Not sure if its right to say the term "Scene". As The Scene stands for (Cant post link so google it)
I was the owner of xtremew.org it was nice to have communities with content / downloads back then. Now it's all auto posters, which actually harms the site ten-folds. But frankly speaking, we can't just blame it on one thing, Auto poster can be stopped, but the lazy webmasters are not doing so because currently that's the only source of "Downloads/Posts". I would like to correct if you are on a country where downloading copyright content is illegal. Doesn't matter which source you'd download from you will face consequence's. Plus file hosting sites are crappy when compared from before. Remember the old Megashares/ Megaupload/Rapidshare days!!! where to download a file it was easy and not money whoring.
File hosting sites and their approach are also one reason why people opt out of forums with download links, as the downloads are comparatively slower and more ADDS!!! So most of the
Smart people go with downloading from
Torrents, X DCC, Site Dumps etc. So why to bother to go download from a file host which is hosted on a crappy set of dedicated server (not even a co-location or have its own DC).
As of current date- on a private tracker i am maxed out of my DLspeed. But on any given file hosting my DL speed reaches only 20 % - 30 % of it.
Same goes with public tracker (if it has seeds above 10k)
Now a warez forum is all about Money making, I remember ran XtremeW on my pocket money, when i was a kid (16 years or so) and didn't make a dime out of it, while i ran the site!
Everyone knows we code links: But did you know that back in the day it was important to code links sites like PW, FW and several of them had this rule started to avoid tracking of links to file host.
But now coding links also does not matter as you have a lot of crappy bots hanging around in the forums, searching for links. So going a little offtopic: Why to code links
. All the Veteran webmasters will understand what i am trying to say!
Even though i have started a new forum after 7 Long years, I have taken steps to completely eliminate auto posters on my site.
Good luck to all the new webmasters as well.
Mario.
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