You have a winner with 20 wins, 0 comments - what do you do after sending the key? [SOLVED]

Personally id like to thank everyone. Its the right thing to do.. but people are shit, and so there will be enough to fill your blacklist :)
btw.. i personally think its good that people like you do nonrestricted giveaways! shows your openhearted, not like myself... just a moody bad person without cash for great giveaways and just bundlestuff :/

Some people dislike uncreative "Thank you" comments and even threaten to blacklist you if you put one under their giveaways. Guess you can never be safe, though.

you're calling that dude unthankful and entitled

how would you know ?

to me you seem like the unthankful and entitled one, expecting people to write thankful messages and giving more than they win, for some reason. for YOUR reasons. those reasons do not fit within the steamgifts rules. they are not requirements and that's for the best, because that's the best thing to do

you never know why somebody's not giving something. you never know why somebody's not writing a message. and not giving more than we receive is not something bad. you can't expect and ask for something from a GIVEAWAY. the name speaks for itself. the website name speaks for itself

how about the people who write comments automatically with scripts ? how one could say that someone do it ? and how could say that scripting messages is something bad, if the author isn't yet thankful ? i myself used to write down thousands and thousands of comments, and i think some people blacklisted me, thinking i was a bot. now i don't write anything anymore, and i think now some people blacklist me thinking i'm a bot again because i enter giveaways without leaving a message

you'll only find the worse reason to explain why somebody's doing or not doing something yet nothing can lead you to know and you don't know them in person. you just speculate out of nothing. you'll always pretend, claim they're just bad people with bad intentions and bad reason for anything they do or do not. you always claim the negative, like if you were good and anything that doesn't fit your own personal, biased and wrong expectations and standards was automatically bad. to me, for all that you are the bad one here. i just checked your profile and noticed that you were in my blacklist. now i think i can remember you making such an other attention-whoring thread not long ago, and i kinda agree with myself on that

I blacklist them. But now I`m just make GA with Level 4 and higher

This is something that's changed quite a bit since SGv2. Previously, prizes were often delivered by e-mail or Steam chat, and so there was a good opportunity for the winner to say thanks. Now, while notifications mean that you can leave someone a thanks in their GA and they'll see it, it's a feature which isn't really talked about and isn't as obvious a thing to do. Since the key delivery is often handled by the site and so feels more automated, people are less likely to think about the person behind it. Of course, it's entirely possible this winner has thanked people through some other means anyway, but even if not, it's understandable why they wouldn't.

If the lack of thanks is something that bothers you - which is also understandable - then you might want to add your winners on Steam and give them the prize personally. Note that some people will refuse the add, which also probably shouldn't be held against them - the majority of adds on Steam tend to be bots or unwanted traders/beggars, and it might not come to mind to associate you with SG.

I don't understand why so many people in this thread are making the connection "he's level 0" = "it's expected he lacks common decency".

I wonder if SGTools rule about having >0 comments could be made ^^

Hmm, mainy just feel bad. :)

I think some people can't communicate well (or at all) in English, so they play it safe and say nothing... :) I've seen instructions for how to use Steamgifts in other languages, so I assume there's a fair amount of people getting by on translation plugins and random guessing... :) Suppose that would explain some of the regifting and not activating, too... :)

On the other hand, there are probably some around here who think we're just video game dispensers, mindless robots with only one purpose: to give them free stuff... :)

But thinking about it a bit more, I'd rather read nothing than someone's thanks script. :) It's disappointing when the winner of a giveaway hasn't bothered to say anything, but for public giveaways I'm surprised if even ten percent of the people entering can scrape two words together... If everyone wrote a comment I'd probably die... :)

Bump... :)

um..it's a gift. It's always good manner to say a thanks who gives you a gift.
I dont care much, but if they dont say a thanks and ratio is really bad. blacklist.

Good manners start at home. If the person's parents didn't raise them properly, you're not going to solve the problem overnight.

Move on. It's not really a huge deal, and I don't think blacklisting is appropriate for this circumstance, since not saying thanks is not against any rule. Instead I've decided to whitelist anyone who says thanks after winning one of my giveaways. Carrots are better than sticks.

why do you care if he/she says thank you or not? I mean you are not making giveaways to get reply right?

I'd be thinking: C'est la vie. xD Life is unfair. That's the least of your problems right now. Actually, I wouldn't even consider it as a problem. I would be like: Meeehhhh, I don't even care.

I used to care a lot about my winners back in the early days of SG, Even had special giveaways for people that had good playtime on games they had won from me. But it, like so many other preferences I had with SG, just slowly died out and went away because it required far too much effort. I still try to enforce a little extra etiquette in group and whitelist giveaways when I make them but even that is only on the rare occasion when I feel like it. Hell, I barely even look at my winners anymore unless they made a interesting comment.

We can always say thanks in steam, so I don't care how much comments someone have. I think if you want to blacklist ungrateful people - just blacklist those who don't said thanks to you.

I liked getting my keys through email, I could always give a more heartfelt thanks that way... ;_;

I never even check my winners. Though I wouldn't get such a winner anyway since I never make low level giveaways.

A black list because they do not say thanks???

Wow not only do some now black list for saying thanks,now you can if you do not...

I guess in some cases your damned if you do and it you do not...in fact i use to say thank you on every GA i entered but then when i saw some where black listing for saying thanks because they do not want spam...so now i do not bother most of the time unless i win.Though i do not demand or even check if a GA i did they said thanks.I do not need a thank you for giving a game i do this because i enjoy it,and i do not need a simple thank you to acknowledge what i do is a good thing,but they are welcome :)

I do not get this need for demanding a thanks like you need some confirmation that you did something good and you need a thank you to confirm what you did and have it acknowledge.The deed of giving it suppose to be enough..

This site is turning more and more into about ratios and saying thanks and so forth...makes me want to give back less and less the more i see it.

funny thing though is...

Thank you everyone for the great feedback so far. Based some of the comments here what I'm going to do in these cases (winner has many wins, but 0 comments) is send the key + congratulations in email, instead of using this site. If the winner activates the key but doesn't even respond to the mail, then they won't be winning more games from me

Yet most people who answered the poll just said move on,so who advice are you following to black list people? ...i think you where just looking for a few people to agree with your black list thing to acknowledge what your doing doing is approved and some how okay.

It is your black list to do as you see fit,but still sad to see ratios and thanks being a reason for being on it,for a site that was built on sharing.

I wouldn't mind so much, actually I get annoyed when people thank me on GA's, especially when they win. I generally thank ppl myself if I win, but only because I think it annoys them.

I love that you make an sgtools GA with remark <= 2 years. I broke the rules about three years ago, when I just entered the site. I had two defcon soundtracks in my winning history, they're among my first winnings.
Well, I didn't care about the rules those times, young and stupid. I was suspended for that and never broke any rules after that. I am glad that you give an opportunity to people who realized their mistakes to participate in your giveaways.

I am blacklisted tho and cannot enter the GA, but I love your approach as I stated it above :D

since i dont want myself comments on my gas i dont care about others commenting or not

If they're profile is clean, I move on. If their profile is full of rules violations, I blacklist and report if valid.

Your method sounds much more interesting.

Where are u supposed to say thanks for a win ?
On the original game giveaway thread ?

I tell people "no comment needed ,as we all love steamgifts" ,it's why we're here isn't it ? :)