Has your THANK YOU entry behavior changed with the message notification system?

Public: Usually not, unless the creator's description seems to want a response. If it is someone I know, I will definitely comment.
Invite Only: If I can think of something clever to say, I will comment. Otherwise, same as above. Thread bump guaranteed, it's the least I can do. If a train, comment a few times to prevent annoyance.
Group: Depends on how tightly knit I am with the group. If I open the giveaway, I will most likely comment, even if I don't enter.
Whitelist: Try to comment on every one, even if I don't enter.

Behavior hasn't changed that much, maybe less generic thank yous for giveaways so that people have something more interesting to read.

I don't think it ever really changed, to be honest. Though I have noticed that I say "thank you" in any form almost every time I enter a whitelist giveaway, sometimes when I enter invite only giveaways (depending on how I got there) and rarely when I enter public giveaways because I feel like the giveaway creator gets spammed by enough "thanks" messages already.

Cool. Tumalu ninja'd me once again. Damn you. DAMN YOU!

Hmmm, never a "thanks" was so contraditory how it is now. I've seen a lot of people posting on forum "Dont say thanks, it's just spam in my mail box, im going blacklist you..." and "Oh, i'm giving you a free game, and you dont say at least a thank you, so im going to blacklist you" too.

Result: Sometimes i say thanks, sometimes i dont say a word, sometimes i just sit and think.

Public: nothing on description means nothing should be said. If said, mostly not just "thanks". Manners reasons.
Private/Groups/Whitelist: I usually comment something related just because I want to know how much I like that Gifter/Group/Etc.
Win: Obligatory (in GA or chat).

Not that much, maybe I don't mind the Thanks messages.

I still try to always comment but if there is a description that says I need to comment i don't

im always saying thanks or gracias. but i don't use bots, i always write all the replys..anyways i enter less than 20 gives per week :p.

I try to post unique messages in giveaways instead of thanks.

another thread where people will start debating who's right and wrong.

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I say thanks in every giveaway I enter, unless the creator sais otherwise in the description.

For public or giveaways without much description, I rarely say anything. If it is someone I know, I try to say thanks in a unique way if possible. Best bet would be trying to learn who likes what when it comes to whitelist/group giveaways since those are the peeps you interact with the most.

This shit is just hard tbh XD.

P.S. Keohookalani told me you cheaped out and used a goat instead of a lamb. Do the ritual over or else!

This topic reminded me that I haven't made a giveaway for the silent steamgifts group in some time. It dipresses me that some people in that group seem to forget and post thank you anyway.

Thanks for Skyrim :)

I don't care what people post on my GAs. The notifications and whatnot don't bother me in the least. But I do realize they can bother other people, so I usually limit my comments on a GA to a sincere thank you if I win the game. I'm sure I got blacklisted plenty for saying thank you all the time when I first started using the site, but childhood conditioning to show appreciation was hard to break. :P

I stopped saying thanks for another reason.

I always said thank you in one or another way, because i grew up with manners and if someone is making you a gift, you tell them you are thankful for what he does. If those people do not want to receive a thanks, they can always gift away the serials in this forum.

But then, one day, i was blacklisted from 2 people, because i only said "Thank you kindly for giving me the chance to win here".
They complained that i did copy this message on both of their giveaways, which is the standard message is use for giveaways that do not write any more information or text.
Note: if the person who created the giveaway writes a text, i will always read it and refer to it in my response. If the creator asks for anything, i will always try my best to help or do what he wished for.
I am here quite a while now and have seen many discussions about wether or not you should say thank you.
And i think this is ridiculous in a time where most people on the internet do not have manners.

But this one day just tipped the scales. I swear that when people put me on their blacklist just for thanking them for their giveaway, i am done with it.
From this day on i never wrote anything on another giveaway, for i must fear another blacklist or maybe some idiot reporting me to the SG Support.

It is sad what happened to this site and this community, but that is how it is and i have to live with it.
But still, if someone takes the time to write something in his giveaway and asks for new music or something, i will do my best to help, but if no such thing is done, you will get no thank you from me anymore.

I only post "thanks" if the giveaway creator says that it will get me blacklisted.

It has not changed for me. I still keep spamming every giveaway I enter with a message. If creator asks for no comments, I do not enter. Life is jolly.

Notification system hasn't directly, but behavior of giveaways creators did. Blacklisting for common courtesy did drop my appropriation posts quite significantly, but I do understand why creators are bothered by those. I do read every header in giveaways I enter, and try to respond on creators request if I'm able to do it right. Expressing creativity with words is not my strong suit, actually it's probably one of worst fields, I'm borderline abysmal. But sometimes, I just don't have time to for-fill requests.

i stopped saying thank you because it causes blacklisting..

Everything is debatable, except I'm always right

I used to say thanks in every giveaway I entered. Now I start off with a few different thanks messages and then ask the gifter if he minds. If they say they do, I try to stop posting in every giveaway of theirs.

I don't always post thank you comment upon entering a giveaway because I don't want to see any more forum threads about excessive blacklisting n' shit :)

I post thanks only mostly in my steam friends giveaways :)

I didn't even have chance once because giveaway creator blacklisted me after I have won xD