Since giveaways are so popular on gog.com forums, don't you think there should be a separate sub-forum? There could be a link just below the General Discussion. Everyone loves giveaways, I love giveaways - but I also love reading interesting topics which are getting lost in the sea of giveaway threads(because those get constantly bumped when a new person enters). I admire people giving away the games for free, someday might make one myself, but only in the specific sub-forum :)

I agree, giveaways are nice, but it's such a specific topic it should have its own area.

I highly agree.

I think this has been suggested before...

searches wishlist...

Wow. Apparently not. I can't find a wish for it at all.

I support this idea.

Create an entry on the wishlist and I will vote for it.

I was thinking about this recently as well. In fact, maybe it's overkill, but I think General Discussion could be split into:

- Gaming (all, GOG or elsewhere)
- Off-Topic (anything not related to games)
- Contests and Giveaways

Here, I made a site feature suggestion on the wishlist:

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/giveaway_subforum

Not sure why we don't have sub-forums here, it works for the individual games. We desperately need an off-topic.

I'd also be for an giveaway sub-forum.

My guess is they don't want to moderate (i.e. move all the threads people create in general just to get more views).

I'll mod for games! :p

Only if there is a reputation restriction (i.e. one rep star) in order to see/post in said subforum. Otherwise I don't see why we'd need to separate.

edit: sp

I'd feel kind of guilty logging on and heading right to a sub forum for gifting. I love to give and to recieve but making it it's own forum would make it feel like it was the only reason to come here, and for a few folks it would be; they'd show up head to the gift section and plant themselves there.

Well then the problem doesn't lie there but more of a not-found-way to stop scammers and people only trying to get free games. That's also a better problem to have than the current flood of different types of threads, at least that's my opinion.

There was one IT guy here that said he was working on something a few months ago but I'm not sure if anything happened.

Alternatively you can go to ->"My Settings", and try to increase your "Topics per forum page". Honestly the giveways just occupy like 1/8 of the first 50 topics.

Agreed. I'm really too new to give any site recommend and it's actually easier to just ignore scavengers, still, thought I'd throw it out there. Now that I think about it, it might make the giveaways more creative ie: you want to be eligable for something, prove you actually use the forum for something other than handouts.

I don't understand this need to categorize everything. The General forum is already off-topic, that's why it's called "General" and not something specific like "Talk about GOG here". That's actually one of the reasons I like these forums so much more than others, there is no artificial division of users along interest lines. It's like going to a large party with interesting people all over the room who can talk about anything you like. Want to talk politics? Head over to this thread here. Sick of talking politics and want to talk games now? These guys in this thread have some interesting things to say. Oh look, that one is about music I like, I think I'll head there next. Variety, it's a good thing.

While I agree, a giveaways/self-promotion sub-forum might be nice, simply for the convenience of it, dividing the general forum into multiple sub-forums for every possible topic that general already covers would be pointless and far too much hassle, both for us and the GOG staff.