Rules - not clear enough

No one needs your generously given free games, thanks (like Pid, Spacechem, Enclave...)

Might be considered "exploited CD-key without proof of purchase" since you did get it for free and have no proof of purchase.

Common sense.

As far as I know, while generally considered like exploitation and frowned upon, giving away a single copy wouldn't lead to your giveaway's deletion. Giving away multiple copies, however, is blatant abuse of the free promotion they were obtained from and leads to both their deletion and a suspension. The deleted giveaway you were linked to is likely a case of the latter.

It would have been at least nice of you to mention the free promotion in your giveaway's description so that more people could see it, instead of insulting the person who did in the comments.

I think you can take the fact that games that can gotten for free are removed from the giveaway list as soon as possible as a statement as to how allowed they are to be given away.

I agree with you it's not clear, but USUALLY, with these free games, you're allowed to create one giveaway, not a bunch of them. So, you're fine, I guess?

I even think the list of exploited games is not up to date.

They could add a line like this to the rules:

Do not submit more than one key for a game being given away for free while the promotion lasts

Your giveaway should have been deleted, but obviously a moderator wasn't online at the time. Hopefully they remove it so you don't get your free CV.

Welcome to the site.

I would agree insofar as the rules need to be updated. But that's something (among other things) that seem to get overlooked here.

When massive free key giveaways start, the administrator removes them from the list of games that can be given away and deletes all giveaways for them retroactively. Yours was one of about a half-dozen that went up before the cutoff he selected, apparently. I got them now. Thanks.

Just to go against the grain, I was actually thankful for the Really Big Sky giveaways since I do not want to open a Twitter account (not even a fake one, call me crazy) to get the game. So, OP and others, thanks for trying to give it away, we appreciate it anyway.

That said, I totally understand why the moderators are doing this -- the site would be FLOODED with this game GAs otherwise (as it has happened before, unhappily).

Do you really expect CG or some other mods to camp here 24/7 and watch out for free games exploitation and delete it from the GA list immediately? Of course this takes time.

Come on, people have lives to live you know?

The revolting thing is you knowingly exploited something and didn't just feigned ignorance but you passed the buck and insisted like it's your damn right to exploit the CV system.

Damn, dat rules. So out of the box.

I always upvote more red tape! We also should ban letter "Q" while we're at it.

I think there is a rule that you are not allowed to give away won games. And actually (though there was a million copies of really big sky) you have won it.

Rules - not clear enough. My pingas is now stuck in a blender.