(ø,ø): Or maybe, just maybe, it's a case of some just
want without putting in any effort at all, while others puts in the tiniest fraction of effort to be present.
Braggadar: Pretty sure you can find pre-coded solutions online which facilitate automated notifications. You don't have to be able to code these days, you just need to find someone who has done the work for you.
I'm on this forum frequently. In fact I post more than twice a day and read responses even more than that. And strangely enough I'm always too late to request a normal key. Funny that, eh? Back in finkleroy's time (and I believe even lone_scout) I had even less time on my hands and yet I still didn't find it as hard as I do now to be on time for a request.
Let me be clear: what I do in posting on the forum isn't for the benefit of receiving a gift. It's always an afterthought - the primary reason I'm here is to engage with the community in meaningful discussion. Same reason I engage with the Reddit sub, the Discord servers and other smaller communities scattered across the web.
If it weren't for the discussion I wouldn't be here.
Maybe that's my failing? Chatting to others and reading from the forum rather than sitting and refreshing the giveaway thread? Maybe I should put less effort in engaging with the people of this place and instead put more effort in on trying to get a gift?
Of course, that would mean that there's no nefarious plan going on in the background, no paranoid scheme happening, but people are free to believe whatever they want to believe. I choose to live in world that isn't riddled with paranoia.
Braggadar: We're not discussing a "nefarious plan" but merely investigating the possibilities over why the games are being requested so quickly after a drop. No twiddling of mustachios, reciting monologues or tying innocents to railway tracks, just the all-too-common human phenomenon of people who take advantage of charity at any means necessary at a detriment to their fellow man.
It wasn't directed solely at you. Maybe I missed any earlier mentions, but I believe the idea of people using bots originated from a user who's already shown their paranoid opinions and misguided crusades for justice in a couple of other discussions. Sadly, some minds will let themselves be influenced by such ideas, no matter the source.