I saw once a giveaway where the creator said something like:

"Whoever says 'thank you' will be blacklisted."

Is that OK?

Related: the winners are randomly chosen. Is it OK to ignore that and choose someone else?

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That's not how this works. If you blacklist someone after they enter your giveaway, their entry still remains valid and you still have to deliver the game. All it does is prevent them from entering your future giveaways. Besides, blacklisting depends entirely on your whims - you are allowed to blacklist people with no reason at all.

As for special rules, it used to be possible to set special rules in giveaways, but a) you had to ask support for permission first, and b) you could do it only in private giveaways.

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Helpful answer, thanks.

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Key phrase, "used to" They don't allow special rules now.

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Oh my god that gif... I think i'm complete now thanks world :D

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They allow special rules in private GA's but you have to talk with support before make it, if they let you add the rules then you could do it with special rules

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oh, i saw on another page that you could, didnt see that topic :o thanks

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Related: the winners are randomly chosen. Is it OK to ignore that and choose someone else?

Sure, but they won't count as the winner and it will be marked Not Received.

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Helpful answer, thanks.

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You can't choose winner, site automatically does, and I don't think its a good behaviour to blacklist somebody just for saying "thank you".

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Helpful answer, thanks.

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It is very ignorant if you ask me.

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Hmm? could you please explain what do you mean ignorant? if you mean about that site chooses giveaways winners randomly, I'm sure that's how it must be, if you could choose winner of your giveaways then you would definitely, or most people would choose those they actually wanted to win, aka, their friends. I don't understand what do you mean "ignorant"

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I think he/she is meant that blacklisting someone for a thank you is ignorant

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Okay then, I also think same :)

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Petia is on point.

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Good, :) next time try to clarify your point exactly.

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Ha, I was referring to OP's message moreso yours :)

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You've replied to my post, means you're talking to me instead of OP, you should've posted so I wouldn't think you were talking to me :)

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Yes but you also mentioned his statement, I was refering to that xD

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Okay then, have a great day :)

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OH I KNOW WHAT THIS IS! YOU ARE TRYING TO GET THE LAST WORD! YOU WILL NOT WIN THIS VILLAIN!

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so many helpful answers, i'll try to add mine.
you can blacklist people for whatever reason. you can get ideas here :(.

the site picks the winner, and there are a few rules that allow asking for a new winner. they are defined by the site admins. you cannot make a custom rule in the GA, you can ask people nicely to do something you want/need.

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Only way to make special rule of entrance is creating a private group and creating thread "do this to get invite to group where I'll host giveaway".
You can't pick winner at all anyway. Well, beside making a private giveaway for one person. But then it's not a giveaway.

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you can make a GA for one person.
but it won't count for your CV, so what's the point of not giving him the game and be done with it.
if however by some miracle you have 2 friends, you would of course let SG choose which is the better friend.
but no one here has 2 friends ;)
indeed one is a lot. potato doesn't count

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in order to get CV, you would need at least 5 friends. ;)

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I thought that got bumped up to 10?

Edit: Nevermind, faq says 5

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It was 10 when SG switched over to v2.0, but that caused a big hit to CV for people in small group giveaways.

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Ah, okay, thanks for the clarification :)

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if however by some miracle you have 2 friends

Now that would be asking for too much!! Thanks for all your answers though.

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Probably the most polite opening poster (OP) I've seen.

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Helpful answer, thanks.

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2nd most polite thread of the week/month/year/decade.

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You can't set custom rules on giveaway. If someone entered a giveaway - he have a right to win.
But, you can set custom rules for blacklisting - it's completely up to you. So, you could blacklist someone who disobey, and he will be unable to enter any of your givaways in future, but if he won in the one he already entered - you have to give him a gift.

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You can blacklist anyone you want to, it will not affect the said person if he already entered your giveaway. It will though prevent him from entering any more of your giveaways in future.

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