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what are "account temporarily blocked" criteria

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UnseeingEye

"Account has been temporarily blocked for up to 24 hours due to suspicious traffic. Please review any scripts or third-party add-ons you might be using."

Okay. I understand that there is some system aimed at DoS protection and stopping the people who use the scripts/addons for giveaway join automation.
The problem is, that it seems to be more than realistic to hit this DoS limit without any extra automation tools, what I actually did.
Maybe it was a bad Idea to check the site every 20 minutes or so during 12hrs workday and post dozens of giveaways within a day, and maybe I should pay more attention to smth in a real life. :)
But right now I want to know how to avoid this in the future, as I suspect the next block will be longer than 10-15 minutes.

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DeltaBladeX
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What you are claiming you do will not trigger it. It takes something like hundreds of requests in seconds to get a block.

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dead0ne

This, otherwise everyone that participated in the labyrinth would have been blocked.

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UnseeingEye

what is this "labyrinth"?

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Doshmaku

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/QHlwg/100-giveaways-community-event-return-of-the-labyrinth

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Miyuu

I believe you also get blocked for trying to access 100 invalid pages within 24-hours, no?

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UnseeingEye

No, I don't think so. how can I access invalid page by just navigating the website?

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Miyuu

You can't. I was mostly just adding that it is a possibility.

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Ryoken0D

Above, also don't expect any specifics. They give out specifics, then people would just modify the scripts to function just under the threshold.

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talgaby

Refreshing and posting giveaways definitely cannot trigger it, otherwise I would have been hit when I posted 300 giveaways on two consecutive days. :)

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Mully

stop using scripts to autojoin and/or autoreply, easy.

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UnseeingEye

you can only stop using something if you use it, right? what should I do if I don't?

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UnseeingEye

I doubt it's about requesting hundreds of pages. there should be something else.
*I've no idea why someone needs to guess URLs. Can you enlighten me? and what are these puzzles or labyrinths?

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UnseeingEye

No, it wasn't an irony. I've never heard of it before.

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76561198082881386

I wonder if it works for specific account or IP.
I have encountered similar situation few years ago on a different forum - I lived in a flat and due to shitty internet provider we all had the same IP xD

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UnseeingEye

It is not IP-specific. Even if your account is blocked you can still open incognito tab and see the site.

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Closed 7 years ago by UnseeingEye.