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In the VKontakte social network, among many different functions, there is a rather important opportunity to give gifts, which will subsequently be displayed on the user's page in a special block. Despite the fact that most of all existing features are paid, and the main fee is the local currency - votes, there are still several free elements available to every VK.com user.

Before proceeding to a detailed analysis of free opportunities for donating VK, it is worth clarifying that not all of the following aspects are official. That is, some free postcards are not developed by the VK administration and will not be displayed in a special block of the social network site.

Today there are only two ways to give free greeting pictures:

• official;
• unofficial.

We will consider both options in detail below, however, please note that despite the general attitude towards the functionality of gifts, you, as a user, get a completely different result, which sometimes does not quite meet expectations. Moreover, it is recommended to use exactly the standard VK functions in order to avoid all possible child problems.

Site features

The most relevant is the basic feature of the site, thanks to which you can give absolutely any VK user, with the proviso of blacklist restrictions and other similar blockings, by paying a certain amount of money. However, for this review, we are only interested in free features.

The administration of the VKontakte site, under some circumstances, provides its users with the opportunity to give special pictures for a song. Usually, this phenomenon has a direct relationship with any important, in the opinion of the administration, events, for example, due to holidays.

Opportunities are relevant only in cases where VK.com celebrates any important event. Otherwise, the once available opportunity to give free gifts is blocked due to the irrelevance of the event.

To find out about the possibility of free donation, you should open, directly, the window of the corresponding functionality.

When donating free postcards, there are no restrictions for users, that is, you can give the same gift to one or several users of the social network many times.

If you currently have no free items in the corresponding section, don't worry. To always be aware of the appearance of free greeting pictures, it is recommended to subscribe to one or more on the VK.com website.

Also, carefully follow the VK news in your activity feed in the section "News", since the administration often enough mentions the emergence of new opportunities in such a way that it is simply impossible not to notice them. Of course, this only happens in the case of extremely important events, and not because of each individual free gift.

Please note that some stickers are included in the free gift items, which can also be monitored using special publics.

Internal applications

The second method of receiving free gifts is more an additional opportunity than a full-fledged functionality, since in this case the card will not be presented in the corresponding block. However, you can easily place the necessary picture and the necessary signature on the wall of any user of the site.

When using special applications, you can send free gifts or just postcards, only to those people who are on the list of your friends and do not block the ability to post posts on the wall. In any other case, this method will not work for you.

In the open spaces of the section "Games" VKontakte has a huge number of different applications aimed at sending gifts. Within the framework of this article, we will touch upon only one of the most popular and sufficiently secure applications in order to clearly show how it all works and what you get by using such opportunities.

1. Through the main menu of the VKontakte website, go to the section "Games".



2. Scroll down the page and use the search field to find applications by word "Postcards".



It is possible to search applications by word "Presents", however, in this case the functionality remains the same, but the choice of the presented additions is significantly reduced.

3. Open the application and familiarize yourself with the interface (in this case, the application is used « » ).



4. You can use one of several presented sections for quick access to gifts according to your requirements.



5. It is also possible to search by keywords.



6. After you have selected a suitable picture, left-click on it to open a special window for sending a gift.



7. Here you are provided with the possibility of detailed settings for the mailing list regarding the choice of people with the available option of sending a postcard and writing an original message that comes with a picture. In addition, thanks to additional sorting, you can make automatic mailing to all birthday people, girls or guys.



8. After detailed setting, click "Send"to send a postcard to a friend's wall.



9. As soon as the postcard is sent, the application will post on the user's wall a corresponding post with a picture and your personal signature.

Apart from this feature, the application no longer performs any functions. Thus, the task of sending free gifts through applications can be considered solved.

In addition to the basic information, it is worth considering that the standard VK functionality allows you to send not only pictures with signatures, but also stickers. Applications, unfortunately, do not have this feature, but despite this, there are also a number of solutions on VKontakte regarding the process of obtaining free stickers.

Don't trust scammers. We wish you more gifts!

Today we will learn to give each other something on the Vkontakte social network. I don't need to explain what a gift is to anyone, but what it means on Vkontakte is an ordinary picture that is placed in a special section "Gifts" on the page of the person to whom it was sent.

There is no need to equate such surprises with real ones and replace them too. Otherwise, we’ll get to the point where instead of going to cinemas, we’ll start throwing films on each other’s wall and that’s all)))

Usually, gifts are paid, that is, in order to send something to someone on VK, you must give a certain number of votes (a kind of currency of a social network). This always amazed me, to give virtual instead of real and also pay money for it)))

Let’s get down to practice, dear friends.

How to give a gift in the full version

This is done very simply. You need to go to the page of the person to whom you want to send a gift and click on the button under the avatar (near "Write a message").

Now we have a window with a huge number of gifts that we can give. It is written right next to them how many votes they cost. Click on the desired one:

A window opens with a detailed description of the "surprise".

1. See how much it costs and how many votes you currently have.
2. See who the recipient is. You can add a few more or remove them.
3. You can insert a message that will be displayed with the gift.
4. You can hide your name and the text that you send together from everyone except the recipient. To do this, you need to put a bird near the corresponding point.

After filling in all the fields, feel free to click on the "Send" button.

That, in principle, is all, after payment all this will be sent to the recipient.

How to send a free gift

They are absolutely free only on holidays. Then there are several of the same theme of a particular holiday and you can send them absolutely free to some of your friends.

For example, these could be given for free for the New Year.

If you are offered to download any software that will help you give free gifts, then know that this is a hoax. It is highly likely that after installing such a program, your VK page will be hacked.

Also, I have come across articles on the Internet on various sites that suggest simply sending pictures to friends and this will be considered as free gifts. No friends, pictures are pictures.

If you send a picture to a friend, it will not appear in his gifts section. And so, of course, you could open any paid one, save it in the browser as a picture and send it to a friend. But this will be a little different.

Gift anonymously

You cannot send completely anonymously. All the same, the recipient will know who he is from. You can only hide your name for all other users of the social network, who will view the gifts of the person to whom the surprise was actually sent.

I have already shown you how to do this in this article. You just need to put a bird on the departure page next to the item "Show text and my name only to the recipient."

A gift to myself

Personally, I couldn't do that, and it's hardly possible. If you find a working way, please share it. I doubt that he is, of course, but still.

We send from the phone

If you use the VK mobile application for smartphones and tablets, now I will show you how gifts are sent there.

We go to the page of the person to whom we want to make a surprise, and in the upper right corner, click on the box icon with a bow. See screenshot:

We choose what we want to send. In my case, there are 5 free gifts. I click on them:

After all the settings are made, you can click on the "Send gift" button:

Everyone, dear friends, we have sorted out all the basic questions about gifts on the VKontakte social network. If you have any left, then ask them in the comments.

September 17, 2019 - Dota Team

The new Ranked season is here. Today's blog will go over the changes we are doing as well as areas we are still thinking about. The changes in this update will be rolled out gradually over the next two days as we iron out bugs. The calibration part of the new season will begin this Thursday.

Role Symmetry
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One big observation that we had since the previous update was that matches with misaligned roles had a meaningful impact on game quality. An example of this is when the mid player for one team has the highest rank on their team, and the mid player on the other team has the lowest rank. This tended to cause games to be really volatile and not enjoyable. In the past we used to prioritize rank spread between the two teams as one of the main criteria for the matchmaker to judge success, however as part of this update we are changing its priorities. It will now put a big emphasis on making sure that the roles are more symmetric rather than other criteria. This will also be something we will continue to tweak and iterate on over the coming weeks to make sure the algorithm’s search structure is correctly tuned and optimized for this.

Draft Role Report
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To help ensure everyone plays the role they queued for, this update includes a role report function during the drafting and beginning minutes of the game. Starting with today’s update, using this information along with some other detection mechanisms, we will be much more aggressive in punishing players who abuse the system.

Core and Support Ranks
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Some baseline dota skills and knowledge are shared between the Support and Core roles. So having the two numbers be entirely separated didn’t seem like a good idea to us, as we’d be losing valuable information about the player as well as promoting some warped incentives when you play your least used roles. As such, when you win or lose a game queued as one type of role, we’ll also update the MMR of the other type by a percentage of that game’s gains or losses. We’ll be tweaking that ratio over time as we figure out the best balance.

Ban waves
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This update includes a few different ban waves for bad actors. The first ban wave is to players with exceptionally low behavior scores. We will continue to do regular ban waves for users who fall into this small percentage of the community. Users that reach this low level of behavior in the game are too big of a tax on the rest of the community and are not wanted. The second case where users will be banned today is for anyone detected of violating the Steam Service Agreement that prevents the purchase or sale of Steam accounts. Buying accounts to get a higher or lower rank is not allowed and causes negative side effects for the play experience of others. This doesn’t catch all account sales that happen, but we think we have caught enough to take some action. We are also banning players who’ve been detected using exploits to gain an advantage over other players. In the coming weeks, we will be refining the detection algorithms for these abusive behaviors and will begin issuing weekly bans that will go into effect without advance notice to violating accounts. Accounts that we ban will now also have the associated phone number permanently blacklisted from being able to have access to ranked matchmaking.

Smurfs
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We recognize that recently there has been an increase in smurf accounts. We share the sentiments the community has expressed on this issue and we consider it a high priority for us to solve as well. There isn’t a single solution that can address this issue easily, but we hope that a combination of multiple different changes over time will reduce the negative impacts and frequency of it.

The first change in this area is the usage of phone number verification. We've found a loophole that allowed a large number of users to play ranked without a unique phone number attached. We have fixed this bug and any user that does not have their account set up correctly will be prevented from queuing until it is resolved. This will also affect accounts that have been actively playing in ranked matchmaking, rather than just new accounts going forward.

We are also changing the mechanism to grant Ranked access. Rather than a fixed number of games, we are changing the metric to be a time based one and increased that amount to 100 hours of playtime. Any users that already have access to ranked without meeting this requirement will be removed from ranked until they’ve played enough time.

Our general approach to Smurfs is to try to get accounts that are performing higher than expected to their correct rank faster. The first change on this axis is to adjust MMR by more than just +/- 25 when we detect that a user has been clearly over performing (based on how the played heroes usually perform at a given rank). This will be an ongoing process as we get better at detecting this, but from the data analysis we’ve done so far, we think we can make some progress using this. This change will be silent for a few days as we verify the detection mechanism is working as intended, and will be enabled once that is verified. The other change we are making is how we calibrate the initial ranked MMR for new accounts entering ranked. Leveraging the new hours played gate we are adding for ranked access, we will be using your account’s historical performance more aggressively to place you into a more accurate initial rank. In the past we introduced a really low cap on initial rank, we think that was a mistake on our part, because it caused smurfs to unnecessarily impact a large volume of games before arriving at a closer-to-accurate rank.

Moving forward, we will be spending more time on live detection of smurfing and boosting behaviors. This will hopefully allow us to put detected accounts into an aggressive recalibration, resulting in a much quicker adjustment to an accurate MMR while reducing the number of games that are ruined in the process. In addition to this aggressive recalibration, we’ll also be detecting and banning accounts for egregious boosting or exploiting of game mechanics.

Miscellaneous Changes
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To help reduce role confusion when queuing as a party, we’ve added a detailed popup for times when your party’s selected roles are incompatible, such as when two players have only selected the same role.

While this update is banning extremely low behavior score players, we’ve also increased the number of commends available for each player so you can recognize good behavior in your games as well.

Other Thoughts
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There are a few other general changes that we are not sure are needed yet or haven’t been able to address yet, but are on our radar. We thought it might be a good idea to supplement this blog with information in the hope that community conversation about it can be helpful.

- High MMR games: While we have some changes here that directly and indirectly improve matchmaking quality for the extremely high end bracket, we will be closely monitoring this to see if other changes are needed.

- Hard Support: For certain MMR brackets, queue times and game quality would be meaningfully improved if there were a bigger percentage of players queuing for Hard Support. Many of the subpar matches we’ve found were a result of there not being enough players queuing for this role. We are exploring to see if any solutions can be effective for incentivising this. We also know that it is more common that you’ll get Hard Support if you queue for all the roles, and we’d like that to eventually not be the case.

- Role queue abuse: As mentioned above, we’ll be much more aggressive in punishing players who don’t play the role they’ve queued for. If we find that role abuse persists despite these efforts, we’ll consider implementing role-specific bans that prevent a user from queuing for the abused role in future matchmaking games after they’ve left low priority. Our hope is that implementing such measures will be unnecessary as the results of our other changes.

- Smurfs: Dota 2 being a free-to-play game introduces various matchmaking related challenges. One option we have thought about is having Ranked access have a one time entry cost, and that access can be lost for players who regularly ruin games. We may also grandfather in users that we have enough data on, but we haven’t gone too deep in assessing the details here. We aren’t sure if we need this as a solution yet either, we hope that other solutions can have a good effect at improving the matchmaking ecosystem.

In terms of our development focus moving forward, we are spending more of our time than usual focusing on matchmaking quality. We believe that is the right call given how much opportunity there is to make the day-to-day experience better for all players. We look forward to seeing your feedback on this update, and to continue to hear feedback in the following weeks for how to improve matchmaking.

We would like to thank all of the players, talent, and everyone in the Dota community for helping this celebration to life. The International is the crowning moment of the competitive season, and without everyone's support, none of this would be possible. We hope you enjoyed this year’s tournament as much as we did.

The days ahead
In the wake of The International, our next focus will be on preparing for the new Ranked Season as well as releasing some small gameplay balance tweaks. With the recent changes to Ranked Matchmaking, we’re interested to hear any feedback or suggestions you have. As always, it's helpful to include account info and match IDs with your feedback in the contact form.

Our next major release will be arriving later this fall with The Outlanders update, featuring the two new heroes– Snapfire and Void Spirit –That we announced at the event, as well as the next gameplay patch.

The International Group Stage is almost upon us. As the teams, fans, and broadcast crews make their final preparations for the crowning esports event of the year, it's time to unveil some of the final details for everyone watching.

Tournament News

Head over to the in-game Compendium for a complete list of Casters and Talent for this year’s event. Don’t forget to fill out your predictions for hero picks, team results, player performance, and tournament meta. Predictions lock before the start of Group Stage play.

We've also launched the as a hub for keeping up with the daily tournament proceedings. As the Group Stage and Main Event progress, you’ll be able to see updated standings and new social media content posted each day from Shanghai.

• Group Stage: August 15th - August 18th, 2019 - As before, two best-of-two groups of nine teams. Top four teams in each group advance to Upper Bracket, five - eight advance to Lower Bracket, bottom in each group is eliminated.
• Main Event: August 20th - August 25th, 2019 - The tradition continues as 16 teams battle through a best-of-three double elimination playoff. Lower bracket first round is best-of-one, Grand Finals are best-of-five.

The top eighteen Dota teams in the world have earned the right to join the final test of the Dota competitive season. As the tournament progresses, check out the main stage and behind-the-scenes action on, which features all content from our

Dota 2 Developers Announced Call for Applications for the Battle Pass Collectible Rewards Today The International 2018... Every Level 1000 Battle Pass holder is entitled to a mini copy of Aegis of Champions, and those who reach Level 2000 will receive a Baby Roshan statuette from Valve (through a contractor). To do this, you just need to register on the official website before September 20. No additional costs are required (shipping is free).

Registration for collecting awards is open.

All Battle Pass holders who have reached level 1,000 are eligible for The International 2018 Collectible Aegis, and those who have reached level 2,000 are eligible for the Baby Roshan Collectible Figurine in addition to the Aegis.

To claim your rewards, go to the registration site and provide your shipping address and contact details. To access the site, you will need to enter your Steam account information and have a Battle Pass of level 1000 or higher.

Collectible awards can only be delivered to the address indicated during registration. If you need to change your shipping address after registration ends, please contact CMD Collectibles support at.

This year there will be two waves of Aegis delivery: the first in August, the second in November. The Baby Roshan figurines were also planned to start shipping before the main part of The International 2018, however due to problems with the first batch, we are currently in negotiations to launch a new production, so Roshan delivery will begin when we are sure that the quality of this award meets expectations.

Please keep in mind that all communication with you regarding delivery will be carried out through the mailing address provided during registration. Incorrect shipping address or contact information may result in you not receiving your Collector's Rewards.

You must register to receive the rewards, be sure to register before the expiry date of The International 2018 Battle Pass ...

In May of this year, owners of last year's Battle Pass began receiving their Roshan statuettes. Their quality left a lot to be desired, and as a result of the outrage of the Valve community, they would restart the production process and replace all low-quality products.

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Gifts in Dota 2 are exchange objects in the item exchange system from Valve, which has undergone significant changes over the years.

Gifts in Dota 2

Since the release of Dota 2, all in-game items, they are also cosmetic items, could be exchanged or sold on the Steam marketplace. This policy existed for quite a long time, until they began to introduce non-transferable things into the game, they were assigned to the owner's account, they could not be exchanged or sold on the trading platform.

After the release of the next update, the trade system has changed a lot. The chance of items dropping after in-game matches has been significantly increased, but almost all of these items have become indescribable. Along with this change, a gift system was added to the game, which allowed Dota 2 items to be gifted to other Steam users. Thus, it was possible to present a non-transferable and non-salable item to another player. Now the system is more developed, you can give almost all items, sets, treasures and more.

How to send a gift in Dota 2?

This system works very simply: in your arsenal, in the game Dota 2, you need to right-click on the item that you want to give and select the "Wrap as a gift" item, then in the window that appears, choose who the gift will be sent to. If necessary, you can add a note, this is the text that the recipient will see and which will be attached to the description of the donated item.

There are some rules for exchanging gifts in Dota 2. After linking your Steam account to your mobile identifier, gifts can only be sent to players who have been on your friends list for at least 30 days.