Don't get me wrong I don't mind giving gold, yesterday (or maybe the day before) I gave 1000 gold (one thousand) to a complete stranger. Though it wasn't a begger.

I ran into a new multiboxer on my server, Eonar US. lvl 30s 5x Alliance Shaman. After chatting for a few minutes he explained he had started new characters here and was starting over. So to help him out I gave him 1000 gold.

But when someone comes up to me and asks for 5-100 gold my immediate response is /ignore, well my polite response to to "NO!" and then /ignore. Often its not polite. I have the same reaction to someone asking me to "run them through Stocks / VC / [insert instance name here]". Guild members/friends are fine, but random strangers expecting you to wipe their nose and change their nappies are 1 step above gold spammers.