As I said, these are guidelines not commandments, but I think they should be mostly unambiguous. I don't want to be a censor or a dictator or even just a nagging nelly, but I also don't want to see anything happen to FLM.mimzy wrote:Personally I like the anarchistic nature of FLM compared to other movie sites with strict releasing rules. It's not a problem if one of those strict boards refuses to link to FLM, because everybody knows FLM anyway
I think FLM should basically keep the the same course as before.
People should just use common sense when posting stuff and not post anything that would obviously cause problems with Leo (or Lea), or insult other users (some tiny flamewars would be OK, though). I guess nobody of us wants the board to be taken down by authorities or lose members because of conflicts.
The quidelines are almost like an etiquette guide - someone might not even realize he's doing something irritating.mimzy wrote:We need guidelines to help unexperienced users share better.
I'm patient too - I didn't finally delete "Yellow" from my queue until two years had passed with nothing. We were aiming at those who release several movies but then don't even put eMule online. Nobody knows if they'll ever be complete.mimzy wrote:I'm patient and it's OK for me if a file takes a long time to download. Also, releasing several movies at once is IMO OK, provided that they will get shared out eventually. I am not even sure about the necessity to unshare everything else than the released file. Depends on the bandwidth, and unless too many files are shared, setting the priority of the released file to "Release" and the priority of other files lower should be enough. It would be a good idea to unshare files with very high number of complete sources, though.
Major releasers like starfish and ptguardian often unshare everything except their current releases to spread them faster. I'll unshare everything but one file just to help someone who's having problems getting it otherwise. As for the rest of the files I share, almost all of them have 1 source - me. None of them have more than 3 complete sources. Since I suck at finding new stuff, keeping the rare files available is my way of paying back the FLM community.
Agreed. The guidelines show how to make a release better. Another way people like me can help is to go search for that info and "fill in the blanks". We don't mind doing that unless someone never goes to the trouble himself because that's mostly laziness.mimzy wrote:Regarding release info, it would be nice to have as much info as possible, but members should not be obliged to comment about the movie in order to make a release. If an OT movie was released somewhere else, post it here ASAP and don't wait until next Sunday when you have time to watch it
We should also keep in mind that some users may not have enough English skills to write their own reviews.
I think the policy we've always used is pretty good - it's worked well for a long time. Direct-download links, torrents, rapidshare, UseNet, etc. are all OK if there's not already an ed2k link because it'll eventually be put on the mule. Once in ed2k, the other links can be removed from the posts. I don't want to get into any tussles about "method X is so much better than method Y".mimzy wrote:Another issue is non-ed2k links, like torrents and rapidshare. I think those should be in any case allowed if there is no good ed2k link available.
I didn't know this was here. It's identical to the one on the phpBB website. BBCode is used in a lot of software like blogs, other php-based boards, etc. Heck, the Helpdesk software my agency uses allows BBCode in it - saves a lot of work if you know how to use it. A tutorial I don't have to write.mimzy wrote:PS. There is a link to BBCode guide on the posting page: https://www.first-loves.com/forums/f ... ode=bbcode