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Ah..I see there was a post from 'Alex' iirc which has been deleted.
An account presumably from a leeching paysite.
That has skewed the thread.
He she was being snarky about the way the site was being run having uploaded nothing at all in 3 years membership!!
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Then, please, when posting - It is ironic that the snarky post above this
Make sure it is the one you mean [better to accurately name and shame, than cause unintentional offense]And sorry for picking on you - but only reacting to what and how it was printed. 🙂
As I said it was aimed at a member with a deleted post from the thread.
I had no way of knowing the post would be deleted.
🙂I used to get points back when I try to download something but it has a broken link. Now when I report I no longer get my points back. So what I started doing it finding the lost file online and reposting an updated link to the file. I was losing a lot of points for missing link items to the point I had to do it.
I started to see the Repost Dead Post, but I not sure I want to use it because I don't get back the lost points I wasted on the item I didn't get to download.
The biggest issue with this, is that the points are always taken before the download attempt.
But there is no 'automatic' return of points if the download fails [file not available etc.].
As mentioned by many - the reporting does not always get the points returned either. i expect many, after a while, give up expecting them to be returned - even forget which item it was.
If the OP is no longer active, the points still go somewhere [?].
Collectively there can be a lot of points taken from members that they never get back. Individually you might not worry about 50 points - but multiply that by all the failures.....
Either the current system does not work, or is being ignored [by all].The return of lost points should be made as effective as the deduction for getting the link, if the DL cannot be completed.
I don't think it would be possible to automatically verify whether a download has been successful.
If you make it a manual splash screen asking 'Was your download successful?' that would be wide open to abuse.
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Very true, on both points.
But unfortunately abuse works both ways.
Such as 'paying' for a download that does not happen, and reporting it but getting no response - from anyone..... 🙂
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