A Case For Entering Multiple Giveaways Simultaneously

Here you go.

You beat me to it =D

Giveaways Entered
3,487

:C

LOL, you have 2k less entries and have the double of wins of mine xD You good sire are a lucky dood D:

yeah exactly that, i rolled the fuck out of my chair!

He's a smiley, a round one. It's easy to slip from your chair and roll on the floor when you're a smiley... :(

It's more the fact that people want to be thanked for their generosity rather than people just going "Alright, check this box, and this and this and this and this, scroll to bottom, check enter, now time to leave this site!"

There are also other reasons such as blacklists that a user may be in, or as AtomicWoodchuck has said, entry rules such as thejadefalcon's recent giveaway where the entry condition was that you had to write a NSFW short story that included either sand, betrayal, or the United States Armed Forces before you entered or you'd be put into falcon's blacklist.

Also some publisher pack giveaways have certain entry conditions such as you can't even have a single game included in the pack to enter or you can have up to a certain amount of games within the pack. Some Skyrim LE giveaways have conditions where you can't have the base game to enter but some others allow you to enter it even if you have the base game.

If they take your suggestion, most people would probably never enter to read the giveaway notes and just enter it.

I'm surprised at the level of laziness and lack of enthusiasm for interaction from people who describe the site as a "community".

I did read your post. I also noted that with a proportionately faster regeneration of points, you would find that you would be able to enter proportionately more giveaways in that same amount of time, so it all balances out.

If my hostility for this idea offends you, so be it, but since the gifter has spent perhaps an hour of their life working in order to earn the money to offer you the chance to win a game, my opinion is that the least you can do is take a few seconds of your time to click on the link, read what they have to say, and maybe even (Gaben forbid) thank them for their kindness.

I don't see how pandering to the laziness of a rump of indolent leechers is going to be of any benefit to the building and maintenance of a "community".

Anyway, following the path of logic, your solution is likely to make giveaways harder to win since, if your hypothesis is correct, some of the site's laziest and most worthless leechers are apparently finding the act of actually clicking on links an unsustainable drain on their precious time, and the act of actually reading anything an unsurmountable hurdle to their continued activity on the site. Your "solution" will open the floodgates to these folks, increasing entries, while leaving the creation of giveaways unaffected.

While some of the hostility is unnecessary, some of it seems justified. While your post can be interpreted as selfish and entitled (complaining about having to invest so much time for free games, which you were certainly never promised and don't seem to have done anything to deserve), you did also have some confusion over how certain aspects of the site work and people shouldn't be too harsh.

I think the main problem here is seeing the site as some kind of charity in the first place. Steamgifts is not a charity. In general, anyone who joins the site and obeys the rules has an equal chance of winning standard giveaways, and those who contribute to the community also gain access to giveaways with higher chances of winning. Some of the rules mean that more well-off users have a better chance to win (ie. someone who can afford to get more contributor value), while other rules provide a boost to the less fortunate (those who already own a game can't enter to win it again), but for the most part, Steamgifts ignores the circumstances of its users and gives out games to the lucky and deserving, and that's what makes it a great site.

If they all had 10 entries, there was a 73% chance of you "losing" all 3.

While it goes without saying that I extend to you my deepest and most heartfelt sympathies, I don't see this outcome as remotely unlucky... It was by far the most probable scenario.

Yeah

Sure

Whatevs

Yes

Why not

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I can continue for months

Get on my level.

Or right-click if you're like me and too lazy to buy a real mouse for your laptop because I feel the trackpad is good enough.

You didn't realize or you didn't try?

Here is the thing. most of the people here are great. Even the ones in this topic. However, most of us heavily dislike users that consider the current method of entering to be too much work. You aren't the first to think so. We tend to dislike those bastards that are too lazy to even leech properly, and want even entering giveaways to be automated.

When they aren't offering anything to the site, they can at least click a few times to get their eventual free games.

Not a problem at all. Like people here have mentioned, they see quite a few posts like this that genuinely whine that they can't get enough free stuff quickly. It does get annoying when people take an entitled attitude. However, I can see that you've not understood the system and it is limiting your experience. This is indeed a wonderful community, and there aren't many places where people willingly share their games. I hope the clarification helps you enjoy this community more :)

When you seen the same suggestion over and over people tend to get annoyed.

Or it may be someone as Elder :@ and came back 1.5 or 2 years after.
Nice to know that about date of attempt