Question: Is there some sort of Thanks Bot people are using for entering giveaways?
I don't mind the "Thanks" spam but I can't imagine this is all manually done at the rate I see them.
There seems to be a "common knowledge" among users that there are indeed bots for both entering the giveaways with points, and some that are meant to spam "thanks" comment. They can be caught with 99% certainty in very extreme cases, such as when you suddely get 2 comments on different giveaways from the same user within seconds, or when somebody leaves a link to a long ended giveaway, and bot will enter to say thank you xD (I know of it happening once).
However, most users also see it as good manners to say thank you after winning, and some new users might not know about saying thank you being seen as spam messages, so obviously some of the thank you messages are written by hand.
I appreciate the response. I'd wondered for a while now just what type of script they would be running since botting to auto enter giveaways isn't really allowed, they must have a script that for whatever reason, has a side usage to spam a user input message every time they hit enter (I'm being hopeful that they use something that displays an "enter" button on the main giveaway page like ESGST does just with the added feature of auto-commenting).
In a very few cases, I noticed one person alternating between their thank yous so X amount of times they'd say like "Thank you ♥" and then swap to "Thanks for the giveaway!" X amount of times before swapping back. I've never seen a script like that mentioned in the forums though so I'd been curious for a long while now where they all got it from.
I never cared to look for them, so I don't know where to find such scripts or bots.
Well, the changing comment part sounds fairly easy in implementation. I'm not a programmer, but if I had a ready script code with all the web functionalities, even I'd be able to add a counter to change pre-written response nr 1 to pre-written response nr 2 every some number of comments made.
I suppose it's meant to lessen the suspicions in a way of: "Look, it's not always the same comment! There's no way I use a bot/script, cause it's not always the same!" Tsk, as if that proves anything.
And if you're really annoyed by some users like that, you can just blacklist them. Both for being annoying, and for probably using a script/bot.
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There seems to be a "common knowledge" among users that there are indeed bots for both entering the giveaways with points, and some that are meant to spam "thanks" comment. They can be caught with 99% certainty in very extreme cases, such as when you suddely get 2 comments on different giveaways from the same user within seconds, or when somebody leaves a link to a long ended giveaway, and bot will enter to say thank you xD (I know of it happening once).
However, most users also see it as good manners to say thank you after winning, and some new users might not know about saying thank you being seen as spam messages, so obviously some of the thank you messages are written by hand.
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I appreciate the response. I'd wondered for a while now just what type of script they would be running since botting to auto enter giveaways isn't really allowed, they must have a script that for whatever reason, has a side usage to spam a user input message every time they hit enter (I'm being hopeful that they use something that displays an "enter" button on the main giveaway page like ESGST does just with the added feature of auto-commenting).
In a very few cases, I noticed one person alternating between their thank yous so X amount of times they'd say like "Thank you ♥" and then swap to "Thanks for the giveaway!" X amount of times before swapping back. I've never seen a script like that mentioned in the forums though so I'd been curious for a long while now where they all got it from.
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I never cared to look for them, so I don't know where to find such scripts or bots.
Well, the changing comment part sounds fairly easy in implementation. I'm not a programmer, but if I had a ready script code with all the web functionalities, even I'd be able to add a counter to change pre-written response nr 1 to pre-written response nr 2 every some number of comments made.
I suppose it's meant to lessen the suspicions in a way of: "Look, it's not always the same comment! There's no way I use a bot/script, cause it's not always the same!" Tsk, as if that proves anything.
And if you're really annoyed by some users like that, you can just blacklist them. Both for being annoying, and for probably using a script/bot.
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