Why do people say "Thanks" on every giveaway

Creators used to blacklist for not saying thanks. I am not using blacklist just get silently annoyed by them.
Luckily the community is slowly catching up, so there are weeks I get less than 100 generic thanks messages now, which is nice.

I always say thanks when I win a GA...
but I would get really annoyed if everyone entering would say thanks

Even older than blacklisting, once upon a time, if you didnt have as many comments as giveaway entries, you were 'not a good member'

People don't do it by themselves, scripts or bots do it for them (most of the time).
And usually, they don't even say thanks when they win (when it would be expected).

Personally, I only comment in giveaways when their creators ask for something, otherwise I just say thanks when I win.

Out of thankfulness that someone made the ga.
I mean it's not like they land here on themself. Someone actually takes time and effort to give us a chance to win a game...
Why I often say thanks after winning, so people don't think I'm a bot, since I just read in a post above that's apparently a thing o_O
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mostly bots, blacklist them if u see them everywhere

Thanks for the poll!!!

Thanks for post topic! But thanking someone is generally polite.

It's called common courtesy. When somebody offers you something, you respond by saying "thank you".
Next week, we're going to learn about savoir vivre. :B

Voted "Sometimes" because i have left thanks when seeing something i was happy to see. But then usually with more than just "Thanks!" :)

Taking part in a giveaway is like playing lottery, which is nice. However blacklisting someone for not thanking you is like forcing everyone who participates to beg. This is weird and serves no purpose other than boosting ones ego, while kind off degrading the participants. If one wishes to thank you then let him thank you because he really wants it not because he might get blacklisted from future giveaways. A giveaway should come with no strings attached, otherwise it's not a giveaway anymore. I've never asked for something in return when I gave something away.

"thanks for the chance" is the worst one. Obviously done by some greasemonkey script.

People say thank you = They get mad, think you're a bot.
People don't say anything = They get mad that you don't thank them...

Thanks!

Honestly I tend to do it (when I remember) because i'm honestly grateful for having a shot at winning a game that I want to play.
Then again: enough times I either forget, or see a wall of thanks-comments and then figure that maybe adding more to that is too spam-full for the creator.

mostly bots

I only say thanks when i win a Game and then i'm not saying only "Thanks".
And sometimes when it's a nice Person knowing from Community here i say more than "Thanks" too

I was curious what expectations are within the community, but I think it generally follows my sense of decency, thanks after winning, but be cautious on commenting for every giveaway, mostly just the rare expensive submissions.

It is honestly quite sad that we have gotten to this point. I used to personally thank the creator in every giveaway in the past since I appreciated him doing so. I do not really remember that many people blacklisting for not saying thanks. What I have fresh in memory are tons of people blacklisting one for being polite and thanking them. Right now I am only thanking the creator in the case when I win.

I can understand that flooding of the reply system with thank you is not exactly desirable, more in case you are running multiple conversations on the forums; However this does not seems enough of a reason to be an asshole to people who want to thank you for your generosity.

It's almost always auto-scripts.
I'm not saying that idly, I've actually kept tabs on the patterns, and had plenty of those involved admit to the fact.

I quite appreciate it when people read my prompts and even moreso when they reply to them..
But it's unfathomable to me that spam, regardless of content or sentiment, could ever be considered respectful.
But, y'know, I understand that others may have different expectations, so I don't outright hold them to my own..
..but when the majority of those involved are proven to be outright and deliberately disrespectful [by way of entering via auto-join scripts and never reading your giveaway descriptions], it becomes problematic and exasperating.

TY!

they always write the same message because their autojoin bot is configured like that.

Yes. I used to only thank the creator when I won, but recently I only enter wishlist giveaways, so I'm extremely grateful when someone makes a giveaway for a game that's on my wishlist and thank them. I couldn't care less if they find it annoying or blacklist me.

I always whitelist people who win a game and say thanks and blacklist those who win and they don't.
EDIT: I feel sad for the 2 guys who blacklisted me for this opinion..it is common sense to say thanks when someone makes you a present in real life