My Rants of the month

[UltraLisk]

Well, I got two of them this month.

Picture host rant of the month: imagehost.org: These cunts are ajaxing to get images. Fuck you. Whats the fucking point of this? Takes more bandwidth for both end user and backend sever....

File host rant of the month: filesonic: fuck these cunts. Why is it sometimes so hard to download something? Sometime on first attempt the download will start, sometimes it ask for capcha. On the second APTCHA it will sometimes do the same thing. After all that it will sometimes ask you to wait for another 10-20 minutes before you can try again. What a fucking pain in the ASS. People only upload there because they can "get" money if they reach many uploads.

so filesonic purposely turns it into a pain in the ass to download so people are more likely to give in and pay for there service.

 

[UltraLisk]

well, its been two days and still no protest against this thread.

Id say its time to ban filesonic...

 

[-KA-]

I oject - don't ban Filesonic (only because I have premium, lol). otherwise - I agree with you.

 

[luddite]

I'm a cheap bastard, and I don't have any problem with FS.

My rant is with the money making links.

 

[UltraLisk]

I'm a cheap bastard, and I don't have any problem with FS.

My rant is with the money making links.

It is a money making link. Thats the problem.

They make it so fucking hard to download links they force more people to buy premium = they can give more money to uploader.

 

[UltraLisk]

this is fucking bullshit.

One messed up DL that did NOT EVEN start, and now its giving me a parallel download error and asking me to upload to premium....

These people are fucking cancer.

edit: FUCK....

I reset the shit. I typed in the CAPTCHA TWICE, it gave me a download link, only downloaded an HTML page, then gave me an error.... now it wants me to wait 10m.

 

[UltraLisk]

fuck this host and all the cunts who post using them

Yet another time that I do not even get the DL going and they want me to wait 22m...

 

[UltraLisk]

So we can now spam this forum with dupes and make money?

Seems more and more post are filesonic money making links that are simple repost of older files already posted.... One post was even a fake "720 HD", its quality was worse then my SD version, and because the faker resized the image to trick people into thinking its 720, the picture is also distorted....

I reported, and its still up... This anapolon45 is making $$$$ while destroying the high quality this site used to have with his BS post.

 

[luddite]

Sounds like you have had a few bad experiences with Filesonic, but many of us don't have a problem with them.

If you have a problem with another member's posts, contact a mod and tell them exactly what the problem is giving as much detail as possible. Nothing might happen right away, since they are short- handed at the moment but they will get around to it.

 

[jessicajoanne]

I agree with Ultralisk.. why is this referral/affiliate site allowed on here and no others are.. It is clearly a money making site that allows the uploaders to earn cash bases on the number of people who download their links... I don't mind the wait times (what do you want for free)... but I don't want people other than NCF making money from my porn habits on here...

 

[UltraLisk]

Sounds like you have had a few bad experiences with Filesonic, but many of us don't have a problem with them.

If you have a problem with another member's posts, contact a mod and tell them exactly what the problem is giving as much detail as possible. Nothing might happen right away, since they are short- handed at the moment but they will get around to it.

Ive had many bad experiences with them... its one of the few that jDownloader will often fail to download for weeks/months (since 2-3 days ago, update was rolled out that fixed it... for now).That that alone pisses me off.

Then, when I try to manually download it, it often f's up... thats strike two....

And strike three is the fact its a money making host. As jessicajoanne said, why is there an exception to this host? All money making host should be banned.

Since all the new money making filesonic post, the site has been diluted and the quality went down

 

[luddite]

It's free, it's slow,but it works for me.
if someone gets a nickel for ever 100 downloads and I get the same amount of advertising as a "free" site, I don't see any harm in it.

 

[UltraLisk]

if someone gets a nickel for ever 100 downloads and I get the same amount of advertising as a "free" site, I don't see any harm in it.

Actually, even a 1MB file at 100 US/UK downloads gets them the equivalent of almost three quarters... So spamming 15 small files, getting 100dls each they can make over 10$ that easily...

Another thing that bugs me (but not as much of an issue) is since there are "tiers" based on size, many people will upload massive files (HD) and spit them so they just fit 1-2mb into the next tier...

Sounds like money making links to me.... If all my past download count went towards that site id have made over 300$... and im not a big poster of content.