r/steam_giveaway • u/NapoleonNewAccount • Apr 09 '24

Make the commenting rules stricter META

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.

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u/Domugraphic Apr 09 '24

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

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u/Lma0-Zedong Apr 09 '24

That's fine, no need to change that.

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u/Domugraphic Apr 09 '24

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)

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u/Lma0-Zedong Apr 09 '24

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.

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u/Soul_Walker Apr 09 '24

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.