Would you rather more of them or less?
I don't mind thank you-messages if they are not from a script/bot. Problem is I can't differentiate who uses a script/bot and who not. And it's a bit boring to see always the same copy/paste message from a user. Like a lifeless robot that has only one comment pre-assigned.
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I like messages when they are clearly "personalized", where you can see it's linked to that specific game or giveaway.
What I can't stand is the same message repeated ad nauseam .
The worse I saw is something like "hope to win this wthog" , which cumulates 2 things irritating me.
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Clearly, thinking about it like a war hog calms the mood ! :D
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That person always writes that.
It means "with the help of god"
I remember there was a discussion about it many years ago.
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This is the 2nd reason why it irritates me , to be honest :)
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I don't control the number and genuineness of the thank you messages, so I'm neutral on it.
I prefer a bit more varied comments - maybe I just got "immune" to the thank you messages - but somebody mentioning a similar game they played and loved, or being happy to see a giveaway of it because reason X... these comments have a lot more value and "reason" to them than the thanks messages :)
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Wew, I seem to be in the minority. I enjoy seeing them, as long as they're not from an auto-joiner.
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As a few others have already said, I'm in the camp that doesn't mind thank you messages for ongoing GAs as long as they aren't generic.
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I prefer just the winner. Maybe a in a public giveaway a personalized message, not just a Thank you
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Sometimes I wonder what is so especially worthy of thank you message for 1 in thousands opportunity to win something.
Sure, I do get personalized replies if there is some text or creator ask for it. That is reasonable engagement out of free will. But just "Thank you for chance" on public giveaway with lot of other people? Maybe not needed for most of the time.
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i think a lot of ppl would want the "only the winner can comment" option. dont know it is possible to "let through" comments that are more than just "tthank you".
but that would also exclude other maybe helpful comments like when you made a mistake setting up the giveaway. i once mistook the game as it had the same name and was made aware of it through some ppl commenting
there is also the problem that SG doesnt have a PM system, so ppl use old GAs to communicate.
but as long as this is an option i can opt in and out as i please then i guess its all good
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A "Thank you" after a win should be basic manners.
A thank you spam from assholes that use autojoiners with activated thanks script, should lead to suspensions.
do most people enjoy getting lots of "thank you"s on public giveaways?
On sg, no.
Because the most of this thank yous are from autojoiners with activated thanks script.
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Was about to write a comment and saw this one, pretty much this.
I don't care about thank you messages when entering. I would care about comments if they end up being funny or out of context/weird.
I do care that winners say something when they win, even a "middle finger attitude" reply goes better than not saying anything at all in my book. But i can't be arsed with it aswell, got more important things to worry about in the end of the day.
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re: your second point, I've seen comments here in the past about people blacklisting winners that left a thank you message... So nowadays I see it as a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" and idk whether the giveaway creator in question would even appreciate a thank you message :')
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Going by the poll I'm in the minority but I don't mind them at all and even find some of them to be really nice and enjoyable. I find it much more annoying when it's a group/private or even worse whitelist giveaway and people still don't bother saying anything but it is what it is, not gonna get upset about it.
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Excessive comments have never bothered me, maybe because I haven't done enough low-level public GAs for it to get to that point. I can easily tune out the few generic ty comments that I get. So, my vote was "Meh"
I like genuine, personalized comments that refer to the game or to something in the description. I especially like to hear about the winner's experience with a game after they've played, but those types of comments are very rare.
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I always like seeing thank you messages, even generic ones, so I'm kind of surprised most don't like them.
I do get the bot/autojoin worries, though, so I'll try to leave thank yous that are a little less... dull.
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In my experience it's enough to add something like "I've been wanting to play this!" or "Good luck to everyone!" or maybe "Glad seeing this game getting given away, hope I win! :)" or something of the sort. I feel as though if people are genuinely thanking someone for their giveaways something, anything, will pop into their heads to spice up the comment section and give a smile or a chuckle to the generous giveaway authors and the other joiners :)
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I wish there was just a thank you button tbh. A personalised message is nice but a message is OTT for a generic thank you.
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Sure - doubt I'm the first person to bring it up, but it'd be lovely if someone was happy to push for it! :)
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I'll tell you what I actually like. I like when the winner leaves a comment later on letting me know how they liked the game.
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I do the same when i completed a game with 100% or when a game was a total fail and i stop to play it after a session.
But half of the times the gifters don't use sg anymore when i want to write them or i am on their BL or they are on my BL :-D
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Jah. I don't mention it to the winner(s). But I do like seeing it.
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I don't mind them, but again, if it's a public giveaway, it feels disingenuous and I tend to think it comes from a bot than from someone looking forward to see it. I rather have people spark conversation as I tend to ask questions and such when I make GA's.
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i don't like thank you messages when the giveaway is still running but for me it is considered rude to not say thanks when winning something, it is the bare minimum. noone owes you games so the least you can do is say thanks when you win.
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Ditto, though I don't mind "thank yous" as long as they're thoughtful. "Been wanting to play this game for ages! Thanks for the chance:)" is probably my standard for when I see a game I've wanted to play but haven't gotten yet or wasn't planning to but was keeping an eye on.
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Rather more real thank yous, less copy pasted bot ones.
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more thank you's, thank you.
it's technically useful. very useful, so really don't care those rare cases where you find 14 same thank you's.
even there, i do a single click on "Mark as Read". (or go find that bot and try explaining things, you kno...)
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While I respect it and see where you're coming from I feel like it's a bit more of an issue when, for example, you give away a game for a runtime of a week and every day you get people leaving generic "Thanks for the chance" every single day for a week. As a person who enjoys interacting with others on SteamGifts and generally in forums I get mildly disappointed when the 5 notifications or sometimes 10 12 notifications are mostly if not solely people "thanking me"; I feel as though even if most if them are from real people they're usually (95% of the time) are really uninspired and copy-pasted looking leading to it looking like a botted comment section. I don't exactly understand what you mean by useful but I feel it's the complete opposite, useless or of very little use. I'd love to hear you expand on it though.
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Maybe it's just me or my giveaways are so trash that bots don't even bother (insert meme of why not both) but most of my public giveaways have like 2 or 3 comments at best. Last one didn't even get a single one except for the winner afterwards but even if I was getting 10 or 20 of them, like icaio wrote, it's so easy to just click "Mark as Read" that I don't see it as a problem at all. Sure, generic or copy paste thank you's don't mean much but the few genuine and truly thankful ones make it worth for all the others imo. I'm with icaio, I'd rather see more than less, not because I want a sense of superiority or something silly like that as in oh I'm giving you something, bow down to me and be grateful but just because I simply find them nice and enjoyable to read, even if it is a copy paste. Otherwhise with no communication at all, at some point it starts to feel like I'm not even interacting with humans anymore and it's all just bots. Just my 2 cents.
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I think the winner should thank the gifter, but for someone just entering I don't see it as being that meaningful.
That said I do think those who enter a giveaway should at least read the giveaway description (if there is one).
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I've always wondered since I first joined the site years ago, do most people enjoy getting lots of "thank you"s on public giveaways? The main drawbacks I've found have always been bots/autojoiners copypasting the same thank you comment in all the giveaways they join and the fact that on a more popular giveaway you might have 10-15-20 comments thanking you for the giveaway leading to a full inbox of "thankyou"s. While I love when people show gratitude for giveaways here (and deservedly so) I feel as though people are way less genuine in public giveaways with thousands of participants than say a small group giveaway (Again, understandable). My question is, would you rather there be more comments, less of them, have them gone entirely by commenting restriction or do you not really mind it? I personally would rather have less of it but actually don't mind that much. Would love to hear your thoughts!
Edit:
More food for thought from @AiKirika, thanks!
Edit 2: I posted a suggestion for a possible solution on the "Suggestions" sections, check it out!
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