What do you think about giveaway groups?

I've already given ample opinion on leeching, though this isn't a topic I've covered in particular. I would voice my opinions on it, but seeing as they always seem to be wildly unpopular and you have already made it a case to refuse to engage in a serious discussion when seriously challenged, it seems rather futile to try. Instead, I'll pose the same argument which composed the core of your argument from before. Let's see how well you can argue against yourself:

Why should it matter to you? It's their money and they could do whatever they want with it. They can include or exclude whomever they please because in the end, they're still giving away a game, no matter the size of the pool of possible recipients. It's their right to do that and there are no rules against it. It doesn't matter if YOU think it's exploitation, since that's your own subjectivity and personal opinion about what constitutes exploitation talking. No rules are being broken and nobody is getting hurt. What matters is that they stay within the rules. So long as they do, why should it matter what they do with their giveaways and to whom it is offered?

Feel free to respond whenever, if you're up for the challenge. You have no obligation to do so, of course, though it would seem awfully odd that you dismiss your own arguments applied to a similar matter simply because they came from another.

+1 agree

There's quite a few points of discussion on here already, I only skimmed through most, so excuse me if my comments have already been made previously...
...I don't have issues with groups and how they choose to distribute GAs based on being a member on Steam.
What I stumbled upon recently is how these group admins are abusing their "power" to claim certain advantages. For e.g. a group with 1000s of members has more pulling weight, so often these guys request keys from game publishers and developers based on how big a group they have. Then, these guys get a key or two, use them for themselves, and then give a few away as a Group GA. Although this is beneficial to the group on some level, often I see a level of bullying these respective publishers and developers with bad reviews, etc. as an entire group if somehow they don't play ball. So ultimately, these guys getting free keys based solely on the numbers.

I wanted to post a separate discussion raising the same premise on whether Groups are good or bad on SG. If I now belong to 100 different groups, I potentially have more chances of winning keys, but then the potential for bullying on those groups continue to grow, the more people like me join. But the allure of a free key is often so great it doesn't matter what/how the admin run their Groups.

".. how is it alright for them to decrease the chances of people that only enter public giveaways? I think this is almost exploiting the website."
and
"I will probably only make whitelist and invite giveaways in the future, because of this. "
are directly contradictory.
hypocrisy imminent

I'm fine with groups existing. I join ones that are open to the public. I have no real interest in more exclusive ones, as all I can give away are a few cheap bundle keys now and again. But I contribute what I can.

I don't really find groups so bad here. There's a massive number of public, non-group giveaways here. On the other hand, Steam Companion should really change their name to "join my crappy Steam Group".

Some are great. But there are not many of those.

No poll = argument invalid!