I'm sorry that your experience has been bad. I've had both bad (no reply, no courteous thanks), the appreciative (a quick thank you e-mail reply or message via steam) and the beyond good - Steam friends who now ask if I want a game that they have before they toss it up here.

Just tonight after my Batman Arkham City GOTY winner I met a lovely Dutch guy and we had a chat for a good 30 minutes discussing our education - he's about to graduate and I graduate within the next year (12 months) in two of the three degrees I'm studying for.

At the end of the day, my motto is - expect nothing, appreciate a thank you and if you get more than that then you've really got something more than what you came here for. I look at it when I throw games on here that nobody owes me anything. I chose to put my games up when I could have quite easily put it on SteamTrade and gotten a game I didn't have for it.

I like to think there's still that bit of goodness in the SG community, I still see it.

I'm sorry for your bad experience with the site, you're not the first person who complains of lack of thanks. Let me hope they are going to play the game, if they don't that would be worse.

I don't care about thank yous. All I care about is to make people smile.
I do it by words, by gifts, by actions.
Every time.
Because that's the sense of my life.

When you're setting a high contribution value, you're basicaly giving away games to people who can afford them themself. No wonder some of them aren't even grateful and don't care to say 'thanks'.

Not accepting a friend request is not a valid criticism. Not everyone accepts every single friend request sent their way.

I dont know about you but i usually provide my winners with torrent links. That way i don't care if they wont say thanks since i didnt bought those games anyway

It's luck, I guess. Almost all of my winners have been polite.

I try to be as nice as possible. I know I can't speak for everyone else but maybe you just happen to meet the wrong people? But I do understand, common courtesy has lost it's way, the only thing we can do to change this is to be nice to others and hope that they do the same, right?

tbh, you just must have bad luck because most of my experiences have been at least civil. Although, it seems as you like to send gifts to ppl in chat. I email all my winner's with the codes/gift. That way, I don't have to interact with any douchebags, because they piss me off as well. I even get like 40%-50% of my giveaway winners' sending me back a thank you email or thanking me on chat when I come online.

I'm nice C:

Yeah, I agree with you.

yep! you're totally right, I haven't met any people who didn't say thanks but I can imagine..
I'm with you with politeness, it's just basic stuff. I guess some people are just raised like "Take everything you can"
anyways, you should join a community where people are kind, so you'll actually enjoy giving away games xD
Just my opinion though :)

It's just statistics/luck of the draw. I've had some really nice people win some of my public giveaways, and I always try to thank people if I win one.

Why not make your own group without the rules you don't like?

"Am i surrounded by ungrateful 10 year olds?"

Probably.

So, you're saying that you have NO MORE FAITH in the community?

Personally I always thank the person, usually multiple times but not everyone has manners here, if anything this place is a reflection of society.

I understand your frustration though.

Thank You

Your name matches the thread's theme.(ohh someone is faster than me)

Also I'm sorry for you,it happened to me once and it sucks but we have to endure.FOR OUR CHILDREN!

i'm drunk right now (Christmas Party), that's maybe why i wrote that stuff,

You must be so mature. xDDDDD

This is a site where free things are given away, sadly that means it will attract the scum of Steam to it, so yeah there are quite a few people like that, it's just the nature of a site giving away free things with no obligations :<

It's not just this community, OP. People are assholes everywhere.

You're kidding right? My experience on steamtrades has been scammers and beggars galore.

i beg to differ, all the receivers of my gifts have been charming (though admittedly only 1 of my giveaways were public)

and as for all the nice guys being over at steamtrades, there are way more assholes on steamtrades than here

You're complaining because the gifter couldn't let you thank him? Oh, grow up. Shove your politeness up your