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hmm.. I like that you have a good heart and want people to thank the submitters for it, but this can result in the abuse of what you suggest as people could still just comment gibberish just to get the enter giveaway button unlocked. Also, if you were the person giving the gift, would you rather have people thank you without any obligation to do so (and so probably coming from their hearts), or because they are forced to write something in the comments section and the most logical thing to comment is to say "thank you"...??

I agree with this. 90% of the giveaways I have lost, have been to people with not a single comment. When I actually have money to start doing giveaways, it is going to majorly annoy me when someone who doesn't even take the time to give me a simple "Thank you" wins.

I thought you were supposed to comment when you enter one anyway?

I didn't like the forced thanking the first day I came to Steamgifts, and I still don't like it. People should thank a gifter if and when they feel like it, not because rules forces them to. Everyone can write "Thanks.", but I'd prefer when they write something worth reading.

Definitely not, as it'll no doubt encourage meaningless comments just so people can enter.

i always thank the gifter after i actually get the gift, and i would also be pissed, if i'm not even thanked for that. but as a gifter i don't want to get a thousand of "ty" comments on my giveaway. i would be lazy to read through them. your suggestion would just lower the good/bad comment ratio. so i would prefer it to stay as it is. making postcount important always leads to floods of offtopic. there should be some other way.

People let's be realistic! Every giveaway would have more than 200 "Thank you" comments! We cant force anybody to be nice.

PS. I entered 200 giveaways and I posted 250 comments. Nice statistic! ^^

I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would want page after page of "THx!11" "Thank you!" "You're the best! :)"-posts clogging up the giveaways. It's completely unnecessary and has little to no meaning since this is, after all, only the internet. If someone has, say, questions about the giveaway, they'll be buried between the meaningless posts.

If everyone really must have those random thanks, someone should implement a thank you-button or something that you can just click. Unless this is actually about racking up the post count or something along the lines of Myspace/Facebook/whatever "OMG! I have more friends than you!"-thing to make one feel better about themselves.

Nothing personal, I just can't see the point of it.

what's the difference?

Personally, I'd rather see 1000 people enter the giveaway and 50 of them making constructive comments than 500 people entering and each saying "Thx".

Imma do a giveaway where each member has to solve a question from my math homework.

I agree with everyone else that its better when the person actually takes there time to say "Thanks" then have it be meaningless/forced.

Though, how about an Option for it when you make the Gift? You can choose for people to freely Enter without needing to comment, or make it where people have to comment to enter.

It's a good idea in theory, but in practice it'll just result in a bloated site full of minimum necessary comments to enter. "Wow thanks for offering this it's a really great game I'm really excited about" Ctrl+C Ctrl+V in every single giveaway. If you force comments, people will just spam comments to game whatever system you come up with. I'd rather have people comment only when they have something to say.

But then, given the sheer number of Portal 1, Humble Indie Bundle, etc giveaways, maybe copypasta would be right at home.

I'd like people te say thanks to giveaway creators. Not because of the game, but the actual support they give the community so it can continue to exist as it is and maube even continue to grow.

Without giveaway creators there is no Steamgifts.

I think it's overall better to thank the gifter when you win the game. When you're at 300 entries and haven't won anything (It was almost my case) it was just getting very annoying to enter all the giveaways. When you actually win, I think it's the best time to thank the giveaway maker because you're happy and it isn't a chore to do so.

Anyway, that's what I did and I got a friend out of it, so I think I'll stick to this method. I think the comment section should be used for declaring fakes or just asking details about the game, but if a person says thanks in all giveaways he enters, it just doesn't seem honest.

good idea! one would be pretty good

for enter i must said : thanks.

http://www.steamgifts.com/user/lokonopa

y u mad bro ?