Gift or giveaway

I likes your gifts :3

Can I say that I didn't understand the question at all?
What happened, exactly?

Gift the way you feel more confortable with, who cares about blacklists and beggers? ignore 'em

Just gift the way you like :)

I'd say do whatever makes you happy. If people don't accept the friend request then that is also fine, move on to the next person. It doesn't sound like you are hurting anyone. Have a cat.

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Gift the way you like it :)

I say do what makes you happy. People will always blacklist for one reason or another.

I don't know what constituted a "non standard forum giveaway", but the blacklisting that you mentioned genuinely shocks me. I can understand the denied friend requests, though, because if they were completely random, people may have automatically declined because they didn't recognize you. I used to get a bunch of random friend requests when scamming was more rampant, and I had gotten into the habit of just denying them (although most of them seemed to be bots).

wow... those who turned down your friend requests must were so unfortunate haha.
must be terrible to know that they were -this- close to getting a game.
anyways how you want to give your gifts are entirely up to you i guess. you know what they say... haters gonna hate

Just don't worry about it as you don't worry about CV :)

I put you on a list, I don't use the naughty list so you know which one it is :)

Times are tough, crooks rampant, people afraid of scammers, many will just ignore random friend requests.

I agree with ragecry:

Gift the way you feel more confortable with, who cares about blacklists and beggers? ignore 'em

So, you're basically Santa Claus, but people misunderstand you, that about right? If they don't want to accept your generosity, then it's their loss. I say give away however you prefer.

feel free to give away things however you prefer, they are yours to give after all

Gifting is great but can be misunderstood. If your profile is public then people should be able to see your not a scammer and accept. If I gift someone I try to contact them here first via a forum reply.

No. Do what you want to do, not what other want you to do or expect from you. There will be assholes and jackasses everywhere, pay them no mind and just remember that they are in the minority vs those who appreciate your gesture.

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I'd say you should get obsessed with CV and make Whitelist-only forum giveaways. That way you can keep all that juicy CV and keep away dirty not-deserving low level peasants. :)))))

Not sure I can get to grips with people who don't like random gifts :) - I tried giving someone a key for free on steam and whilst they did accept it - and made it a piece on their giveaway page - they were very confused that I did not want anything for it :)

I wouldn't feel right taking a gift directly from someone because I don't feel like I did anything to deserve it. Maybe it would be better to clear your whitelist and only invite a few people that you want to give a certain game to. Only have 1 whitelist giveaway at a time so you know that those people will be able to enter for just that game. Or if you really wanted to, you could only put the 1 person on your whitelist and see if they enter the giveaway being the only person able to enter.

Do whatever you want to do. You probably got BL by people who don´t make giveaways as most people do, so just don´t worry and be happy.
Some people only accept invites if they know why they were added.
Hopefully for every douchy blacklist you get a nice whitelist.
I like the idea of doing invite only givs for 10 or so people who did something nice. It´s enough to get CV, but low enough so people know they have a shot.

I'm not sure if I understood correctly despite your answers, so let me try:

You are currently preferring to buy games/keys and just drop those on other people as normal gifts. Sometimes on random people. Not through this site, but just approaching them and gifting them a game out of the blue.
And now you are wondering if you should use this site, gaining CV in the process, with the added bonus of the winner actually expecting something from you, with less chance to not accept your friend request.

Is that right?