Hello Jeff,
K2S should help us grow traffic on our own websites. We give forums our best work and they are treating us like dogs. They give us no respect and punish us severely if we make an honest mistake just because we are tired. For one good poster there is a thousand shit-posters, it's a total mess, no quality, only volume. They make us use image hosts that drown users in ads and malware. They push filehosts like Filefox which stopped the payments a long time ago and Filejoker where every single sale is artificial, because they took their money under the counter. These hosts are fake and their agenda is to disrupt the market, which means, bring down K2S and all of us. I can talk about this for days, but I'll stop here.
My idea is that our own websites be advertised on K2S download page. For example, under the file link, there could be a message: "file provided by: somewebsite.xxx". Website url is already set in profile.
K2S provides hosting, we upload and publish. So how are the 3 forums, the main players in this game, and are making the rules for all of us... They act as without them, there is no market, no K2S, no publishers. K2S can't lose by advertising us. When we win, K2S wins.
Google is not indexing our websites, AlexaRank and many other useful webmaster tools are no longer available or have become too expensive. We can sneak in our website link here and there but it's not nearly enough to become independent. We need someone big to share our website names and urls.
We can, then, grow our own websites under our own rules, for our own followers. Independent websites will grow into networks of websites, as it should be, and forums will not be able to blackmail and bottleneck the hole industry for their own profit.
I am talking out of 8 years of experience. It's dark days for webmasters. That's my suggestion and I think it's beautiful because: When we win, K2S wins!