RS Password Etiquette

Hello!

I logged on yesterday for the first time in several weeks and found several interesting RS posts in the Video Vault. Unfortunately, they are split files that can only be joined with a password given by the thread originator, and the threads are locked by now. Is it kosher to PM the thread-starter to see if he would still be willing to give out the password, or is that too much like unsolicited requests?

Thanks for the help!

 

The thread is locked and in my opinion, requests for the vid should be done as well. However, every poster's tolerance level is different and some will care while others don't. However, for my password protected RS files, I don't even remember the password anymore! lol

 

Then why password it?

 

Its not okay to pm a thread starter unless you know them and they are okay with you doing it. Basically any thread that is now locked is considered dead at this point in time.

And as Semi mentioned I have a feeling most folks forget their passwords at some point.

More then likely the stuff will be reposted again at some point in the future.

 

So I can piss off members making them download stuff they'll never see, especially those that don't have a premium account lol.

I keep a track of the pw only while the thread is active, once it is closed, i smoke myself silly.

 

You enjoyed the thousands of picture threads without anybody else making you request to see them so why do it for a vid if it allows unlimited downloads?

 

I think the reason the password protected RS links were started was because YSI started acting up and some of the posters wanted a way to limit who could see their posts. So anything 150MB and above was allowed to be password protected and anything under has to be posted in the open.

Also to some extent it led to folks posting comments on the rs threads and not just skipping over them.

 

What for what purpose does it serve to require people to post to get a vid and in a couple weeks lock it down? Why not just leave itopen and not worry about it and let people comment as they please? This will reduce the amount of begging and hopefully return this forum back to the way it was and that is a sharing community.


To argue that a large vid is troublesome to post is bologna. It takes me more than 15 minutes to manually download each picture from a fox's site and then upload them so people can view them for free. So why limit who can view your content?

 

I don't really go to the babe forum too much... but that is another story.

Yes, other members have asked the same question and it's a personal preference. I prefer to share with others who post and try to make the video vault a good place to get vids. Yes, I used to put high restrictions on my vids, but lately, if you look at the vids I have posted, I have not asked any member to upload anything. All I ask is that you are active, meaning you can choose to contribute or just create threads/respond to threads. Will this continue forever, I have no idea. Will I put restrictions on certain vids, quite possibly. Will it scare away some newbies because of these restrictions, of course. But there are members who have joined and started posting because they wanted to get a certain vid. Shoot, that's how I became a member and many members like the vids I post. Everyone is happy... well almost 8)

 

I guess its treated like a YSI link that dies. But in any case all links 14 days or older are now locked in the vault. This prevents them from being brought up again and mixing with the new stuff. Alot cleaner then leaving the posts open.

 

This forum was started by people who had one goal in mind and that was sharing without posting restrictions. We have grown to our size/popularity due to the fact that we all have one goal and that is to share and obtain porn. If people want to join and share let them do it under their own terms.

 

That is fine but here is my reasoning. If the purpose of the thread was to share then why lock it up and not allow people to ask for them? If the thread starters didn't put a password on them after the two weeks is up people who stumble upon the thread can still download the content.


By taking away the request for a link you will not get beggers who in your mind "do not qualify" for the vids and nobody will have to be banned simply because they asked for a vid. Wouldn't your job be alot easier and to those of the thread starters if they do not get tons of people pming them or asking for a vid?

 

Well I think the password protection and closing threads are two different issues. The threads are closed after 14 days to prevent folks from bringing them back up. Alot of folks either don't realize or ignore the fact they are not suppose to bring up threads older then 14 days.

 

No I understand what you are saying.

As far as I know at this point no one is banned if they ask for a vid unless they spam the vault or pm a memeber for a link. The thread starters are the ones that wanted to use the password protection. Also its not a requirement to password protect the posts. Its up to the members to decide if they want to do that for posts over 150MB's.

 

The babes and celebrity forum has never had passworded threads and as such even though it outnumber the number of threads that is in the vid vault by a huge margin we don't have a catastrophic problem with old threads being brought back up. The only reason it is a problem in the vid vault is because people have to post for the vid. If you look at the hundreds of new members we get each day how would you expect all ofthem to know the rules about asking for a vid after it is 2 weeks old? I am just saying that by putting in a password we are inviting more work and troubles for the forum.

 

The vault has passed the celeb forum and is only second behind the babe forum. As far as old threads being brought up it would probably depend on the person you ask as to how bad a problem it is.

In the vault you don't have to make a request for every post. There are plenty of the posts that don't require a password or link.

By closing posts older then 14 days we don't have to worry about them bringing them up. They are not able to. I would also hope they would take the time to read the rules.

The only folks that really have to deal with the issues of passwords are the folks that made the post that is password protected. They decided to do that on their own and therefore have to deal with it themselves.

 

So they don't come to you with requests to ban people? Or complain that so and so pmed me?

 

Well as a general rule from what I understand folks are not allowed to pm another member unless they know that member or a member has said its okay for them to. Doing so results in a ban. Thats for all of phun not just the video vault. So thats a different issue all together.

 

to my knowledge i have never had to ban anybody for the babes forum. I am surei can speak for sandino and Linus as well. Like i said this is a vid vault issue due to the fact that some feel they need people to reply to get a vid. Maybe it makes them feel important...

 

Well I can't speak for sandino, linus, tommy, cayne or you. Each person would have to say for themselves. I just seem to recall a conversation once where it was agreed that pming someone without knowing them or being invited to got the person a warning or ban.

And I can't speak for the folks that post stuff with passwords either. They would have to state for themselves why they want to password protect their posts.


But as I mentioned before pming a member without their persmission is an issue for phun overall not the video vault.


Btw loomy101 is making bs darkwar posts in some of the other forums. So would you please ban him? I have trashed his posts. Thanks.