If I'm not mistaken, you're in SFK's group which has forced giveaways as well. Slightly different, but forced nonetheless.

You can call that fun, I call the giveaways in this group fun. It's all a matter of opinion.

It's saying things like that, that makes me want to avoid you and your group ;) For me, it's about meeting some great people and giving away games is secondary. Never once have I had to say "Oh I have given away more games or my friend has given away more than double you". If you want to measure your dick against everyone elses, go ahead, I just won't care. I'm not that age anymore.

You wouldn't ask members to make giveaways if you believed in "lead by example and make a nice amount of giveaways yourself". In that case our attitudes towards steamgifts are very different. It's not about how big your wallet is or how much you give, it's all about your attitude first and your generosity later.

Seems to be self defeating and pointless. Isn't a gift something you do to be generous? Not something you do expecting something in return.

This group is more like SteamGambling than SteamGifts.

I respect your opinion. The only way to test this theory is to see how long this group lasts, I guess.

There are several points that I can poke at in your argument, though.
A) Based on your statements, I don't think you've seen the giveaways being made by this group. Hardly any are "cheap bargain" games. And most people that make these types of giveaways offer more than a single giveaway. You can look for yourself.
B) "the generous type are pissed by the group (and by SG in general)." I think most of the people in the group understand that there will be some people who can't afford to give away AAA games every month. One of the founding principles of this group is exactly that - some people may receive less than they give.

if there are 40 people buying crappy games as cheap as possible (or the games, everyone has already) and making giveaways once a month, there is totally no point in the group. i better don't spend my money on some crap, noone likes, that is bought just to stay in group. but there are always generous people, making some better odds for you, greedy pals.
Let's have a look at your last month life on SG. I'll use the price of some recent good deals for those games.
You gifted:
Razor 2 (w$3)
Orcs Must Die! ($3.5)
Binary Domain ($10 or even $3 in RU Steam if you know the right places)
double Rome: Total War ($1 each)
and Crysis Warhead ($5)
around $20 total. Those are 2 cheap games for 2 different private groups. One for September and one for October. And 2 random private giveaways (maybe private giveaways is some rule for another private group, who knows?) Wow! you are so generous!
And now for your winnings:
HBA3 BTA (~$6)
Just Cause 2 ($4)
Hydrophobia ($1.25)
Divinity II ($10)
Tiny Troopers ($8)
HBA2 ($1)
The Basement Collection ($4)
Orcs Must Die! 2 ($14)
Section 8: Prejudice ($4)
BioShock ($5)
The Ship ($1)
Doom Pack ($9)
Trine Collection ($9)
Sequence ($2)
Kaptain Brawe ($1)
Swords and Soldiers + DLC ($1)
Robin Hood ($2)
Chrome + SpecForce ($1)
Wich summs to around $80 per one month.
Ofcourse you are profiting from such a group and will defend it. 80-20=60! That's enough profit to gift a Skyrim or Borderlands 2 or anything big once a month:) That is if you are feeling a gifting spirit and want to return what you get. But you are not going to, you've spent those $7 and you are done for this month and gonna have all the benefits of naive generous people, entering this group through this exact thread.
And you desperately need those generous people. Because once, the group is 40 greedy people like you are, you will have to buy crap to win crap. That makes no sense, so the group will die.

but still worse, then a 100% chance of getting a game when you buy it=) well, maybe 95% to take care of being scammed.

why spam here if you couldnt apply anyway? are you mad bro? thanks for the FREE bumps