I see this all over the place and it is so annoying!

I think the worst of the begging takes place in the gift brag forums. OMG nobody loves me, plz send pixel love.

I've also seen it in the giveaway forum, notably in the wishlist give away threads, SRY I CANNOT SEND I'M SAVING FOR YOUR PRESENT, MY TURN NOW. In the end, they never ever send the item they were promising too but they sure have no problem collecting theirs!

Probably the most vile of all lately is the forumset birthday countdown. I've seen like four separate forumsets doing this lately and it's just so, so tacky. If your friends don't know when your birthday is then they are not very good friends, are they? I've even seen a fourmset blatently asking for an ISS for their bday! Um, hello? Perfect strangers are not going to buy you a 25m or more present and all that is saying to someone is that you are going to take their gifts and sell them for what you actually want which is so, so rude.

Sure, I appreciate the heads up now and again because long buddy list is long, but if I saw one of my friends doing any of the above I would not hesitate to tell them how tacky it is.

Ugh, just so annoying.

You mean asking strangers for things without reciprocating is bad? :O OMG. I WAS ASLEEP IN WHEN THEY TAUGHT THAT IN NURSERY.

Seriously though, forumset begging and people repeatedly going 'I hope I don't get gift bombed hides wishlist Oh I would hate to get a present oh giftbombing eek' need to gtfo.

I think the most ridiculous ones are people who hint for presents on bragging boards. Like you get gift or a friend helps you get an expensive achievement and on your board, someone asking for names and nudging for the same is just plain uncool :|

I've all of my Subeta and real life friends birthdays written down into my calendar, so I'll never forget anybody. :D

And the gift begging is really ew. Also those 'my birthday is in 364 days' are annyoing. Though I've never seen anybody with 364 days, but I'd probably laugh my ass off if I'd have. xD

Roxy, a woman after my own heart, and inside my brain as well.

My pet peeves are the ones int he SB who try to use reverse psychology to get gift.

-in the midst of gift giving in SB-

Some idiot: sprays self with anti-gift spray in order to avoid getting 'hit' bya gift HAHAHAHAHA now you can't see me and you won't be able to give me any of the awesome gifts you are all throwing around!!!!

-_- To me that's even more pathetic than outright begging. I mean if they wanted to give you something, don't you think they would have?

It pisses me offfffffff.

Heee! Naija, OMG I FORGOT THE ASSHOLE OF SUBETA [SB].

That is by far the worst. So bad in fact I remember nights when we would take over and send each other our super expensives just to watch them all freak out and be all ME NEXT PLS OMG ME NEXXXXXXTTTTTTT.

I dont mind if they have a simple "bday in X amount of days" siggy, its when they make boards saying "Its my BDAY!" that really shows they are gift begging.

Those make me want to hurt someone. @.@

ugh, i agree. i hadnt even told anyone when my birthday was. so when it came around, the most i did was say im 20 and old in my status. i got one gift from subeta, but honestly i wasnt even expecting that one. like im not going to go out of my way to make a thread announcing it to everyone who doesnt give a fuck on subeta, hoping someone would gift me. it always makes me eyeroll when i see someone doing that, especially if its some random user no one even knows.

and wtf @ the wishlist thread. is that even allowed? why the fuck would they think its acceptable to post in the first place?

They've got nothing to worry about from us, do they? :D

I dunno how they come up with the thought that gift bragging is the BFF of gift begging. O___o

facepalm People...

I certainly hope the people with their birthdays in their forumsets aren't holding their breathe.

I don't really understand why people beg for things especially in Subeta, I find it terribly easy to make SP here and have yet to have a problem buying something I wanted within a week of wanting it. Though I suppose not everyone takes pride in earning things for themselves.

I frequent the SB, and tend to toss things at my friends on there. I hate the sudden influx of people 'finding' the SB as soon as someone posts that there's gifting going on.

Yeah, unless you're on my buddy list, I don't care when your birthday is.

It's really pathetic to ask/hint for gifts. What does it say about you if you have to ask for them to begin with? It's sad, really.

I've seen signatures with pictures of items they're saving up for with comments like "Help me with my goals?" I'm just like ...are you serious?

The 'reverse psychology' beggars are the ones who really make me want to punt a baby. ):

Say somebody's been giving away stuff on the SB, and IMMEDIATELY somebody comes in and says 'OMG LOL DON'T GIVE ME A GIFT I DON'T WANT GIFTS LOL.'

Just... just augh.

Ew. I agree. One hundred percent. Do you know what's worse though? Indirect beggars. Like on the shoutbox. "I don't have a GA. :(" "Nobody ever sends me things. :(" ....ICK. It's annoying. :(

I agree with you there. I don't see posting your birthday as gift begging... unless the say something like 'send me something' or whatever.

yeah, I have a few friends who shall not be named... XD that send me gifts no matter how many times I refuse them. not reverse pyscology, but really becase I feel guilty receiving gifts. despite the fact I want them or not they still get sent. (I'm guilty for sending unwanted gifts as well XD) but that's waht friends are for non?

I dislike people begging for gifts. geez. it's not hard to earn sp, or anything here

i LOVE gifting random strangers. i do my friends too of course but i just think it adds something extra when someone you've never talked to before sends you something like an angelic potion.

but it ruins it for me when i make discrete boards asking people what they're saving for and when people find out what i'm doing, they send all their friends to come post.

or when people post 'nobody's ever sent me anything.. but congrats.. :(' on bragging boards.

or, as people have said, when they post that they're saving for something and want help in their forumsets :(

you shouldn't be gifted if you aren't genuinely trying to earn the item yourself..

The whole 'My Birthday is in x days!" or "My Birthday is on x of xxx" doesn't bother me at all. I plan to put that in mine very soon, because I don't see it as gift begging. It's just...a statement, because I'll be excited that it's my birthday soon.

Gift begging such as "help me achieve my goals?" or "care to donate towards my goals?" make me want to hurt things. :( I'm just like "seriously, your goals are supposed to be things you're working towards, we have our own goals to be saving for."

There is nothing wrong with the countdown in forumsets, imho. Unless you're asking for an expensive present. Like the ISS one you mentioned. I mean, if I was too excited, I'd use the countdown. In my signature, but whatever. I think I will this year, tho. I'll be 15 and my first anniversay with my boyfriend, but I'd never beg for gifts. If people send me one, then great. I'll give a gift back for their birthday. I usually like to recieve random gifts from strangers, they make me feel weird. xDD

Anyways, gift beggings is lame. Yes, put your countdown. No, do not beg for an ISS. No, I will not give you your perfect gift worth 30mil. Now, stfu and buy your own ISS. :c