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    10 posts before I can download?

    in Website How To & Feedback

    Posted · Edited by Admin
    Was logged in as member to test and initially replied as member. You may have received two reply notifications.

    Hello @Rick Shropshire  looking at your activity, yes you have enough content download.  

    https://www.quadcrazy.com/profile/21938-rick-shropshire/content/

    However, we do have some restrictions in place and it looks to me like you have exceeded them (I believe):

    5 downloads per day
    30 downloads per week
    40 downloads per month

    How many times have you tried to download? We will be changing this around in the new year and offering a premium membership level for high users.

     

    Topic moved to Website How To & Feedback forum.

    Just here for manual

    in General Talk - Anything Goes!

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    On 12/17/2018 at 7:02 AM, mikeexplorer said:

    Agreed, sounds like your like me, old school. Been on fourm boards for years, but over the past few years social media has taken over and many have shut down for lack of use. I still prefer the fourm boards over social media because its organized better, with groups and topics. Social media tends to be like spaghetti of posts and nonsense.

    I have also seen how people have changed because of social media. They will post a question, then like 2 hours later, post a reply like "What? Nobody has an answer for me?" They don't get it how it works. They want the "instant gratification" of social media verses the fourm boards.

    Mike

     

    I agree @mikeexplorer about social media. We've definitely seen a shift in the type of usage we see, where back in the day the "sharing" we used to see about people's rides, trips, photos, etc., has declined and shifted more to large social networks. People usually get a comment pretty quick if they have a bunch of followers, so the expectation for replies translates to other smaller sites/networks. We have over the past few years seen a majority of our forum topics shift to "help needed" type of topics, which is not being satisfied in all cases on those larger social network sites. That being said, we've categorized forums and information around that to encourage member participation. 

    33 minutes ago, mikeexplorer said:

    I was not referring to you or your post.

    I went to the download area and downloaded the manuals your looking for, scanned them and there was no malware or anything in the files. They are clean.

    What software are you using that is reporting these files as malware?

    Mike

     

    If this is the file, it's clean and so is the page. We have server security measures (firewall and malicious file scanning) in place to avoid issues. Sometimes the user's browser is actually hijacked by malware.

    18 minutes ago, mikeexplorer said:

    I can't blame the administrator for imposing a policy of a post count before allowing downloads. Policies like this goes way back to the days of BBS's I was a sysop of one for years and you would have those that would do nothing but download files until they got kicked off for exceeding time. Of course in those days only one user could be online at a time since you had to use a phone line and modem. Nowadays that of course isn't true with hosting service, its only a matter of bandwidth depending on the hosting service you are using and how much they allow.

    Forums used to suffer from a different issue, bots posting links and scams. Registration process has gotten better to catch these bots and block them before they can post a bunch of scam and crap on the system. I maintain our club's website and it used to be horrible, I would have to clean out sometimes up to 500 bots a DAY! We as a club decided to only allow access for members only and I shut down the registration (nobody can sign up on our website) When a member joins the club, I just insert their member info into the website and they are good to go.

    We use a traditional forum board similar to this, We had talked about opening a social media page (like Facebook) but decided against it. Having topics arranged like they have here is much cleaner and more organized. Example, I am from the Northeast part of PA, they have a riding section, subtopic northeast. So when an important article came out about the trail initiative that will expand ATV riding in the area, that is the exact place to post it. Anyone from the area can clearly see it.

    Mike

     

    Lots of things have changed and over the years we've implemented measures to control spam and such but it still happens occasionally. We have to continuously evolve in order to stay relevant. Thanks for posting your experience, looks like you can relate!

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