam store price

12 years ago
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wrong, SG uses it's own system of checking for account value.

12 years ago
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suggestion for this: not to increase contributed value with games that were once in a bundle.

12 years ago
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my favorite one was "Someone logged into my account from internet cafe and created this giveaway"

12 years ago
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HHAHAHH

12 years ago
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+1

12 years ago
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Yea, that one was funny :D

12 years ago
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Saw that. At least he tried and spammed the description with "This is a fake giveaway". But people still didn't read, entered and commented with "Thanks"

12 years ago
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That BO II giveaway was AWESOME, all these people who cant read.

12 years ago
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well thats a given for bo 2 players

did you like my joke

12 years ago
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I liked your joke!

12 years ago
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Makes a mockery of official literacy % statistics.

12 years ago
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+1

12 years ago
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12 years ago
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Distuisting?

12 years ago
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Disgusting

12 years ago
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Gustingdis?

12 years ago
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I thought he meant distrusting

12 years ago
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I agree with OP. I also think there should be zero tolerance on fake giveaways.

12 years ago
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Absolutely. This, referral linkers and beta cheaters.

Makes you appreciate what an awesome job the modding team did to keep the site largely clear of this shit.

12 years ago
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+1 Maybe not a perma ban for a single bad giveaway, but something harsh, like a month at least.

12 years ago
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3 Months.

12 years ago
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Whats the deal with referral links? I never understood that...

If theyre telling you about something, They are INFACT referring you to it, THey might aswell get the benefits right?

They referred you to a game/key site & You want to bitch about it being a REFERRAL link?

12 years ago
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We are not having this site be a source for people to spam links for their own profit. We don't care if you earn real money from it or a TF2 hat. We are not encouraging this spam.

12 years ago
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I hate fake giveaways more than key giveaways. But I don't second your notion cause that will lock out quite a bunch that can give but don't have friends in steamgifts.

12 years ago
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"I hate fake giveaways more than key giveaways." - This sentence is cruel. I am happy it's not the other way around here, but because I am not so sure about it I am not giving away anything for that reason for now.

12 years ago
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I agree with him/her/it

12 years ago
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It, hahhah :D

I concur too.

12 years ago
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Wait, what's wrong about key giveaways? Those are still real, no?

EDIT: Unless you mean bundles, just dont forget that games bought through any non-steam service(gmg, gg, amazon, gamestop, etc) ARE keys.

12 years ago
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Got it.

12 years ago
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Just get rid of contributor giveaways altogether and there'll be no incentive to cheat the system.

12 years ago
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Or with other words make it so i can enter all the giveaways without giving games :p

12 years ago
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We still had fake giveaways before the contributor system. Even when we had invite only. The simple fact of the matter is that people are stupid and/or want to annoy others.

12 years ago
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We should also remove all the rules so there wouldnt be any1 breaking them

12 years ago
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Genius!

12 years ago
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+1 :D

12 years ago
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Or maybe just maybe it needs more moderation?

12 years ago
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No its clearly the fault of the contributor system that FORCES ppl to cheat

12 years ago
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It's true, you should see how many times the contributor system has forced me to cheat on my girlfriend and murder kittens. A force so powerful it turns any man into an animal.

12 years ago
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+1M

12 years ago
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No, it's not forcing them to cheat but it inspires many of them to cheat. It's true that bundles and contributor system are enemies as it is right now. People who want to giveaway at least something are often judged the same like people who are giving away tons of games from bundles only with the calcul to have better chance to win contributor giveaways.

12 years ago
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I feel the same way about most laws. If they didn't want me to shoot up the post office then they clearly shouldn't have charged me money for stamps. It's all their own fault!

12 years ago
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makes sense to me.

12 years ago
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Class: Volunteer Moderator.
Race: Support.
Description: Everyone respects Moderators because it's a very intelligent race. They are known for being helpful and strong in all situations. Moderators are using their intelligence to strike dumb enemies down, if the enemy is very dumb Moderators use Hammers to strike them down for limited/unlimited time.

Skills:

  1. Help - ability to answer question in Support section.
  2. Final word - ability to close giveaways if they're reported and/or if the creator asks for it.
  3. Watchful - ability to see if the creator of the giveaway has the game in his/her inventory.
  4. Resurrection - ability to give a second chance to an enemy that was suspended/banned by bringing them back to life.

Weapons:

  1. Ban Hammer - weapon that can ban a user for breaking the rules. [Moderators use this Hammer when there is no other option, most powerful Hammer in the whole SG universe.]
  2. Suspension Hammer - weapon that can suspend a user for breaking the rules. [A weaker version of the Ban Hammer but still very powerful.]

P.S. Any suggestions for weapons and/or skills?

12 years ago
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Skills- I AM YOUR LEADER! - instantly win any argument in the forums/comments.

I see you- Ability to see if a giveaway is a key or a gift and if they actually have it.

More probably not coming later.

12 years ago
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Skill: You are fired - Remove the rotten to the core apples from the site.

12 years ago
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I'd like to know if you are talking about me or just making a suggestion....

12 years ago
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Suggestion, it's a skill I was thinking about.

12 years ago
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All your Base Are Belong To Us

12 years ago
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I hate those annoying facebook posts that say like in 3 secs if u want _____, but they still happen..

12 years ago
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Well I didn't get invited in, I just found the site out from steamgamesales really, and decided to give it a try one random day.

You'd lose potential new contributors by making registration invitation only.

12 years ago
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Not allowing new users to create giveaways for a month sounds like a good start, most of them are doing it on accident. They need a chance to learn the system.

12 years ago
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a month is kind of long, maybe a week?

12 years ago
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No, because the ones who can't understand the rules are going to break them anyway. The ones who do just get punished.

12 years ago
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I don't have friends, because I don't want "steam friends". So, I would never be able to join this site.

12 years ago
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Site that basically gives out free games

OMG IT NEEDS TO BE BETTUR!!

Spoiled much?
(that sounds way more hostile thatn intended..)

12 years ago
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I'm sorry, but what? You weren't even here when it was invite only. Don't fucking talk about the good old days if you weren't actually here to see them. That shit still happened back then anyway. Moron.

12 years ago
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How did you lose to Wormy? Your posts are much more intelligent and insightful than his.

12 years ago
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Wormy fell for the oldest trick in the book. I swapped countries on him. He's now campaigning for Presidency of Bangladesh.

12 years ago
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the only and one moron here is you, playing the biggest and oldest pillar of the community ever. did i ever mention your lovely old days? Go buy yourself a pair of glasses, you stupid prick.

12 years ago
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You wrongly assume that I was here when it was invite only. I wasn't. But I'm smart enough to actually look at the site back then and realise that it was the same shit, different system. Maybe you should have tried that before you made a thread saying "we should go invite again herp derp because I'm in the site now so I wouldn't be affected".

12 years ago
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Fuck tha police
Comin' straight from the underground
Young nigga got it bad cuz I'm brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority

12 years ago
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nwa<3

12 years ago
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Closed 12 years ago by zombiesatemybrain.