SalarShushan: I remember Xylem's giveaways too. I never won any of them, but I enjoyed entering and thinking up clever/silly things to add to the giveaway threads that seemed to like that approach. I seem to remember doing something of the sort for him/her. Whatever happened to Xylem? Was someone ungrateful? Hope he/she does come back. Seemed like a very good-tempered person, and that sort is the heart of any good community. Xylem's continuing goodwill gave me more reasons to check back, obviously. Every time I did and saw any thread that I could relate to, I answered it. As I said, most regular threads seemed to be about shooters and thrillers.

I am genuinely grateful for any giveaways, although so far I have been given only the little puzzle one from Zurvan. Thank you again, Zurvan!

nijuu: Some ungrateful member complained about too many giveaway threads. Cant remember who exactly......

SalarShushan:

Sachys: no problem!

"Di na'ua freys tinnae y toase awa!"

nijuu: Might be idea to take sausage out before u speak.....

Sachys: Don't make fun of my native language oh speaker of burntshrimpinmoof!

teshra: No, I imagine its the same group of forum leechers "who believes just that one sentence". Which again I remind you was paraphrased very erroneously and completely out of context. Leechers are allowed to have high rep just as easily as they can have low rep. As I've said before, all high rep means is you've been here a while and you post a lot. New people just haven't been afforded that opportunity yet but give them time....as long as these forums continue to be a haven for that freeloading behavior.

You see the same group of leechers trolling the boards ALL THE TIME looking for dropped codes and free games at every opportunity in any thread. You always see the same group of people instantly the moment a key is dropped, either locking the key or taking it for themselves because they "couldn't resist". The same group is within the first handful of entrants anytime a giveaway is made - why? Because they know their leeching brethren will come thru behind them and add additional entries for them. Not out of the kindness of their own leeching hearts, but because they already have the game and don't need it again unless they do want it if only to trade it for something else or regift it themselves in a later giveway to "show" that they do give back to the community.
The sad thing is that the true gifters, the people with truly generous hearts aren't here in the forums that often so when they do come in, they don't look around to see this type of behavior standing out and they just drop the code(s) or make the giveaway and carry on with their daily lives. All the while not realizing the person who took that code or won that game, already had a lot of wins recently and has a library full of free games and yet they are still here on these forums at all hours of the day, all the time, continuing to look for that next freebie.
No the only difference with the veteran leechers and the new leechers is many of the vets are more sneaky most of the time and don't stand out like a sore thumb as much as the newbies do. Although, even a handful of newbies are starting to come around now and understand how to not stand out like that dude with -85 rep does.

You see the same type of leeching in the two gifting threads every time GOG or Steam come out with a new promo, saying its their most wished for game or some such nonsense and they really hope to be given that game. You don't think people who go thru those two threads to gift games notice these obvious trends from the same people day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year? As if its a single downrepper like you guys so often proclaim. No, the truth is more and more people are probably just getting sick of seeing the same people bumping their requests ALL THE TIME and adding a new game to their wishlist every day based on whats for sale that day.
Heck, some of these people never once posted in the Secret Santa thread (even though you know they all saw it) when that event was active but as soon as it ended and people started talking about what they got and how much fun it was, and some people even started offering up more games, a couple of the leeching crew invited themselves right on in to try to partake now that the secret gifting was over and open gifting was underway. I was actually glad to see the majority of freeloaders were smart enough to still stay away but for a few of them, they just can't stay away from free games no matter what.

As for your pms issue, you realize you sent that to me during the Thanksgiving holiday period in the states when I was otherwise preoccupied with work and family a lot. I'm sorry if I chose to spend the time there instead of instantly responding to something derogatory and ridiculous thrown towards me on the internet. I was going to respond to you eventually when time allowed but before I got around to it, you sent another rude pm, called me a coward and blocked me from sending you any pm's. So in actuality, your true character was seen there and showed me what kind of person I was dealing with. A person who behaves in that way isn't looking to discuss anything really so yah, glad I don't have to bother with your pms issues anymore.

Feel free to discuss any of this further, out in the open and not thru cowardly pm's. Have a lovely rest of your day on the GOG forums.