i just have a random curiosity about the winning system, so lets say i win today a giveaway, my chances of winning again soon are lower right? i feel like i win a giveaway if i enter atleast a couple of hundreds

15 hours ago

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No. Each draw is independent on the others. Your chances are always 1/(number of entries).

If you enter only public giveaways with 1000+ entries, if will probably take some time to win something.

15 hours ago
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ty :)

14 hours ago
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my chances of winning again soon are lower right

No that's not how probabilities work.
If you roll a die, and get a 6, and then roll again the die, you don't have less chance to get a 6 again.

15 hours ago
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ok got it <3

14 hours ago
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Look up "Gambler's fallacy".

14 hours ago
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Flip a coin and call "heads."
If you flip the coin again, doe your previous guess effect the next one?
Technically you could guess 500 times in a row, and get it right every time.
Same here.
Theoretically you could enter 500 giveaways, and win every single one. It's just not very likely to happen.

8 hours ago
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Maybe just take a moment to thank the gifter when you win — a little appreciation goes a long way. Who knows, good karma might even boost your chances next time 🙂

7 hours ago
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or make people think you're using an autojoiner and get you blacklisted

6 hours ago
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I don't think being thankful when you win will get you blacklisted, right? Idk. But not being thankful is bad manner in my opinion.

6 hours ago
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I used to feel the same sentiment, and i went out of my way to be courteous to the giveaways i entered, but then i found my blacklists just kept going up and i couldn't figure out why.

When i stopped dropping thank you's on giveaways the blacklists stopped cold.

So yeah, people were literally blacklisting me for thanking them, it's a real thing!

These days i keep my thank yous on giveaways to the whitelists, the groups and people i know and are solid with.

5 hours ago
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Sorry to hear that — I think there might be a small misunderstanding between thanking the gifter when you win and thanking on every giveaway you enter.

When someone thanks on every GA they join, depending on the comment, it often comes across as spam or auto-joining — and honestly, most of the time it is. I’ve had cases where someone thanked me on all of my public giveaways at the same time, maybe 1 second diff. That is clearly an auto-joiner spam and ended up blacklisting them.

A genuine thank-you after winning goes a long way, but mass “thanks” everywhere usually has the opposite effect.

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I rather blacklist people for not thanking upon a win, than the other way round
Besides that autojoiners with thanks script say thanks upon joining the GA, not upon winning it.

5 hours ago*
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Haha, maybe don’t point that out — I’m afraid they’ll update their script if they notice 😅

4 hours ago
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