I think we should not encourage people who gave links to troubled very low speed download sites like and give "thank You" :
I think people that leech a file and can't be bothered to click the thank you button should be banned from the site and/or locked out of future downloads...
Would like to know your opinion on the subject
IMO beggars should not be choosers as it's nothing but an act of pure selfishness by the beggar... Anyone that takes the time to upload a file and share it on this forum at minimum deserves the 500ms it takes the down loader to click the thank you button... The world isn't instant, waiting for things is reality, it's sad we have become a society of instant gratification...
I have a suggestion though instead of joining the ranks of ungrateful leeches that can't be bothered with clicking the thank you button, if and when you come across a slow link you still click the thank you button and then follow up with a mirrored upload on a site you prefer, a win, win for the site and it's members... But, I suspect if clicking the thank you button is too much to ask of leeches, uploading a mirror of the file is beyond a monumental request...
Posted on: December 04, 2016, 05:23:50 05:23 - Automerged
And even if I did, I come from 110 baud TTY days so anything you young 'gotta have it now' kids might consider slow is light speed in relative terms. You haven't lived a very exciting life if you've never queued up your 2400 baud modem to send your 2D house plans to the blueprint shop while you were asleep because they took 7 hours to send...
So true, it's sad to see the Internet community become a society of instant gratification, especially when it's FREE stuff that they are downloading so they don't have to pay for it... Many a night or entire week I spent downloading or uploading some collection of this or that, all the while with my modem pegged the entire time making other online activities for all intents a no go... Also not everyone has blazing fast internet... I was one of those unlucky people that after moving into my new house 3 years ago found out that only so called 'broadband' in the area was a legacy ADSL, 500 Kbps was a good day... I was forced to use my cell phone or tethering to my cell phone for most larger downloads as it was faster... It was not until last year that other options were rolled out in my area, and even then I had to fight to get it as I was literally on the wrong side of the road and they didn't want to drop a line across the road...