"In the next 3 hours, I will randomly post a link to a private giveaway, and I will remove the link in 10 seconds. You have no idea WHEN will it occur in those 3 hours."
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Why is that allowed? Would that put unnecessary stress on the servers? Is that why Steamgifts is notoriously slow?
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I used to catalog every giveaway I entered, and keep statistics. Then, a few thousand piled up, and suddenly it stopped being so important. Set up a filter, stop opening every giveaway page, and you'll be doing a favor to yourself, as well as Steamgifts.
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I think his spreadsheet looks professional enough already.
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That's way too hardcore.
Instead, just bank your points on distant giveaways (1+ week away, etc) and use those points to join giveaways for games that you actually want. I'm currently signed up for all of pages 9, 10 and 11. I don't want most of those games, but when I find a game that I actually want, I get some banked points and join the better giveaway.
That may be gaming the system, but it avoids the situation where I randomly enter a giveaway to "use up points" and actually win it. If I win a giveaway, it will always be for a game that I want to play.
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In any kind of problem that you're unfamiliar with, you can never safely say you're positive of anything.
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"I use that extension that loads all pages of giveaways, and I'm literally on the site all day, refreshing every 10 minutes"
If I were this site's admin I would have banned you for loading all the pages again and again... Do you really think it's OK to load all the giveaways even though you're entering most of them? NO!
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If I were this site's admin I would not ban him and any other people who are doing it. Of course there is a fine line between use and abuse. But in the end this kind of site will require a lot of bandwidth and the owner should be prepared for that. We don't know if this really is an IP banning issue and even if it is it may be done by SG hosting admins, not SG staff.
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There have been times in the past week where pages just randomly wouldn't load but others would. Takes a couple of refreshes to see them and even then, sometimes comments and entries don't go through. Nothing else going on bandwidth wise.
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A more informative answer is the site's creator, a rumored omniscient AI living between the code lines.
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Not sure if that's some anti-DDoS system provided by new host, or something cooked by cg specifically, but yeah. If there are too many requests from one IP in short amount of time it gets blocked. Don't know specifics, haven't experienced that myself. I only got blocked with bit.ly one day after 5k requests within around 30 minutes :D
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