Nice that you are doing this, I am not going to take it but I recommend if you do it again you replace one of the letters or numbers with a ? and then write what you replaced later in your inital post just so bots don’t grab it.
yea, that’s in general a good thing/advice when posting a key “anywhere” online, reddit, steam forum, or wherever, that you just want to give out like that without much fuss
“browsers”, crawlers/trawlers/bots, etc just skim them right up straight away if they are otherwise posted “directly” like so
and appreciate you doing this nonetheless @ThatGuyIsWill
Yeah, didn’t think about that when I posted. That was my first post on this community…But if I do it again I will make sure that I do that before posting Thanks for the advice!
As someone who used to write code professionally I can tell you that this is not effective. It would take me a few minutes to alter a bot’s regex to parse the rest of a post to match the non alphanumeric char that it found in a possible Steam key pattern.
Whenever I see people posting a key like this I think: well a bot’s nabbed that.
Yeah, I have learned my lesson now I haven’t really given out a key like this before, so I never even considered it…But I will definitely do that next time if I give away another key. Thank you for the info!
It’s quick and dirty and could easily be improved / refactored etc. But I thought it might be interesting for non tech types to see how easy it is to manipulate text. I’ve tried to write easy to follow comments, so hope it’s educational.
Press the run button to make it work. feel free to play with the text in green at the top (the original post) and see how that changes the outcome. Edit: I forgot to say, don’t worry anything you do won’t break it for anyone else!
If you are already techinical, take this in the spirit it was intended, a bit of fun