Warnings and Site Ban Theater

[TheVampireDante]

1 hour ago, showler said:

Collections can contain hundreds of mods, though.

Indeed - then you get ones like these that breach the 1K mark on their own.

1,758: https://www.nexusmods.com/games/skyrimspecialedition/collections/qdurkx

1,935: https://www.nexusmods.com/games/skyrimspecialedition/collections/9zfscf

4,235: https://www.nexusmods.com/games/skyrimspecialedition/collections/gnfjwh

[Morticia01]

After i had a harddrive crash i had to download  40-50 mods per day to get my 600 mod list in 10-12 days back.

There can be legit reasons for downloading 100 mods a day, but 100000 in only a few weeks is a clear misuse on the other hand.

[fadeother]

10 minutes ago, Morticia01 said:

After i had a harddrive crash i had to download  40-50 mods per day to get my 600 mod list in 10-12 days back.

There can be legit reasons for downloading 100 mods a day, but 100000 in only a few weeks is a clear misuse on the other hand.

Ive had this with character animations several times, some mod authors upload these as separate rar files so they will have something like three dozen different uploads on the same page

[Glitchfinder]

I've seen a few collections and wabbajacks with over a thousand mods, yeah. That said, I do think that there's a potential middle ground between ten or twenty per day and four thousand per day for a month straight.

[Rosalyne1]

I'm really dumb so forgive the stupid question, but what are these people doing with the files they're scraping? Clearly they aren't using them for themselves, so are they hosting them somewhere and taking credit or something? I can't figure out what benefit it would have to them.

[TheVampireDante]

26 minutes ago, Rosalyne1 said:

I'm really dumb so forgive the stupid question, but what are these people doing with the files they're scraping? Clearly they aren't using them for themselves, so are they hosting them somewhere and taking credit or something? I can't figure out what benefit it would have to them.

Some might for that reason, claiming some of them as their own for the ego hype, but I don't see that being a big reason.

Others will have their own little sites or pages setup for collecting click/ad revenue or just to sell the mods outright, usually to an audience of newbies that don't know that the original free versions exist.

Another is people that want to speedrun setting up the "competition" to this site for whatever reasons they have (not getting into that here, but the theme of this thread is likely very relevent). 

This sometimes gets coupled with a "you can claim your mods by signing up and messaging us" - which increases their numbers and makes things seem more legitimate when it's not.

Then there's malware infectors grabbing files to redistribute with their BS included to scrape other types of data, grabbing large amounts of differing mods to redistribute elsewhere to reach a large number of people.

There's a ton of other reasons/theories/ideas of why, but those are the ones that come to mind first.

[HeyYou]

7 hours ago, showler said:

Collections can contain hundreds of mods, though.

But not 100's of thousands, nor even thousands.......

[AndalayBay]

Nexus: Can't you find a mechanism to detect that a mod is being downloaded as part of a collection versus someone downloading a thousand mods at once?

[HeyYou]

9 hours ago, AndalayBay said:

Nexus: Can't you find a mechanism to detect that a mod is being downloaded as part of a collection versus someone downloading a thousand mods at once?

I would expect, that anyone downloading 1000 mods in a very short period of time, is unlikely to be legit.....

[AndalayBay]

6 hours ago, HeyYou said:

I would expect, that anyone downloading 1000 mods in a very short period of time, is unlikely to be legit.....

There are collections that have over 4000 files apparently. See previous page in this thread.

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