I was just coming to post this. Steam is now blocking every link from SG... What the hell, Steam?
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They're gone for some reason, guess it's not just you.
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30 minutes and no clue about the puzzle :o I just tried to message one random ga and is not filter or anything o.o
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Was wondering about that too.. Steamgifts exists for so many years and hasn't been filtered, why now all of a sudden? ._.
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It happens from time to time due to something on Valve's end and it usually fixes itself soon. I have also just been crowned as the next president of Mozambique (only one of these two sentences is true).
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I say we block links to Steam in retaliation. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ヾ( ͝° ͜ʖ͡°)ノ♪ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ °) ( ͡o ͜ʖ ͡o) (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง
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Gaben doesn't like a community that is about gifting? :(
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Of course not! If we gift stuff to other people, the other people won't need to buy them anymore so it costs them potential moneys! XD
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On the other hand someone has still bought that game.. I guess he is just mean :P
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This site has trading section. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the real factor, as dumb people probably screamed at Volvo waaaahhaaahahahahahaawahhha I got scammed at Steamgifts/trades help plsssssssss volvo.
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Well we can always post just example :
SG/giveaway/n4JhL/
:P
(not mine GA that was just an example)
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we can, but the thing is that we get less new users this way. A lot of ppl (me included) registered to SG because they saw some GA link, clicked it and created an account. If I saw SG/giveaway/n4JhL/ I wouldn't know what to do with it and would just move on.
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but you are the puzzle master! you must solve this puzzle link and find the truth about illuminati!
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Well... at least is nice to see it was not just me
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more more Plot twist : OMG stand for ''o my gaben ''
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If Steam doesn't block link shorteners, as a temporary workaround until fixed you could use something like tinyurl
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Pretty sure those have been blocked for a while now :(
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I emailed Gabe, he should get back to me shortly and all will be fine.
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Right, although my email address is unrelated to my username here. Hopefully he'll come visit the website to see if my sayings are true, and he'll see my comments here. Then he'll know I'm a Dragon undercover as a user pretending to be a secret agent.
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And then the real torture starts.
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Website URL's are manually added to the blacklist by community moderators. I asked one of them via reddit awhile back about why they were link blocking Nuuvem, and he told me that was how it happens.
Some Steam community mod added it SG to the URL blacklist.
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Well, links being deleted from Steam chat feels like BSOD at the wrong time.
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just split the url manually
http://www.steamgifts .com/discussion/90XFM/giveaways-links-on-steam-are-gone
remove space before .comstupid valve.
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Another method, this one allows clickable links:
[url=http://www.steamgifts%2Ecom/giveaway/5NsMP/you-are-not-a-banana]www steamgifts com/giveaway/5NsMP/you-are-not-a-banana[/url]Note the %2E to replace the period before "com" in the first part of the URL tag and the spaces instead of periods in www steamgifts com in the second part of the URL tag. Also note the absence of http:// in the second part of the URL tag.
The %2E is a form of ASCII encoding to change the period into an ASCII code that the browser can change back into a period when the link is loaded.
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I use obfuscated protocol to go around the filter and it works. It may or may not give a clickable link, but it gives a link that is clearly usable in web browser, so when you receive such link from your friend and clicking doesn't work, you can still copy the url without protocol and paste it into your browser and it will still work.
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Well, what I mean is basically replacing http or https with something else or even shortening it to p:// (http) or s:// (https), friends dont have problem receiving such links from me and they already know how to deal with them. Sorry if my previous post was confusing.
EDIT: I haven't sent any links in days so I can't guarantee that this method still works, but it's worth to try, I guess.
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Oh I see. That should work okay too, although I think they're catching on to these kinds of methods. Even mentioning "steamgifts.com" anywhere now will be removed, even though a clickable link to steamgifts.com will work now. Weird.
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It seems my method above using %2E doesn't work any longer, it now says "{link removed}". Also if you ever write "steamgifts.com" on Steam not as a link, but just in a sentence, it will replace it with "{link removed}" as well. Weird.
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I'm not sure if you noticed, but it's well planned move.
Since region restricted gifts...
I mean it's not happening since today, we are getting more and more limited with everything gaben does.
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i am a little angry about this. so i made a thread there. you're welcome to post there.
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/496881136922566990/
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well, apparently my link to my steamtrades.com page is still good and not deleted....
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Every links on Steam are deleted. Anyone have similar problem or is it just me? You know what's happening?
All the links are working again :)
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