Built-in Giveaway System

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Basically a system like the Accounts section,
you list all the information about the giveaway, and amount of winners, how many prizes etc
And then at the end of the giveaway the website automatically picks the winner to prevent rigged giveaways.
 
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Could be hard to implement but isnt a bad idea.
 

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The system could not picked users with a specific user group?
(That is if banned members get a usergroup) or else a staff member could pick a member at random?
 

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What if some people or several were banned and they got chosen? What would happen then, I would assume you couldn't just re-roll.
I think the system would only pick active members on the site that have not been banned.
 

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Could be useful, I just hope it's not overly restrictive when it comes to the type of contest you can hold.
 

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Could be useful, I just hope it's not overly restrictive when it comes to the type of contest you can hold.
I'm no expert in any way, but I think just by making multi-choice options and plenty of variables this feature can be very flexible in what type of giveaways this allows.[DOUBLEPOST=1515799363][/DOUBLEPOST]Even a simple system where instead of "Up Thread" there is a "Random Account Picker" where the bot automatically picks a winner and announces it on a official account
 
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I agree that at the moment the contests & giveaways section isn't really in a good state right now, so I am looking into how we should automate the system further.

I'll move this to pending and unlock it so that we can get more feedback. Thanks for the suggestion.
 

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Automating the giveaways system was something that I previously thought was quite important, and I even went as far as to custom develop a system with an "Enter Giveaway" button which added you to a list and a winner could be randomly selected.

Unfortunately the system has been far too barebones to be practical or useful to users, so we've decided not to bring it forward to our XF2 site. We're not a giveaways platform, and developing something powerful enough to benefit users is infeasible to us given our priorities lay elsewhere (mainly with resource improvements).

Denied, thanks for the suggestion.
 
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