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These Gold Giveaways are getting a little old. There's at least one giveaway on the last 6 pages of General Discussion.
I know it's nice and all to give Gold to other members and such, but do you have to make a post about it? It seems like a cry for attention for gifting.
I wish people would just gift the active members that they notice around the forums, not sift through pages of begging people.
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I think in honesty some do it for easy rep/thanks

But you also have to consider that some genuinely don't know who to gift and look through the posters for someone with decent enough rep/posts
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Ive gifted gold to people before. I never do a giveaway though. I just casually gift it to them if they seem like they know what there doing.
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Nervic wrote Ive gifted gold to people before. I never do a giveaway though. I just casually gift it to them if they seem like they know what there doing.


Exactly. You don't need a topic and 5 pages of replies to make a decision.
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I acknowledge with you. What if the person wins is on this site one hour a day, but the there's active members who aren't lucky enough to win.
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There may be ulterior motives in play when users do Gold Giveaways, but it is mostly done as it provides a fun and exciting way for non-gold users to have a chance in getting gifted. Also, if you take into consideration the amount of people who gift gold, and then the amount of active/helpful members on the site, many people tend to struggle with finding deserving users to gift, that is why they do gold giveaways.

Sure people get more thanks/rep from hosting the giveaways opposed to looking for deserving users, but hey, whatever, thanks/rep is really only cosmetic.
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I entered once I got it, haha.

But I can't really say it bothers me, but I do think that it was better when it wasn't allowed, when people actually had to do something to earn the gift of gold, instead of now entering a number or something like that.
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iv'e done 3 giveaways and i do not ask for thanks nor rep i just like giving everyone whos active in the community a chance of winning gold no matter how many posts/rep they have nor when they joined this site
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I think you might also have to consider the fact that gifting randomers sometimes works well.

When I first got gifted, I was on 300 posts. By the end of that month, I was completely involved with the site. I literally spent all day on the FIFA forums. It can be a great motivator.
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Why not just let people do what they please with their money? At the end of the day, they're not hurting anybody, and they are contributing towards the site.
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