Downloading and file serving changes

[DrakeTheDragon]

As an active Mod Author since a time from before it even became The Nexus I hereby must dissociate myself from the afore mentioned statements made by users in this topic.

I am not your weapon. I don't agree with you. Neither does the other majority of Mod Authors, going by their past input on the matter and what I know of them.

 

I'm not talking for the others, but as a mod author the Nexus doesn't owe me anything. Bring money into the equation and I'll be gone in no time. It's rather I owe them, for the invaluable service they provided me with for absolutely nothing in return over all those years, and I'm ashamed still not having bought a Premium membership just to show my support.

I'm using the service for years beyond most of your's memories, and they're yet to disappoint me. The current minor hickup in comparison doesn't make years of satisfaction go away. It was to be expected, from my point of view anyways, and they're doing their best to keep things going, while fighting odds every other privately hosted website would've crumbled against.

 

We Mod Authors are in support of the Nexus and its staff, so don't use us as your weapon to attack them. We don't approve.

[speedynl]

 

calling you members free users would be fine, but calling them LEECHING users don't sound right, you are the owner you shoud show some more respect towards your members

 

The definition of leeching:

 

In computing and specifically Internet, a leech is one who benefits, usually deliberately, from others' information or effort but does not offer anything in return, or makes only token offerings in an attempt to avoid being called a leech. In economics, this type of behavior is called "free riding" and is associated with the free rider problem.

 

Can you explain why I should show more respect to these individuals?

 

you can put up wall of texts, but your answer only shows that you don't have any respect for 70% + - off your (free)members, and thats a fact

[ZeroKing]

 

 

calling you members free users would be fine, but calling them LEECHING users don't sound right, you are the owner you shoud show some more respect towards your members

 

The definition of leeching:

 

In computing and specifically Internet, a leech is one who benefits, usually deliberately, from others' information or effort but does not offer anything in return, or makes only token offerings in an attempt to avoid being called a leech. In economics, this type of behavior is called "free riding" and is associated with the free rider problem.

 

Can you explain why I should show more respect to these individuals?

 

you can put up wall of texts, but your answer only shows that you don't have any respect for 70% + - off your (free)members, and thats a fact

 

No, that's your opinion. Taking something Robin said (good or bad), and forming an opinion or view point of his statement, does not make it fact.

[markus242005]

 

 

calling you members free users would be fine, but calling them LEECHING users don't sound right, you are the owner you shoud show some more respect towards your members

 

The definition of leeching:

 

In computing and specifically Internet, a leech is one who benefits, usually deliberately, from others' information or effort but does not offer anything in return, or makes only token offerings in an attempt to avoid being called a leech. In economics, this type of behavior is called "free riding" and is associated with the free rider problem.

 

Can you explain why I should show more respect to these individuals?

 

you can put up wall of texts, but your answer only shows that you don't have any respect for 70% + - off your (free)members, and thats a fact

 

So you never actually gave him a reason to respect people that in no way support the site, and only take, right? Just making sure I'm reading you correctly...

 

If you owned a restaurant, would you respect that 70% of your "clients" came in for a free glass of water and to use your bathroom?

[bigdaddycool9999]

with all the ads and clicks here and the supporters that generate income, not to mention the "tens of thousands hours of work" you put into it i really wonder how it comes that the site seems to be down so often, not mentioning the problems with the nexus mod manager. the whole internet is full with people that crack jokes about it. call me whatever you want, its not of interest to me, and i will even explain to you why...

 

i would consider myself to be arrogant if i would defend something that doesnt work because of the name / label it has.

i would call myself arrogant if i would make quite some money with a product that lacks quality / availability / service / maintenance / warranty and consider myself to be untouchable / superior / smarter than anyone else.

 

when it comes down to real business, and you cut away all the talking, advertising, philosophy, intention, character of your product, you basically have two options. the first one is, you deliver a high quality product that convinces and stands out on any point, deliver the best service and good the world has ever seen... this is milking the cow. talking about cars lets say this would be a nice ferrari, mercedes, corvette.

the second one is, you make massive mismanagement (if on purpose or because of not better knowing it makes no difference), you simply butcher the cow... this would be a cheap car that is sure to kill everyone inside of it at the first crash, rusting in the first 3 months and needing repairs every third of a year.

 

the main difference between those two is the perspective concerning the time you look at. you make some money fast, or much more on longtime sight. i believe that markets regulate themselves more or less, and products that dont convince sooner or later go down. even if you have / had a monopol at the beginning, its a matter of time, one competitor here, another one there, sooner or later they team up and the monopolist is history.

 

quite frankly im a excellent paid consultant when i dont play games, its just my hobby. further advice and looking into your numbers would easily cost you several thousand british pounds, feel free to contact me if you want to talk business, and in case that anderson consulting makes a bell ring. if not, your loss, not mine. i will sit back again in silence and simply enjoy the show here. best of luck, i think you will need it.

[Dark0ne]

with all the ads and clicks here and the supporters that generate income, not to mention the "tens of thousands hours of work" you put into it i really wonder how it comes that the site seems to be down so often

 

Why "wonder" when you can go back over my news articles the past year, read and understand exactly why that's the case? Considering you seem to be claiming you're a "paid consultant" (of what, dare I ask?), one assumes you're not a server/data centre consultant else we wouldn't be having this conversation at all. Or indeed a research consultant, for that matter.

 

 

 

i would consider myself to be arrogant if i would defend something that doesnt work because of the name / label it has.

i would call myself arrogant if i would make quite some money with a product that lacks quality / availability / service / maintenance / warranty and consider myself to be untouchable / superior / smarter than anyone else.

 

Way to try and defend yourself by not actually responding to any of the points I've brought up and simply retorting with a long-winded "no, you" response. No, you.

 

 

 

when it comes down to real business, and you cut away all the talking, advertising, philosophy, intention, character of your product, you basically have two options. the first one is, you deliver a high quality product that convinces and stands out on any point, deliver the best service and good the world has ever seen... this is milking the cow. talking about cars lets say this would be a nice ferrari, mercedes, corvette.

the second one is, you make massive mismanagement (if on purpose or because of not better knowing it makes no difference), you simply butcher the cow... this would be a cheap car that is sure to kill everyone inside of it at the first crash, rusting in the first 3 months and needing repairs every third of a year.

 

the main difference between those two is the perspective concerning the time you look at. you make some money fast, or much more on longtime sight. i believe that markets regulate themselves more or less, and products that dont convince sooner or later go down. even if you have / had a monopol at the beginning, its a matter of time, one competitor here, another one there, sooner or later they team up and the monopolist is history.

 

Like Land Rover, who have just posted results for one of their most successful years despite making some of the most unreliable cars ever made, that are the butt of plenty of jokes, and regularly lead all the wrong top lists? Loving the analogy.

 

Not that this has absolutely anything to do with what we were originally talking about at all. Which was you trying to justify using an adblocker because you don't think this site should make any money to pay the bills. Not quite sure why you've gone off on this stupid tangent, but it's quite amusing.

 

 

 

quite frankly im a excellent paid consultant when i dont play games, its just my hobby. further advice and looking into your numbers would easily cost you several thousand british pounds, feel free to contact me if you want to talk business, and in case that anderson consulting makes a bell ring.

 

If I paid you would I at least get some half-decent grammar in the report? Just wondering. I'd kind of expect that as a bare minimum for several thousand British pounds.

 

 

 

best of luck, i think you will need it.

 

On that, I will happily agree with you.

[Dark0ne]

you can put up wall of texts, but your answer only shows that you don't have any respect for 70% + - off your (free)members, and thats a fact

 

You're putting words in my mouth, again. Who am I talking about here? People who use adblockers, who download from the site, and give nothing back. Lets recap: I stated these people don't provide any financial support to these sites. Fact. I called them leechers, then defined the concept of leechers as it related to the internet, a widely used term used to describe the exact people described above. I then asked why I should show more respect than I already do (e.g. by allowing them to continue to use the sites without any restriction, thus far, and with very little pestering on the topic). You didn't bother to answer that question, you only proceeded to come up with some pie-in-the-sky 70% figure (which, if it were true, we wouldn't be here talking right now as the server bills would have been left unpaid years ago) and put words in my mouth.

 

Do you actually want to discuss this or do you just want to paint me in a bad light without any sort of reasoning?

[Talus057]

Figure out a way to put up advertisements without me downloading information and images into my pc and also without any of my personally identifiable information being sent to them without my permission (which is the single reason adblockers are so popular these days considering the massive business of selling and trading personal information in this NSA ridden neo-corporate era) and I will happily turn off my adblocker just like I did to duckduckgo dot com. If you don't like that, ban me. Whatever makes you happy, oh almighty Dark0ne.

 

Oh, but if you want to use your own money to recruit opt-out scripts and to monitor the internet for my personal information and relative privacy instead of me spending my money on all that then ... I will happily uninstall my browser and go back to IE right that very second. But something tells me that's not going to happen.

 

I think we're done here. Don't wait up for another reply. :P

Edited January 23, 2014 by Talus057

[EWM333]

Great Job, What a way to start of the new year..Thanks Robin

 

Everything seems to be working great, downloads seem to have become much faster,surfing the site has also picked up ..Dude all I can say is You have changed gaming for me, as you have built nexus up from the ground with little or no support other than those few of us who have become premium members.

 

I still can not believe how much crap you get from people using your site for free for pretty much all if not most of there modding needs and still all they do is complain. Please don't let them ever discourage you or make you or your awesome staff feel as though you must defend yourselves.

Those people make up a very small percent of the population and really serve no real purpose other than being unhappy with themselves or their lives, so they come here and take it out on the staff of nexus.I would think they would appreciate that it is FREE and not run by some huge cooperation making everyone pay to use the sevice. People really amaze me sometimes.

 

 

 

Edited January 23, 2014 by EWM333

[blacksythe]

I love the nexus sites and I have been using them for years, down time does not bother me because if its impossible for major isp's and google to run with 100% uptime, it sure of hell is impossible for a much smaller site to run with that. Kudos to the nexus site and the fantastic staff that run it.

 

For all of you that have been using nexus site for years but not shown any support that can show even a small amount of support shush and give them money.

 

But seriously Sure downtime is annoying but not having a nexus site at all would be even more annoying.