Like I said on the GA thread, considering GOG's actions towards the community, and how it leads to it becoming more and more a bubble of sycophants, with whatever remaining more discerning users being, directly or indirectly, driven away or silenced, I'm not sure I can in all fairness say that I'd still want something celebrating and rewarding what will still count as the active GOG community on here.

But also wouldn't say no if it would be created, as long as the rules would remain largely the same, in terms of eligibility criteria, request limits, nomination rules and so on, with the notable exception of being able to jump the line by donating something. That should have never been allowed, something for the active community should actually be for active community members, and indeed "new entrants" should have the responsibility to point out their recent activity that they think makes them eligible, though the giveaway admin(s) should always have the final say and complaining about being rejected should be grounds for a "timeout", as in not allowed to try again for a certain amount of time, and in case of repeated offenses even a ban.
Have to disagree with the idea of people needing to choose between the possible future GOG giveaway and the Discord one though. If anything, the members of that Discord server should be seen as already vetted for eligibility for the GOG giveaway, while maybe, at finkleroy's discretion, members becoming eligible on that potential future GOG giveaway may, eventually, be allowed there as well.
As for the start of the month, it may indeed be a good idea for it to be counted from the moment the GA admin posts on the first of the month, to clarify things. But that's mainly because the GOG forum doesn't display the actual time of a post. If it would, a set timezone, whatever it may be, would be no problem whatsoever. And even so, it seemed to work well enough...
As for Doc possibly running the new incarnation, in some ways that would be awesome... In others, however, I'm not sure how much the time requirements would work out in the long run... And, well, I'll just go ahead and say it: As great as Doc's personal giveaways are, and as much as positive interaction between members is needed and should be encouraged here, I worry about both a penchant for leniency and too much of a drive for that positivity... Especially if it'll also extend to GOG, not just to other regular users, at a time when GOG deserves anything but any way, shape or form of positivity, in particular when it comes to their dealings with just this community.

Oh, about hosting the GA off GOG... Seems rather... weird to have the GOG community giveaway off GOG, wouldn't you say? Though I admit that the one obvious benefit is that it'd be safe from GOG's increasingly heavy handed and senseless moderation...