Am I paranoid or we have a lot of bots on SG? Or is it just repetitive script users? [Creepy update]

I'm thinking of stopping my thank you messages myself, I'm probably too generic sounding heh... ;;
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They have come a long way since the early days when they pretended to be human

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I don't know about bots, but a lot of people use scripts. The higher you set your GA level the less you typically get in my experience.

I almost stopped generic thank you message after I restarted GAs. Of course I don't use script, just to be polite, I admit I used Ctrl-V. ;)
Maybe they don't know they could spam gifter. (shrug)

Blacklist first , ask questions later :) There are loads of bots but also people that take the time to write thanks, saying thanks shouldn't be a reason to blacklist, not saying thanks also shouldn't be a reason to blacklist. My suggestion would be a post like this with a sgtools link to a invite only giveaway. That would keep the bots away but it takes more time to do it.

I only say Domo Arigato after I win.

Not a fan of bots, but it's hard to tell sometimes if it's a bot or copy-paste, so I just ignore it.
Takes me a couple of seconds to check my notifications, but whatever, I never blacklist for comments on giveaways. :X

This is why I generally don't say anything on them. Unless it's something I Really wanted. If I said thanks to everything it'd look too generic. Though if the person asks for something other than just "Thanks" then I'll leave a comment :)

I still prefer to receive feedback on my giveaways :) at least they tried to set up bot to say thanks, rather than people who just enter and leave :|

ther are a lot of people using autojoin and autoreply scripts, pity there's nothing else we can do except blacklisting them.

I like when people say thanks and get kind of sad when nobody does...especially when the winners don't thank me. Ouch. I used to write thank you comments on some giveaways (I never used a bot/script, I wouldn't even know how). But now I typically only say it when I win because of the way some people react negatively to it these days.

Sorry, can you ask that just one more time?

or..... people who don't want or have anything in mind to say something different each time ? Someone told me once i was a bot because i enter few of his giveaway in less than 5 sec..... thats pretty dumb since i think most people do the same as me : browsing the giveaway page, open giveaway wich interest you in a tab, then after a few, join them all and depending of the giveaway / descritpion, leave a message or not. The first reason i stopped saying thanks to each giveaway i entered is when they modified the system and made each and every commetn you get on a giveaway, as a notification. I know some people are bothered by that so if it does not look like the gifter want an answer i don't give any unless i win. The second reason is because they are people who will accuse you to be a bot or something and will blacklist you just for that...

Mmmm, I'll stop saying thanks

I wonder if those are second accounts too :O

I hate when people confuse those two words.

Bot - independent program programmed to do certain things, usually run on servers as a long-live process. ASF uses Bots for cards farming. It's application.
Script - addition to the web browser which makes it easy to automate some usual things. It's addition - script that has to be run through e.g. tampermonkey, or chrome extension.

People use scripts, not bots. ArchiBoT is a bot, and he doesn't join giveaways, he has more important things to do.

And yes, the amount of lazy users joining with script is actually quite noticable. Of course only on public giveaways, because publicly available scripts are too stupid to do anything else.

But major population is still made of lazy users using copy paste

I decreased my thank you on GA's that enter after reading that many people blacklist because of "generic message"

In my opinion I think you are paranoid and if you want to avoid bots just post higher lvl giveaways 4+ lvl
Also for the ratio of won and given games, who knows what might have happened in someones life.

I planned to buy myself Far Cry primal and one gift version for GA in the first month as a thank you for 4 won GA but due to life crazy events I won't be getting paid in this month nor the second month :(

Basically moral of the story is don't blacklist people without actually having a good reason (being rude towards you, scamming you, fighting with you and so on) cause you never know what someone is going through or how they are doing.
Rather focus on white listing nice and good people who leave you comments on your GAs that made you feel appreciated ;)

I do use a recurring message, but I compose a little groove every week to be incorporated in it.
I do copy/paste it, but I'm there when I do it, so I usually reply to messages and questions within the hour (usually a few minutes).
I also do read descriptions and try to comply with them, if a request is made. :)
Having said this... have a groovy day! ^,...,^

Thank you

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Just jocking I'm no BOT xD

i only comment if i enter a GA for a game on my whitelist, or if i saw that someone added me on his whitelist and made a whitelist only GA, other then that i dont comment unless there is a requirement and such

I think there are a lot of people who use autojoin scripts that post generic "thanks" messages as they go. I stopped posting thanks in the GA comments (unless I win) because I realised some people find it annoying and a pointless notification.