I think this would totally be fair :))
But it should be available for everyone :))
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i don't think that's bad or unfair. as long as you manually enter ga and check the comment by the op, it's ok.
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It's a nice feature. Maybe not for every game in you wishlist, which could be bloated, but for some selected game you wish to "subscribe". You could even subscribe to a user to be notified about his/her new giveaways. I don't know about the overhead this could mean for the site, though.
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As long as the person entering the giveaway actually open the giveaway page and is able to read the giveaway description, I personally have no issue with that idea.
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I think that too many people would join the GA's I want and that would make it harder for me to win :P , it would make it like other GA's that some sites do with over 7k entries for 1 game
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@OFFsteam The overhead for the site (aside the additional server load of sending mails) is pretty much nonexistent. Though, I don't think it'll be directly implemented in near future. Building a bot would be fairly easy, since it'd just have to check the "New Giveaways" page all 2-3 Minutes and fan out the information to all registered users via its own database. The additional load for steamgifts in this case would be a single request every few minutes which would of course be not problem.
@Ntt Actually, interesting GAs I entere here often also have a few thousand users joined iirc.
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or steamgifts can implement captchas everytime a user enters the givaway.
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hey, i'm using the extended SG mod without the option to enter the GA.
that way i have to enter and check the description and everything.
as long as you are just scanning the site, enjoy. and please share :) but make an option to cancel notifications for some games, since if a game wishlisted is in a bundle you will be spammed... maybe make it an half an hour mail? cause GA are the shortest one hour
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Maybe I have missed something, but why is botting frowned upon? It's not like they have some kind of advantage against non-botters. They still have a maximum of 300 points to spend.
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It's considered disrespectful to not even read, what the guy that will eventually give you a gift, has to say. Also many bots write "thanks" in every giveaway which many people find annoying, since it spams them with new messages.
=)
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Exactly! That's why I do reading comprehension giveaways where I blacklist people who just say "thanks" or something like that.
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I think this would be acceptable. I personally thing that's enough personal involvement to be considered thoughtful, and it's definitely better than just auto-entry.
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my wishlist on Steamgifts hasn't been working for awhile. I've re-synched many times.
Not a bad idea if it was an option. I wouldn't want it to be automatic, there would be too many emails.
An email notification if you've won something on SG would be nice too. I check in on SG pretty much everyday, but it would be nice too know the people who won my GA were being notified they received something. I sometimes email to notify a winner so they have a way to reach me if there's a problem or if I haven't seen them on site for awhile, but I worry they might think it's spam mail or might not see it.
I check all of my wishlist giveaways before entering. They're high hope games like Fallout 4, GTA 5... :) Some of the GA's for these games seem too good to be true and don't always appear to be sincere.
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So, as well all know, quite a few people use bots to automatically join giveaways and from a technical point of view, it is nearly impossible to fully prevent them from doing so.
Now, since I am a busy man, I have the the problem that I could "miss interesting giveaways on my wishlist", since I'm not checking on steamgifts every few hours.
However, I think automatically joining giveaways is quite frankly a dick move.
The solution I came up with is building a simple bot that will send out email notifications whenever a new giveaway for a game on your wishlist starts.
What do you think about this idea? Would you consider this "botting" or see it as an acceptable form of "help"?
(Maybe there is a setting for it but I was yet too blind to find that...)
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