[Event] Common Courtesy: ⁰ ・✧ Bundle Train! ✧ ・ﾟ

you're still going to blacklist for repeat offenders if they continue not to read descriptions right?
No, but now that they're tagged I'll be keeping a closer eye on them, which means if I notice them with a leechy non-contributing attitude overall, I may eventually end up blacklisting them, just to make sure my giveaways go toward people whose approach to the site is more respectfully-minded.
At the moment, I don't have any plans to do much of anything regarding giveaway entry/winning behaviors, my blacklist is still currently dedicated only to bigots, personal attackers, so forth.
Really waiting to see what the results of this PSA are. If I go from a '20% of people pay attention' to a '60% of people do', that may even be enough.
Just sucks when the dominant majority appears to have a dismissive, or even outright selfish attitude toward giveaways.

My giveaways are certainly not the most notable, but that doesn't mean I especially want to support those kind of attitudes, either.

I don't care about comments, I care about people paying attention. Asking for a comment this time [Keeping in mind this thread is just an extended way of asking for the same comment I originally asked for] is just a mechanism to see IF people are paying attention. It's certainly not an approach I was planning on making frequent repeats of.
I could as easily start permanently blacklisting anyone that doesn't say 'thank you' on a win, but a: that doesn't relate at all to if they've read or not, and b: sets a terrible framework of coercing something that should be given freely when given.

So really, something casual like this is the best approach- basically, anyone still on my blacklist afterward is either going to eventually work their way off with a nifty comment on someone else's giveaway [showing they do read, at least at times], or they're going to remain on my blacklist as a recognition that they basically never read anyone's giveaways at all-

So yes, I'm opposed to the "enter giveaways using a script, rather than actually clicking and opening the giveaways to read the description first"- but I've made that viewpoint clear multiple times over the past few months, so it's not like my perspective on that is new news.

As I've mentioned so many times in this thread, I don't care about comments, it's NOT related directly to this single giveaway, it's NOT an arbitrary demand for obliging certain requirements.
It's the fact that so many of the people involved haven't shown any courtesy toward anyone for months, that I've seen, and by poking at the matter I can see which ones CAN show courtesy [show even a minimum amount here, that's good enough- I don't want to make any assumptions without clear validation].
Flip side, a few people have been complete selfish asshats about the matter, and those are the ones actually getting filtered out.

By the end of it, the people remaining will have better odds on my future giveaways because of the people being filtered out- so no, I don't in any way view a 'check in and let me know you're a living person' as a penalty. o.O;

As far as your tags, suffice it to say I would have made an exception for you, had you entered and not posted in the giveaway. :)
(Clarifying past that would involve elaborating on my complex tagging structure :'P)

And yeah. I was far too liberal with my whitelist use in the past, which is why I've primarily switched to using PosTho as a whitelist.

Eventually I want to be able to freely use my whitelist again, knowing everyone on there is 'legit', and things like this- where I can filter out the 14 whitelistees that both didn't comment here, and haven't made notable comments over the past half-year- helps speed up the whitelist clearing.
Likewise, one person from my whitelist entered and didn't comment, but he'd made contributive comments over the past few months, and was an easy exception to the whitelist removal.
Meanwhile, the 5 whitelistees that did comment, all had tags indicating they did so regularly.

So basically, my suspicion that the same people that were being dismissive were also never reading, seems pretty well validated.
That doesn't mean any of them went straight to blacklist because, again, this is not about punishment, but filtering and social commentary.

In the case of my whitelistees, it's a way of making up for my previous liberal application of the whitelist, so that in the future the remaining people on there could get better giveaway odds.

A lot of people seem to take offense at me trying to give respectful people better odds- then again, basically all of said people were already on my blacklist for attacking people or stating they were deliberately leeching [versus due to personal circumstances], already. :'P

I recently started a one-off thank you group- when you win any game from it, you get removed from it. That's my current approach to "I want to say thank you, but I'm not entirely sure yet if you're a reliable whitelist inclusion".
Though, several whitelistees are in that group, just because I want to say thank you to them on top of whitelist giveaways. :)

Unfortunately, that seems to be one of the most preferential approaches because, as you can see in this thread, if you take any other approach to whitelist management [other than wiping it completely and starting over] you tend to get judgmental and even offensive remarks on it.

I mean, sure, exclusively from terrible people who've as a rule made asshats of themselves numerous times before, but still :P

Too many entitled people get obsessed with punishment and people being obligated toward them- to include them, to respond to them, and so forth- when on my side, it's just simple, non-personal organization of the elements involved.

Tl;dr version, people are selfish and rude and egotistical, and just can't grasp that it ISN'T about them, and that they DON'T have a right to someone else's gifts.

So yeah, filtering out even more of those ugly people? Always a plus.
Past that, I don't much mind- if you can make a respectful comment in that giveaway, or make a respectful comment here, or make a respectful comment bloody anywhere, that's basically good enough.
If you can go above and beyond that? That's when I actually take interest in you.

If you want to attack me over it? That's when I take interest in you, but only for the split moment it takes me to retag you as a permanent blacklist inclusion. :P

Oh, don't worry, it's not like it's something I was going to doggedly badger you about. It really wasn't a big deal!
I was mostly trying to ferret out the more squirrlely members, everyone else that got blacklisted but made a point of commenting here is still the bee's knees to me. :)
Anyway, I figure we'll share a pint, maybe paws to wolf down some food, and then everything'll be owl right!

Does that scenario earn your seal of approval? :)

To that I offer,
this simple display of thanks-
A haiku for you!