Why you shouldn't use Auto-Thanks etc.

Thanks.

I didn't even know there was a "thank you" script....

Thanks for Skyrim.

so says this guy...

<insert auto thanks>

What do you want me to do,make a thank-you poem for every giveaway I enter?

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no, but seriously, thanks for your input but there are many different views on this subject and these types of thread pop out every once in a while. I, myself, like to see thanks even if some of them are hollow and empty, but i tend to believe the best in people and think that they mean it. At least some of them took the time to write thanks then just entering giveaways.

Well, you can still be active in forum and rise your comments/enter ratio. ^^

your a bigger buzz kill then buzz killington! =D

I've seen contributors tell people not to post thanks & some complain about the lack of thanks - can't please everyone...

I'd like to think that a lot of folks really are thankful for a chance to win something, even if they do just post "Thanks" on most of their entries. Some people just aren't very creative when it comes to thanking a gifter. I've had times when my brain couldn't muster up much, so I get it. Of course it becomes obvious that they don't mean it when the creator of a giveaway asks a question, and they only reply with the same shit that's posted in every other thread.

Asking a question in the giveaway description is the best way to figure out whether someone is really thankful for a shot at winning the game you're giving away. Even if it's something as simple as "What color do you like most?" or "What's the last thing that you ate?", it'll usually be enough to weed out the good commenters from the bad.

ETA: I just cannot wrap my head around the need for an auto-thanks script. That is lazy and thoughtless. :t

who fucking cares its not even required to say thanks so if its a script they went thru the effort of having that script

I agree, but we're in the minority.

My thanks isn't fake sir/madam, hmph.

I've post 1,783 comments lets say 100 of them where on giveaways the most are private i enter or group...
I normaly say thanks if i win i dont go enter every giveaway and say thanks

Is there really a script for this?

:-O

Your entire post is the definition of an empty threat.

Jesus people, write something else for a change!!

Like:

• Merci

• Gracias

• Grazie

• Obrigado

And so on...

I really don't know if there are many auto-scripters (or if they are at all?).

If you'd check my Dawn of War 2 giveaway, you'd notice my ask for "no thx" and that lots of comments aren't basic thx (yes, most are thx in native languages, but that was allowed, even wanted). Maybe contrib. req. caused that, or maybe I was just lucky.

Ps.: I nearly never write comments in giveaways, only if give-awayer asks to write something. Guess I spend way too much time on forums...

Here's my opinion: an empty "fake" thanks, even if done via script, is infinitely better than no comment at all. Some comments may be better than others, but this does not make the lesser quality comments worthless. For everyone saying a script is the epitome of laziness I say that doing nothing is the epitome of laziness. It takes way more effort to download and run a script than it does to do nothing.

I usually write just "Thanks", "Thank you" and maybe something more with those 2 if gifter wrote a question or something in giveaway description.

i always try to do something unique, and when i make a giveaway, i ask for unique comments and still people answer 'thanks'

The more interesting the description to me, the more likely I'm going to post any comment at all. I see little reasoning in adding a 'Thanks' in every giveaway I enter just because I could.

If you want good comments on your giveaways, you shouldn't make them public tbh.

How am I? Pretty annoyed, for the past 3 or 4 days I get a message whenever booting my PC: "Your disk needs to be checked for consistency". No idea how to stop it since it's checked so many times, and I'm not sure if I should be worried. :/

Hmm. My thanks is sincere. Not a script. I do feel bad for games that I won but didn't finish playing it.