I was told that 65% of this website's users are actually bots ran by a bunch of people in order to increase their chances of winning certain games or any games in general

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Silly people. You will never figure me out.
Glory SKYNET

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All glory to HAL 9000!

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+1

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Yeah, that's pretty much possible, although I wouldn't say that the percentage is that high.

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Starting to believe it's even higher lol, cuz I've been seeing the same comment templates laying around, and it's mind boggling how giveaways get up to 2K participants within minutes if not seconds

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It looks as you have all the needed infos (the exact percentage aren't important).

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A surprising amount, yes. I've encountered a few that are level 1 too. I started setting my minimum public GA level to 2/3+. I prefer my games go to real people.

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Modern problems require modern solutions ^^

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If you have the time, puzzles are also a nice way to make sure it goes to real people. :)

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I thought robots are our future

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There are many on levels 0-2.

It is harder to find a bot level 3 and up.

I'm happy that I am not a bot as I was created by HK-47 to exterminate meatbags so I'm far far far superior to simple bots and weak expert droids.

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There is no bots in Ba Sing Se.

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Beep Boop [o_0]

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It's warming my capacitors to see that there are still humans remaining

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Believe it or not, Steamgifts is a fantastic site! You can even become a patron for only 3€/month!

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There definitely was in the past and it seems like there still is, but I haven't heard anything official about it in a long time. These threads are from 4 years ago.

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/ZIVso/autojoin-scripts
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/h9RxE/autojoin-suspensions

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What do you mean fellow human?
Can you please help another fellow human with this totally random captcha? For fun?
As we humans do sometimes.

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All your games are belong to us.

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Whatever you are, and wherever you're hiding, I am a very patient machine.

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Are there gamers on the website?

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There's bots in your breakfast cereal!

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Absolutely, yeah. I've taken screenshots of users entering 5+ of my giveaways and leaving comments in the exact same second. Fun.
But yes, like other users are suggesting, the higher your level restriction the more likely you're going to find an actual person, or just a really, really dedicated leech.

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what are you talking about, we are all humans and we love doing human things like having legs or taxes

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No, absolutely no bots here.
non
zero
nada

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I wonder... And I think yes there are.

Then again what else we are than chemical robots ourselves...

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Interesting story ... that's actually how I found out about this site. Let me explain:

Around a year and a half ago, I was looking for a specific add-on for Firefox, I no longer remember what it was. While searching, I stumbled on one that I won't bother naming but it discussed SteamGifts. Curious, I looked up SteamGifts. The concept of the site sounded like fun, so I joined. Of course I downloaded that add-on. There are a bunch of settings. My favorite is the "infinite scroll"... when you get to the bottom of the page, it loads the next page and tacks it onto the end so from my perspective it's just one long list instead of a hundred pages of only 10 items or whatever, and it adds a (still manual) join button next to each giveaway listing as well as showing the description (only AFTER I hit the join button, but I can then immediately click it again and un-join if I wish).

One of the options available causes it to automatically scan the site and join any giveaway that belongs to a certain criteria (for example, wishlist, whitelist, or any SG groups you belong to ... those are each separate choices). It has in big letters immediately underneath the option "This is against the rules and your account will be banned." ... which then begs the question of why it's even there in the first place. But my point is, a "bot" that has automated joining is so easy to get, I actually got it BEFORE I joined SG, but then I was smart enough never to activate the automated part.

I'm almost to level 7 now, so if I DID activate the automation (I never would) the whole "only do level 2+ giveaways" wouldn't make any difference in my case. This is why you see a lot of puzzles on the discussion page, whether that's a simple add/subtract a letter in the link or it's a full-blown Jigidy puzzle. Either one would defeat the "bot" that I have access to.

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Are there fish in the sea?

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