Checking some profiles I noticed people with higher comment count have more giveaways won , does it matter or is it just coincidence ?

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Not at all.

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MAYBE...

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I try to say thanks in every giveaway I enter. I feel obligated to at least say something to the gifter for their generosity. Has it helped me win more? No, but I feel better by doing so. I somewhat believe in karma and it doesn't hurt to say something nice once in a while.

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Nope. I thought this for a little while, but also I found people with a high number of wins, that never posted or made a giveaway before. So, nope.

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no... why would they, thats just silly you're sposed to comment because you want to

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More comments means a bigger epeen which means your entries penetrate deeper.

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We must penetrate deeper.

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Maybe, who knows.

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Actually every comment you make increases the randomness of your chances exponentially.

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anything is possible if you believe it unless its something crazy

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Most of the winners to my giveaways have been with the site anywhere from 1month to 1 year, and have about 10 comments :.

So no.

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i believe its karma =)

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@ mangenkyo and luneaux
I never complained about not winning nor did I say that it's a fact so I don't need your irony and sarcasm you can store it where the sun doesn't shine. I just asked a simple question if you don't like the question don't answer simple as that.

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YES :D

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Totally.............. not.

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nah. high wins are due to unlisted giveaways. either a) you get into groups that host giveaways where you might be 1out of 100 or something vs 1 out of 3000 on the outside. or b) puzzles where the really hard ones are so vague that only the super nerdy can solve them.

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How does that sentence go? Ah,yeah.

Everyone worse than me is a noob and everyone better a no-lifer. That's it.

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ok so maybe i wasn't being entirely fair but some of the puzzle contest people are extreme. There's a thread right now where a dude is changing the key in the post at random time intervals with new keys, used keys, and invalid keys. that's a buttload of effort to go thru to try to be first MAYBE get a key. I mean whatever is whatever but that's not fo rme.

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NOPE

But people with more comments are usually more active on the site. Being more active on the site leads to more wins (entering more giveaways, solving puzzles, joining private groups, contributing yourself...).

You've already won twice as many games as your estimate, so you're ahead of the curve anyway.

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That should all be in equation, if the model of process is well done.

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What are you talking about?

The winner is randomly selected. Period.

Entering more giveaways, or giveaways with better odds (private/group/contributor/etc), you win more. It's math.

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No. But some retard groupes want to have x comments or something. But you don't want to join them. People nowadays don't want quality, they want quantity. Yes, truly.

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Some private groups has «number of comments» as an entrance condition (for some reason).
That is only influence to the winrate.

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Absolutely not

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Indirectly related.

People who are social and comment more (participate in the community) are more likely to get invited to private and group giveaways, thereby winning more.

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They have to be active in the forum though not on giveaways.

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People who simply parrot some form of "thanks" on a giveaway may have a 1:1 entry:comment ratio. People who are active beyond that will have a far higher ratio.

Case in point: me. :p My comment to entry ratio this month is almost 25:1.

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People can also simply go to a giveaway and copy paste thanks without entering it, The SG+ makes it really easy to do.

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Well without any actual mathematical increase to their odds there's no reason to. And simply spamming mindless comments wherever you go won't get you invited to private groups either. :p

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Hence why I wrote being active in forum is more important than commenting on giveaways.

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I did believe it was 25:1 and said, hell. That's a lot.

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I barely enter anything anymore so that ratio is more a sign of that than of being extra-spammy. :)

11 years ago
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I barely enter things too. But I'm really spammy though.

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No, but it is appreciated by some members while others don't care.
My perspective is that commenting should be treated as a common courtesy. People argue that saying "thanks" to the gifter when they win is what really counts but the irony in that is that thank you is also a courtesy. Unless you actually go to lengths to truly express your gratitude for something, there is no difference between saying thanks now or later except the latter is "in person".

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Well, techically they don't. But if you leave the sequence of comments, in which first letters of comments spells the phrase "I love сg and I want him to be my Skyrim husband" it will magically increase your chances by 36%. True story.

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Hope it doesn't, because couldn't be bothered to spam comments just to get a better chance.

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yes maybe but who know

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Nope. I did an experiment once where I commented for sometime and then entered some without commenting. I won equal number of giveaways. So you have the same chance whether you comment or not.

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Closed 11 years ago by Splashhh.