To be honest, how exactly are people that only stalk or collect keys from these drop threads any better than lurkers and scripters? It's not like they contribute to the CAG community at large either (especially those who never drop a key either).
I dunno. I find a lot of the attitudes here toward "guest" lurkers quite hypocritical
Honestly, it's the nature of the beast. If you can get something for free and all you have to do is be the fastest, you'll get people that subscribe to forums and check in often. (Maybe a LOT.) With smart phones, it only compounds things. I, myself admit that i try to get a lot of these codes for my Kids, Nephews and Nieces. Sometimes i get lucky, usually not so much.
When it's free, though, i'm not sure why anyone complains. If you miss out... well it's not like you had it before so nothing has changed and it's not like you traded or paid anything. You'll never see me complain if i miss something that was free.
However... For my own giveaways i personally like to throw in a few extra rules to ward off lurkers, stalkers, hoarders, etc... and so i might also occasionally "suggest" or "encourage"
other methods of giveaways throughout the forums... But really, it's up to each person to give away their own stuff the way they want to. It's theirs to give and not everyone want's to put in all that extra time. The mentality being, "i'm not going to use it, maybe someone else can but i don't want to put a whole lot of time into it." And quite frankly, good for them! They don't have to share at all! It's great of them to do so in any form!
All that being said, if anyone with giveaways has a few minutes, check out my giveaway ideas linked to in my signature. I offer at least a few fairly hassle free ideas that really should help with the problem.
But please... let's try to avoid getting angry or complaining about who wins what. People don't have to give anything away to anyone. It is great that they do at all. And it could be FAR worse. Over at Blu-ray.com, they are not even allowed to use ANY other form of giveaway other than the "first come, first serve" method. I got in a small debate with one of the moderators over there about how i would give away my own gifts and got banned for a seven full days over it. No warning, nothing. Just a seven day suspension for trying to make it more fair for MY OWN giveaways! So i guess over there, you're not even allowed to debate the issue. The moderator got whiney about it and closed the thread. I called him out on it and reported him as "abusing his power" and they saw it as pushing things too far. Hence my ban. Good for them, though. They can keep their forum for a***oles. I'm good staying away from that.
I'm just glad we have more options here. But not everyone is going to do it that way.
Anyway, now i'm going way off topic and starting to sound like i'm whining myself. Time to put the soapbox away... lol
