Giveaway posts, in the name, usually apply you're doing it to give something away. This is often done for attention, marketing or to gain followers, whether they're good followers is another story, but yeah.
There's this weird trend that's been brewing lately where giveaway posts are very similar with close to no effort and garner a lot of participation cause who doesn't want a chance to get something for free. What people don't realize is that the real winner is usually the people giving things away as they make a lot more in rewards for close to no effort than what they give away. For some weird reason most ignore this fact.
By all means don't stop the giveaway posts, but don't pretend you're doing it for little rewards when most get a profit out of them. If you're going to give something away, do it for other reasons, else it's not sustainable so either decline post rewards or use them to give them away in addition to the prizes.
Didn't read the full post so u may have mentioned the same thing, just thought I'd make my stance clear on it. Thanks for helping combat some of that activity.
Yes, nothing against giveaways. But these were going on for two years and often means very little if totally automated.
Regardless, I think we can showcase this particular case as a success story. I am glad the way it ended.
indeed!
just FYI, if you vote my comment, that is a waste of VP :) On day 6 they are getinng downvoted :)
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Remember the old bidbot, now defunct :)
that sucks, don't even remember if I knew who it belonged to :/
noticed a few comment downvotes on taraz and galen too, people hold grudges over weird things
We are working to make a bot to counter this :)
yeah, non-anon downvotes do that to you, I jokingly mentioned the word in a post the other day and it lead to an hour-long conversation over nothing really, just disappointment
looks manual too, sad
Don't worry, we got this :) If they want ass whipping, ass whipping is what they will get :)