Hello,

I like doing short giveaways since it gives participants a better chance of winning.

I think it would be a great addition if while creating the GA you could (only if you want) specify a number of entries which once it's reached will stop the giveaway immediately and draw a winner.

Say you want everyone to have a 5% chance of winning, you'll just make the GA run untill 20 people entered. This would also help group/whitelist/invite-only giveaways reach 5 entries and award the creator CV since it will not stop before that happens.

To prevent giveaways that never end and also make it possible to place them in the browse-all section, they should still have a time range where they would end if they don't reach the specified amount of entries. (i.e. GA ends after 2 weeks or when there's 69 entries, whatever comes first)

8 years ago

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Yes?

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No :(

The idea is cool, but bots will make it impossible. :(

8 years ago
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+1

8 years ago
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If I remember correctly, sgtool has feature about max entries

8 years ago
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Yeah but sgtools can't make the GA end immediately, it can just stop giving out the GA url

8 years ago
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  1. Patience is a virtue
  2. Auto-entry bots

:'P

8 years ago
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There's a small issue with that feature. It only counts the number of times the URL is given out, not the number of people who entered the GA. So there will always be some number of people who get the URL but don't enter for some reason, and that is a wasted slot.

8 years ago
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Uh oh, I didn't know that.
I never used sgtool giveaway because it doesn't support region locked giveaway.

8 years ago
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  1. There is already something like this on SGT.
  2. Auto-entry bots.
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