Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: exhausted
  • Music: Hadestown, "His Kiss, The Riot."

A request from your hostess regarding giveaways.

We are deep into the Thirteen Days of Hogswatch now, which means a new giveaway post is going live every day. Starting tomorrow, a new winners' post will also be going live every day. Fun!

Thus far, all of this year's giveaways have been RNG drawings. This means I am using a random number generator to select the winners, and this is where my request comes in. See, I'm seeing a lot of people replying to other peoples' giveaway entries. I need you to stop doing that. Please. Only top-level comments can win; if a reply to a comment grabs the winning entry, I choose another winner. So if I pick, say, #15 to win, and #15 turns out to be a reply to #14, I don't go down a comment. I hit the RNG again. That means that whoever replied to #14 has just caused the "real" #15 not to win.

I do this for a lot of reasons, the most important being that the sub-comments throw off my count, I start second-guessing, I'm doing this manually, and so it's just easier on my peace of mind to draw again. But it's still not fair to the people leaving the top-level comments. Please, please stop replying to other peoples' giveaway entries.

Also, please remember that when I say "the rules of this giveaway are...," that there is no room for negotiation. If I say "name your favorite fruit" and you comment with "I love fruit!," you actually cannot win, because you didn't follow the rules. This is to filter out the free stuff blogs that send their followers here to harvest prizes, but who don't actually have any investment in the things I'm handing out.

Thank you all. Today's post will go live in a few hours.
Tags: a few facts, giving stuff away, shameless plea
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  • 12 comments

marziek

December 7 2015, 16:14:03 UTC 1 year ago



I did that on the album giveaway. I commented on someone else's post. 😢

seanan_mcguire

December 7 2015, 16:18:13 UTC 1 year ago

It's been happening a lot this particular round of giveaways. It's not the end of the world, I just need people to please stop doing it.

marziek

December 7 2015, 16:35:52 UTC 1 year ago

[looks down guiltily]

We must behave better.

And not go out alone.

seanan_mcguire

December 7 2015, 16:37:56 UTC 1 year ago

It's really not a matter of behaving better, I promise. I last said "please don't do this" a year ago. You're allowed to forget!

blueeowyn

December 7 2015, 23:16:15 UTC 1 year ago

What about those of us who weren't reading you last year?

I'll be better.

Is it OK if we discuss "well, choosing a favorite fruit is hard, I mean I love apples, grapes, and tomatoes but since I have to choose one, I'm going with tomatoes even though most people think that they are a vegetable"

seanan_mcguire

December 8 2015, 01:54:53 UTC 1 year ago

Yes, that's fine. It's the people who clearly didn't read the instructions who tend to wind up disqualified.