agree, as a Splinterlands player since 2018, most of the people I follow are players, and I'm tired of seeing posts and being mentioned in posts about penny card giveaways. Frankly, this doesn't add anything to the game, nor to Hive, nor to the winner of the penny card. The only one who benefits is the post creator. There are better ways to grow in the game, and the game itself already helps with that through its weekly contests and good votes for quality content. Doing penny card giveaways in a game that is becoming more competitive every day is a bit strange and pointless, but now you raised a point I hadn't thought of before, about the giveaway organizer drawing themselves in a fake account. Well, many things happen in Hive, so I wouldn't be surprised by that. Regarding giveaways, I no longer participate in Splinterlands giveaways. Occasionally, I participate in giveaways for other games that I don't want to invest in, but want to play to test. I recently saw a quality post from an influential person on Hive, so I decided to participate in their giveaway since it was interesting, had dynamic rules, and brought engagement to those who participated, instead of just leaving their nicknames. I participated and, to my surprise, only 3 more people participated. In other words, people just want to win automatically, with the least possible effort, just by leaving their nicknames in giveaways
Here's the giveaway I found the rules interesting https://peakd.com/hive-140217/@underlock/battle-deck-challenge-splinterlands
Here we can see total number of participants
https://peakd.com/hive-140217/@underlock/battle-deck-challenge-results-splinterlands
Now talking about relevant content that adds value to those who post or comment on sweepstakes, I leave here my memory from 3 years ago of the draw held by @Goldmatters
(Looks like I don't follow him on hive or it's a bug on my mobile device I'll check later on Desktop and follow)
That giveaway was one of the most incredible things that happened to me on stemm.. I won my first GFL , it was a well-designed hard-to-win giveaway bringing engagement to the creator and Participants, it was all wonderful and fun and after 4 rounds we had a winner I https://steemit.com/mene/@goldmatters/gold-foil-legendary-giveaway-update-4-final-hint-by-goldmatters. Unfortunately I sold it afterwards :( I still regret it, I like the game and collecting cards, I haven't sold anything for a long time.But on the other hand, I'll never forget that draw, it was all so much fun.