Thanks but No Thanks.

You get used to it, and not limited even by level or public ones. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Have a whitelist though.

personaly I give gifts because I want to, not for thanks! if I not expect thanks, I do not risk to be disappointed :p

and I say thanks according to the desire and mood!

What can I say... I'm happy when winner says thanks. But only if it's sincere, and not because winner is afraid of blacklist. And, actually, I'm even more happy if winner is happy about his gift, because, you know, that's the main reason I make giveaways for. If someone forgot to say thanks - well, it's his bad karma, not mine. Long story short - I don't really care about thanks.
What really annoys me - it when the user takes long not activating the game. It feels ungrateful and unfair, when I create a giveaway and user don't even care to take the prize. And I don't mean the situation when user is away. But right now one of my mass giveaways finished, and I see that some winners were online on SG after it finished, and some online even when I look, and they don't even care to claim their prize! WTF wrong with you, people? And, even worse - is when someone activates the game and forgets to mark as received. Everytime I have to contact those people and ask to mark giveaway as received I feel miserable. I mean, I bought a game, I made a giveaway, why should I worry about getting credits for it? Do I need this giveaway more then a winner?
I promised to myself not to blacklist people (well, apart from those few multi-account guys in my blacklist). But sometimes this promise is hard to keep.
Sorry for using your thread for letting the steam out, but when I started I couldn't stop.

*pant pant
there there tiny rick, you'll always have your whitelist and private groups.

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You should go to a parallel universe where everyone only says thanks all the time. That worked for me.

hey we aren't giving away the cure for cancer, don't take it too seriously. (=｀ω´=)

It wasn't my intention to worry too much about that kind of thing, but then I got someone who won three games in one train without saying anything which felt a teeny bit bad. And then I got someone who won two games in one train and just blacklisted me which made me realise that there are worse things than just being ignored...

in the invert case, some people just spam giveaways w/o any description D:

Public level 0 giveaways all the way because we were all level 0 at some point. And I don't really care about getting a thank you, but I really appreciate it if I do.

people are people except when they're bots and bots might be more prone to say thanks, actually shrug do things because they're what you want, expect nothing in return and you can only ever be pleasantly surprised
i used to think saying thanks was unnecessary - "it's not the person /giving/ the game to the winner, it is the giver deciding to give and leaving it to space cat to decide the lucky." i was quickly convinced otherwise and say thanks for every game i win and sometimes just for the chance, but perhaps that train of thought isn't completely wrong? not to try to make excuses for the ungrateful, but you know, to not be discouraged, one must contrive such... crap, for to console themselves

Anyways, don't feel bad, I'm not mad. I don't get mad.
I get even.

Yeah, this doesn't make you come off like an oversensitive psycho or anything.

If you are gifting something, you should not expect anything in return. That's life.

If you want thank yous, then only giveaway things for your whitelist.

Ironically, whoever doesn't bother thanking most certainly won't bother browse the forum let along read your thread at all.

Just do it.. because you want to..
You'll never get the expected response that you are..expecting.. from everyone.
But Karma is nice ;)

When people sent me the game through e-mail or steam adding, I made sure to thank them, since I felt it was more personal and therefore more sincere that way.

When the website introduced the new key mechanic, eliminating the need for interaction between the winner and the creator, I kinda stopped saying thanks. It was only when I saw threads about people pointing out how rude it was for the winner not to say anything, I started leaving comments on the giveaways I won after receiving the game.

So if I happened to win one of your giveaways during the period in which I was just mindlessly copypasting the keys, I'm sorry, and know I really appreciate whatever it is I won.

Sorry to hear that man,sometimes you get the shit end of the stick with public give away winners.

As long as my GA winners get their game and I get my CV, all is right with the world.

And what JinoStar said.

I don't give a xxxx as long as they activate and mark fast.

Fake thank you's are as meaningless as no thank you's to me, I only care if they mean it :)

Live and learn ... and methodically plan and destroy.

Those MuthaFukinPRicks.

All jokes aside, that really sucks on their part. No level public GA's are always dangerous territory to tread in. :/

Keep your head up though, Rick. There are plenty of us who appreciate users like yourself and are grateful for you! :)

I accept it when it's given, but I'm not heartbroken if not. It's a shame when people aren't grateful. I don't particularly care if it's a dollar or two, but receiving a $25+ game for free warrants at least some gratitude.

Me, I always make a heartfelt thank you post and +1 their Steam profile in the comments. It's the least I can do. Technically the least is nothing, but you know what I mean.

I never expect thanks. It's nice if they just play their wins :)
If this bothers you so much try adding your winners on steam and give them the games through chat.

It's always nice to get a "thanks" and I always appreciate them even if I don't reply to the comment, but I don't BL if someone doesn't thank me. At least I get the feeling that this way a "thank you" is at least somewhat sincere and not because of fear of a blacklist.