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Seems like people who use auto-joiner are getting banned for 24 hours. [EDIT]

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IovoI

Screenshots are answers from discussion on Steam about being unexpectedly banned. Before you ask - yes there are people who were banned for auto-joining only wishlisted gibs.

EDIT 1: I'd like to request to not have any kind of sexual intercourse with other users especially with auto-joiners in this thread :P
EDIT 2: I know I'm posting it a little too late but please discuss with respect or I will close the thread. It wasn't meant to spread hate towards some users so don't do it, pretty please. And don't blacklist too many people :P There are some nice users who use auto-join too. And they even don't have a chance to discuss cos they are simply afraid of you. And hate and fear always cause the worst things that are happening to mankind. Think about it.



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MarineSloth

Please check your group giveaways page

Sorry

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IovoI

Huh?

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MarineSloth

I thought I was pretty clear :d

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IovoI

Ok, I got it :P I thought you were talking about one of my group I^v^I

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epica

I'm happy I have lived long enough to see auto joiners banned :p

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Sooth

If you wanna keep doing the whole 'living' thing a bit longer, there's going to be celebratory pie. :3

And then more pie after that, and after that.. and well, guess you're just gonna have to stick around a while. ^.^

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epica

I gonna wait longer then.
That's a promise, you make me a pie!

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KLAY

lol didn't even know there is auto join scripts
And now i know :D xD

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cprn

Just out of curiosity... does this issue regard auto-joiners or high traffic? Because it confuses me... steamgifts would actually allow auto-joiners if they generated less traffic!?? o.O

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IovoI

Somewhere in the comments is a response from stuff member that it is also against ToS but I'm too lazy to look for it for you, sorry :P

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erbkaiser

Apparently both are prohibited, but it's easy for the site admins to spot people using a script that hammers the site with hundreds of requests per second and block those. The people banned now seem to all be using that kind of script.

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cprn

If I parse the website to find out how many give-aways there are for Linux titles... will I get banned?

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IovoI

I don't know man, I'm just a simple owl. There were comment of stuff member somwhere in the discussion, if you'd find it ask them I^v^I

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cprn

I found them, thanks.

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IovoI

np I^v^I

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Sooth

If it searches the site for information, but doesn't actively interact with the site by adding new information to it, then it's theoretically not against T.O.S.- but you may still get in trouble/suspended for contributing to high site traffic.

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cprn

It's not high traffic. Thanks for explaining, though.

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