Wishbone: *Snip*
The lesson here being "Don't beg strangers for games".
KneeTheCap: But yet we have a couple of "official" threads for that?
Don't know about those. However, my guess is that even there, posting with a rep of 0 (meaning your only reason for being on the forum at all is to beg for games) is frowned upon.
There is a difference between "gauging the possibility of a long-time fellow community member gifting you a game out of the goodness of their hearts and a known shared interest" and "entering a new community for the sole reason of brazenly asking for free games from people you have no prior or planned interaction with otherwise".