Giveaway Comments: Pointless or Praiseworthy?

They do not matter in public giveaways in my opinion. That said, I like to use a pre-approved rule that requires entries to comment and set a topic in my puzzles/group giveaways. Why? Because often this grows into healthy discussions about various things, we get to know each other more, we become a community (specially important in group giveaways, again - in my opinion).

Saying thanks is common courtesy to demonstrate appreciation. It's polite and good form. Someone holds open the door for you, you smile and say thanks. You sneeze and someone says "bless you", you smile and say thanks.

It's not rocket science. While not everyone does it, I especially don't understand the people who loudly criticize others for saying thanks. It's probably the dumbest thing I've heard and is representative of those who aren't raised particularly well. Encourage others to be rude and inconsiderate ... yeah.

I try to make a pun off of the game's title. Like "Magickal Thanks" for Magicka. But it doesn't work for all titles or else I can't think of anything in that moment. Sometimes I just say "I like pizza."

i dont care much about the copy pasta thx fest going on, but i do say thanks as people seem to value it
but personally i would like to think its implied with the entire so i dont care much if i get none in the comment

meanwhile once every once in a while the comments get interesting so maybe there should be a separate thanks button or something, this would result into much valuable comments.

How many drinks in are we talking? Each drink increases the importance of a "thank you".

TY!

Ultimately, I don't care if someone comments unless that person won.

Well my opinion on this matter comes from the fact that behind each giveaway there is a person that created it. If it was just an automated system, then it would be pointless to write anything since you know there would be noone you were referring to.

Thus, even if I won't be reading the 1k comments in a public giveaway, I like to know that people entering a giveaway actually wrote something, even if it's a simple "Thank you". Seeing 1k entries and 100 comments is disappointing. I realize that there are people out there using scripts to "auto-enter and comment" but I still rather have automated comments than no comments at all.

I always thanks no matter what (unless requested otherwise by the giveaway creator). As I said in another discussion, it's just plain, pure gratefulness and politeness.

I don't even know why people ask these questions. Some random person gives away something for absolutely free, so the least you can do is take a few seconds to type a message to show your gratitude towards the giveaway creator. It's not that hard, and most giveaway creators read and enjoy the comments in their giveaways.

Personally, I prefer comments that are interesting to read rather than a generic thanks. And I don't really care whether someone thanks me when entering, if they can say something that will be more entertaining instead.

I still highly support thanking in the comments, because it's part of not being an inconsiderate douche. :P

They're tearing me apart, Lisa!

One thing that I don't think anyone has brought up is that the comment section is very useful for game packs. A lot of the time, the giveaway maker doesn't indicate how many games you can own in the pack and still be able to join. It's common courtesy to ask in the comment section for this information.

In other times, if the giveaway maker is breaking the rules or something in the giveaway (for example, posting a referral link), you can comment to try to get his/her attention and fix the error.

Gratitude is awesome, it's more than likely my money I'm giving away after all. Could it easily be replaced by a THANKS button? YES :D easiest solution to implement paired with a minimum char requirement for comments.

Thank you's are very appreciated.

They're pointless, just spam, and it's sad when you see that clearly most people didn't read the giveaway text or anything, just spam "THANK YOU" or similar and carry on. I mean, some browser add-ons allow you to automatically post them whenever you enter a giveaway. I wouldn't mind if the comment section was completely removed.

Sometimes people don't have the time to write on every giveaway, plus in this new site there are more giveaways and points being added. And I think it depends on people's perception of the site. I don't see this site as some place to meet people and chat, etc. but a site to get some games because i don't have the resources to afford them. Also, some people overreact in the idea of getting and philosophical discussion on the comments section because they are giving something and need attention.

I do say thanks but I can say nothing as well and just enter on some giveaways and then go, and this doesn't mean I'm not grateful.
In my personal opinion, comments are optional unless the giver asks for something to do or not or just a random question for fun. not a big deal on it.

Well, I say thank you manually every single time. Though I am aware that people may use scripts to automatically thank you, it is still a polite gesture - albeit it's effect is greatly diminished at the sheer quantity seen. I would feel it would be impolite not to thank a person who selflessly gives to the community. Still, the gesture has been given and whether the person giving will accept it as such is entirely on their front.

Still, they contribute somewhat (very, very little) to the community although I would heavily prefer it that effort was directed towards meaningfull input on the forums or the chat.

I think they are needed.

Not always there is a description in a giveaway. You can't expect then from people to write anything creative. But if contributor wrote few interesting words I almost always try to answer him.

If I am creating giveaway I appreciate thankie comments however I answer only on related to my topic :).

Most was already said. I totally support jbond opinion :).

ohh I make sure to type out the thanks each time, no copypasta from me.

they actually do matter to me,specially when some one says something funny or new in the comments,it makes me happy :)

or even when someone says "thanks" i don't care if he copy pasted it or not it just makes me a little bit happy.

Generally, I only check for them if it's my private and/or group ga, because I know people usually don't bother doing so in public mostly. When I do check for them, I make sure it pertains to a topic I make, because I really like to see how different people reply to a fixed topic.

It matters to me that someone thanked me for giving a game away. Like woodchuck said, If you can't be bothered to thank someone for giving their game away then you shouldn't be entering it. I would prefer if the thanks wasn't all so generic, but we can't all be Fiftyku! :D

Seriously though, Fiftyku is amazing.

Bump :nosepick:

I think the main reason most peeps don't put any valuable in there is (obviously) because as the giveaway ends nobody will look at the comment anymore. This is what the forum is for. Also the winner whould thank the giver personally (in chat/email/however the stuff is delivered) regardless if he commented or not.

Other than that, I'll go with the "I don't mind them" option.

I'm trying to post something more than simple thanks. Even if I post that, I never CTRL+V.
Also I really like if someone posts something like: Thank you very much, have a nice day kind sir.
That's a lot better than thanks. But still, thanks is still better from my view than nothing.

When I gave away my game (on another site), nobody said anything and I was angry. You have the game and you can do everything you want with it and you decided to give it to someone who wants it, maybe even can't afford it. And they even don't say thanks.

Calling out fake giveaways is actually a good thing, so they are not so pointless.

Personally, I don't care about the comments below the giveaway. I just wish people who actually win the giveaway expressed gratitude with simple thanks.