You know what really grinds my gears...

People put other people on their blacklist for all the wrong reasons anyways.

Some do it because people use bots to enter giveaways and automatically post thanks. Doing that fishes out the bots

Unless the user specifically asked not to say thanks, then yes, it is a very scumbag move.
Then again, I don't really care about getting blacklisted by some random stranger. It's their business if they dislike me. Heck, I was blacklisted recently by a user for asking them to avoid necro'ing four months old threads. Heh. :P

These people generally write in the description that you will be blacklisted if you say thanks. They are not blacklisting for showing gratitude, they are blacklisting for not even bothering reading the description before entering (or using an auto-enter script)

Probably think you're a bot and I don't blame em. I like to include more than a thank you in my posts, and while I don't black list those who say it, I tend to white list those who say something else in regards to my description. Hopefully will be able to show those some love when I get a chance.

Some user's use "thank you" bots; thus making some people blacklist others for saying "thank you". Many times people aren't blacklisted when they say something like "thank you (insert name here)"; although it is not hard to program a script to do that anyways.

I personally blacklist no one, nor do I plan to. I see many people who have high Steamgifts levels blacklists many people, I see their methods as unnecessary and put due to their imaginative dominance that they have in an unjust world. I hate it when people blacklist others for not "reading the FAQ", or making newbie mistakes. Sure they made a mistake once, but move along. They will learn and live, no need to push other people off of a cliff due to a mistake that they will probably not make in the forseeable future.

Sure, some people are blacklisted for legitimate reasons, but most of the reasons make absolutely no sense. I personally believe that the implementation of the blacklist system in Steamgifts will ultimately lead to its downfall, as it leads many new users away. Alas, there is nothing much we can do about it.

I also imagine those people who blacklist people for uneccesary reasons puttin' me on their blacklist right now; I cri as it happens. Alas, there is nothing I can do about it.

EDIT: But if they say in their desc. not to do this or that. And doin' this or that; then I see a legitimate reason to blacklist.

I have to admit, this thread made me smile, but won't say thanks for that, just in case. :)

If somebody asks not to be thanked, then I'm fine with it, but I saw a GA a week or two ago where the guy actually threatened this - he said if you thank me I'll blacklist you, and put a snarky little smiley at the end of the sentence. Screw that dick, I blacklisted him on general principle.

The beets made me do it...

I'm pretty sure it is as you said, "the tiniest semblance of authority or power that makes them do it". And that is where their authority is limited to, irl included. Juveniles with bad self-esteem?

Honestly I used to thank in giveaways not knowing about the bots at all, but then I saw it.. People blacklisting for saying thanks? What the heck? It's honestly weird. I mean, it's really nothing to it, it's not that hard to say thank you even without bot, I've never used a bot to do that for me and I always thought it's the least I can do if someone is giving me a nice chance to win a game for free, I genuinely wanted to show my gratitude because when I was a kid that's what I was taught is the right thing to do when someone is doing me a favor and I believed that at least such small feedback as saying "thank you" does make the creators feel some satisfaction. I guess that wasn't exactly true in many cases.

Aside mentioned before the bot reason or reason that people don't read descriptions. There is other side to thanking beforehands only for tiny chance and it creates psychologically that the person diminishes or belittles the whole "thanking ritual" (as with any other words that are used way too much by person) and in many cases it is true.

For me thanking should be only done after you get the actual game as a way to show good manners and common courtesy. But I can't and won't forbid someone to thank me beforehands even if they don't win the giveaway.

That being said everyone should be free to manage their own whitelist or blacklist with purely within their own reasonings.

and for gif waiting people here is some random gif about social darwinism :D

View attached image.

I was going to guess "Missing a shift" as what grinds your gears, but how big of an asshole do you have to be to effectively derail a thread?

This is because unfortunately at this time you can't select to disable notifications on comments in a GA, but frankly, this should be a feature, since many people use the Discussions portion of the Site, and With Both GA's and social content going on at the same time, through the same notifications, the Thank you comments Essentially become background chatter that you should be able to "Filter" out, but they have as yet not Implement those kind of options

I blacklist people for saying "troubadour"

I'm thinking of using my blacklist for people who 'misuse' their blacklist. It's like a buffet! So many people to choose from!

If someone says to do something, I do (within reason, asking me to use a referral link to a site we don't have here... no, I can't do that even if I want to!). If someone says not to do something I don't. If they don't say anything at all, I may or may not do something! Usually a silly joke or pun based on the game title, username or image.

My Blacklist contains only one person! If you happen to be that person, we can talk!

I wonder how many blacklists I'm on then. I always thank people unless I'm told not to or to say something else. I thought it was polite. :/

There's literally 4 people on my blacklist. All there because of particularly atrocious behavior (as in comments here, talking with me personally on Steam, etc. - not mistakes with rules or something else minor).

Lol been blacklisted a lot for that. Lesson learned DONT BE NICE!!!

Heh, http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/KSF3e/zombie-driver-hd-brutal-car-skins - a little twist :P

Don't know about others, but I'd rather get no notifications then "fake 'thanks' from autojoiners". But even then I probably wouldn't blacklist people, even when I write something like that in description, as I consider blacklist to be something for a really bad people.

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The first time I saw a "don't thank me unless you want to be on my blacklist" giveaway, I thought, "that's kind of harsh." Then I noticed that many, many users thank anyway. I had no idea about thank bots before that, though I wasn't surprised. After a while, I asked not to be thanked in a few of my giveaways. Replying with "thanks" is useless to me.

Why do I not want simple replies of "thanks"?

1. It does not bump the giveaway. Replies to giveaways do not function like normal threads. Your reply does not help more people get a chance to enter (not that decreasing one's own odds would be very rational anyway).

2. Thanks is a way of expressing appreciation. But appreciation is implied in the very act of entering the giveaway; thanks is merely redundant. You don't need to write the lottery commission a letter thanking them for the $50 you won on a scratch card. The fact that you bought a scratch card and redeemed your winnings implies the sentiment expressed by that further, extra communication.

3. Replies to giveaways register as message alerts for the giver. If you come back to the site and you have a number of messages and all of them are just people saying "thanks" you have checked your messages for no reason. If there are "legitimate" replies that may require a response for you, they may be buried or sandwiched under mounds of replies that serve little useful function. I am not a popular enough giver to have the problem of not visiting the site for a day while my popular AAA title's giveaway has ended, thus having a mound of messages to sift through for the ones that deserve consideration and attention, but I'm sure others do have that problem.

4. If you "thank" givers such that your replies could be switched all around with zero confusion because each time you thanked it was a contextless, automatic, robotic response, then how is that sincere? It isn't, to me. If your responses are indistinguishable from a slightly more complex script that randomly selects one of several variations of thanks, that's not good, and it's especially not good if your responses can't be distinguished from a simple script that posts the exact same six characters over and over. Hell, I've even had people thank me twice for the same giveaway.

Now, if someone else wants thanks, that's fine. I saw a giveaway where someone required replies to the giveaway, or you'd be blacklisted. I didn't like that, so I didn't enter the giveaway.

If you want to thank me and say something, anything, that indicates that you're a human being replying to this specific giveaway, then that's more than welcome. "Thanks for the giveaway. I always wanted to try PAYDAY 2 but none of my friends play it and I've heard there's a lot of DLC and that it's very tough for new players, what do you think?" or "Thanks, I liked the original PAYDAY but I haven't tried the sequel. I saw General McBadass playing it on Twitch the other day though and it looked awesome."

It's not so much that receiving a thank you is so terrible, or I'm some high level jerk lording my huge e-penis over others (I'm only level 4). It's that as thanks currently functions and is used, it's more often than not (at least in my shitty giveaways) a sign of someone who is using a bot or not paying attention, and while I'm sure there were lots of sincerely thankful people who liked to post thanks, that sort of thing has been ruined by unappreciative people who number too significantly for some givers.

tl;dr: I don't mind thankful replies to threads, but if your reply is indistinguishable from a bot script, then that's not very useful, and ends up just being spam to me. Plus, I figure people are thankful because they enter the giveaway, and because if they win they mark the item as received. That's all I need, personally.

Personally i only blacklist serial regifters than again my giveaway lvl isnt impressive but i dont think level matters tbh i can understand both sides of the discussion of this. seems mods have (temp) banned majority alrdy GJ MODS!

Mindless thank yous don't mean anything.