Erik

I'm not buying into the doom and gloom theory proposed by so many. The fact that our community relies on each of YOU to be healthy and grow is undisputed. Where would YouTube be if no-one uploaded content. You simply can't have all the resources flowing in one direction. If you enjoy the community then you'll do what it takes to make it the number one resource which includes at the very least saying hello to everyone and making a few posts. I mean someone who has been here a year not making one single post or contribution to the site is just odd. You know sharing pictures of your favorite whip or commenting on someone's pictures just doesn't take that long but goes miles in keeping us active and healthy. After all, we do all this for you so you can continue to enjoy your past time and hobby. I'm just not following the logic in the complaints. We've tried so many ways to get the community involved, even the current contest of FREE products worth hundreds of dollars. That's just one of three contests we've held in the past few months with very little change in activity. Offer us some alternatives and we'll gladly listen, but to categorically cast all this doom and gloom makes me wonder why we don't just turn the downloads off. As I mentioned before we tried some options (read: contests) and thought about other options which included (read: still viable): Slower download speeds. Give membership with less than 5 posts dial up speeds. Give membership with higher than x amount posts unlimited speeds. Requiring members to post between downloads. (Read more than 5 posts would be required long term) Capping the download size to x amount per day / week / month per member. The bottom line is this is your home for downloads, why wouldn't you want to do everything possible to make it number one? If anyone has a complaint it's the modders who go without so much as a thanks, and us who can't even get our membership to say hello. --- Hey but if we shut off the downloads, just imagine the feedback we'd get then. Get involved and help us reach our goal, you've been officially invited. Regards;

Same back to you ... good to finally meet ya too. :)

I guess we'll have to go back to the original ideas. 1. Charging for downloads. 2. Filling the site with hundreds of nonsense ads. 3. Forcing you to view ads before downloading. 4. Limiting your download speeds. 5. Capping your bandwidth total per day.

Ronbo -- When your post count reaches 5 you'll be able to download.

well then if you win ... you pay us to take them off your hands ... 'doh

try again ... you might have tried to upload before i got it fixed. :)