What do you think about replies to thank you messages?

I always enjoy seeing a thank you message after a win. Do I say you're welcome every time though? Ehhhhhhh...

Depends on how I'm feeling at that moment. I would say it's 50-50 on my end.

I'm fine with thanks, lets me know the game has been activated successfully. I'm fine with no thanks too, one less notification. I personally rarely reply to thanks, though, and I don't care if someone replies to my thanks or not.

i usually don't do it, but it's nice when others do. it adds some personability to the giveaway.
also - responding after playing the game with an extra 'thank you' or 'this is what i thought of the game' is a nice way to express some appreciativeness.

edit- to be clear, i'm saying i usually don't reply to other people's thanks with a "you're welcome". i always say thanks after winning. after reading the previous comments, there's some serious confusion about what op was asking. some of you really gotta work on your reading comprehension.

I do love a positive exchange on this site, regardless of whether it started with a winner or gifter. I especially love genuine gratitude, which can be so rare.

I don't mind "you're welcome", but "have fun" or "enjoy the game" kinda makes me feel ashamed for not actually playing the game.

You win one of my giveaways. You say thank you. I say You're welcome.

What kind of blasphemy is this?

jokes aside, I of course thank every time I win something. I also like it if I get thanked as well and don't appreciate someone winning and ghosting. But I personally hate getting spam "thank you" messages. And its fascinating that they think that setting up a bot to spam thousands of messages is somewhat a good thing. I would really like to understand their way of thinking when they set something like that up.

Thanks to everyone for all the replies! Not sure if I messed up the OP question a bit (or it was a bit confusing), but what I meant was what do you think about "You're welcome", "My pleasure" messages etc.. Something you can say after someone said "Thank you" to you.
I usually reply to a "Thank you" this way, not always the same "You're welcome", I do some variety. Also depends on what the Thank you-writer writes, I will add some words to it or something. I try to avoid being robotic.
But I think most of you think it's a nice thing to do or they don't care much about it. Sometimes I think it can be annoying to someone (extra notification), but I never got negative feedback so far for it. ;)

Sadly the bots kinda made Thank you messages (just for the giveaway, not for winning) something annoying for many of us, as you never know exactly if the Thank you comes from a bot or just from a user who wants to be friendly. I sometimes see new users saying Thank you for the giveaway, and I think they just want to be friendly. It's unfair to treat them equally to bots.

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I look at it like this. The SG notifications alert is a tiny area on a very large screen that is easily ignored. In fact some people seem quite adept at ignoring it for days on end. If this small patch occupies so much of someone's thought process and annoys them then maybe they should rethink life or see a therapist. On a different tack it takes all of 5 seconds to click it and then all read and move on with life. Oh this isn't meant to be directed at anyone. It was just a thought that there are more important things in life to worry about. I'm just not the best at putting things into words.
Anyway, how long have we been trying to save Raccoon City at this point? Maybe it's best to write it off.

I think it's a question of etiquette and polite acknowledgement that games on SG are not random freebies coming from a vending machine but from people giving away stuff they (most often) paid for and could (nowadays) sell or trade instead of giving them away to strangers.
I always say thanks when I win, and make the message personal if I know the gifter.
I tend to blacklist people who win and don't even see fit to say thank you. Forgetting happens but when I check and see that all of their wins have 0 comments, it's a blacklist.

Now if I get an auto "TY" or a short "thanks", I tend not to reply to my winners. I assume they don't speak much English or are not looking for conversation. If the message is more elaborate or if I know the winner and we engaged on SG or Steam before, I'll reply. It feels more like a conversation and it would be rude to leave them hanging.

I like saying it and I like to receive it back, but it's not something I expect. I personally feel like it makes the gifting process a bit more personal, which is nice ♥

We are all the same. I too am now starting to wonder if I should make an entry as a courtesy, bump

I always say thank you when I win or you're welcome/enjoy the game/have fun when a winner thanks me for the giveaway. I think it's the polite thing to do. Plus It makes the gifting process more personal and not feel like we're all just bots around here.

I add to most public giveaways something like "Please no "Thank you" comments, unless you win". And if I still get a basic "Thank you for the chance", I'll find it suspicious and I'm gonna check out that profile.

Thanks everyone for the comments, and/or participating in the giveaway. Have a nice evening. ^^

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