Suggestion: Have people who make the giveaways have an entries limit option?

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I agree. You should make it so that only a few dozen people can enter each giveaway.

This would incentivize the creation of bots to automatically enter desirable giveaways before everyone else, thus giving us programming-savvy folk an extra edge. This is a good thing because if benefits me, and probably some other people, but they aren't me so I don't care about them.

(For the dense: this is a terrible terrible idea what were you thinking)

You know, instead of creating a 4 hour giveaway, which is locked down after 2 hours, why not create a 2 hour giveaway in the first place?
Yeah and about the entry limit... basically what lunboks said.
The thing, that makes this site so great, is that everybody has the same chance and I hope it will be kept this way.
I really hate it, when devs do giveaways somewhere else, by posting a few keys, which are always taken by bots/guys who have no social live.

The way the site works at the moment is really neat. It's absolutely fair, everyone has the exact same chance and there are no rewards for permanently lurking, mining or generally having no life ... I was wondering when someone would think of ways to "improve" on that.

"eg: someone starts a 4 hour giveaway, entries can only be made for about 2 hours after the giveaway was started, any entries after 2 hours are blocked/ignored."

Then what's the point of having the extra 2 hours? Why not end the giveaway right away?

"entries can only be made for about 2 hours after the giveaway was started, any entries after 2 hours are blocked/ignored."
The giveaway should just end at 2 hours then...Dumb idea.

The rest is cool though.