that's true :P I guess I always overthink things, I need to learn to be more go with the flow and not so serious about things plus people on subeta are super kind in general. :D also I was like I can see it from both point of views because I've always been the neutral type always keeping in the middle, anyways happy lumi and thanks for giving me your insight <3

Showing my support again this year.

I love decorating my tree but I spend the whole of december taking it up and down when I feel over whelmed. RL december is stressful enough without my escape, subeta, adding to it :(

I've known many people over the years who just find the whole gift giving too stressful (I often do too) and would benefit from this. It's sad to think people might avoid the site during Lumi just to try to escape from something that could so easily be remedied.

Although I love doing the empty tree gifting thing, I would also love to be able to avoid upsetting people who do not want gifting.

If I see a profile that states 'no gifts', I will absolutely honour that, but an automatic way to know would be so helpful.

Something like the 'no biting' kind of thing we have for Survival, where you can select gifting or no gifting?

I have no idea if that would work, but it would relieve stress for both people wanting to gift and the folks who want to opt out.

To add to 's post, you're always free to express your opinion (as long as it is written within the Subeta community guidelines :P). No one has to listen to it or agree with it, but that is their choice. Your comment wasn't hurting anyone so there's nothing wrong with explaining how you feel about the subject. That's the difference between a discussion and an argument - stick to talking about the subject matter and never turn the conversation into personal attacks.

That being said, expressing your opinion usually means you need to be listen to others and consider their views, too. If their opinion is strong enough, they may even change your mind :P Like in your post, I hadn't considered how giving out gifts does bring us closer as a community and it makes me sad that some people don't want to participate, but, at the same time, I empathize with those who get stressed out by the concept of gifting.

I enjoy giving gifts, but people should def have a clear option not to receive them if they don't want to I mean...everyone has their reasons

[Align=center] It is about time we get this option. It has been requested for years. I shouldn't have to resort to staying away from the site or to blocking a bunch of random people each year just because they feel challenged by my request. [/align]

I agree with this suggestion. If people don't want to receive things, they should have an option to not. Its weird that there is nothing as of yet, as Im pretty sure this has been an issue for years.

- it has indeed been an issue for years, and this thread itself was started LAST luminaire, although I am sure the issue has been raised several times before that as well.

- it's a shame you can't fix both issues this month really. I don't agree that the sP gifting issue is the big deal here. But thank you at least for acknowledging this thread.

I fully support.

I'd love to have a "Display only" function for trees too so I can have the tree but keep people from gifting.

you're the hero we need <3

I'm going to look in getting this done this month so people will have the option to turn this on/off. You've been able to do that with the sPs and the gift centre. When fragging was first introduced users use to buddy up to gift bomb each other for fragging items. I don't see why this is suddenly so important. Are people able to gift people who have gifting blocked?

I unfortunately saw this suggestion too late into the season this year. This is really something that should go live at the start of the holiday with trees. I've added it to notes for the holiday next year to get it tested/added before the holiday starts next year though!

I think this is still worth doing this year. A lot of people haven't done their gifting yet and if it is done this year then we won't have to worry about it being forgotten again next year.

Thanks, Amber! I know a number of people will be happy to have gift receiving disabled and others will be relieved to more easily discern which of their friends/acquaintances don't want to receive gifts.

While I enjoy receiving random gifts, I can understand why some people might now.

I support this becoming an account feature. All we need is a toggle button to "enable or disable gifting from non-friends."

almost that time of year again.

i know Holiday Season is Imminent, but i hope that better tree blocking is on the list of things to do.