Talk:Social Gifts/@comment-5303258-20130123065610/@comment-5039776-20130123231339

Very interesting discussion. Perhaps better for the forum, but nonetheless interesting.

I think Eddie hit it on the head. The recipient should have a say in it. This is up to TinyCo to program but it hasn't done so. We should have a right to opt out!

I believe gifting is intrusive and selfish. This is just my personal view. I am still backed up with gifts for days. Many people whom I have searched out and PMed on Facebook and asked to stop have been very good and have done so. But so many others ignore me because of their huge desire for what? A social currency token, thousands of which can be generated in an hour? Really?

And what do I get out of this? A few rocks (yes, I get gifts of 10 rocks and 5 wood etc and of course, a minute later, it doubles up!). This is a huge part of my tiny village wealth! (sarcasm off)  I even get gifts of stuff I don't use. For the record, I use stone and lumber - that's it (and yes, a few rocks for the crystal alchemy store, the first generation of which we know has a foot in the grave)

I'm sorry folks, IMO gfting is fatally flawed because it doesn't allow people to gift what is really important - a high-end store every now and then and a crystal a day. This makes gifting irrelevant, IMHO. Even the top gift of 169 woven fur (worth a whopping 1,130 coins right now) is really irrelevant, except perhaps to someone who is always on the breadline (and I'll venture to say that  no senior pay is).

Is a gift register a good idea? Probably not. I wonder if serial gifters will even read it. Can it hurt? Probably not? If someone wants to set up a testing page with a table on it, I'm sure we can get it a bit like the Village Roster.

I've taken a long time to say what Eddie V said so eloquently. So erxcuse me for that. I have found your opinions very interesting. All the best.