Unless its a private giveaway, and the rules are approved by the mods themselves its just fine.

But for public giveaways,

NO.

people are bothering with generic "thanks", rather than asking for a "real" thanks from person to person is just absurd.

Thank you!

People really said that? That's pathetic. The thank you in public giveaways mean nothing.

They also reroll if your not an admin/mod of the group and just a so-called nobody gifter to leech off :D

If they don't deliver, they should get reported, plain and simple.

IMO it's silly. The recipient's thanks is what matters.

To me, asking for someone to say thank you (for anything for that matter) is one of the most selfish things someone could ever do. I strongly disapprove of the practice.

They can request a giveaway all they want. They won't get one, though, not unless it's in one of the approved categories. "Didn't post a generic meaningless thanks" is definitely not in the approved categories!

(That said, if you're entering a giveaway for something like that and all they want is a thanks, post a thanks, if it means that much to them. Partially because you know, whatever, it takes 10 seconds and avoids ugly arguments and everything; if they went to the trouble to make a giveaway and it really means that much to see a long line of explicit rather than implicit identical thanks, sure, whatever. But I don't think they should actually be able to get a reroll -- if they want to be able to control who can win their gifts in a fine-grained fashion and only give it to the worthy or properly thankful or respectful people or whatever, they should set up / join a private group, or give it via another channel entirely.)

Private is fine, some groups do it also and thats fine, public...no, just no.

This is stupid ^^ I was kicked from a steam group, just because i didn't say "thank you"... ^^

What's the point of not thanking? Is it so hard for you to take 3 seconds and thank the guy giving away a game, even if you don't win it? Just shows what kind of person you are. Just saying.

Also, when I open a giveaway and people comment, it makes me happy to see the comments and I try to reply to each one. That's how it goes for me.

Do you see it in public giveaways or group/private ones?

I think it's kinda selfish and lame, but I thanked the guy anyway, cuz I really wanted the game.

"If you did not post a thank you. I will request a reroll."

yes , it's rude for people that don't want to thank giveaway creator .

If the raffle is void of comments I will usually say something along the lines of thanks but I normally never say thanks like that. I either thank them personally if they add me on steam or I leave a thanks in the comments after I've won if they email it to me. They'll probably never even read that but hey, it's the thought.

The comments section is kind of a bore for giveaways; if it's not some idiot saying FIRST, it's either a swarm of meaningless thanks or an accusation that the raffle is fake. SSDGiveaway

Tradition.

so many people talk about "MY FEELINGS" nowadays. It's completely retarded.
You're making a giveaway on a website that explicitly tells you not to be a douchebag and not to create your silly little rules when creating a giveaway.

"You must thank me or you won't get the prize" - go be an attention whore somewhere else.

Seriously, what's wrong with the people who create such giveaways? Just how miserable do you have to be that you actively seek attention online? -An doing just that which is described in the OP of all things.

This comment might make me less popular of a guy. But I don't care. I thank people on the giveaways that I find I really like. But a thank you is a sign of respect and SHOULD be sincere. If you're forcing someone else to thank you for the candy you're giving them, much like you do to a child, you're an effing sociopath and I hope to god you change your behaviour, or you won't have many friends and much success in life.

To everyone else in this thread, sry for the rant. I personally haven't come accross one such giveaway, but it really grinded my gears to know there's pricks out there who do as described in the OP.

EDIT - Also, I always thank the person who sends me the key. Privately.

I feel people who need to feel good about gifting games and want these e-thanks, need to be kicked out of this website.

No one is forcing you to gift games, if you do - you do it out of the need to either 1) increase your CV or 2) the goodness of your heart. You should not expect thanks for it, but since the admins here don't crack down on it, we have some of the most stupidest reasons used by people as reasons to re-roll.

those people shoud not gift games at all if they get their panties wet over a spam comment.

I hate to pee on the pavlova, but much of this thread seems dedicated to the erection and subsequent destruction of a straw man.

While a few do, there aren't many users at all who actually demand thanks on their giveaways.

The vast, vast majority of stipulation-type giveaways simply ask for a comment. Entrants are usually free to be thankful, to post something random, or to describe in eye-watering detail what anatomically improbable act the gifter can perform with their request. It matters not, so long as a comment is made. Aside from abject laziness, I see little reason for anyone to get upset about this.

For the handful of people asking for thanks in their giveaway, if it means that much to them, why not simply do it? Many do this routinely anyway... If you can't bring yourself to do so, you'd only feel awkward about accepting a game from them...

All of this is obviously outside of the scope of the original post, which was comprehensively addressed seconds after posting...

If you don't give me your soul, I will request a reroll.

"Thank you for creating a giveaway that I won't win."
Why would someone thank someone for creating a giveaway??
I would only say thank you if I win a giveaway.

I had no idea people did this.
I was honestly amazed at how many people posted Thank You when i dropped my first giveaway.

It's just politeness. The moment you try to turn it into a kind of social currency you're just acting like a stinky twat.

And nobody likes a stinky twat :P

Public giveaways cannot have any kind of rules. Reroll requests based on those are immediately denied.

Group and private giveaways may have rules if they're approved by a moderator beforehand. If a rule is approved, reroll requests regarding that rule are processed, otherwise, the gifter is notified that their rule was not approved, and their request is denied.

While it's necessary for gifters to clearly indicate the rule in the giveaway description, it's not required to say that their rule was approved by support, but I'd personally recommend saying it if your rule got support approval.