I love Chroma Squad!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbEgwzjzvyk
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Your hair, I mean how can I not tug on those wonderful golden locks?
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Oooh, I got this hunk all hotheaded and bothered.
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pity he bothers the rest of us with his stupid thoughts.
also, plus points for being a coward. 👏
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After all that spamming, they had the cheek to call you mentally ill?
Ha.
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Wow that guy is rude! He is too dense to "GET IT". Why do people get so triggered?
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I think this might be a puzzle, but I am not smart enough to figure it out.
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You may be trolling and trying to have a bit of fun, but something like this should simply not be allowed on SG. The best possible case scenario is that you are trolling, and that you dont give anyone permission to edit the spreadsheet. Yet other people see the post and start mimicking it to no effect. The worst case scenario is that you do give someone permission, either for your own personal gain or because you think its funny, and they enter legitimate information from an unsecured account and then you or an unnamed third party who has access to that spreadsheet makes use of that information in a way that harms that user.
Regardless of whether or not this is a joke, and considering how much trolling you've done in the past, i'd have to assume you are smart enough to realize that its still irresponsible to make posts like this because it may encourage other malicious actors to do the same, knowing they can get away with it and then just claim they were joking if any heat comes down on them for it. One victim is one too many for the purposes of a joke. Assuming that this isnt already against the terms of service under section two (phishing), then it definitely should be. And even if its a puzzle its still in poor taste for the reasons above.
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I'm fairly sure people have made jokes about sharing user info on this site before and nothing has come of it.
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When you say that you're fairly sure that nothing has come of it, do you mean that as in mods are not moderating potentially dangerous posts, or that you're fairly sure no one has been harmed by a post that was making a request of user information? As a mod for other sites/groups/forums currently and in the past i'd certainly not take the chance on the latter or encourage that kind of behavior on any site i was working with.
In todays culture where theres a very real threat of phishing and information theft, even jokingly encouraging (or allowing) others to ask for or share login information is a bad idea. Im not trying to be the internet police here or anything, but its bad form no matter how you cut it to either ask for it, or to allow someone to ask for it on a reputable site. Im not saying ban the OP or anything, just that the post is in bad taste at best, potentially encouraging a safe haven for malicious actors on the middleground, and outright dangerous at worst.
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Yeah, but this is an Excel sheet that you can't edit, that is on a forum that's inhabited by people who have to be over the age of 13. If you're over 13 and are using the Internet, then you should know the extreme basics of the Internet.
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Or by putting it so blatanly open, it educates people?
You can't always conform to the, hmm, lowest denominator? if you extrapolate that, this very site could not exist, as it enforces "hey register on this site to get free games! totally no harm done"
Why can you know (or at least guess) it's legit? Using a tiny bit of logic.
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If someone is the type of person who doesn't instinctively know not to give their information like their passwords out, they'll have to learn somewhere. The rest of us will just have our passwords and information leaked by private companies.
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Lol :D
Look man, I get your reasoning. People might fall for it and it might cause people to do it too. But if this isn't fine, then let's not make almost any joke where someone is the butt of it. Otherwise someone might actually do said thing.
Your intentions are good, but you're definitely overreacting here :D
The joke isn't funny for me, but I still recognize that pretty much any joke should be allowed to be passed.
If someone made a joke like "give me your car keys and I'll take it to a car wash for free", then you should have enough brain matter to realize it's a joke and not do it. Just because there might be extremely inexperienced or inept people on this relatively niche site (as in you'd need a Steam account and enough knowledge to do basic stuff), doesn't mean that one shouldn't be able to make jokes.
If you don't like this comment, then you can manually delete it from your registry by deleting your System32 folder in your computer.
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I guess the point is that sure this one might be a joke, but what happens when the next one isnt? Or what happens when it is a joke to start and then changes midway through to catch an unsuspecting victim? You cant stop them from doing it in the first place, but if you encourage posts like that and allow them to persist then its only a matter of time before a legitimate bad actor throws their hat in the ring. If its been normalized then its more likely to slip through the filters and actually catch someone unaware.
We see accounts on Steam and elsewhere compromised all the time by simple social engineering schemes not that dissimilar to this, promising free things, telling users that their program needs updating, redirecting to websites that engineer unwitting users into giving up either account or financial informations. People young, old, and in between fall for them every day. Its illegal in some places to "joke" by yelling fire in a crowded building for the reasons that people can get hurt trying to escape. Similarly, legitimizing scams even slightly by creating facsimiles of them just kinda comes off as irresponsible at best, in my opinion.
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True. What if these political threads suddenly stop just being political but instead they have a huge load of bots that'll spam and dox anyone that doesn't agree with them?
What if the puzzle threads suddenly delete their giveaways, leaving people with nothing after doing a difficult puzzle, which turns out was done while they were supposed to study for their exam, which they'll now fail and because they won't have a chance at winning the giveaway, they'll just decide to kill themselves in a suicide by cop which will be broadcast through Facebook Live, which becomes viral and which will then cause massive riots, causing the deaths of 72 people, which'll cause the country to fall into martial law, which would destabilize any communication between other countries because the whole thing was happening in the United States, which has now fallen into civil war after people exercise their second amendment freedom, which will have other countries intervene, which causes World War 3, which in turn causes nukes to be detonated, which causes the world to end.
These what-if questions are stupid. What I showed you is technically possible. So, let's just ban giveaways because someone might do something stupid. You know what, just to be safe, let's just shut the site down.
The point is that everything can be abused and everything can be dangerous. The recipient has to be smart enough not to be as gullible as a 3-year old. Schools teach internet safety, TV shows do it, movies do it. Hell, even the Internet itself does it. People always talk about these horror stories.
This is common sense. People will fall for scams. That doesn't mean that anything that can be a scam should be not allowed...
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You win the argument, no need for sensible self-moderation in an effort to keep the community a safe friendly place for all when it would be better to shut the site down and avoid catastrophe. Well played.
And now more seriously:
--- "People will fall for scams. That doesn't mean that anything that can be a scam should be not allowed..."
Thats exactly why anything that can be a scam should not be allowed. We're not talking about someone not being able to participate in a giveaway because it was deleted, we're talking about potentially leading others into believing that its okay to give out their username and passwords to get free things and thus potentially losing their accounts in the process. That is a realistic, real world scenario thats perpetrated rather successfully on a daily basis.
At the very least posts like this that are left unmoderated make people believe that its acceptable to make posts that ask for a users information, thats not acceptable on any website or forum that im aware of precisely due to the aforementioned reasons. You say that people should know better. I agree. That does not mean that you should allow it "because its the victim's fault they get scammed." That argument would not hold up in court for one second as a defense for such an action. Many rules are created specifically to protect the people that dont know any better from being taken advantage of by the people that do. No to mention for the purposes of bolstering the integrity of the community.
Furthermore, by the OP's own comments they get luls out of baiting people and have a clear history of doing so. The content of the thread is clearly designed to do that and successfully does if even one of the responses to them are to be believed. Additionally, the thread isnt even posted in the right subforum by someone who clearly has been on the site long enough to know better. So while they're having their fun trolling and laughing at all the people that 'dont get it', and while most of the people that do get it are defending or engaging in the practice because its 'fun', its also inherently promoting the tolerance of aberrant / risky behavior which can cause harm to the reputability of the site and anyone who might divulge their information because of it.
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Well, fair enough. I personally think that almost everything can be a scam and your logic would allow almost nothing if it were actually applied the way you've presented this.
I'd personally just ban scammers and shut those threads down. Like it's always been. No reason to do pre-emptive strikes or just stop making certain jokes because someone might take it seriously. Make fun of stupid scams. Even better, if you really think that SG users are this stupid that they'd fall for something as simple as this, then this'll be a good lesson for them to keep an eye out for stuff like this.
But yeah, maybe we'll start having copycats that'll actually scam people. People also make fake giveaways. Apply your logic to that.
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You're talking nonsense. There's a simple test: it doesn't matter if this is a joke, scam or EVEN legit offer - does it encourage users to break Steam ToS - i.e. - share account details? Yes? Then fuck this scam/joke OR legit shit - it must be reported and deleted. It is that simple.
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Okay, fair enough.
Let's not talk about DRM then btw. Because that always leads to someone mentioning piracy. That's a no-no.
Also, of course let's not discuss websites with referral links because someone might post a referral link.
If you look at most of the lesser known group recruitment discussions, then they are not really fine either because they tend to ransom giveaways instead of just referencing to them.
Of course, let's refrain from talking about recently released games because people forget to use the spoiler tags a lot.
The hugely popular thread that was made for donations to an SG user's relative's medical issue? Shut it down!
See, currently I just focused on the actual site's guidelines. It's a case by case basis. This isn't one of those "whether all of it's okay or none of it's okay".
This thread has encouraged no-one. Everyone's treating it as a joke, the spreadsheet has the damn giveaway link and you can't add anything to it. This isn't encouraging anything other than people pretending like everyone's so feeble that this is suddenly going to convince them to share their details to a place that can't be edited for a thing that was given out freely, hosted on a site that exaggerates for comedic effect and a comment section that's full of people that are spoiling the joke.
Please explain how someone will give their info out. Please explain how a scammer would look at this and say "I wouldn't have ever scammed, but this thread has convinced me to make a 180 and just start scamming". Seriously. How this is even considered to be a root of anything is beyond me.
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Or maybe i could invite you to my home and we can have some pizza to celebrate.
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I wasn't drunk, now i am... Sorry... But you're very pretty.
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is a sexual referense, you say suck and send keys free or something.
I dont understand.
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I'll send you info privately so others can't see. Thanks in advance, have a bamp!
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People not getting it is the best part. So many like "I'm not falling for it when they are in fact falling for it.
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don't worry ,you only need sg forum moderators to get it anyway
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I thought it was dumb also. But I am glad your post was useful, wasn't aware of the Digital Giftcards, thanks for that. :)
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Not her fault that you gave her your SSN, account name, password, mother's maiden name, last 4 digits of your credit card, the deed to your house and $300 in cash as a deposit for the game :/
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Now this is free 'cause I'm buying it for you! You just need to enter your steam username and password in this excel sheet, alng with a skype or discord username so you can message me your authenticater code. Then I'll add my payment information temporarily and purchase it. I'd do it another way, but you can't send steam gifts to any region anymore so this is the best solution. Don't worry, it's totally
spieslegit. Don't worry. Totes legit.Comment has been collapsed.