Currently, it’s difficult to tell whether a specific giveaway advertised in the Giveaway chat has been completed. I have an idea for a way to inform chat users quickly that a giveaway has been claimed, preventing them from wasting their time composing a message to the poster and helping the poster avoid an influx of PMs.

A “strikeout” feature that giveaway posters can use to strike through their message when the giveaway has been claimed may be the best and most efficient way to keep Giveaway chat clean and easy to read. This feature could be found on the same button users use to ping, block, copy, and flag messages. That way, posters will not be bothered with extra PMs and chat users will not waste their time on giveaways that have already been claimed.

Example situation:

A poster advertises a free lion in the Giveaway chat. One minute later, a user notices it and PMs the poster. Having gotten a response, the user strikes through their Giveaway post to avoid getting extra messages and sends the lion to the user. Another user opens the Giveaway chat and, seeing that the previous Giveaway is struck through, doesn’t PM the poster.