Rapidshare Flooding in /h/

Okay, so we know that the last day or two, the number of Rapidshares has gotten stupidly high as people are desperate to get "Premium Points" for their accounts.  Now we know that, as a nameless mod said, /h/ isn't a dumping ground.  So, why not either a) keep a sticky at the top of the page for the posting of Rapidshared doujin, or b) set up a board specifically for RS'd material, similar to /t/?  Just an idea, and one that should help keep panties from getting a little less bunched.

how about banning rapidshare links entirely as it's really fucking annoying to get hold of the data from there sometimes

Then have it for RS's and other upload sites.  Just because Rapidshare is the most well-known one, doesn't mean it's the only one out there.  If you can't use it, then obviously, you wouldn't want to go in there, would you?

I'd rather use any of those other free fileshare services, atleast the bigger one's dont have a cap to downloading like RS. Well their cap is close to 500mb per day which is very reasonable.

hmm i guess it has something to do with the premium account free giveways rapidshare was pulling of the last 14 days.
anyway there only valid for 2 days sot the flood will only be temporary.

filefactory>rapidshare :(

>>2
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LOL.
ARE YOU RETARDED OR SUMTIN?

I really like this idea of making a seperate rapidshare board. But I'm afraid people would use it to spread viruses or post fake files just to get premium points.

Just ban them instead - there's a warning at the top of /h/ not to dump crapidshare links, so dumbasses posting them need the b&

>>1
>>8
I actually agree with this. There's a lot of crap posted on external file hosts in general, and /t/'s made it a point that it's just about exclusive to torrents.

Also, despite rapidshit being a necessary evil nowadays, there's a shitload of better sites. Fuck, they've down'd their limit to around 10mb, and they you have to wait a bloody hour. And it's impossible to get 10,000 premium points for a free account in a month.

>>8
While it's basically the only way to go, it's just as stupid as the idea of a requesting board to make a rapidshare board. People request and rapidshare in direct regards to individuals and information relevant to particular image boards, wanting something from the group of people who visit /a/ and then posting it in /r/ where no one goes aside from other requesters because it's annoying as hell doesn't really help anyone. Granted, it's annoying to let requesters just request at whim as well, because people don't lurk enough, but just because a bunch of elitist "vets" get irritated people don't automatically know as much as they do, doesn't warrant the abandonment of certain practices.

>>11 While it's basically the only way to go, it's just as stupid as the idea of a requesting board to make a rapidshare board.

I take it you mean that a rapidshare-board would be just as useless as /r/ is now. And you'd be better off having people requesting content in content specific boards rather than in a request-specific board.

But then suddenly boards that -were- used for discussion quickly turn into crapholes. This has been proven countless times on forums and other BSS long before 4chan.

Also; the uselessness of 4chan's /r/ is unique to 4chan. Because of the massive userbase, /r/ moves too quickly for people to respond. On other 4chan clones posts tend to stay around for quite a while. After time these actually -do- get responses, making the board much more successful. /r/ is simply not a discussion board.

>>11 just because a bunch of elitist "vets" get irritated [that] people don't automatically know as much as they do, doesn't warrant the abandonment of certain practices.

Who's abandoning what practices?

Anyway; I think creating a filesharing board is just a workaround to whatever reason we need one. You -can- post rapidshares in /t/, just don't make threads about them. But that has obvious problems.
Often torrents are ungainly. So why not allow filesharing links aswell? Suddenly the place is flooded with them.
And yes; you -could- make a filesharing board, but that leaves /r/ even MORE useless.


Not that it matters. Who's going to pay attention to this thread? It's clear none of the 4chan fatcats give two (or more) shits about the textboards (or the layout would be back to how it was [BETTER]). And if they did, I doubt they'd care much over such a trivial matter.

I liked the rule where requesting was allowed so long as you posted something relevant.

Whatever happened to that.

Why not add more pages to /r/?

Why not just stop posting crapidshare links on an imageboard.  Links aren't images.

.... especially when they don't even work for everyone.

see this, rapidshare wankers: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/introduction-to-90-online-file-storage-services.html