Usually I don't blackllist anyone for this motive, But a guy just won another giveaway of mine, and didn't say anything.
I messaged him A thank you would be appreciated and I was completely ignored.

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Do you blacklist people who don't thanks when they win your giveaway?

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Yes.
No.
Only if the game is good.
Only if the person won more than 1 game and don't say anything.
I think it's too trivial so I don't blacklist people.

I wouldn't have enough slots for that.

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No, but it makes me a little grumpy

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This.

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Depends on my mood, but I generally don't care.

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same here, I generally don't do it but if fucking makes me grumpy and dissapointed

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+1 Sometimes I'm in a shitty mood and will blacklist people for it, but usually I just feel a bit disappointed for a minute and continue on.

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No but it certainly doesn't make me like them any more than I did before.

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Because............ :B

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New Day Rocks...^^ little wwe joke ;-)

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Merlin =D Such good memories and... mixed feelings for the ending. Thanks for that.

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Of course not. There are worse things than that in life, trust me. xD

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Those "worse things" aren't penalized with a simple blacklist. Little mistakes = Little consequences.

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I don't blacklist anyone. I'm too awesome to care about such trivialities.

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If I had asked for a thank you in the description and it is ignored ... I might. If I didn't, then I won't.

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I asked personally, what makes it worse.

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i'd rather blacklist for other reasons, like not playing their wins. that's more rude imo.

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I can't blacklist people for not playing their wins. You never know how much time someone has or may not have.
Right now I don't have much free time so I'm doing more Portal 2 Community Chambers than anything.

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we can't either blacklist people based on ratio, comments, behavior, etc.
we don't know what's going on with their lives. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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The only things I have blacklisted for so far are the following:
Cheating on a puzzle
Using an automated script / program to get keys.
Exploiting Unlucky-7 / Other Groups
Or if they've blacklisted me (I've had some people I look up to BL me without telling me why)

And if someone is constantly a dick, they probably deserve to be blacklisted.
But if someone is just upset over something (like levels being lowered), they don't deserve it.

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Blacklist me then, most of the games I won are not playable.

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Then why are you participating in a GA?

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I don't join giveaways of good games If i don't intend to play it.

Motives:
1 - I collect cheap games
2 - I make money selling the cards
3 - with the money I craft badges, buy games I want and make new giveaways.

Of course it's more profitable to get a job. But I want to play and study. I don't want to work in a shitty job for 8 hours every day.

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oh common Mully, if everybody do that 99.999999999% of SG member will get BL from 99.999999% of the GA creator

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i have no problem with 99% blacklists ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I try not to thank people for a single giveaway. If there's a train of giveaways I'll thank you.
If I win you can be damn sure you're getting thanked.

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nope. if thanking is mandatory then it's meaningless

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It's not about being mandatory, you can just not say thanks, but it's about politeness.

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true, and I always do give thanks, but if there's a punishment for not doing it then it's close to mandatory

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Hmmm, agreed.

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Well, it's not a rule like "If a winner doesn't thank you, you have to blacklist him." That would be ridicolous and leading to mandatory thanks for winners at least.
But it's imho just fair that a creator would like to have a little "human" feedback (meaning not just marking it as "received"). And if it doesn't happen, he might react like he wants including BL him.

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Personally asking someone to thank you is weird.

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You mean asking other people to be polite is weird? how so?

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It's only not weird if you're doing it to your own <5 year old child.
What could you possible get out of someone thanking you, that was told to thank you?
If it's not genuine then it's useless anyway.

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Nothing, but you could make one see your point of view, and make oneself politer?

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It's not weird asking people to be polite, but asking someone to thank you is pretty weird and even if you get a thanks afterwards, it has no meaning at all.

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If i say "A thank you would be appreciated" I'm suggesting, is that still weird for you?

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Yes. Because it's basically the same as asking for it...

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Please thank me

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actually i look like those phrases like the user doesn't care if you don't but it would be appreciated. if that's what was said, that maybe why some people don't bother.

i still do ofc on wins though.

edit: ohh. i kinda skipped the op and only went of title and poll. that case scenario is a little weird imo too.

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Yeah, it kinda turns a gesture of gratitude into a fulfillment of an obligation.

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I don't blacklist anyone.

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Because you're too busy getting into Arstotzka

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Underrated reply.

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GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA!!!

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No, I don't want anyone to thank me "forcefully" for winning a giveaway. 1/20 genuine messages of appreciation are better than 20 fake ones.

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Agree with this. (+1)

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Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Depends on what mood I'm in and whether I really care at that moment or not.

I messaged him A thank you would be appreciated and I was completely ignored.

Honestly, I'd personally would ignore that too. I actually think it's a bit rude to ask someone to thank you (it's also rude to not say thanks, but you could just leave it be)...

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Understood, I couldn't help it though, 2 wins and no thanks. I'm grumpy.

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I understand that. I'd be too (and a bit disappointed). But rude people won't suddenly change because you ask them to say thanks after winning. Those people are best to just ignore.

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If there is another reason to bl them (broken rules, for example), it makes it more likely that I'll bl them. But otherwise I don't really mind.

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I only blacklist people who blacklist me first. However, if I were to giveaway a major AAA title, like say GTA V or Fallout 4, and the winner didn't thank me, I'd blacklist the shit out of them. And if for some reason, I decide to check to confirm they actually added the game to their library a few weeks later, and I noticed they didn't even play the damn game, I'd un-blacklist them just to blacklist them again.

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Eh, it's always weird when people win something and never commented anything. I usually only blacklist if there's a second reason, f. e. a really bad ratio. I don't think that lack of thankfulness/communication would be enough for me to blacklist someone instantly.

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If they at least sound thankful even with a bad ratio I let them slide. If they are too good to say thanks, and have a shit ratio, they're probably staring down a blacklist barrel.

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Or if they leave something nasty in my shoe or pee on my things.

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i only blacklist people for 5 reasons:

  1. i get 5 different thank you's in the same second on 5 different games that they have won using the exact same words, i assume its a bot and wish it good luck with other people.
  2. a person has an insanely bad ratio.
  3. a person not level 10 hasn't made a giveaway for a long time.
  4. i got blacklisted and don't know the reason or they don't care sharing it.
  5. someone is making giveaways for closed groups only.
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Pardon my curiosity, but did that thing from the first paragraph (5 different thank you's in the same second) really had happened?

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i had someone send me 4 thank you's couple of days ago with a difference of 1 second between those "thank you for the game", 4 different ones in 4 different giveaways that ended (i did the otaku gib of x20 to everyone) and he commented that 4 times in 1 second.

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And I see that those were the level 5+ giveaways, so a user must've had to give away a reasonable amount of games themself. Well, that makes it even more sad :(

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a person not level 10 hasn't made a giveaway for a long time.

once lvl10 it's fair game? ^^

on 5 different games that they have won

I'm surprised bots do that on won games now too

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i just think that someone that win a game and don't say thx don't deserve nothing.... it's the less you can do when you win something. usually i add to friends the guy to say thx or i said in the giveaway thread.

but i always say thx.

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Nope, not just for that.
But I might for a combo like: they don't thank + have a horrible ratio + take 3 days to mark as received yet still hang around online during that time. That's just rude. It's like "maybe I looked at the key, maybe I didn't, maybe I'll activate the game, maybe I won't, and after that I won't be bothered to type a couple of nice words" :s Manners, eh 👀

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A little piece of courtesy should be expected, but blacklisting is something that I barely use these days.

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Are you even sure who won the giveaway was a person and not a script?

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You mean that as a joke?

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A script user might be a good indication for the lack of a simple thanks. Think of auto-join scripts.

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It's a possibility. But I think it was a person.

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The amount of bot users is sadly increasing, but I'd doubt key redemption is automated yet.

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I wouldn't be surprised.

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increasing? is that a fact? where can i read that up?

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As in 'from what I notice', but you also can take a look at the sg auto join steam group for more sadness..

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did i find the right group? not even 2000 people in there. that's nothing compared to our userbase. if that's all, we can basically safely ignore it. ^^

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Considering the actually active site userbase is far lower at likely no more than 50k and a big amount of botters certainly won't publically join such a group (plus there certainly are more other scripts too), makes that number not that small anymore.

Looking how cg deployed counter-measures on a bigger scale at least twice, he certainly doesn't ignore them.

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A thanks is appreciated, but I have never blacklisted anyone and dont think that is a good reason.

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I partially agree, but I'll blacklist the person if he wins 2 games or more and don't say anything.

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I still have not a single person on my blacklist. I have some I would want to blacklist, which I might, for either breaking rules, or being total dicks on the forums.
But, there are far too trivial reasons people blacklist for, such as: not saying thanks, not activating within 24 hours, winning a game (to prevent the same person winning more from 1 creator), etc.

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Well you could write in your comment of the GA: Add me and comment so I can send you your gift!

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hmmm, in this case it would be kind of mandatory, and what would you do if if the person doesn't say anything after 1 week? Your ticked to ask a new winner could be denied.

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i reroll because winner didn't respond

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