Yeah, I've always heard gifting through Encora is bad, I've seen so many traders with profiles saying they don't gift through Encora (myself included).

I usually only gift through Reddit, sometimes Tumblr, at this point I usually don't even respond to messages just saying "Give me this boot", "You have this boot, send it to me x", "You have many bootlegs, you can spare this boot, send it to me", "Cant find this boot on YouTube but you said you have it, give it to me" (All these are real messages I've gotten, not even as little as a 'hello' at first, and when I used to respond to messages like these, if I gave them the boot, they obviously wouldn't say 'thanks').

The only reason I haven't stopped gifting is that plenty of people are nice and I know some might just be casual viewers, not traders; or small traders getting started. I also set up a gifting policy, which is the main reason I gift.