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1. Default GA creation settings 2. Home page "Enter GA" button

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Notabene

Here are 2 simple but very important suggestions I find, that would make the SG experience better:

  1. It's REALLY annoying to have to set all the options and rules for each of your GAs every single times you want to create one.

My suggestion is, unless we have a multi-GA-submission system eventually, for the "Create Giveaway" page to remember your last setting so you don't have to go through the hassle of completing and choosing the same option over and over again.

  1. Something that would be VERY practical if you know the game you want to participate in, and only those you don't own are displayed, would be to have a "Enter Giveaway" button right in the the GA listing on the home pages.

Thanks

Edit: I realise that a script already exists, but there seem to be confusion with auto-scripts, which I am against. However a fair point is that some GAs have a message/description inside that gets a message across. So rather of simply having a "join" button, my suggestion would rather be to have a compact view of the full GAs listed on the main page.

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1. Default settings 2. "Enter GA" button

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cucooo

...would be to have a "Enter Giveaway" button right in the the GA listing on the home pages.

Yeah, right...

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Notabene

Thanks for your input

8 years ago
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Mully

why don't you like easy leeching?

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Notabene

Unless I can use a script that can think for myself and know which one I want to join, nope :)

8 years ago
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shauntmw

Agree on #1.

Most of my giveaways are to specific groups, with the same description, and almost the same duration length (about 1 day).
Would love to have a default template, instead of about 10 clicks plus a notepad copy paste when creating multiple giveaways everyday.

8 years ago
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Klinge

Yes on #1
Where as I would find it sufficient to be able to have some favorite groups for easy selection.

No on #2 And here's my why:
There is a script, that adds the button to enter a giveaway from first page. But this is highly frowned upon in the community. Quite a few giveaways are made to bring a message across which you obviously won't get if you only enter a giveaway without looking at its giveaway page.
There are people who want you to interact with them and that's the reason why they made the giveaway. This means for me: if I don't want to make the clicks (opening in new tab and closing afterwards) to enter a giveaway, I better stay out...
I find it rather unjustified to render the giveaway page useless by creating the enter button on the main page. The community and the communication within it makes this place special and so much more enjoyable than any other. I wouldn't want to cut that off...

More info about the usage of the script:
Furthermore when one enters a giveaway an entry in the database is created. This is deemed as content created by you. According to TOS this content mustn't be machine generated which in case of using said script would be. This means the use of the script is forbidden by TOS

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Notabene

I'm not in favour of auto-scripts indeed. But I'm talking about a more practical and efficient way of seeing GA and interact with them from the main page. You make a good point about message/description for example.

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