So I have noticed something

Nice

I set a short time (~1 day) in case I wouldn' t be able to log into sg in time to send the gift.

It's nice that there's a variety of duration. You can find some gem with not many entries thanks to this. And there are a lot of people entering everything already so chances that it will go to somebody who's really interested in the game won't be bigger in my opinion :)

Yes, you are posting crap... including that thread, which contains stupid idea... but there's a need for such ideas to see how stupid they really are :D

I like to set my giveaways at a decent length of time to allow everyone to join who is interested in the game.

Most people are simply CV hogs.

i'd rather get rid of bots, as it is against the rules on sg. but i suppose it's easier to let them leech and keep increasing the number of users so the site looks more important.

ga duration isn't very important, and i would rather have those 1 hours GAs spammed all the time than 4-weeks long attention-seeking events and promotions.

I throw out shit games for CV for 2-5 hours usually - anything that has value in my eyes, people would be legit interested, or for events/WL/groups - 2 days minimum for the reason you said. Give time for more people to enter if they want.

I try for at least a week for puzzles/events/WL and 3 days for groups.

That gives people who work and possibly can't sit on SG all day a chance to see and enter stuff, groups I've been in tend to not like long GA's so 3 seems to be a safe bet.

I prefer big events and longer GA times, they actively promote community and discussion. Flash giveaways are great when done right too(Igotelbows does some nice mystery flash link GA events). Forums are getting more cynical and hard to read by the day so anything that promotes enjoyment and community is good by me, be that a long or short GA time.

I like long ga's 'cause replies are speead out to them all week or however long the time instead of always at once so all throughout that time I get messages and it frrls like I'm not completely alone.

Short ga's I disluke because I don't use my computer much do I may not be on an hour or few after posting.

Higher minimum giveaway duration equals less incentive to visit site regularly ergo less ad revenue

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For me, over the last few months, Ive been doing flash giveaways because of my awful memory and meds. I get severe migraines and sometimes the meds (and the migraine itself) effect my memory. Easier for me to remember to send the key in a timely manner if its a shorter giveaway. But if its for my whitelist, I try to make the giveaways a bit longer so people have time to see it, and I write a note to remind myself I have a giveaway ending

I think it would be nice for giveaway-makers to have an option of "enter this number to enter the giveaway". That way anyone who wants to add that to the giveaway can - mostly probably as to limit bots entering but also as to lower the numbers by those who just lazily click for anything even if they do not really care for playing it as that they would type out the number. And who doesn't want to doesn't have to.

Additional benefit of such would arguably also be that some of the giveaway-makers may perhaps prefer such option instead of high-level entry requirement.