In addition to a lot of great people, there are sadly also a lot of immature douchey trolls around here who apparently think it's funny to downrep people for doing exactly what the thread is for.

I also have a key for Ziggurat. It expires on the 24th, though. I donated it to the community giveaway, and it's a freebie, so even if you wouldn't normally qualify for the giveaway, you can still get it from there. If nobody requests and redeems it by the 21st, I'm going to try to give it away here or in the expiring codes thread. All you have to do is ask for it in the giveaway thread, though.

You mean this spring? Damn i missed it.

No. This is the thread were you give a heads up whenever a third party site is doing a temporary giveaway, like Indiegala, Humble, Steam free weekends and the such. But from time to time, and especially during big sales, it gets inundated by key drops, so I couldn't blame you for thinking otherwise.

This is the thread you're looking for.

Torch Cave 2 is free on Indiegala.
https://www.indiegala.com/store

Quake Champions free on steam

I said this multiple times (to others). But according to the OP you are unfortunately wrong.
"Since it is getting a bit crowded here is one central topic for free (temporary) keys giveaways.
Also feel free to post/share any spare keys for those that don't have Facebook or missed it"

Not a single word about third party sites. These free keys and spare keys therefore could as well originate from GOG itself. So if people read the OP (which they are supposed to do before posting in any thread) it's also understandable that they might think this is the correct thread to do so. So people are downvoting without any reason. Also - even if this should be the wrong thread (and yes, since the OP was posted a long time ago this thread turned to have the main purpose to mostly just point out free giveaways from third party sites - so this is correct as well) it would be much more constructive to simply tell them why they are wrong than to just downvote their posts. As you could see, at least some of the users that got downvoted did not get WHY this was the case. So without any explanations and without the users having posted pretty bad or insulting things it's kind of understandable they are confused as to why they are getting downvoted.

Completely agree about the pointlessness of downvoting without providing any explanation. That's simply Bad Pedagogy 101.

However, and as it has been extensively demonstrated in the GOG/Non-GOG Community Giveaway threads, the contents of the OP are simply irrelevant. Nobody reads them, especially in threads as huge and long-lived as this one. So yeah, even though the OP "set the rules" back in July 2014, the fact is that there already existed a Ninja Giveaway post (and a v2.0, on top of that) back then, so I don't think it's a bad idea to encourage to use that one for code drops.

That said, I know it's a lost battle so I don't really care what people do. I was simply explaining to Eventice the likely reason for the downvoting.

Understood and accepted.
But if we really don't care at all about any rules - because nobody is reading them - why are we making them in the first way ;)

Barclay: The Marrowdale Murder, Rage Parking Simulator 2016, Sleengster, Sleengster 2, Torch Cave, Torch Cave 2 giveaway https://www.indiegala.com/store#giveaway

All removed games though

Especially in very long threads many people first look in the OP to see what is "allowed" and what is not. So the only solutions I see to solve this problem are: a) start a new thread; b) find a moderator/admin who is willing to edit the OP accordingly; c) accept that during sales people will post codes.

Because we can discuss this topic as long and often as we want - with every new GOG sale there will again be many people who share their codes here ...

You obviously don't follow the Community Giveaway threads. xD

As for the rest, and as I said before, I don't care what people do or don't in this thread, so I go with c).

Well ... you're right with that! So I guess people there usually don't look in the OP? In that case maybe my use of the phrase "many people" was far-fetched and should be replaced by "some people" ... ;-)

Exactly. The regulars don't read the OP because they already know how they work, and most of the newcomers go straight to the last page and ask for a game isn't even in offer. Best case scenario they ask how do those threads work, even though the OP with the rules has been stickied at the top of each page (or used to be in the Non-GOG thread).

Free permanent copy of Swords & Soldiers HD! https://store.steampowered.com/app/63500/Swords_and_Soldiers_HD/

Wait - what. It became unstickied AGAIN? Zeo should stop editing the OP (since it becomes unsticky at this moment). Guess I will have to tell Judas about this AGAIN. Thanks for telling.