Oh my FREAKING Goodness..

[mareru]

How many people here are leechers?

I know i used to be.. untill a while ago.. it hit me.. Leechers suck. (period) they effect the forums as a whole. Ive posted some good stuff ive found.. and got in return ZERO replies. as well as just forums with some general discussion.

I am aware that the vast majority of members are honest & loyal posters. They post when they need something - and that's fine! You guys ARE NOT leechers.

but people who are on the forums just for the AMAZING resources are leechers.

 

[Cruelty]

What did you expect?

I leech torrents, though.

 

[holloway]

Welcome to the real world. At least they aren't pulling a GGZ.

 

[Anonymous]

What the hell is wrong with leechers? I'd rather have a million leechers who say nothing than a million people posting with nothing to say.

 

[Khengi]

Leechers usually give no credit.

 

[Double_Clawshot]

thanks for the insightful topic, chum

 

[madmax_vii]

the best way to prove you're not a leecher is to actually show support and subscribe, so what're you waiting for?

 

[arcthemonkey]

Yeah, I subscibed, so nothing I do is leeching.

It's hard to find a good balance between being spammy and being a ghost for some people.

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

What's better, honestly?
Someone makes a script. Leechers come in, be them one-post-wonders or less, or casual or daily posters. They never the less leech and take, but not a word is said. Someone has a question, about a script, and it has a chance of being answered.

or...

Someone posts a script. 4 pages of posts that have nothing to say but "nice work" in one fashion or the other. In between those 40 posts (defaultly a page is 10 posts on my untouched settings) is one question - that might now get overlooked.

Change script and question to graphical resource and an idea on how to make it look that much better. Same thing. The question or suggestion has a higher chance of being overlooked. Especially if, in those 4 pages, that one example post starts off with a "nice work" statement.

As far as crediting goes, I'd rather have someone steal my crappy work than miss the chance to make it better by using someone else's suggestion that I would have overlooked. And then, if threw suggestions and CnC my work stopped being crappy, I'd still rather have someone steal and use it uncredited than have one person with a question or comment be over looked, because I would overlook the post that starts off with "nice work" if it happened too many times.

 

[Erk]

Yeah, I have nothing strong against lurkers. We don't have a big problem with bandwidth or storage space at the moment, and when we do start hitting our ceiling again i will be able to afford an update, so we are not in dire straits. There is absolutely no statistical evidence that leechers tend not to credit, at all. I was a lurker for a few months before I first started posting, but I kept credit. Ccoa was a lurker too. If you don't have anything to say or don't want to be involved in a community, I'd rather you not post than you post about nothing and waste our time.

 

[Calibre]

I was a lurker for like a year back when .net was around and only became a posting member when I had my project to post.

It would be cool to have a few of the lurkers like that, perhaps reading this thread to become full active members in a while. I'm all for making the community stronger with regular yet sensible posters.

 

[The Cry of Fallen Angels]

Welcome to the real world.

Thank you.

Complaining does nothing, leechers avoid the general discussions anyway. So little sense in attempting to change their minds. Besides:

I'd rather you not post than you post about nothing and waste our time.

That's considered spam, then they'd be both leechers and spammers.

If you wish to reach people and convince them to contribute, or subscribe, or whatever, pm every single one of them. Granted your pm box will get fulled up pretty quickly, even while a lot of them won't reply. The replies you do get will mostly be things like: "STFU", "go mind your own bussiness", "WHAHAHAHA", etc. They don't care, they get their resources so they're happy.

We got "give credit" all around, if people still don't listen it's fucked for the people who credits goes to, and if it happens on a large scale website (like happened in the past), or on our own site, the management will take care of it. But you just can't go to every single person that doesn't give credit, it'd be like wasting your time. I mean, look at the numbers.

 

[Anonymous]

i don't use rmxp/rmxp resources and i am lending my hand at rwiki moderation, and making sure the IRC channel stays afloat by helping maintain the network it's based at

i think that officially makes me cooler than all of you combined (except maybe Erk, but not by much!!)

 

[Khengi]

As someone said earlier, the way NOT to be a leecher would probably be to

A) Subscribe
B) Give support (and be known for it, lol)
C) Contribute

'C' is probably the biggest thing. Contributing a tough-to-make script pretty much throws you out of the leecher category. I doubt anyone would call someone like DurVVwulfman (or how it's spelled) a Leecher, XD

 

[mareru]

What's better, honestly?
Someone makes a script. Leechers come in, be them one-post-wonders or less, or casual or daily posters. They never the less leech and take, but not a word is said. Someone has a question, about a script, and it has a chance of being answered.

or...

Someone posts a script. 4 pages of posts that have nothing to say but "nice work" in one fashion or the other. In between those 40 posts (defaultly a page is 10 posts on my untouched settings) is one question - that might now get overlooked.

Change script and question to graphical resource and an idea on how to make it look that much better. Same thing. The question or suggestion has a higher chance of being overlooked. Especially if, in those 4 pages, that one example post starts off with a "nice work" statement.

As far as crediting goes, I'd rather have someone steal my crappy work than miss the chance to make it better by using someone else's suggestion that I would have overlooked. And then, if threw suggestions and CnC my work stopped being crappy, I'd still rather have someone steal and use it uncredited than have one person with a question or comment be over looked, because I would overlook the post that starts off with "nice work" if it happened too many times.

Ide rather have 4 pages of "nice work" than 0 pages of nothing...

it raises your confedence.. i feal like not even giving my work when nobody responds... or at least sharing other peoples that ive found throughout the months.

think about it.. there wouldn't be a forum if nobody replied to anything.. and just.. leeched off of everyone.
i dont know.. is it just me?
but i hate it when nobody replies to what i post, especially when its something good..

EDIT: and i agree with some of you.. Im not trying to put anyone down, but

What the hell is wrong with leechers?

im trying to make this community stronger as a whole! I.. Personally.. think they destroy the community.. Im just saying.. i wish there were more compliments, and less leechers..

Cause like i said it lowers my confidence when people dont reply.. or even pm me..

 

[Norris]

How do they destroy the community? Unless bandwidth was an issue, let them be is what I'd say.

If gratitude is what you value, think of it this way. Finding validation in your efforts can also be achieved through the number of downloads/views your submissions get. You know your doing something right if it is getting a lot of attention, and this attention isn’t only measured by the number of explicit replies of “gee, thanks”.