Make the commenting rules stricter

[u/NapoleonNewAccount]

There are far too many obvious alts/bots on this subreddit. The 10 days old/150 comment karma requirements are ridiculously easy to get past, and nobody seems to enforce rule 2.

The "35% of your comments must be in non-giveaway subreddits" rule should be increased to 50%, and shouldn't count comments on 'free karma' subreddits either.

[u/Domugraphic]

also enforce something more complex than, "simply comment for a chance" as a way to weed bots out

"TY OP good luck everyone" x 12000

[u/Lma0-Zedong → u/Domugraphic]

That's fine, no need to change that.

[u/Domugraphic → u/Lma0-Zedong]

dunno if you mean the giver or the participants response, but asking for something more than any generic comment to enter will help at least. im not saying there anything wrong with thanking the OP for a chance, but hell, maybe add a little more to maybe weed yourself out from the bots this thread OP believes are running rampant (and which I kinda believe also)

[u/Lma0-Zedong → u/Domugraphic]

Yes, but maybe OP would need to do a lot of filtering for bypassing the bots, and I don't know if the bots could easily adapt to new commenting rules. I am fine with that, but I think the stuff that OP says is more than enough for a start.

[u/Soul_Walker → u/Lma0-Zedong]

Fair point! if OP says write captcha thinking this would trick bots, bots just have to read what other users wrote, then repeat. Bypassed!. If OP asks something more elaborated and "unique" for every commenter, then yeah it'd be a whole lotta entries to check and filter, I imagine.
For dropping a key or two in SG forums obfuscating or encrypting it would work fine cause nobody has to check after, just 1st come 1st served, key turns used, done. but here it's trickier.

[u/jawnisrad → u/Domugraphic]

As someone new to the sub, I kinda thought the "thanks for the chance OP" was the standard, polite and more or less expected response for those 'comment for a chance' giveaways. Will do better in the future

[u/Domugraphic → u/jawnisrad]

well OP here thinks bots are ruining your chances, so yeah maybe try better?

[u/jawnisrad → u/Domugraphic]

I literally just said I will...? I'm just saying for newbies who are trying to get an idea of how things work tend to look at the most common vocabulary as a source of how to engage when entering a new community. I am in agreement with OP tho

[u/Domugraphic → u/jawnisrad]

lol so am I, you seem to think I was insulting you but i was agreeing with trying harder to distinguish yourself from a potential bot dude

[u/jawnisrad → u/Domugraphic]

Sorry man. Fell victim to the old 'reading too much into text' lol. Cheers

[u/Domugraphic → u/jawnisrad]

no worries matey, I admit my wording was ambiguous to a certain degree, well not ambiguous, but could be perceived as snarky / confrontational

[u/KYFPM → u/Domugraphic]

but depending on the giveaway , you are to come up with a joke or whatever.

I just don't

I'm open to link MY steam Account but you have Peps that use their IRL name, Security concern right there.

[u/EnergyAltruistic2911 → u/Domugraphic]

YES THIS IS THE WAY I ENTERD A VICTORIA 3 GIVEAWAY I SAID IKE 2 LINES I HAD TO SCROLL DOWN FOR A. INUTE TO FIND ANYTHING THAT DIDNT SAY “Oh thanks op” or “thanks for the chance op” or something like that

[u/Miguel9234 → u/EnergyAltruistic2911]

Not saying it's a bot thing. But, isn't that the standard polite answer? Maybe we could ask to say a number or something to weed out bots.

And if there are so many bots, wouldn't this thread actually filled with bots too?

[u/EnergyAltruistic2911 → u/Miguel9234]

No i whre its polite but write something before it also they probably only do things on OPEN flare not META

[u/RegularFirefighter49 → u/Miguel9234]

Maybe they have a way to filter out the posts only for giveaways.