What would you consider a good entry/comment ratio?

How is yours so high? You just tell everyone 'thanks'?

aaaaaand now I'm a bad person.

It increases their penis size. As many kids on every forum think.

It tells you how often you wrote "thanks" without giving it a real meaning.

Call of Duty players.

Your gifts sent : gift won ratio is even more impressive, imo. A perfect 6:1.

I know, but when I create a giveaway, I see the 'thanks' posts as nice, but unnecessary. I really only read ones that are different. I think a lot of other people might do the same.

Well said.

If I held a door open for someone, I'd expect them to say "thanks".

I've seen this analogy before, but it's very flawed. Sure if you do something for a particular person, then you might expect thanks, but here you prop open a door and let 1000 people pass. Do you really expect them all to say thanks? Worse, for 999 of these people the door redirects them magically back where they came from, and only one really passes to the other side. Do you really expect these 999 people to thank you?

Of course the answer is that your probably do, but I think that put this way it shows that it's not as reasonable as you thought. As another example, if you donate blood do you expect everyone in need of blood to thank you because your blood is in the blood bank?

I thanked all the people that gave me the games I've won in giveaways :)

I don't always write "thanks" (or something more ambitious than that) in giveaways I enter, sometimes because I enter only for the sake of spending points (yes, I do that, and I'm not really proud of it), sometimes because I don't feel like writing anything at the particular moment (still a "thank you" in my mind appears, usually). Sometimes because person that made the giveaway tells people entering it NOT to thank ;) (that happened!)

I agree with you about the doorholding thanks, and I have no idea how to come up with a fitting analogy to steamgifts. (I guess lotteries? I don't thank Lotto machines, it's my luck that's winning there, and they are making money out of it!)

I'de be more appreciative of them expressing gratitude after winning, in more meaningful words, instead of mindlessly punching a bunch of keys before clicking a button.

I'm new to the community, but so far I've contributed a couple things, and honestly the "thank you" posts are entirely irrelevant to me. I decided to give away a game, and someone is going to get it. I didn't do it for the thanks, I did it to be an active part of the community. I do love comments, but unless they're something unique (read: more than "thank you", etc.), they don't get read, they get scrolled over.

That being said, unless some effort was put forward in the description, there's really nothing to base a unique comment on, so you shouldn't be expecting much at all from the comments. Then again, like I said, I'm new. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

^true. Gratitude is nice, but constructive contribution is better.

thanks

Well, this is the internet, after all.

Hello there!

Anything less than that

obligatory leecher comment

Contribute good, contribute with meaningful content also good. Mindless spam questionable.

This is exactly what I think. A copy and paste thank you every time you enter doesn't do anything, but contributing does.