Breja: Or you're trying to find people who want the games, and to spread some positivity around the forum. And often the giveaways are made into something more creative, and are a fun game unto themselves. You're being a jerk about people being nice and generous.
See, this right here is why a subforum for people who want the games and giveaways would be ideal. And generosity isn't universally positive, it has tradeoffs in the form of wasted time and useless threads. This is why giveaways are banned in e.g. the
Terraria forum on Reddit. Leeching off giveaways is an extremely inefficient source of income.
And no, gifting to each other isn't "generosity" -- it's a hobby, arguably a fun one, arguably one that should be enabled by the staff and infrastructure here on GOG.
Hell, today is my birthday. Most offices where I worked have birthday gift customs: the worker buys cakes/pies/pizza and everyone else donates money for a small gift (the rest of the collected money is presented as money). (If it's a boss's birthday, the boss provides more food, alcohol, non-alcoholic alternatives, and all the collected money is spent on a substantial gift.) Now, I'm not a boss, but due to my culture/beliefs, there's a whole range of common gifts I cannot accept and a whole range of birthday wishes that are at best insensitive and at worst super fucking offensive. And I'm very thankful to the secretary who bought me an awesome gift and made sure no one said anything dumb. That was really awesome of her. But people giving me cash is not generous, it's just custom.
edit: thank you for being the voice of reason in the story thread.