Totally deserved !

What aspects of managing raffles don't you like?

Getting people to number their entries sequentially is the main trick - folks have time to edit afterwards in the case of a clash. If there's a duplicate, too bad - take the first person with that number.

When you select the numbers, you don't have to post a picture, just say the number and the winner. Unless I've entered, in which case I'm always the winner. ;)

Leave checking for compliance with any rules, like having...
* favoured the raffle gallery piece,
* favoured at least three other gallery pieces,
* left a reference,
* left a character matching your stated limits,
* being a watcher,
* leaving a code word,
* not being a blank or very new account
* whatever
... to just the first winner - if they failed to comply, just quietly choose another number: no need to tell them - they won't know anyway: it's a raffle.

No management if you put the onus on the entrants!

Give a closing date, post a final 'closed now' entry at the end and/or lock it for comments.


All of which said, if you're raffling to say thanks to your current supporters, then it's better to hold a raffle for your existing watchers, or most active watchers.

Also, congratulations, of course! :D

Oh, and check that the winner hasn't entered twice. Which I've accidentally managed once or twice. :P

I'm lazy that's it :D
On twitter there is (or was, idk anything about twitter anymore) tools to draw from comments and automatically exclude alt/bot acc

and thankss

Hee.

I always shudder when I see folks hold raffles and elect to assign the numbers by hand! Talk about doing it the hard way!

Raffle rules are a bit like programming - I love process documents. I'd hold a raffle myself, but the last time I did nobody came, so I declared myself the winner and drew something for myself. :)

Congrats on 1k!

Congrats ^.=.^

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