FlowerTradeWinds
Senior Member

Thank you, I hope you will have more to upload

I assumed the exe access the encrypted rar for its file. Guess it wasn't the case? No alternative version available since that file. Sorry for the inconvenience.

FTW,

User complain that there's a password in this thread:

http://www.anime-sharing.com/forum/h...706m%5D-38404/

Any chance you can include that in your post?

Slowly catching up with C81 releases. Been busy preping the tools to speed up releasing

I broke the rule but doesn't actually tell me which rule I broke, related to this 'experiment'.

In AS Forum, you have the right to know which rules you violated and that you have the right to appeal and escalate the case to the group of Administrators in appropriate forum. Furthermore All bans reason are recorded and is verified by an admin on duty periodically. We don't ban people randomly, and we don't ban people permanently unless they exhibits a bot posting pattern.

All of which is said and done, please kindly remove the un-necessary bitching in this thread as it is unrelated to the uploaded content.

http://www.anime-sharing.com/forum/h...21/#post184993

Sincerely

FTW,

Wintereise may not see your reply, so you can reply directly to your upload thread. We allow this.

I just don't want someone to just slam a ban on me or something like that later down the road

We don't generally ban anyone unless the said person repeatedly violate our rule. Quite honestly speaking, all of your attitude would have been a guaranteed ban else where but Anime-Sharing. Sometimes we feel like we are way too tolerable.

On my personal view's point, I downloaded your CG Pack and the quality of the rip is satisfactory, excluding the dummy bit. The extra 150-200MB of dummy is not a big problem for me, and I always remove it. But it seems to cause a ruckus to other peoples.

Despite all of that I would not want to see the dummy file being included as mentioned previously

Dear FlowerTradeWinds,

If a user uses the report button, it is not only because they want to bring something to the staff's attention, but also because they want to remain anonymous doing so. Quite frankly, unless the persons chose to contact you as well, it is none of your business who they are or what they wrote beyond what we already told you.

By "a shitload" I mean about a dozen, which is unusually high for our small and quality-oriented forum.

Anyway, we understand the cost of running a system, but we don't agree with resorting to artificial bloating or similar tactics because:

1. ASF sees itself as a quality-oriented forum, and dummy files don't align with that. We are strict about posting guidelines because we don't want to end up as messy link-dumps like so many other places. This is more or less the same for content quality.
2. If we let you continue with it, more people are likely to imitate that crap, thus degrading the content quality more and effectively making the CG section useless.

As a result the Anime-Sharing staff has decided that dummy files included in CG uploads are henceforth banned. Please make sure to comply with this new rule from here on out. I hope that you understand the decision and its reasons behind.

Just as your fellow administrators post DDL to cover ASF's cost, it is the same for me too. And you surely know the different between a <50MB file and a 250MB file on the pay chart. I don't deny I try to make use of my little monopoly on CG rips, but I do it with the least disruptive way possible.

I do not know why people crashed explorer.exe as the file is just a plain zero-filled file. There is no trick to it. You're free to check the files yourself. And if anyone reputable do find the files problematic I will certainly apologize and stop doing it.

If you do receive shit loads of reports I'd think it is part of a smear campaign. You can clearly see from my visitor messages or post replies that a selected few complained about the size difference but none saying about any crashing.

I find it intriguing that you receive "shitload" "countless" amount of reports when I receive none despite a couple thousands downloads been registered.

Thank you for your attention.

We are still working on your case FTW, can you explain to me, why do you need to include the dummy file? I also got countless reports that people has crashes explorer.exe trying to extract the dummy file, or remove the dummy file.

Perhaps ASF should ban people posting non-dummycut version of games. Placing dummy in the iso by the game creator

The thing is, if you intentionally include a dummy file into the package, then it is not allow since you intentionally include it.

In most scenario however, we would let it slide but if we receive a shitload amount of reports, then we will have to do something about it.