Yes, another one of those "Do you read giveaway descriptions?" posts, with a tiny twist. I figured I should share it with y'all. ^^

I made a public giveaway for Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. In the giveaway description, I put a link to an invite-only giveaway, where I asked people to please leave a comment. (Yes I was nice, I said please :3)

Both giveaways ran for 10 days. Public one end with 5381 entries, whereas the private one had 122 entries and 132 unique commenters.
Let's wildly assume that 40% of the people commented without joining, and 20% of the people clicked the link without either joining or commenting. Then an (gu)estimation of ~240 people who found and clicked the link in the public giveaway description.
....Which is less than 5% of people who read and clicked! Less than 5%! :O

Furthermore, for everyone who actually left a comment as per the second giveaway's request in the description, I added them to my whitelist, where they'll find a surprise Rocket League gib waiting for them :3
I assume this will be on many's wishlist. All they had to do was read and write.
Unexpected gifts are the best, right?

Here's to celebrate literacy!

Note: Stats above aren't meant to be accurate or conclusive. This is just a post for fun, don't take it too seriously ^^

TL;DR: Would be too ironic to put a tl;dr. So, sorry, go read the whole post :<

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Read and write?

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I read only. *lurks*
I rite of curse
I read and write! Properly, even.

Got the same now with two steamgifts Had it a few times before too, people are waiting for a key, while I cleary stated I sent the steamgift through steamchat (Live) be sure to accept my invite
Sometimes it took days and a private message here on SG before the winners got their winning gift

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I own Rocket League but thanks! I read it :3

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All those blue letters forming words! Amazing! xD

Btw don't forget that a lot of the forum population, aka the ones that read :P , are subscribed to the HB monthly so they wouldn't be able to see your public one. Tbh it doesn't surprise me how many people missed that link. However the comments in that second GA kinda restore my hope xD

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I'd do this with No Man's Sky or Skyrim if I can afford it. But alas, when fund is limited, research suffers. ;'(
And yes, the comments in the 2nd gib and the Rocket League gib is quite heartwarming really ^^ <3

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I've done this twice if you honestly like stats... and would like the results. One is actually running now and closes out tomorrow... the other was a few months back. Now there is a curveball in the first gibs... the games were not the same. So it is possible that more people venture over to the second that actually entered, but already owned the second game. That actually seems unlikely for the most part as the games were Part I & Part II in a series.

The second GA pair is for the same game though... so stats would be more reliable.

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Oh nice! You got a much higher turn out for 2nd gib than mine.
I wanted to put a game that's "desirable" so more people see it, but I didn't have the extra game/money to make the 2nd game the same :< so my little game is rather inaccurate.
.. But next time it'll be better ^^

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This is why I prefer doing giveaways for groups and whitelist :>

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this is unfair to bots!

so racist ;_;

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no robots past this point! |||

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Love it Mullins... gif officially stolen for my own personal use... I'd be sure to give you credit, but that kind of runs contrary to the whole leeching thing...

:D

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Yeah, so I was going to get the word "LEECH" tattooed across my forehead... I'm wondering if all of you could help me pay for that...

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you could start a kickstarter campaign :3

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I've always wanted to do that... make promises of delivering something to a group of people... go imbibe in all of my favorite things while spending their money... and then one day just hopping on saying, "Project Cancelled."

The people would be pissed... they'd hem, and they'd haw... they would rant, and they would rave... but they would still be out all their money just because I spent it all and opted not to produce a damn thing, and there's not a thing they can do about it!

Yeah, I should start a Kickstarter tomorrow.

Totally unrelated... and not that this is any grand thing I'm bestowing upon you by any means... I just whitelisted you, but I thought I'd done that around the time the option became available since you generally give me a good laugh... now I am going to need to double check everyone.

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my day is complete ;_;

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this gif is perfect!

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Left a comment, still not on whitelist. System is broken.

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lol ^^^lol I R ROBIT Bump...

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I was lucky enough to have won Rocket League last month, but thanks for the giveaway! :D I finally know that

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Bump for literacy!

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This puzzle was too difficult for me.

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Bump

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Guidlines: Avoid using link shorteners, as they obscure the destination of the link, making it difficult for users to know what they're clicking.

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I was supposed to click???? Dammit, I clacked... :/

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It's ok, I was on my horse so I clopped.

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I don't think you want to clop.

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I really liked what you did there : )
It's only a shame for the fine game you gave to the 'plebs' ; )

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It's ok, I'm a pleb myself. xD

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We all are probably ; )

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I only read binary.

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I lied. I can't read binary.

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"but you write in text!"

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I do read and write :p

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I did this recently as well. A public giveaway of Stardew Valley with a description promoting a friend's twitch channel, with a small link to a private giveaway to be found by those that actually read my description. 8,472 entries in the public giveaway, 131 in the private.

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Fun fact, I was one of those that joined your public Stardew Valley but didn't find your private one :D
Hypocrisy-level + 1
wohoo!

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We're functioning automatik
And we are dancing mechanik
We are the robots

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I already have Rocket League, but thanks \o/

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o:-)

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This isn't really an accurate metric of how many people who entered the first giveaway actually read the text though. You would have to make both giveaways be the same game since the number of people who are interested in entering a giveaway for both Keep Talking and Party Saboteurs is waaaaaaay less than the number of people who are interested in entering for 2 giveaways for Keep Talking (with one having much better odds of winning, no doubt). It's why science experiments have control groups and then test a difference of only one factor at a time. The more factors that are different, the less conclusive results are that you can draw.

I understand that you said to comment on the second even if you don't enter, but it's still not a fair assessment since, let's be real, the majority of people who see a giveaway for something they're not interested in aren't gonna stick around to chat, especially if they're not forum-goers and aren't interested in community and whatnot.

I like the idea, but I don't think you can draw any accurate conclusions from it.

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It's not accurate nor conclusive, I agree ^^

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I can reed and right just fine thank you very much

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I can read

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Thanks for the 3 GAs and the Rocket League.:)

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Thanks for the giveaways and rewarding reading

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