Are thanks'ers really bots?

Well, i dont make tons of ga's because of money, so i dont really get it, its easy make a bot that enter to ga's and dont say anything than make a bot that say ... idk, 10 random lines.

I generally give an earnest "Thank you!" on these, so if people are getting blocked for those, that's a little scary to me.

I don't get why you would block people who are writing thanks. Others are botting without leaving a comment.

Thanks. ~Sent by KeoBot ver 0.32 Beta

No native speakers- like me :/
My english isn´t good and for me it´s the first time I read about this,
ehm and after many "thanks" now I think I´m in a lot Blacklists.

thought it would be nice to say thanks :(

beep ;)

Instead of blacklisting people for saying "thanks", what really must be implemented in this site is an option to disable notifications for comments in giveaways. That way we can thank a giveaway creator without the afraid of being blacklisted, and the giveaway creators won't get any of the notifications that seems to trigger their rage.

Or better yet: More tolerance... (:P)

Not always. :)

Open Multiple Tabs of giveaways games that i'm interested, calculate the points, enter giveaway, Ctrl+V on the comments instead of typing everytime. ._. does that count as botting? As i tend to do that.

I thank the giveaway creator most of the time when I enter a giveaway. I only abstain on obvious regifts and when the description specifically ask not to be thankful. Sometimes I go with a pretty generic "Thanks!" or something similar. Other times I will write a bit more, especially if a question or some extra instructions were added to the description.

I used to think that thanking, even when chances for winning would be smaller than chances of finding needle in a haystack, was just a way of showing some appreciation to the giveaway creator.
But then I started to see people blacklisting for saying such so my "thank you" record started to drop. Now, having such opportunity, I would like to thank you all who create giveaways. Now, in past, and those who will create. Thank you.

Ahh and let me add few more thanks to this.. so my conscience feels satisfied: Thank you, Thank you, thank you, thanks, thank you, thank you, thank you, thanks ya'll. ;-)

To be or not be a bot.

People think you are a bot, when you...

• (don't) post the exact same comment
• enter/comment on their five giveaways in the same second

I keep asking myself, if they never heard of tabbed-browsing...

Ha ha ha ha. The irony is that the first time the site confuses me with a bot was commenting here.

INPUT COMMAND.

Thanks! I love this game!

I used to write thanks on every cool giveaway I entered, mostly invite only or group ones, also giveaways for games I really wanted. That was before SG v2, and during SG v2 when people didn't blacklist everybody for any reason, or for no reason.

Since then I attach my special thanks gif only to giveaways I win, and never ever otherwise, unless I want to add a comment with something else than a simple "thank you".

From friendly SG community people have changed into a cancer assuming everybody here is a bot and deserves a blacklist because of his avatar, nickname, or something as stupid as writing "thanks" comment. I'm losing faith in humanity. Blacklist feature made it so. People changed into attention whores threatening people of blacklist, and seeking for attention when adding to whitelist. From nice additions with cool concept, it changed to community-ruining tool, where nobody is happy from giving away a game, and more like building his e-penis and showing somebody how cool he is because he can choose if you're the chosen one to enter his shitty bundle giveaway.

Sigh.

thanks

Unless the giveaway creator specifically asks for it, I almost never comment when I enter a giveaway. I feel like it's much more meaningful to thank them after I win, letting them know that I activated the game and giving some explanation of why I'm looking forward to playing it.

I do think that people who blacklist over obvious bots are overreacting, though. It's easier to stay quiet than it is to set up a bot to say thanks, so it's not like they're being lazy. And the red number just means that people are entering your giveaways. Did you want to make a giveaway that nobody enters or something? It would be exactly as much of an annoyance if every single comment was well thought out and original. Probably moreso, since those take longer to read.

In other words, I thought the whole point was to give something to other people, not find reasons to complain about them. If you don't like these people, why are you making giveaways for them at all?

Quack! I mean...Oink

Not bots, but I can imagine some to be copy&paste'd.

I used to thanks a lot. Then I took a blacklist on thy knee.

Trust me, I've posted my fair share of thank you's, but Mostly, I Say "Thank you for the Chance".

Saying Thank you before something though was accepted Manners in society since basicly the dawn of time. It's just Easier to Say "Please and Thank You" at the same time, but Saying please would sound an awful lot like Begging. T.T

Since someone is giving away somethng some poeple feel like it to say a thanks unless the creator states not to tell thanks i cant see any harm to it and also i dont know why poeple blacklist poeple who says thanks make no sence

thanks