Vile Community

Hi smoo,
I'm sorry that you had this bad experience, don't lose hope because of one hiccup. Most of the time this is a friendly place to be in.

That doesn't excuse the bad behaviour you've seen, but that might explain it :

There are thousands of users here, and a lot of activity. Each and every day brings its share of assholes trying to abuse the system for their own benefit (alt accounts, misleading giveways, regifters, etc...), and these people are what is really toxic. Some other people - including me - have very little patience when it comes to dealing with these practices, and can sometimes be on a very short fuse.

However, there are rules, you can't just hop in and do your thing, hoping no one will get in your way. Rules are here to keep the site working and to prevent it from becoming chaos. You cannot "use the website for its content" and forget about the other users and rules.

I guess you accidently created a giveaway for Age of Empires II HD + The Forgotten Expansion and not Age of Empires II HD: The Forgotten. They probably thought you were trying to abuse the system by intentionally making a giveaway for another, similar item. Sadly, this happens quite often, so most people tend to suspect the worst. Don't take it too seriously, most of the people here are really nice, actually :)

Its cool, I love you.

...I honestly don't get it. Were you trying to give away the uh... DLC... and you got harassed for it because you "weren't allowed to give it away"? I mean, you can giveaway DLC, so I'm kind of lost. I think the people commenting were just rude.

It happens some are rude but the majority of the community is great for example look at DavidSarif and
JasmineMcCoy are great members who are big part of SG and its greatness.

Edit and we also have super cool moderators too like Bobofatt

@UndeadNecro: I accidentally selected the wrong game - instead of alerting me of my error they acted as described in my post.

@JasmineMcCoy: You're right. I've recreated now.

@DavidSarif: Of course I will accept the rules - but one should not expect that everybody knows the rules. And if one rule is broken it would help to inform the person about the rule that has been broken and not respond snappy with "banned and reported". After all, the people creating giveaways are gifting.

Hope it's right now: http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/chcDm/age-of-empires-ii-hd-the-forgotten

so you screwed up...and people called you on it...no big deal, but to say this site has a vile community is a bit melodramatic

Sorry to hear that.

Most of the community is actually pretty nice, but sadly some users tend to be mean to others from time to time.