Trid: I think you exaggerating a little here. It's thread for giving away games in fast way, that's all.
WPegg(OP) stated several pages back that this thread was made to give
anyone a chance to win a game quickly....no limits intended.
IMO riddles and the like allow anyone(with some effort) to grab said codes, while rep limits/join date limits unfairly limit some(albeit a small number) from getting a chance to win those games and I think it goes against the intent/"spirit" of the thread.
I'm not telling anyone what to do, just stating how I feel on the matter.
Robette: But Wpegg doesn't have an exhausting authority over what people make of his thread...
I agree with Azrael and Keeveek since having codes just vanish in the Internet nirvana does get very annoying and spoils the fun of giving anything. I really fail to see why someone would make this a matter of principal in regards of keeping the original arbitrary rule-set when it obviously struggles to handle the situation appropriately.
wpegg: Indeed I don't, and I wouldn't enforce any if I did. My comments were meant to indicate the spirit this thread was started in. It was fun at the start, just me giving away, but people all joined in with the banter, and there were no scripters. Once the thread went a little more general with the giveaways then the scripters appeared (I think they were just warming up when I was doing it). So once the scripters showed up it did of course have to change. However as GR said, there are other places to give games away, I'd hope people could keep the spirit of the thread going (all welcome, bar scripters) given how it attracted many people to GOG, and really showed our community's kindness.
Dammit, ninja'd by the original ninja himself. *bows*