Thread: Duplicate giveaways

How to prevent duplicate by the same topics (giveaways) in different forums 10%/33%/55% ?
I see a lot of similar themes created by one person in all these sections of the forum. Looks like spam or its normally and allowed?

Its is allowed to have duplicate invites in the different sections of the forum. Also you'll notice most of the time there are slight differences in the requirements in the different sections. It allows inviters to set their requirements based on the expected applicants. For example my requirements in 10% would be much higher than in 55% for the same invite because 10% members are much newer and a lot riskier to give invites to imo.

I have many GA's in each section. For example, you may request 3 ratio proofs in section 10% for your GA, 2 proofs and a speedtest in 33% and only 1 proof needed in 55%.

The reason behind this, to my knowledge, is also that some people don't check 10%, because they have access to the higher ones and figure it has nothing they need. I'm a fan of putting most of my invites in 10% and 33% (tbh 55% probably wouldn't want them :P)

So i'll make sure more people see it, and I also link the two threads with a sentence at the end letting them know it's also been posted in the other. I don't see anything wrong with getting your invites out there for more people to see, and as TG said the amount of times you can bump an invite thread is so miniscule that' realistically you can't really get a large amount of posts out of it in a short period of time. That kind of cancels out that spam idea. It's a safe assumption that most do it for similar reasons to my own or drauka's explanation, not that they're post hungry enough to snag that 1 extra post every 2 days.

i have almost 300 posts in those 3 giveaway sections mentioned

/me is the worst spammer evar

I was going to suggest this myself and was looking through old requests to see if it had been suggested before rather than starting a new topic. I wonder if the mods would be willing to look again at this suggestion as I believe the situation has changed somewhat since it was first put forward.

Since many users are now separating each tracker giveaway into it's own thread and threads can now be bumped every 24 hours, some users members are probably bumping 40-50 threads a day which both makes a mockery of post counts and makes the forums less convenient to browse. I can understand the reasoning that it makes sense to have different acceptance requirements for members of different levels, but couldn't this simply be explained in the giveaway thread at the lowest level at which it is being offered? Then the 33% and 55% forums would only be occupied by the invites commensurate with that level.

did no one notice this is in suggestion will move to general discussion

Originally Posted by shadowbuild

did no one notice this is in suggestion will move to general discussion

I was actually hoping this would stay in the suggestion area as I think it is becoming a problem on the site and it would need a rule change from the mods in order to alter anything.

Kvothe

I was going to suggest this myself and was looking through old requests to see if it had been suggested before rather than starting a new topic. I wonder if the mods would be willing to look again at this suggestion as I believe the situation has changed somewhat since it was first put forward. Since many users are now separating each tracker giveaway into it's own thread and threads can now be bumped every 24 hours, some users members are probably bumping 40-50 threads a day which both makes a mockery of post counts and makes the forums less convenient to browse. I can understand the reasoning that it makes sense to have different acceptance requirements for members of different levels, but couldn't this simply be explained in the giveaway thread at the lowest level at which it is being offered? Then the 33% and 55% forums would only be occupied by the invites commensurate with that level

I can see where you are coming from. Every now and again when i hit what's new all i see is a full page of bumps from the same person. The thing is, it is necessary for these to be bumped because the new users seem to dislike using the search button. From a personal point of view, i have one big giveaway and i have all my invites on it. I will bump it but as it is only one post it is hardly noticed. Occasionally, i will make a seperate giveaway for many reasons, say the invite is a limited time or the invites will be lost in a certain time.The people that are having the

40-50 threads a day

are doing good work. It may make the whats new page lightly untidy but a little bit of searching solves that. Regarding the giveaways in the 3 sections , it is up to the person offering the invites what requirements they require. Nobody tells you what the minimum or maximum requirements are.

Then the 33% and 55% forums would only be occupied by the invites commensurate with that level

The thing is, not everyone has the same ideas regarding levels. I have found many good users in 10% who have went on to become higher here. The thing that bugs me and i have noticed it recently is peeps making the exact same giveaway word for word in all 3 sections 10%,33%,55%The requirements surely should not be the same for 10% and 55%. I have only noticed it a few times though and it is more a case of the person doing the giveaway should really be making different requirements. In these cases i can see where it would be annoying but hey we will get over it. So in my opinion [not worth much ] its really fine the way it is. Many users will be happy to have one giveaway thread and look after and maintain that and others will be happy to have 40 threads or whatever. Really its up to the person doing the giveaways how much work they want to leave themselves. Sometimes its easier for peeps to have all trackers in separate threads. And who can complain really if they are good enough to share there invites and bonus?