Are thanks'ers really bots?

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Hmmm... there is a typo in my post but I can't find the edit button? O_o

I used to think so, but I want to have faith so I don't think they are bots just non native english speakers as you say.

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No, not most or all of them, but a good deal are bots, as evidenced by a few giveaways I've run in tandem where there's almost always a bunch of people who enter multiple giveaways at the same time and post the same message with the same time stamp. It's a little depressing actually. Not all of them are necessarily bots, mind you, but they might use an auto-entry script with an auto-comment portion which I find to be just as bad.

That said, I find meaningless thanks to be annoying whether or not they're from a bot, especially if I have five or more giveaways ending at the same time or if I'm expecting a response in a thread and I get a billion generic thanks flooding my notifications.

there are also scripts with ENTER+autocomment buttons, which is as bad as a bot since the user doesn't even care about descriptions made by the GA creator.

and no, being lazy is not an excuse. if you are lazy to read a desc. or manually enter and comment, then get out of here and buy your own games. :3

Of course! But I still love those cute little bots, even the bots who sadly doesn't spam my inbox when they silently join one of my giveaways!

Well, there were times in the history of this site, when saying thank you was considered a basic courtesy when entering a giveaway.

I'm not, I try to make my "thank yous" different depending on the game like if it's something big. But I hand type every thank you, even if it's the same, after entering every giveaway.

Thanks for this giveaway.

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I threw in a few thanks on my early entries out of courtesy and under the idea that it was customary to appreciate the opportunity but soon came across some giveaways that asked not to spam their notifications with a thanks. Since then I stopped doing it when entering as I realized it's more annoying then anything. Found that out first hand when creating my first giveaway.

i always spam thanks,or grax,or gracias :p. and i don't use bots :p. at least..me are not bot..sometimes i reply other things, depends the time i have... but well..i don't enter a lot of giveaways...maybe 3 or 10 per week only :p.

All we need is captcha to post thank you :)

It depends, I guess. Personally I usually write "thank you" / "thanks" / "thanks a lot" etc on the giveaways I enter. I'm not a bot though :P
I don't have a problem with people writing "thanks" as long as they don't do it on every single giveaway of a train or whatever. That annoys me then because it comes off as them being a bot imo.

There's definitively a good share of bots/script users that just don't care about the description.
There may be, sometimes, people who read the description, didn't understand anything, and just said thanks. Maybe once in 2k giveways, you'll find one.

I think there's no reason to block "thank you" users more than silent ones.

And that's why most people don't comment.
The leecher culture is divided into people thinking that spamming fake gratitude saves them the trouble of being blacklisted. The elder ones of their tribe know that entering quietly can be better in this case, but noone's fucking with me. I'm checking entries, bitches.

Well i mostly read what is in the description and if something specific is asked i'll do my best to answer or supply the asked gif. If i'm on my mobile i'll answer the best i can but if no one asked something or leave their description blank i'll just use a copy-paste. I think many people think i use a bot but i can assure you i don't. I find it important to at least thank someone for the game given and i would like some comments back if i make a GA aswell, simple as that, even if it is a copy paste. The rudest thing you can do is just entering without saying a thing and especially after you won something.
Also, using the same 'thank you' message once in a while doesn't mean the person is always a bot... he is just less creative and doesn't know how else to thank you after entering+commenting a 100 GA's :)

I think that very few people use scripts with autocomment functions. Some simply don't read descriptions (this grows exponentially with the size of description :D) and just post "thanks". I don't mind either way in public giveaways.

PS: Blacklisting for "thanks" is rude (unless stating that you will do so in description).

While I don't care much about generic 'Thanks' (or even worse 'TY') posts, I wouldn't blacklist a person for that. I don't like when people use a bot to enter giveaways, but in the end I care more about their ratio... not that I'd blacklist people that have a 'bad' ratio (unless it's really bad), but if somebody posts a generic 'Thanks' on more than two of my current giveaways within a minute and has a 'bad' ratio he might end up on my dark side.

tl;dr: Just post a one liner that makes it clear that you really are happy about the giveaway than a generic 'Thanks' or 'Thank you'.

I find it awkward to thank someone for a chance to win a game when there are so many entries. I'd say thanks after(if) I win.

Thank you.

Thx :)) some might be but then again some.....

Some people are just writing "thanks" normally, some do ctrl+v method without even reading anything, and some are bots. Just remember, do not throw everyone into one bag! Thanks xD

Sometimes you see fake giveaways or regifts, and ppl commenting things about it in comments, and there s always some ppl who keep thanking ignoring all the comments of an obvious fake or regift giveaway, I think those ppl are really bots, but obviously not all who thank are bots, so is hard to tell.