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So, an accidental experiment?

u better put somethin funny in da spoiler hah. question maybe.
experiment with key doesnt make sence. SG full of ninjas! hah
also as additional conclusion to ur experiment maybe first 17 ppl already have that game/

Conclusion: I encountered 17 auto-joiners or 17 people who don't bother reading descriptions

well your conclusion doesn't take into account other obvious possibilities and even excludes them

Well most people use that script that puts the button to join. Most GA don't need a description?

18:1 is a very good statistic.
Normaly you land by 50 - 80:1

Sometimes I read descriptions.. sometimes I don't. It's mood based.✌
It's not always about being a horrible human being...or a robot.. scripter.. haxor.. :p

thanks a lot for GA!

Yes, you are right, many users just don't bother to read descriptions

Accidental science is still science!

About a week ago, I saw something like this... Instead of trying the key, I left a message to the giver to warn him/her of a possible mistake.

It turns out it was not a mistake, it was an actual key drop. Oh, well, at least I feel good. :D

Cheers!

Actually, it could just be that a lot of people use ESGST and have an enter button from the main GA list. Unless they've set things to auto-pop-up descriptions, they'll never see the description. So, it doesn't mean that you had 17 auto joiners first. There's a good chance that at some of them were, but you'll never know the true mix.

If you really want to prevent auto joiners, you have to use SGTools.

I saw something like this where someone put an invite-only GA link in the description of a public GA for the same game. I think only about 1/5 entered it.

Kinda sad.

Bump

They might have thought it was a key drop for a different game they didn't want. I know I don't usually go redeeming random keys, as they're often junk tier games.

For the "Key"ng! Coffee bump!

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TBF I rarely enter keys unless they say what they are, because a lot of times it's cheaper bundled games that I'd delete from my acc anyways, so don't wanna "steal" it away from someone unless I know it's something I want. Have seen about 5 GAs with a key + no description in the past couple weeks. Was pleasantly surprised how many redeemers posted what it was. (Oops just saw I posted the same as someone above. :D)

I actually always read descriptions mostly when I see it is long and could be interesting, but most of the time I just read it after I join the giveaway.
Mostly because I have no scripts to join and so I try to be as fast as I can to go back in doing something else. I always check all the pages so yea, sometimes I feel like not reading a description!
Tbh, your result doesn't surprise me, because auto-joiners are kinda obvious in websites like this.
But your "accidental" experiment is still a good idea man! A good way to smile after an incident!

maybe i'm doing it wrong, jims, but really can't find any key in your giveaway descriptions...

since you posted this, six hours ago, i checked every. single. ga. you've eva made... and no keys, jims, ...no keys!

D:

So many times I almost made that "experiment" myself

Did a similar thing a while back to see how many reads descriptions.

In my very scientific experiment (I will for sure be featured in next issue of Science Weekly, the next one for sure...) I found about 12% of entrants read or do anything you ask them to in the description.

However, as pointed out to me by some of the more clever entrants, the 'results' can be influenced by many things, for example perhaps all entrants did look, but already owned the extra games, or simply was not interested in them.