NOTE 1: it's not advisable to spam thank me if you haven't won the giveaway.
NOTE 2: I've been summarily BLACKLISTING people who create giveaways with warnings like "only enter if you agree to allow me to delete this giveaway if the key doesn't work". If you believe there's a high probability that a key might be invalid, you shouldn't be using it in a giveaway, PERIOD. Problems with keys should be the exception, NOT the rule.
My blacklist has reached the 1000 user limit. So, from now on, my giveaways will be LIMITED to my Steam group and my whitelist - at least until SteamGifts decides to increase the blacklist limit.
"If you believe there's a high probability that a key might be invalid, you shouldn't be using it in a giveaway, PERIOD."
THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING! And usually it's for a 1p game anyway so it's not like it was really worth anything. Like, No, I will not let you delete if you knowingly used a potentially bad key, and you can blacklist me if you don't like it.
Thank you for the sanity check, feels good to know that other people are annoyed by those giveaways.
Unfortunately, that has also become the norm rather than the exception for some time now. SteamGifts's administration never seemed bothered by it, so it spread from an eventual giveaway like that one year ago to the huge amount we see today.
It must be said that, according to the site's guidelines, no one is forced to accept to have a giveaway deleted, but the lack of responsibility and even respect towards the giveaways participants is extremely annoying to me. Winning a giveaway is already hard enough, and then someone wins just to find out that the key is invalid... and the giveaway creator already knew there was a high probability of that happening.
The only thing I can do for now is restrict my giveaways to my group and whitelist. Increasing the blacklist limit is an extremely easy thing to do and wouldn't put any extra load on the web server, but then again, it's not my site.
My blacklist has reached the 1000 user limit. So, from now on, my giveaways will be LIMITED to my Steam group and my whitelist - at least until SteamGifts decides to increase the blacklist limit.
THANKS SPAM = INSTABLOCK
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"If you believe there's a high probability that a key might be invalid, you shouldn't be using it in a giveaway, PERIOD."
THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING! And usually it's for a 1p game anyway so it's not like it was really worth anything. Like, No, I will not let you delete if you knowingly used a potentially bad key, and you can blacklist me if you don't like it.
Thank you for the sanity check, feels good to know that other people are annoyed by those giveaways.
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Unfortunately, that has also become the norm rather than the exception for some time now. SteamGifts's administration never seemed bothered by it, so it spread from an eventual giveaway like that one year ago to the huge amount we see today.
It must be said that, according to the site's guidelines, no one is forced to accept to have a giveaway deleted, but the lack of responsibility and even respect towards the giveaways participants is extremely annoying to me. Winning a giveaway is already hard enough, and then someone wins just to find out that the key is invalid... and the giveaway creator already knew there was a high probability of that happening.
The only thing I can do for now is restrict my giveaways to my group and whitelist. Increasing the blacklist limit is an extremely easy thing to do and wouldn't put any extra load on the web server, but then again, it's not my site.
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THX
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