I don't get it.. What custom url? =)

A suggestion was made that, instead of generous people policing their own giveaways, GOG should discourage* new users from signing up** in order to maybe inconvenience a couple scammers. I pointed out how great an idea that was.

*give us your phone number and we'll send you one stupid joke per second for $3 per joke.
** sign up and get free stuff! but you need to give us your credit card number, because we'll secretly bill you $500 if you don't unsubscribe.

Dude, relax with the sarcasm. It makes it hard for people to understand you.


So it seems this icecube guy wont stop trying to scam people, wont stop trying to mess up the GOG community because he finds it very amusing. So I now think the GOG community must choose the lesser of two evils. And that is, a 100 or more rep requirement for all trades and giveaways. A GOG police state community is better than no GOG community.

It did, thank you.

That's not how it works. The GOG community is a bunch of individuals, not a unified entity which such "rules" may be forced upon. If I want to give a game to someone with -10 rep, I'll give a game to him/her. If someone else won't give anything to anyone with less than 3000 rep, that's his/her decision. Stop mixing gifting and trading - they are not the same.

Those who wish to trade will do so completely at their own risk - the community as a whole has absolutely no obligations in regards to making such trades safe, nor is it possible to make them completely safe (without a trusted third party escrow service in place, which would necessitate changes in GOG's code/system - not something they should waste time on).

What is wrong with you? Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything. I think the GOG community must choose the lesser of two evils in order to combat this scammer. If people don't want to combat the scammer, they don't have to.

I don't know - is there something wrong with me?

I disagree with you on two accounts:
1) Talking about what the "community" "must" do, and
2) lumping giftig and trading together.

The first one because the members of this community have only one thing in common - they post in this forum. Apart from that we're as different as can be; you won't have to read this forum for very long to discover that just about everyone disagrees with just about everyone else in at least a few matters. There can be no "GOG police state community". It's not possible (nor the only "solution").

The second because gifting is not about trust at all, while trading is all about trust. Apart from at least one game exchanging hands, they have nothing in common.

Sorry for the slow response had to eat, The steam id profile/webpage - steamcommunity/id/username

You took my "police state" too literally. Of course, there will never be a real GOG police state. Gifting is about trust if you don't want to gift your game to a scammer.

It's OK. I was just wondering because I didn't find myself in steamrep or such but I got it when I explored steam settings for a while. Never really had looked those in detail.

Yeah it's the sort of thing you don't think about till it becomes and issue, you would think it would be set up automatically when you make your account >.<

Might be a good idea to thoroughly bomb his country. Just kidding, simply kill his family and dog.

Edit: I wouldn't be surprised if the bitch was brazilian, but reading this Wakalo guy's posts, I noticed he used a Portugal portuguese slang and tone that I don't think would come from Google Translate, so he might be from Portugal after all, in case someone's tracking him down to murder him.

Random conspiracy time.

Anyone kind of... bothered by the number of "Thank you GOG!" posts that have cropped up lately? It wasn't uncommon before, but there's a significantly higher number of them since this scammer business started. It's such an easy way to bait +1s that I can't help but be suspicious about it.

But more on topic, this isn't the ideal space to trade anyway. It's a site about GOG, not a site about ferocious bartering. GOG staff do not and should not have to do anything about this. Trade elsewhere. Do rep requirements for giveaways. Done.

Endless debates about moderation and police states is just feeding into it. Obviously this guy is on an insane messed up power trip, it's just kind of sad.

Guess I suck then, haha.

Just kidding, I was a lurker for a long time, only started posting a month ago or so.

Not sure about the first paragraph, but the rest I agree with. Trades don't really concern GOG very much. But this is about users helping other users not to get tricked.

I thought the original question about rep pertained to the Steamgift GOG gifting club (which doesn't exist). That should be left up to Ubivis and maybe the other administrators.

For other contests and giveaways, that should be left up to the creator of the contest or giveaway. How can there be a question about that?

For random gifting, as mentioned by pH7 and possibly others, that's a random or not-so-random act of generosity. You can't really scam someone doing that... well, maybe if you're laying on some thick sob story hoping to get pity or something... that's a different story.

Same with posting codes for ninjas. You're basically throwing something out in the wild. Respect and common courtesy would hopefully cause the redeemer to at least say thanks, but sadly this is not always the case.

I think the original point behind this thread is sound even though Anasto / Wakalo / Jota / Joao changes his name on here constantly. At least it might increase awareness and if we can nail down the unique Steam ID numbers that he uses, that would also be helpful.

This thread began as a list of user IDs for a person who said they would trade and then scammed the person out of a game by breaking their end of the bargain.