Thinking about thanking someone for a giveaway? Watch out! You might get blacklisted!

"People are strange" is generally a good way of thinking when going through life. Especially people on the internet do things that would make them seem like a total freak in real life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgHaGrZkkv4

To quote Douglas Adams... "People are a problem"

if you want to say thanks for something make sure its customized for that giveaway otherwise people will automatically go straight to thinking its an autojoiner comment if its generic.

think of it this way though... they can't join your stuff either.

I have a level 10 who blacklisted me for putting please allow to delete if it doesn't work on a half dozen giveaways(they also have something against people being in the delete if not working group in particular). I am sure some know who I am talking about... Whats funny is I have had 0 giveaways deleted when I made GA's for those groups.

I wouldn't let it bother you tbh.

If you write a generic comment on a giveaway you don't pass the Turing test simple as that.

Since no one has explained yet, an autojoiner is a script that auto joins you to various giveaways, as you guessed. Many people set things to also automatically say thanks to every giveaway. This is more obvious on level 0 giveaways, where you can see several people say precisely the same thing on every giveaway. Some people hate it, if they do lots of giveaways, because they get lots of notifications from these scripted thanks. It can make it hard to see more specific questions or comments that need responses, is usually the explanation.

I try to say thanks even in community giveaways, by saying why I might be excited for a game in particular. But yeah, I'm also cautious about doing so.

(Also, thanks! My kid and I like doing co-op games together.)

It's a form of SG initiation.

Some BL you for just saying thanks, some BL you for not saying anything.

Some seem to BL you just for discussing BL's, which is why i refer to it as such.

People are always gonna be people. We got a bunch of cool ones, and at least just as many young idiots who dont know any better, or just enjoy the small thrill BL'ing someone gives them.

People truly revel in cancel culture...

Sorry your positive vibes got stomped on. Yet to be fair to the guy who DL'd you, he's probably fed up with the string of autojoiner "Thank You's" and thus you get large swaths of people going straight to BL in order to reduce the annoyance.

Kinda weird that you responded in good faith, and so are obviously not a bot, or troll, and yet still got BL'd.

Only thing i can offer is maybe next time leave a slightly more personal comment, or like me, generally avoid commenting unless you win.
Sometimes i'll comment more, but only if i'm truly inspired to say something more than, "thanks."

60k entries in 12 years is not even a lot lol, that sucks.

Some people can definitely contribute a fair bit of ugliness to this site with the whole wanton blacklisting and bot/leech paranoia. People come here to win games. I try not to hold just wanting to win games against anyone, as long as they show some form of appreciation for their wins and at least seem like pleasant individuals (/don't act contrary to that).

Don’t you yet know that you will also get blacklisted by saying the word ‘blacklisted’ anywhere in the forums? Or any other somebody’s secret trigger word.

FU you too... <<<< Joking Its make me remeber a movie where somebody didnt know abot FU and used it as greeting ;
Thanks for GA its in my WL, I mean, Im not a bot, or aotujoiner

Oh, it wasn’t me? 😔

I'm sorry for that. I'll tell something that happened to me.

I have low vision without corrective lenses.

For a while, I participated in a group for beginners with a limit on the number of games won. I was travelling and often used my mobile, since the site does not have a mobile mode and accessibility is complicated.

That time I had broken my glasses. Got a warning from the creator of this group because I had won a prize, but I had not redeemed it or marked it as 'received', and it was not even close to the 7 days agreed by the SG team in the terms. He found out that I was entering other giveaways, even though he had not even seen the notification on the site.

I redeemed it and marked it as received. I spent a few more days travelling in a place without a mobile signal, let alone internet via radio, broadband or similar. I still didn't have glasses, accessing the site only from mobile.

I ended up winning a few more giveaways in this group, while I was still travelling and at that time, I received another warning from this user. As soon as I accessed the site, quickly while I was in a place with signal, I redeemed the prizes that were sent to me. But unfortunately I exceeded the number of wins allowed for that group and was summarily blocked, without appeal.

I explained the situation and even offered to give back to the group an additional number of games that were exceeded. I was treated in a ridiculously rude manner. I already realised that the person had serious traumas in life, on the internet and also in SG.

He is well known. No, I'm not afraid of him. I will still give back to the community in a more consistent way, since, at the moment, I have no way of giving back in a better way.

I like to send and receive good words and good wishes from people behind these 'cold' screens, so that the warmth of intentions can somehow overcome the apathy of the machine and show that, deep down, we are human.

You are in my WL, OP. I appreciate the words and the kindness.

Cheers!

you create 10 giveaways with regular 1K+ entries
1% - the men of the culture - so grateful they can't hold it
BOINK! 100 incoming "T.Hanks" messages
you reaching for the whip...

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I see that a lot of people hate it so I've had to break the habit. I feel so rude and entitled when I enter without showing gratitude for the chance 😖😂 sometimes I can't help myself and often get told to stop spamming or cop a blacklist for it.

Personally it makes me smile when I see people excited about the giveaways I'm hosting. I may not always have time to reply to everyone but it only takes a second to clear the notifications.

Look, if every SG user was sitting in the same room irl, there'd be some of us that just don't click with each other. That's okay! We just wouldn't interact with that person. A black list is the same thing, although a bit more abrupt at times 😂 I want to get rid of some keys while I chat and make friends, they want to get rid of their keys and keep it moving. The black list feature gives everyone what they want. 🥰

And because of these rabid blacklisters that apparently hate to see the red number by the message icon most users are so afraid to say "Thanks" without having won these days that you can make a public giveaway with hundreds of entries and it finishes with zero comments, complete and utter silence, all we see are entries from users that clicked on the green button and then quickly scurried away in fear.
Thanks guys, your hostility scares everyone from talking, what a great job you did.

Thanks for the warning and the giveaway!

I don't like much autojoiners because i don't like chasing winners for 1 week while they look present connecting every x hours here, but connect just once every 1-2-3 weeks in reality to check if the fishing was good. But wouldn't blacklist for that, and certainly not for a polite comment or lack of any comment, so sorry for what happened to you. Just don't forget to check if the gifter asked something else than a thanks or specifically asked not to thanks because otherwise you would be in trouble with a generic message.

At least this time you know the reason.
I don't know the reason of most of my blacklists even if I sometimes find a user that blacklisted me. But that's OK (even if I would like to know the reason, at least to try to correct what I did wrong). I know I can be blacklisted because of these reasons:
My ratio is low, but not terrible.
I have Gifted some games that were free on other sites (Fanatical).
I almost only make Group Giveaways nowadays.

But other than these I don't know more reasons (I try to be amicable on comments, and not argue with anyone)

I tend to avoid leaving comments on GAs I enter unless the gifter asked a question or we have had convos before on SG or Steam, mostly because I don't want to clog inboxes and also some people are taking comments the wrong way but I always leave a note when I win a GA and I try to make it more than "thanks" because auto-joiners seem to be using that kind of things and I'd rather leave something more personal about the game I won.

It's a matter of personal preference but I'm sure things would be different without bots driving people crazy

Welcome to SG, where people will BL you for nothing.
You like blue? I prefer green!!!! BOOM : BL.

Sometimes even without posting or sharing an opinion you will have a BL showing in your stats.

Yeah, people blacklist people for random reasons. Anyways, here is a blue heart to make you feel better.

I admit I have BL people in the past for that reason, although if I was having a conversation with them then I would explain my point instead of just going straight to the BL. There's two points here, at least for me: 1: Yes, there is an autojoin extension you can get which will automatically join giveaways based on some criteria you set, and one of the options is to add a thank you message (which can also be set to do it when you manually join a giveaway). So if somebody sees a generic thank you message, they will think the most likely reason for it is using that extension or something similar to automatically enter giveaways, commonly referred to as "bots". 2: It spams the giveaway creator. As a creator yourself I'm sure you understand this. The last time I made a (small) train, by the time it was over I had EIGHT PAGES of comments to wade through, and 98% of them were the same people saying the exact same "thank you" message on every single giveaway. Fortunately I was keeping up on it the entire time so I didn't have to do the full 8 pages at once, but that was still a lot of unnecessary messages to wade through each time I logged in.

Side note, that "AutoJoin for SteamGifts" extension is actually the way I found this place. I was looking for extensions for managing my constantly growing Steam wishlist (which I never found) but I stumbled across that extension. I was like "What's SteamGifts?" and looked it up. I've been here ever since. But that's also how I know what it can do. It can also be quite handy, if you turn off the auto-join and auto-thank options. For example, it adds a join button on the main page next to each giveaway entry (but it only adds the description to the main page AFTER you click the join button), and it has an "infinite scroll" option so when you get to the bottom of the page it automatically grabs the next page and tacks it on so you end up with a single page. I do use that feature myself, it's very handy.

edit: It looks like you were on my BL list... most likely for the same reason. I have now removed you and added a heart instead.
edit2: In fact, after thinking about this situation, and my response slightly higher about not knowing you've been BL or if you do discover it not knowing WHY ... I've decided to remove everybody (all 27 people) from my BL and start over. I will starting adding in the descriptions to my giveaways that if I see somebody post the same thank you twice, THEN I will BL them. This way people have a warning before it happens.

Aw yea brings back good level 0 giveaway memories, constant spam thx from autojoiners, no thx from about 80% of actual winners and re-rolls because the user couldn't be bothered to check weekly if his autojoin-bot reeled something in :D

I just said thanks earlier on today. But I'll learn as I go and stop saying thanks when I win. You indeed the real G with that piece of advice. From today onwards, no more smiling, no more nothing. I'm MrSerious42.

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