Generally PGC doesn't permit solicitations, advertising or any other kind of spam, especially not when it's crossposted and/or doesn't fit with the forum topic (e.g. PS2 threads in GC discussion). That "free stuff" falls under all three, they're spamming us with their threads, advertising the company behind it and soliciting for people's personal data. This "free stuff" does with people's brains what spam trojans do with their computers, reprogram them into spam zombies. And the best defense against zombies has always been the flame thrower.