I've purchased a premium account with practically every filehost this board has used in the past couple of years, so I feel I'm on equal footing with those "content providers" since I contribute directly to the board's welfare in other ways. Regardless, if someone isn't meeting the needs of their downloaders and we eventually stop even looking at their posts because we're tired of their practices, you'd think they would want to know how to improve, just like any good "business." Simply not going to a business anymore certainly works, but if you provide them some feedback maybe it will become a place you want to keep going. That's how I picture this thread, as constructive criticism.
Anyway, my addition is that perhaps it would be easier to identify a re-up if there was a single thread per model, like 95% of the uploaders seem to be capable of doing. There are particular models, provided by particular uploaders, that have a new thread made for EVERY upload. Not only is that cluttering and distracting to the subforum in general (and particularly annoying to me), it makes it difficult to "watch" a thread via the forum watch feature to see when something new is posted. CKDK, Janjaweed, Modelshrek, Don't Panic, etc. are great at keeping things to a single thread, and I enjoy being able to login to the site and see my alerts and go directly to the new posts I know I want to see. If you make a new thread every time, I am much more likely to miss it because I don't feel like paging through every post one by one for something I'm not even aware exists. And then throw in the fact that this thread is addressing, that it might be something I've already downloaded before but you just "re-upped it in a new thread because it is easier" and didn't indicate that it was old, well, eventually I stop even looking at your threads. So tell me, if that is what happens, who does that help? Not me, and not the person looking to get my download. Really, how hard is it to have one thread for your uploads of a particular model? If someone else is also uploading that model, you both either need to work it out between you and post in one thread, or at the very least each have your own thread and the one that posts first gets dibs on that particular video. My opinion anyway, obviously I'm not in charge.
The "new thread per video" is kind of a separate pet peeve of mine, but I feel it plays into this topic quite well because it is almost universally those new threads that end up being reposted content, it almost never happens in the mega-threads, so I felt it was relevant.
