So, someone leaked my puzzles... (DELETING EVERYTHING)

Now that I had the chance to think more cold-blooded (not even sure this kind of sentence make sense in English, but let's say I'm more calm now), I think I found a pretty honest solution.

sorry to hear this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eiZMWZF8kA

Seriously though, that blows. I don't understand the point of doing that... he's actually sabotaging his chances to win. Maybe it's someone who's mad at you. I don't know. I don't understand people.

Damn! I knew there was something fishy going around.

I entered CuzWeLoveFreeStuff group page and saw someone posted like 8 giveaways. I entered the links and they were yours but the dude posting them was not you. They were private (invite only). I thought that maybe you just had different username on Steam and you just changed your avatar but now that you posted this it all makes sense. I entered only one giveaway but I'm going to leave now so that I know it was for people who solved the puzzle. Man, that's messed up. Sorry to hear that happened. The dude who leaked those links is a fucking idiot.

Sorry Dunther. After all the work creating a puzzle involves, this must be a really big disappointment for you :(
Please keep making puzzles. These set of puzzles are very original and really difficult to solve. I would like to see more of them in the future, I had a lot of fun.

Maybe you can add some kind of code to the solution of each puzzle and if the winner don't know that code ask for a reroll, as bobofatt said. That way, only people who solved the puzzles would have the code and could prove they actually solved it.

some people are still entering,the numbers are rising

That... really sucks. The puzzles were cool, and must've taken some time to set up. If someone ever finds out who did it, I hope that person gets banhammered off the site permanently for being a not-cool spoilsport..

I really enjoyed + spent a good amount of time on your video puzzle and it was very fun (expect more puzzles from you) so how someone leak links instead of letting society enjoy the solving

When I first found https://steamcommunity.com/groups/lowcygier these giveaways in the comment section, I thought maybe someone of his friend put it there ,he is an asshole and should be banned from steamgifts . I have removed my entries from all of your giveaways. He is called eNdless .Im feeling sry for you because you spent some time making the puzzles.

I hadn't gotten around to your thread or puzzle yet, but I guess there is no point for me to now.
Not everyone who could join anymore is necessarily blacklist worthy, but I can sure see how the leak wrecked knowing who wouldn't be.

i saw the link on https://steamcommunity.com/groups/communitychat and joined the giveaway, i didn't know about the puzzle :/

That really sucks, I never even went back and did the normal one either. I was actually the first to enter in Surgeon Simulator though and that's the one I wanted most. In the end if it gets to be to much trouble I'd just delete the giveaways.

Sad to hear that.
Really dumb that somebody would do that.

Aww that sucks since I spent a few hours to complete your puzzles. Cheaters will always be losers.

Damn.... so sorry this happened to you, Dunther =/ People are such assholes sometimes.

there are some people who solve the puzzle and deliver the giveaway link in a X group , there are many giveaway, that solvers are always the same , and it means difficult for that person know everything about everything ( sorry my english )

It really sucks that someone would do such a thing, I mean, it seriously makes no sense, what does he/ she hope to accomplish by leaking the link?

Either way, I'm not sure if the solution you came up with is the best one, mostly because of this rule from the FAQ: If the user entered one of your giveaways prior to being blacklisted, their entry still remains valid. In this case all the people who joined via the leaked links have joined prior to being blacklisted so I don't think that support would provide re-rolls.

In my opinion, deleting them is quite necessary and recreating them as whitelist giveaways idea sounds like the best option to me.

I suggest to post inside your GA links to this thread because some people is hmmm lazy ?? to read about puzzle solving and entering even writing "thanks" (facepalm) but if they saw one more link maybe they will go there thinking it is other GA and finally read, that they are not eligible to enter those GA
Wanted to ask one of the user "user/noodlesinsoup" why he entered GA even if there was written not to enter, because liked his profile, 7 years everything is looking awesome, find out he is chinese and don't speak english even with google translator LoL how he find out how to enter this links? (thought I think he just pretend because there clearly english language wishlist and written stuff on his profile)

blacklista i tizi sospetti, gli ultimi entrati.. e rerolla di conseguenza (dovrebbe anche esserci la motivazione 'leaked')
peccato per chi effettivamente ha risolto davvero i puzzle di recente :(

Definitely do not delete your giveaway and be penalized a giveaway slot for some others idiocy. Ask for a re-roll and try to judge a good winner based off what Bobofatt said. I most certainly would not take losing a giveaway slot because of someone that didn't follow the rules.

Guess I can forget about going back to them, lol. I had almost forgotten about this puzzle.

Sorry to hear that.

These idiots make me angry.
You put some effort to create nice puzzles and someone just comes and messes up everything.

I don't know which is the best solution.

what if someone solved your puzzles, then bookmarked the giveaways for the next day to wait for points regeneration? if winner, could i send a screenshot of the solved itstoohard pages?

Yep, so I've noticed. Was posted on FGF's group page. Banned him for a month, but now that I know more about this, a permanent ban + group kick is more appropriate.

I really can't understand why anyone would do such a thing. Whichever way you look at it, this is a losing situation for the leaker. They break the rules, they get a lower chance of winning the said giveaways, but most importantly, they just screw up the puzzle or private giveaway.

The only conclusion I can come up with is that they want to be jerks. Why? That's beyond my thoughts.