TeamHavocRacing wrote:jukabala's point was just driven home there.
Okay, I will make a serious post just for you..
Resourcefulness... This is causing much of the drama or people not helping new users.. Many new people (mostly young) aren't accustomed to doing research before asking a question. This forum as an example, if you use the advanced search function you can find any answer to a question you might have and there are even tutorials to some of the more popular ones.
The point on "if they publish a track without the link". That happened in the past as well, so nothing new there... No pic no download I think was the phrase used in the past.. People seem to have a idea of how the forums were in the past, it was no different. In the past there were higher standards in some ways however. there was a larger committed base of users who were experienced and knew what they were doing and creating content for the community.
There is now a much larger percentage of the community that does not have respect towards creators in the community than there was in the past. It is close to a weekly occurrence that a model or some type of creation is exploited. Whether that be a person not giving thanks to user created content, paid models being released without permission or my personal favorite, people selling others work which was released for free.. People hand around paid items like it is nothing, in the past you were pretty well hated by the community if you were caught doing such a thing so not many did it. Stuff was handed around in the shadows or used to learn, but rarely would you see stuff being released. I feel a large part of the issue is, a good chunk of this community does not understand the amount of work that goes into content, along with proper etiquette to what one should or shouldn't do with others content. Should one person benefit monetarily for putting someone elses FREE released parts on another users FREE released model?
Anyhow, that is my take. Pretty much a post in a thread that will be gone in a week and more than likely won't do anything. But yeah.. Just remember there are multiple sides to every discussion.