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.

i read a study that said 100% of people invented their reported percentiles!

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it's true! :O

7 years ago
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Thank you!
Here's a friendly bump

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Bumpo!

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what is literacy?

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Bump

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I can't read but I can bump instead!

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A trace-y bump

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Interesting test. I will not get a chance at your latest giveaway for I did not enter any of those giveaways therefore I could not post.
But I love the concept. :)
OK, I lied I can find links. lol

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I read, I write, therefore I am.

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Bump for not joining any GA but celebrating literacy :3

7 years ago
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Thanks for the work you put into this. I am sort of new here and Posts like this show me that being active, polite and follow what GA creator say will sometimes pay of. Time to ascend from the 95% Bot too be among the top ;-)

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Only sometimes though ;3

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Bump. (:

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I can properly read and write in English, but I missed your experiment, because I don't randomly check giveaways too often...
I made a similar one myself today, so far I got over 1000 entries in the public gib, and less than 40 in the not-so-hidden one.
Publics are great for experiments! And for blacklist recruiting too...

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You could have your bot check random giveaways for you, maybe? :>

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