Make one that replace "thanks" comments with random phrases. Like, "this game rocks", "this game is good", "I always wanted this", "I'm interested in this game", "I never played this game but I want to" and "man, it's hot today, isn't it?".
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I can guarantee I appreciate your filter more than people that are simply sick of "thank you" comments. It already allows me to check giveaways without nearly as much scrolling and reading through 500 simple comments. You've saved me an immense amount of time.
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I'm glad to be of service. And thank you for keeping this great site running.
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Dear/Dearest ___:
How generous of you to send us a free game for our poor souls. Although we are only typing "Thank you", we know that your love, kind thoughts and well wishes were with the children of the steamgifts.
We truly appreciate your gift and we plan to use it to for the education as well as health care of the gamers.
Thanks, again for your very thoughtful and generous donation.
With warmest regards,
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Definitely not definately
Are you really from the UK? :P
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Don't worry - that won't get filtered. The script considers it far too adorable.
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Thanks for making this but i just love to see thanks.
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Thanks... for making a script that blocks a simple thanks! Wait...
Nah, seriously though, thank you for taking the time to code this! I don't mind simple 'thanks' or whatever, but it's great of you do this for the people who don't like it. Oh, and thank you so much for adding Chrome <3
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As someone who tries hard to post unique thank you's in every entered giveaway, I approve and appreciate this!
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I made a user script for Firefox which removes all simple "thank yous" in each page of comments for giveaways and replaces them all with one single comment mentioning everyone who said thanks. This keeps the other comments from being drowned out but still lets you see everyone who thanked.
Comments like "Thanks", "Thank you", "thx", "ty" and other common variations are filtered out and moved to a "thanks summary" above the comments. Comments with a personal touch, such as "Thanks, Joe", are not filtered out; neither are any comments which have replies or contain links.
This is probably not everyone's cup of tea, but I hope that some of you will find it useful.
To Install
Update (5 October 2013): It seems that Chrome isn't as happy running userscripts as it used to be, so I'm removing the link to the native Chrome userscript and recommending Tampermonkey, an extension that allows Chrome to use regular Greasemonkey scripts.
Update (26 April 2012): The latest version is now 1.3
To update, simply go to the relevent page and press the big green "Install" button - the update process is exactly the same as for installing the script in the first place.
Version History
version 1.3
version 1.2
version 1.1
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