I am new and i have a question...

First post troll ?

They're simply thanking the creator of the giveaway for the chance at winning a game.

Some people like to show appreciation for the chance to win. People spend their hard earned money to buy these games to give to random strangers after all.

People are happy to get the chance to win a game.

Some people do it, because they are really thankful, others think they get a better chance in winning (which is not true), others do it for their entry/comment ratio. Now choose your reason to thank the creator.

It's this thing called gratitude

There's people that, and I know this sounds crazy, but it's true! There's people that actually think, imagine this, they THINK that a guy who gives away games to unknown people should receive some kind of praise and gratitude. EVEN if they aren't the winners.

Insane, isn't it?

Anyone saying that "Because they are nice, caring, and thankful people!" just needs to... Really think twice. "Thanks" is possibly the most spammed comment ever on this site, and it means literally nothing, since we nowadays have these "auto-thanks" shit, and all that. If someone takes their time to actually write something that means something, then you could say, that they very much appreciate the chance of winning, but just "thanks" - it's just spam, that's how I see it. Most of it is atleast, maybe not all, but most.

People think they should, so they do. Basic rule of being polite: do things other people want you to do.

just being polite. Someone invest his real-life money just to make a GiveAway so you could win a game for free - the least you can do is thank him/her for doing so.

I hate the generic thanks wall.

You'll see a lot of people complain about 'thanks spam'. I think people need to loosen up a bit. I mean, it could easily be said that people who don't say thanks when entering a giveaway are just lazy and ungrateful. That sounds just as silly as saying anyone who says thanks is spamming. My personal opinion is say thanks if you want, enter without comment if you want. Plain and simple. As long it is not a private giveaway with rules, it doesn't much matter. Life is too short to get your feathers ruffled because people may or may not be leaving comments (most of which you'll never see) on giveaways.

I haven´t sad thx in the giveaway I won today, but as the key arrived I wrote back with a great thanks =)

Meaningless 'thanks' spamage to full the database...
Sure people are grateful for the giveaway, but it's really just a heartless automated gesture, completely ignored by all anyways.

No.

It's called courtesy.

I personally don't see the need to type an emotionless "Thanks!" onto every giveaway you enter. Because I'm really don't feel grateful until I actually receive something, which sounds kinda awful, but yeah... I think you show more appreciation by giving back to the community(Something I NEED to do sometime...I'll do it!), than to just type "Thanks!". Because basically every single message on a giveaway is just "Thanks!", and if you really were appreciative of having the chance to win a game, then you would at least write a complete sentence or more to express that. But in all reality, who would want to spend the time to come up with a heartfelt message for every single entry they make? Not many.

What else would you use the comments section for? lol

But, really. What is so wrong with being thankful for the generosity of an individual? If you can't even do that, in my humble opinion, you don't deserve a free game.

Not this tired old done-to-death thread again :(

I don't understand why this discussion always needs to be an argument. The people who don't leave comments are always complaining about the "spam" and people who do leave comments complain about the "ingrates".

Why does anyone care? Want to leave a comment? Great! Don't want to? Awesome!

Not everything has to be a fight or argument. To each his own and all that...

Because they are somewhat lazy and just copy paste that one word. The real lazy ones don't even write anything! Hope you are now enlightened. Also, get off my lawn! You have 20 seconds to comply...

Thanks.