Emachine9643: StarGate-1?!

rampancy: I'll actually agree with past comments made by people like hedwards and say that, IMHO, a lot of the blame comes from people who still drop naked or barely obfuscated Steam keys and gift codes as if it were still 2008. If people were more responsible about adhering to things like TBBBOB and MAHAYO, I think that things wouldn't be as bad as they are now.

But that's also hand in hand with GOG's web team continuing to ignore the myriad problems raised with the forum, and support even helping scammers by helping them change their usernames. I understand that the support team doesn't know what the web team is doing and they may not even pay attention to the forums, but when people are admitting to screwing over others in public on the forum, it doesn't look good when you don't even bother to do at least some cursory looking into people requesting a username change.

Add to this the people who would scream bloody murder and censorship at even the mention of moderation on the forums (with laissez-faire mod practices even touted as a feature of your forum community), and you have a company who even may have an incentive to not care about their forum community.

Momo1991: GOG clearly doesn't support gifting here... heck, even threads that gift GOG codes aren't moderated! Come over to SG and at least you can gift freely, up your level without losing "rep" and level up to have a better chance of winning GA's.

For those of you gifting your extra, unwanted Steam keys, at least stop dropping them here without some kind of system in place to ensure they aren't going to NES-alt accounts that will just trade them.... At least stop dropping free-range codes that any bot can pick-up and redeem on alt-Steam accounts that are then resold.

Seriously people, get a clue. GOG has become a major magnet for scammers and leechers. Sad day for the Momo to say this but buy your drm-free games here but find another place to off-load your extra Steam codes.... at least get some "rep" for them over on SG. :-)

dick1982:

tort1234: 1. Gifting is a private issue between two or more people. There is no reason for gog to interfere in it, just like the government does not interfere in the private matters of people.

2. What is your definition of a "scammer" ? People like apehater are going around calling anyone with low rep a scammer.

3. If you don't like how people are doing giveaways then mind your own business.

tort1234: 1. Gifting is a private issue between two or more people. There is no reason for gog to interfere in it, just like the government does not interfere in the private matters of people.

2. What is your definition of a "scammer" ? People like apehater are going around calling anyone with low rep a scammer.

3. If you don't like how people are doing giveaways then mind your own business.

Momo1991: Come over to SG and at least you can gift freely, up your level without losing "rep" and level up to have a better chance of winning GA's.

dick1982: hedwards hates moderation and "censorship". so i'm not sure what you're agreeeing with here.

tinyE: We wouldn't even need mods for that, and god knows I don't want mods.

Niggles: Once "mods" start appearing and fixing stuff on forums, it opens a whole can of worms....

gamefood: Trust me when I say that I never gifted a cretan, neither on this site nor anywhere else.

(Shipping would be tooo expensive)

ChaunceyK: SG? I know I'm out of the loop on a lot of goings-on here, but what is SG?

RWarehall: SG = Steamgifts. It is a site designed for giveaways and has rules that can get an account kicked off the site if they don't redeem the won code and trade it instead. There is also a GoG Steamgifts group. It's pretty much a well thought out giveaway site that has learned from the experience of scammers everywhere.