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obviously
but probably more because you exist

Some people will blacklist you if you say thanks, some will blacklist you if you don't. Just the fact that you created this thread will probably land you on a few blacklists.

Everyone has their own reason to blacklist others. I have found that the best way to deal with blacklist drama is to simply ignore it altogether.

Nobody can tell. I got most of my blacklists whenever I made invite only giveaways. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Most likely your won/sent ratio

Don't worry and simply ignore it. If you're still annoyed about it then take it the other way around. There are 1,060,409 members at this very moment. If you are blacklisted by 1000 of them it means 0.094% of the members don't like you for wtv random reason. But the other 99.906% of members have nothing against you so look at the bright side. My advice is to simply look at it as merely stats.

have been blacklisted once more yesterday after saying that fallout games are shit. that's priceless

Blacklist is your personal stuff. You don't need any reason to blacklist someone. You can do with it wathever you want and nobody can stop you.

Thanking might be main reason.
One thing is that some people see thanking under every giveaway you join as spam. '

But more importantly: "thanking" bring attention to you.
If I don't know you exsit - I can't blacklist, but if I see your post I can check you up and I might not like what I see.

• I see that you won more than 20 games, but only gave away 3 shitty - I don't like it so I blacklist you (and since you're not making giveaways theres no consequences for me - I won't miss your giveaways if you won't make any).
• I see that you won 20 games, but you don't play them - I don't like it so I blacklist you (goddammit bro, you won Pillars of Eternity almost year ago and you didn't play it, now I really want to blacklist you).
• I see your avatar, I don't like it - I blacklist you.
• Potato - I blacklist you.

So after you made this thread on forum you may expect additional blaclists. o/

Personally I wish that people at least had to write anonymus note to person they blacklisted (like "i blacklisted you because your post on forum was shit"). Not to stop them from blacklisting, I'm just freaking ciurious when I get BL.

I never blacklist. But you're welcome to blacklist me.

you asked so you will get even more blacklists now. 😅

Maybe you blacklisted someone and were automatically added to their blacklist too?

I only blacklist bad people, and I do it to make them feel bad.

You won 22 games and only gave away 3. For many people this is a good enough reason.

Remember when you did [that thing] ? *
that's why.

* it can be like bloody anything, don't care about it

Thanking on every giveaway might be causing it. Thanking people for making giveaways used to be considered the polite thing to do, but now with the huge number of people on the site combined with the reply notifications that can easily get flooded if people comment just to say "thanks" (making it difficult to see other kinds of replies) it is now regarded as considerate not to thank the giver unless you win.

I imagine that a few people who have been thank-flooded in the past might have developed a policy of reflexively blacklisting anyone who pre-win-thanks them as a means of keeping their reply notifications under control.

Of course, when you do win and receive a game then you absolutely should leave a note to express your gratitude (unless asked not to). That's a different situation.

Gah, I've written "thank" so many times that the word sounds weird now.

Ah, it's one of those posts.
WELCOME TO MY BLACKLIST! is what I'd say if I actually cared. My guess it's probably people are looking at your ratio and aren't happy with it.

In reality, nobody here owes anybody anything. Everybody has their own reasons for the things they do, and sometimes they have negative (re)actions.

It's childish, but somebody will blacklist you (as many people have already mentioned) just for disagreeing with them, being colourblind, or being Canadian (joke because laughter is good, I haven't been discriminated against for that yet). Everybody has their own reasons and they don't need to disclose them.

You'd just be doing yourself a disservice worrying about how many people have blacklisted you. It's best to just move on and not think about it. Don't let the negative take control of you. There's how many thousands of people on SG; a few turds in your soup bowl shouldn't dissuade you from eating at the restaurant again (yes, my analogies are 💩).

Insert obligatory "blacklisted" comment here

Basically the very only fact that you exist is enough for you to get blacklisted.

Probably because of topics like this one.

Just say NO! Then move on, head held high... ignorance is bliss.

MUSHROOMS!

You get blacklisted just for making any comment.

So how many new blacklists?

Probably because your ugly ratio. Lots of people don't like to feed a leecher.

The primary thing is your ratio, I suspect.

Regarding the whole "thanks" thing --

If you just copy and paste the same generic "thank you" message every time, you will probably get some blacklists. People sometimes see that as maybe not showing actual gratitude.

If you'd really like to say thank you, maybe take 10 seconds and post something unique. It's not that hard.

Hey thanks [giveaway creator], this game looks interesting, kind of reminds me of [some other game].
Thanks [giveaway creator], I've been trying to win this one forever, thanks for another chance!
Never heard of this one before, thanks for the GA!

etc.
etc.
etc.

See? Not that hard. And MUCH better than a generic thanks or hope to win it WTHOG or hvala puno or whatever.

I think the bottom line is, most people appreciate genuine messages and really dislike generic, bot-like messages.

So be genuine, and maybe give away a few more games so it looks like you're trying, and then you won't have to worry about blacklists. (Not that you should worry about blacklists anyway, but lots of people do, for some reason).