Giveaways Thread Suggestion - Attn Mods and Dons

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Good idea I say, 500 posts and 6 months seems reasonable to me. I posted a Nexuiz code once (admittedly worth nothing!), taken by a ghost without as much as a thank you or a post letting others knowing it had gone.
 
I agree with this idea, I'd be much more willing to post my spare keys in a forum like that, guaranteed to get active contributors to the forums.
 
Another vote from me, either for a separate forum/thread or a way to add spoiler tags only visible to those with MM access. I like to give something back to this place but the last few times I've given stuff away it's been grabbed by persons unknown.
 
It's pretty easy to just post that you have a spare code for a game, and send it to the first person that responds, saves any extra sub-forums etc...and potentially keeps it within the relevant thread. Or if you want to make more of it, a separate giveaway thread + random number / funniest entry etc...

Yes people still post codes, but these people are likely to still do this rather than go into a specific sub-forum and create a post just for a giveaway.

I think its more a matter of educating people not to just post codes.
 
I gave away a game a while back by just posting the bare code, but I did first consider just posting part of the code and then letting people guess the final one or two letters/numbers themselves when they go to redeem in from Steam, just to make it interesting or a bit of a lottery. Then I thought that may get banned from Steam for repeated code guessing, so I just posted the full code. Does anyone for sure whether Steam would ban you for this, or otherwise prevent you from trying this?
 
Maccy said:
Have you ever been a forum mod? What you're asking is impossible.
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I don't think he means that the mods should be responsible for the education, or at most a sticky. I think people should realise that if they post a key in a thread then they should expect it to be taken by a non-member.
 
Bubo said:
I gave away a game a while back by just posting the bare code, but I did first consider just posting part of the code and then letting people guess the final one or two letters/numbers themselves when they go to redeem in from Steam, just to make it interesting or a bit of a lottery. Then I thought that may get banned from Steam for repeated code guessing, so I just posted the full code. Does anyone for sure whether Steam would ban you for this, or otherwise prevent you from trying this?
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I wouldn't do this as you as someone could potentially redeem a copy of the game you don't own ;)
 
Weazle said:
I wouldn't do this as you as someone could potentially redeem a copy of the game you don't own ;)
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How do these codes work anyway? Are there actually times where out of the millions of game codes in use that there are two codes which are exactly the same bar 1 letter? I thought they would have to be more robust than that, to account for accidents if nothing else?
 
ZombieFan said:
I don't think he means that the mods should be responsible for the education, or at most a sticky. I think people should realise that if they post a key in a thread then they should expect it to be taken by a non-member.
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This :)

A simple sticky would suffice, and with normal posters guiding people it wouldn't take that long for most people to get the general idea. ok some people will still post codes...but then you cant win em all ;) Even with a sub forum you can bet people will still be posting codes in the main forum.
 
ZombieFan said:
I think people should realise that if they post a key in a thread then they should expect it to be taken by a non-member.
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not really, most people post them here because they want to share with their community. Obviously I can't say that for sure but I'm pretty confident that most people don't want their keys going to 'mr/miss I just joined a min ago and have like 2 posts'

I think the OP is a great idea, I don't usually enter these myself but it does annoy me a little when these 'ninja' posters win over one of our contributing members...
 
dirtybeatfreak said:
not really, most people post them here because they want to share with their community. Obviously I can't say that for sure but I'm pretty confident that most people don't want their keys going to 'mr/miss I just joined a min ago and have like 2 posts'

I think the OP is a great idea, I don't usually enter these myself but it does annoy me a little when these 'ninja' posters win over one of our contributing members...
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But this is a public forum. It's the equivalent of leaving a fiver on the pavement outside your house for a housemate, but then being surprised when a random person walks off with it instead.
 
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