That's interesting,
let's see in this thread if more users would like it to work this way.....!
Once again this got longer than I'd like but maybe detail is needed here.
point 1: scammers
If the "check all" button is going away for good then it would
100% make more sense to get rid of having to check if you won in the first place.
Besides just being annoying having to click to check each giveaway one by one, the current system also gives a huge advantage to people who give fake keys, alpha/beta keys which don't let you keep the game, or other scammy things.
Why? Because many people are far less often going to be checking their entered giveaways to see if they won. I used to quickly check them every day myself when there was a "check all" button. Now I usually don't. By the time I do check them now, many are probably too late to leave any feedback if I had won. I'm certain I'm
far from alone in that.
Most people who found out the key didn't work or something else is wrong
after it was too late to leave feedback are not going to bother to send an email to support about it. Which would be the only option available to get the automatic "positive" feedback changed into a negative.
And that is a
gigantic advantage to people being dishonest in giveaways. They are going to be getting so many more automatic positive feedbacks by default because many people who used to check their wins in time are not going to be doing so anymore.
In all honesty, I think that without there being a "check all" button, and with positive feedback happening automatically by a certain time even when giveaways
have not been checked by the winner, it is almost logically
required that the need to check giveaways in the first place be removed.
I mean, making it tedious to find out if you've even won a game (which the current system kind of is without a "check all" option) is just stacked so hard in the favor of scam giveaways getting an automatic default positive.
point 2: checking one by one is a chore, plus automatic notification of a win would be a refreshingly nice change
A couple other notes. As a long time user, the idea of getting notified automatically in some way when you've won (maybe the next time you visit IG a message pops up? Or maybe through some icon on the top, like the mail or notification icons, but a new icon for won giveaways?) sounds so nice, tbh.
After clicking to check one by one lately, that system is just... repellent. It genuinely makes me feel less excited to come here to see if I won anything or not.
Maybe think about like this. Imagine that some gives you a present. Sounds nice, right?
Now imagine that you don't unwrap the present to get what's inside. Nope. Instead, you have to open twenty boxes or more, one by one, every day. All you have to do is take off the cover to check what's inside, but most of them are empty. Most days all of them are empty. But if you want to get a present you have to open each box, individually, every single box, how ever many days it takes, until eventually, one day, one of them turns out to have an actual present inside.
Did that last paragraph in any way sound fun? Or did it sound very, very dumb and unfun? But that's exactly what the current system, without a "check all" button, feels like.
Sure, it's going to take a little time to enter giveaways every day. On the other hand, it should take
no time to find out if you won them.
