Do people not say thanks anymore on giveways?

When the messaging notifications were added, it wasn't as cool anymore, since you'd get spammed with notifications.

It's still nice to do if the gifter welcomes it, for very small groups, and often for whitelist or puzzle giveaways.

Because a lot of gib creators legit ask to NOT say thank you, cause they find it annoying. Some go as far as blacklist people just for that. People are scared to say thanks. Now only bots left to say thank you.

Thank you for your post ;)

I always do :)

say thanks : "omfg it's a bot/a spammer/not sincere i'm gonna blacklist them and make a thread to complain about it"
don't say thanks : "omfg it's a bot/an ungrateful shit i'm gonna blacklist them and make a thread to complain about it"

I find that most people do thank you when they win.

It has a lot to do with the notifications. People can be very rude and tell you off for saying "thanks" in their GA, even blacklist you. lol. I only thank when I win. But I might make a comment depending on the description, or if I know the gifter.

I made a thread for some GAs at Christmas and there were so many replies that I missed some other comments until much later. It's not a bad thing that there were so many replies, it's just that I wish notifications would be listed by thread/GA instead of individually.... like they are on Steam. I can see why some might not like so many notifications, but their rudeness has made people kinda paranoid about it in general. Heh!

I guess there was a time when comment/entry ratio was a thing. But nowadays i saw lots of people not thanking even if they have won. Also as Agrass mentioned i have seen a lot people saying not to thank in their descriptions. But i like to talk so if i see something interesting i will engage even if i dont enter. :D

I only thank upon winning. I thanked every GA when I first joined & quickly farmed Black Lists as a result. At least as far as I can tell?
(I'm autistic & not good with communication skills I guess? 🤔)

So now I don't thank on GA's unless I win. Though it seems lose/lose in some cases as based on your post some ppl do want thanks? I was under the impression that giving thanks just spammed ppl's msg box & lead to Black List. So who knows?

Personally I like ppl to thank on win but otherwise it's not necessary. Everyone has there own feelings on it; I guess? I just try to do whatever avoids upsetting ppl, causing unnecessary drama, conflict, etc. as much as possible. 🤞

Whether or not I succeed I don't know? As I want my experience with this site & others to be positive rather than negative. 🙂

I say Whatever Blows Your Hair Back 😉

I told people not to post "thanks" before it was cool! December 3, 2012 was the first time I made a giveaway where I asked people to not post generic thanks messages. I've in my crusade against random thanks messages been insulted, blacklisted, threatened and insulted some more, but it's been a success!

But yeah, as others have said, it's really the notification system that made people not like the "thanks" spam. It very quickly clogs up the notifications.

I'd rather say thanks only if I win. Otherwise I think is really annoying

When a lot of people say thanks, other users see all those thanks and feel like they are obligated to also say thanks. This just causes tons of spam of everyone saying thanks on every giveaway, not because they are actually thankful, but because they feel obligated. If you post 20 giveaways, you end up getting a thanks comment 20 times from the same user because a large number of users just enter everything they can to get a +1 on their Steam account. You end up having to scroll through pages and pages of comments in your notifications to try and find any real messages.

It is a good thing that this stopped. Now, if there is anything important and meaningful in the comments, we can see it instead of just burying a real comment in countless pages of thanks messages that nobody is going to want to scroll through. Most people will still say thanks when they win a giveaway and I would imagine those thanks are more sincere.

Thanks for Skyrim ;)
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People don't like the many notifications for what just seems like copy&pasted "thanks" being spammed.

like others already mentioned a lot of ppl dont like the generic thanks for their GA for spam reasons.Some specifically say so in their description.
but there are also some ppl out there asking for some pics or vids instead of a thanks, like some cute animal pics or some cool music suggestion. to those i like to comply if i have something interesting in my mind.

otherwise i usually only thank the gifter if i win their GA. this should be the least thing a winner can do.
after playing the game i also like to let the gifter know that i enjoyed it. :)

For a while, there were so many bots copy/pasting the same meaningless thank you messages that it buried any meaningful commentary. The the notification update made it so people doing giveaways got notified of each thank you. Before long people started asking people not to say thank you unless they won.

Personally I prefer people hold their thanks unless they win. But appreciate actual comments related to the giveaway or the description.

To be honest, back then most comments were just "ty". Something as short as possible, with as little effort as possible. I am sure many people just did it because they thought they have to, not because they truly meant it. I am fine either way. I like it when people give me an honest thanks. But I would never demand it, and I would never hold a grudge if someone doesn't (even if they win). When we got notifications, all too many thanks comments could get annoying at times. So I am glad people do it less nowadays.

I won many giveaways and I have never ever forgot to say thanks and write something to thank the winner, even if these months are quite busy and hard =P (let's not talk about the virus in northern italy..) so I think it should be easy to thank and write a small comment, though I didn't know about these past things =)

And I'd like to add, there are many people who don’t thank, even if they win, because they came here just to get the game, maybe for +1 or cards

When the site was new it was originally considered polite to say thanks when you entered a giveaway. The etiquette changed when the site added notifications whenever anyone comments on your giveaways, which even a moderate number of "thank you" messages could render unusable. So now it's considered polite to thank someone for a giveaway only after winning. That way the givers are still able to see all the other comments and questions that they might want to respond to.

Although even before then "thank you" messages did cause trouble such that many would explicitly ask entrants not to thank in the description. All the "thank you", "thanks", "thx" and "thanks for skyrim" were appreciated at first, but tended to drown out any other kind of comment. I remember I had made a "Thanks filter" userscript that had a huge set of users back in the SGv1 days.

TL;DR It's now polite NOT to say thanks unless you win and receive the game, out of consideration for the giver's poor notification inbox. Other comments and questions are still welcome.

I never say thanks for joining a giveaway, I see no need for that, I do thanks when I won though, but getting thanked 1000+ times because it has 1000+ entries per giveaway? that sounds horrible!!
I always ask people to only thank me when won and there are always some that thank me anyway and I see no use in that, just thank me when you win and leave it at that, I see no need to be thanked for just making a giveaway you most likely won't even win.

Well when I was new here I said Thank you for every GA I entered. Soon people told me it is bad and I got a few BL for saying thank you so now I'm saying thank you only when I win a GA.

I prefer to ONLY get a thanks message from the winner..
Hate having to sort through a ton of extra messages for 1 'important' one..

If I win something.. I always show gratitude. I also comment if the creator has something funny in the description.

But the generic copy-paste "thanks" is a nono. Most find it an annoyance anyway.

Aaaand....

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It seems strange to me to write something if you won nothing.
Moreover, the same comments, like “Thank you,” “Good,” and something the same, are now perceived as a bad manners (most think that such comments are left by bots and it’s better not to write anything at all than to write so).