Thanks bots

There's no rule against using a bot to enter giveaways and comment thanks. None of us like it too much, but it seems like it would be difficult to catch people who 100% without a doubt do this.

I usually type the same thing too unless the creator asks for something more or I feel the need to leave an additional comment other than a thanks. But I say thanks in every giveaway I enter, even if I already thanked them in another giveaway. It feels wrong not to show appreciation every single time :)

public giveaways are mostly useless except for the big developer giveaways, then knowing about them from the chat leads me here, I own most of the public giveaways since I Buy Bundles I think it's kind of pathetic people would take the time to set up a bot for such a thing, but it takes all kinds.

We have lots of lotto tickets in this state with better than 1000:1 odds, public giveaways are a waste of my life for the most part, do group giveaways, or hangout in the chat and drop private giveaways, play trivia for a 10% chance of winning a giveaway(always 10 entrants) etc. Look at my wins, I've entered almost no public giveaways, and most of my wins were available just because I'm a regular in the chat channel.

I understand the frustration for sure. But a polite bot saying thanks is still better than a real person not saying anything.

Aww, I thought you were thanking the bots, not talking about bots who say thanks...

Bots are people too !

But I like being a thanks bot

Only way to stop scripts and bots like that would be with a captcha.

thanks my friends

thanks

I don't get the whole deal with thanking that's been going on around here lately...

Some people use scripts to see if someone entered without saying thanks and then blacklist, some people don't even care about the thanking and some have their own idea of when it's appropriate to say thank you.
If people are blacklisting others for not saying thank you the moment they enter a giveaway of course there will be those who use bots to avoid getting blacklisted.

Why make such a fuss about it? There's no way everyone will ever be happy.

I personally, as I have stated previously on some topic, say thank you when I see that the number of thank you's is far less than the number of people who've entered. It is nice to see that your giveaway is appreciated but, in my opinion, if there are over 200 thank you's I won't spam with even more. Maybe someone has a legit question that he/she wants to ask and it would just get lost amongst all the thank you's.
What I believe is a must, again-only in my humble opinion, is thanking the creator when receiving the gift.

Also, what would an appropriate thank you be?
I usually just write "Thank you :)" or some other variation of the smiley-face when I don't know the creator and if he/she has not expressed any other desire in the description.

why mad about say thanks, even if its a bot or not, he atleast its polite

Judging that all these ppl are bnots based on that is not a bright idea. A lot of ppl will always post sth, even generic thanks, in each Ga they enter. So if I see 10 GAs for a DLC I want I will enter all 10 of them at the same time and post same "thanks :>" "ty" or similar comment in each of them. These comments are in no way any proof that they've been left by a bot,

in the public Gas i also mostly write a generic thank you or thank you very much.
in private GAs, on the other hand, i try to write something different, because i feel like they are more personal. thats just my opinion, in general, i'm happy if someone thanks me when i do a GA, but it isn´t necessary.

is it me or the number of whining is extremely increased since sgv2? By the way I type every thanks that I leave :I

i only say "thx :)", OMG doctor i'm a bot XD

Guys, we are in a trouble. If we don't comment thanks, we will be blacklisted. If we comment thanks / thank you / thanks for the chance / many thanks and at least 4-5 of us use the same phrase, we are bots and we'll be blacklisted. There is no escape :(

:B1:

While I understand the frustration toward botting, I can't help but feel that calling the Mods "facist" is ill-mannered and unnecessary.

I hope a god of randomness will choose me.

Beep beep bzzzrt.

thanks

What youtube videos? I found none.

Can't speak for other people you've seen, but I comment the same generic "Thanks! :D" or "Thank you ~" on every single giveaway I enter, unless there's some description in the giveaway where the poster asks a question for fun (I've seen some where they ask for your favourite band, for example) or explicit instructions not to thank them.

So I find it a bit amusing that you say if the person comments "thanks" on every single giveaway, it must obviously be a script/bot. There's no possible way that someone would actually go through that two second trouble to leave a comment on each one, right? SteamGifts wouldn't be able to do any drastic measures (like banning) since it's impossible to differentiate if it's a script or someone genuinely commenting on every giveaway, like me.

The only solution they'd have is to either add a Captcha to join every giveaway (which would annoy the vast majority of people, probably) or remove the comment section in the giveaway.