I'd really love to see where we can see who gifted us under our tree. Not see the item they gave us, but just who dropped us a gift. That way if we wanted we can gift them something back. I'm not sure why this hasn't been put in place yet but it would be sooooo helpful for Lumi!

Part of me agrees with this. Its a pretty horrible feeling when you've opened your tree and realize that you forgot someone who sent you a gift.

On the other hand, part also disagrees. Gift giving shouldn't be tit for tat - I don't give gifts in the hope/expectation of getting one back.

I think it can also cause drama and upset. If I knew people would be able to see that I gave them a gift, I could get a bunch of cheap items and toss them under people's trees in the hopes that I'll get some nice loot in "exchange" for my junk.

Nope, please don't do this. Gifts are given because you want to make someone happy?? I don't expect something in return and in most times I don't want it. I put things in stranger's trees as surprises and I don't want that ruined.

I'm on the fence about this.

On one hand yeah I do agree it should be more about giving than receiving and I imagine, just like in the real world, there will be people scorn because so and so didn't get me something/dropping "hints" to people who haven't given them a gift yet.

On the other hand, there are usually a fair amount of "gift the user above" boards where a user really has no idea if someone actually gifted you or not, and it sucks to find out weeks later half the people didn't actually gift you. I suppose, though, that would probably cause more confrontations regarding "hey I was above you what gives"; a typical scenario on blind event boards (ToT the person above, comes vividly to mind).

Perhaps a middle ground would being able to see a count of the gifts under your tree? It keeps the collective secrecy of who and what, but for people participating in events could easily see that they claimed five times and only received one item; who didn't gift would still be a mystery but they'd have a solid indicator of "do I want to continue doing this or not".

As someone that gifts empty trees I fear this would be a nightmare for me, even with the tree-gifting disabled; but I can see this being useful in "Gift the Tree Above" threads like it was already said, so maybe add a checkbox in the page so the gifters have full control over wanting to be seen or not?