Don't worry about it too much, there's places where you can buy an Evil Genius key for pennies, the dude didn't get away with a lot. I think until the staff do something about the scammers, word of mouth is the only working system we have around here.
, my apologies:
I think maybe Derpy is angry to the fact that after -6 he isn't banned yet when staff told him they will ban him on -3. Did that guy managed to bribe Indiegala support? Time will tellView attachment 1811
@derpowitz, I guess you're angry because I did my math wrong
It's not actually 3 left to go, its 6, since he has a total of 19 giveaways created and only 13 total feedbacks, with 7 being positive and 6 negative.
So 19-13=6 not 3
And its totally not that he just created 3 more giveaways since that post was made.
PS: This is to be taken as a joke, not a serious thing at all.
Except the math part, I think thats correct.
This has been months, maybe almost a year, in the making. It's been progressively getting worse.
I think they've been very hands-off with the giveaways for way longer than few weeks.
Also it's a royal pain in the arse to track down someone's personal page and blacklist them in the first place, you need to know all the broken backdoors in this site just to get proper functionality. I agree with Cheerie, they should let the community appoint some moderators with special powers and privileges if the staff don't want to do it themselves.
happened to me twice
very happy to receive bad feedback because people just enter everything without reading - one of the DLCs I got negative feedback for had.... wait for it... the word "DLC" in the name. Both of the keys worked btw, I passed them onto people who confirmed it for me. AND like you say @freakill I also had a person leave negative feedback for no apparent reason and the BLOCK me on Steam when I reached out to them, left a message on their Steam page, left a message on their profile here, left a PM here... no resolution what-so-ever, so I'm guessing it was a fake negative (private library, of course, so could not check)I don't think so, this website is a lawless land. And it's not like we would be calling out people who made an honest mistake once or twice and have amended for it, these are cheater, scammer, system abusers who do it multiple times, fully knowing they are creating fake giveaways. I have no mercy for them. We kind of do that already anyway by reporting the giveaways here, so either we have been breaking some mysterious rules all this time or no rules exist. For once, I'm glad it's the latter
I kind of not understand why people join for DLC giveaways without knowing that a base game is required. As if once you activate a DLC the base game magically gets activated as well? Which I think is kind of absurd tbh.. Furthermore many of the DLCs has that ribbon label for DLC stamped on the top left corner of the giveaway so that is in no way missable.. Those winners are perhaps just joining for the sake of joining and trying to utilize their silvers and hoping they win something usable I suppose?
I kind of hope really that there is a new implementation for community moderators like how AWA does it. Some proper guidelines has to be set in place lest the ACS (Abusers, Cheaters and Scammers) kept trying to gain exp they are not supposed to. Power leveling by cheats is just really ludicrous at this point.. I can understand that those in the knowing will probably tell the cheating and give a negative feedback thus depriving them of their cheat exp. But say most of the new and unknowing users will think that this is just part of how Indiegala operates and winning a key is supposed to be a happy event regardless of whether it be for the true advertised or some beta cheating. Doesn't make the credibility any good in my sense.. Alas.. We kept trying but Indiegala isn't budging at this point and we are just living with it. It's like playing Among Us and trying to find those impostors (in this case telling the cheats from the ordinary users).
It's a shame, because I do remember when it was moderated before when it was using the old interface, which I actually liked a hell of a lot better.
your stats are +308/-4, so almost 99% working (not to mention your numerous guaranteed giveaways)
Another reason why the old format was better. I completely forgot this was even a thing. New layout is way easier to scam people.
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That was exactly my earlier comment. Either seeing others get away with it or trying and succeeding, it snowballs. Plus this thread talking about it potentially teaches readers to do it. While drastic, derps and librarian's comments about wiping or setting everything to one level is the only fair method though it also kills any incentive to participate. But what can you do. As for me, I will keep creating giveaways, for now.