I'd be more okay with the idea of these lazy giveaway posts, if they took the rewards they made from said post and then gave it away in a following giveaway and just kept pooling it up every week for bigger giveaways. I don't think there's really anything wrong with doing the leave a comment and I'll pick a winner thing. So long as you're not profiting off it and you're working towards doing bigger and better giveaways. Kind of like a scuffed, dollar store brand Mr. Beast.
Otherwise, I agree, this does just seem very reminiscent of the good old bot vote farming days of Steem. I think your suggestion of doing something different is fine, but lets be real. 99.9 percent of these people are soulless husk zombies looking to suck up as much money as they can. Otherwise, most of these people would have started out doing something more unique, as it's really not that hard.
I agree, if people that did the giveaways increased the reward etc. it would be more acceptable. But they do not. As acidyo pointed out, the value they giveaway are usually around 5% of what they get.
I am going to be honest. I also thought about starting giveaways. But of course, with increased rewards compared to average. Did I still have some sort of profit in mind? I did. I think getting some profit from giveaways is not something bad by itself per your example Mr Beast. It can be a real win-win scenario. But people currently doing giveaways are taking a huge chunk of profit, and that is the main issue.
Maybe I should start that giveaway project.
Yeah, as I said if they enjoy doing this it's fine, it's just that they can't make it a profitable thing cause then they're only doing it because of that. Some kind of jackpot increasing pool would be one idea but they'd also gotta prove that when the pot is hit it's fairly going to a participant in provably ways not "trust me I rng'd this".
I'd just set up some guidelines for them, like any account entering has to be so and so months old or has to have a certain amount of activity in the last month. Use a RNG picker tool online (Which is easy to find/use, I was doing it on a twitter account giving away pokemon cards) Then just boot up OBS (Or, a screen capture app if doing it on the phone like a scuff lord) and either record the giveaway or go stream it. Could do it duck race style, or last one out wins style, whatever. Lots of different ways to do it that would make rigging very time consuming to do, especially for such small amounts.