There's multiple things to respond to so I'll break it down.
Old vs New Content
Not everyone visits this forum every day/week or has been here since the beginning or from prior iterations of this forum. Some are visiting sites like this for the first time or discovering models for the first time. Right now they will open a thread like Jessica Nigris or Meg Turneys and see a wall of pretty much dead cyberdrop links in the first few posts, same for a lot of content moved over from previous forums. Similar thing for other threads and gofile, just last night I was in a lesser known models thread which had 8 posts, 1 was the thread start, 5 were PPV on gofile, all dead, and the other posts were some reup requests. I'd only just discovered her and well I still dont know what her contents like, no-one who visits the forum will.
The concept of 'new' vs 'old' content is in some ways only relevant to those watching a thread since the beginning, for anyone just finding a thread for the first time its all 'new' to them.
Our previous 'delete all repost' approach isn't allowing people to address these issues without first waiting for the original links to die at which point they've forgotten, we just delete the gofile post and the content is gone. We needed to change and we've had members asking for change.
Bumping
Yes this will be annoying for a bit but here's how I see things going:
The bumping with old content will only be the case for a short period while the farmers go round rehosting things, this might last a week or two. This will help communicate the policy.
After that things will mostly be rehosted shortly after originally posted and for most people who visit the site maybe once a day or less that means they'll get one notification and see two posts. If two posts in a thread are made at a similar time, the second one almost always gets more likes cos people just press the last like button on the page. Example from yesterday
here.
In the long term people will see that the guy that rehosted the content they just posted got more likes and think more about the hosts they use.
Comments
There's many reasons we aren't introducing comments such as:
- The addon is very buggy and was causing somewhere else a lot of pain for quite some time. This forum is already struggling with server load issues given its larger userbase so probably not a good idea to add that.
- How do we keep on top of modding a thread where the latest thing in it (a comment) isn't the last post? We'd be relying purely on reports for doxing, arguments, spam etc.
- I've seen multiple cases of people bitching about a models content getting worse or not good enough in comments which then leads the leakers to think 'Why am I buying and sharing content with these ungrateful idiots?' and they stop posting. Separate discussion threads keeps all that separate and the leakers can ignore it and just see all the positive reactions to the content they post. I dont think many appreciate how important that actually is.
- They look shit
- Some other reasons I cant remember
We are willing to take on feedback, maybe we messed up a host or there's a better way to handle all the quotes which take up a lot of space in the thread. Please feel free to give us that feedback
Finally from our very own meme thread
