People do not have to comment to win a giveaway I believe

Leaving comments is not a requirement for public giveaways (though I comment on all of mine).

Support won't reroll these. Either gift the winners of take the Not-Received hit. And no, you cannot select the winners; that would be unfair to all entries and would lead to abuse. Random is random.

Edit: By the way, those are some nice first giveaways :) If you want people to be involved in your giveaways you can make private giveaways for the forums, or puzzle giveaways, etc. That won't guarantee comments but the entry to comment ratio is usually better on those.

Looking at your giveaways which all of them are public, no. You can't set custom/special rules on public giveaways.
You didn't even wrote about "you should comment to win this" in giveaway description. Except the latest one I see, and I made a comment about it there.

No.

Nope. You can not pick a user of your choice.

A reroll is allowed at times, but that is not a suitable reason for one.

you've been the part of the community for 6 hours and you're already making trouble..

Picking your own winner isn't allowed because it would be easy to abuse (for example always picking your own friends). If you want to pick a winner yourself you should give away your games on the forum, or make a private giveaway and only allow entry to people who you want to win.

lol

Public giveaways cannot have any special rules. So yeah, your reroll requests for this reason will not be approved.

You can create private giveaways with special rules, and post the links on the forum.

I don't really comment thanks in giveaways. It counts as +1 in comment in profile so I'll be only thanking the creator if I won the game.
Exception if there's a wonderful discussion inside the giveaway
or I see a Windows7 user in the comment section

I don't say thank you on giveaways unless I win, because in all honesty it's a waste of time. Technically I'm not getting anything and you have to enter THOUSANDS of giveaways to win anything.

うそだ！

Do note that you can never choose a winner yourself. You can make a rule in private giveaways, not sure if a mod needs to approve it beforehand though, you may ask for a reroll, but the new winner will be, again, chosen randomly. People would abuse the hell out of the system if you could choose a winner yourself

Nothing to add, just thought it was nice that the giveaway creator wasn't freaking the fuck out 'cause someone said thank you.

You like generic insincere 'thx' spam? The winner thanking after the end of ga is enough which doesn't always happen by the way.

I never post "thanks" in the giveaway comments because most people that post that really don't mean it. Its like people that ask how you are only as a common pleasantry, but if you actually told them how you were feeling, they'd suddenly have stuff to do. Instead, I make a point to thank the person if I happen to win. Does that mean I don't deserve to win?

If you're only giving stuff away so you can count how many "thnx" comments you get, you're doing it for the wrong reasons.

I haven't really commented on any giveaways, I'm stressing enough about refreshing and missing entries. I agree with SilenR, commenting doesn't mean a person isn't grateful, it's only an assumption since you cannot know anything about their reasons on not commenting. There could be some guy who doesn't comment because their eyes are too filled with tears of gratefulness. I bet alot of people just comment because it's a habit. That being said, it does make me feel better to see 14 pages of thank yous on my Skyrim giveaway. Which is why I will think about this matter and perhaps start to comment. Because if there's any way I can cheer up somebody else I think it may be worth it:)

More importantly, are you allowed to "cherry pop" a winner?

I hope you deliver the games to those persons who didn't commented..

no you can't, you have to deliver to whoever won.

No, you can't.

As far as I know you can 'request special rules' for PRIVATE GA's or PRIVATE GROUP GA's but if you made a Public GA, it is not an enough reason for a re-roll+ you can't..

no, not unless its a private giveaway(or private group), you clearly stated this rule, and you got it approved by support ahead of time(which it doesn't sound like you did. you can't just apply the rule after the fact because they bugged you)

so technically yes but I get the feeling in this specific instance no

also, yes. the pick a new winner button would pick another random winner, not allow you to choose.

edit- also topics can be closed.