I respect your right to make money, it is the greed that comes with the low size limits that concerns me. I will take no immediate action and see if it becomes a issue of abuse just because of the manner in which you answered. I hope you continue to hold both the uploaders and premium account holders of your site with this type of regard.(y)
So you are concerned with the download file size limit and you label the policy 'greed' in a derogatory manner.
Out of curiosity,
Have you applauded filemates for their low prices and/or high download speeds for guests, free members and premium users alike?
Have you labelled these attributes offered to filemates users as 'selfless', 'altruistic', 'praiseworthy'.?
Are you without Greed?
Is it out of selflessness or altruism that you take measures to keep traffic flowing to your site(s)?
You have made it plain that you want to keep high traffic (including US traffic) flowing to your sites. Isn't the reason for this policy, your strong desire to harvest those advertisement dollars which the traffic brings in?
What is the etiquette, you attach to this desire? Altruism!?
"We are never greedy, it is always the other guy who is greedy." Milton Friedman.
No, Sorry I do not care to share the names with you or in this thread, I prefer to the link between myself and specific URLs out of the public eye. They all rank well though and I can delete thousands of posts a day on any of them and still have plenty of fresh content for search engines, crawlers, and scrapers.
This is one of the measures you take to keep your board(s) clean in order to ensure continuous high traffic.
Why do you want high traffic?
Yes, many posters have been banned for posting links that can only be used with a premium account on all of the sites. We also ban duplicate accounts actively, in particular those posting automatically, we have a few rdp ip ranges banned also. If we didn't we would be overrun with multiposter spam posts like many other sites.
People love freebies. So you take measures to ensure that the links on your site(s) are free.
I guess this measure is also to ensure that the traffic keeps returning to your site(s).
The question is, why all these measures to attain and keep high traffic? Is't motivated by altruism?
We have a number of file hosting sites currently banned including some you mentioned and some not mentioned. When we see abuse we act
We do not only ban them for the size limitations, some have been banned for not paying their affiliates within reason, some have been banned because of terrible service, etc.
We are currently considering banning hosts that block the US because those users bring the most advertising dollars to our sites and that is what pays to keep the sites online.
Quod Erat Demonstrandum (QED), these are all measures to achieve the same goal.
Your goal to keep high traffic is perfectly legitimate and praiseworthy.
And your motive for pursuing high traffic is also perfectly legitimate and YES, praiseworthy.
The only question is,
how do you label this motive of yours?
I am aware that I'm being redundant but sometimes one must repeat things to make a point. Hence, I repeat that the motive I am referring to is the one you named;
'earning the advertisement dollars your traffic brings in.'
Many of you forget the people that download. It is these people that visit the sites that view advertisements, buy premium memberships, and download files. If they go away, we all loose.
No, many
uploaders have not forgotten the
downloaders. Downloaders are the very reason many
uploaders exist.
Remember they spent time looking to download something without it costing them any money, they will look a long time to find it for free some where and from someone else.
This is a casual and frivolous assumption which you are at liberty to make.
Had you bothered to swap the word [STRIKE]they[/STRIKE] for some, your statement of great wisdom would have contained a shadow of truth.
You have demonstrated good netiquette for most of your contentions. But can you really speak for all
downloaders?
I can't help but shudder at such bold arrogance.