Warcraft III resources & community, 2003–2006 · archived
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Hemlock
#91
Personally I think this site should be able to hold its own resources instead of redirecting to other sites, or atleast shouldn't become an option, and I think that it is manageable for wc3sear.ch as well as it is for others sites, there is need for more space on this website which probably is a finnacial query fro darky to decide on. Besides that this site needs better coding, cause even with the amount of stuff on this site, its manageable to load pages way faster than it does and did for the past years.
My ideas are, if your short on time, and resources get a dozen more people you can trust to become temporary sorting moderators.
More people = faster sorting
Next, I know several friends offline and online who run their own servers and might be willing to act as complete temporary 3 month backups until things are smooth again.
Lastly those same people mentioned above know of several online service providers who have given them excellent space deals in the past without giving them trouble.
I'd rather if you guys told me if I should start asking than start asking on your behalf and then find out you don't need it anymore.
I believe the BitTorrent idea was already mentioned and turned down.
Also, in answer to some that want to use free hosting. Free hosting is a mistake, especially for large sites that use an immense amount (1 Terabyte or more) of bandwidth.
I get the general impression that wc3search doesn't want to use any external hosting, probably because the site has already had two external hosting problems in the past. Based on these events, wc3search has every right to be wary of hosting files at other locations.
Also, even though Darky still visits sometimes, he still isn't around enough to add many new features to the site (I'm basing this upon observation), so huge changes are probably not going to happen.
The only worthwhile solution at this point (at least until the situation changes) remains for the mods/admins to keep up with the cleanup operation they set out to do, and for Darky to keep on the lookout for increasing the site storage quota.
Spells - UNIQUENESS (no three times made AoE sleep). - FULL MUI for JASS spells - few, if NO leaks for JASS spells
Icons - Atleast 65% scratch! - Icons of units or buildings on the site are done only ONCE!
Skins - atleast 75% scratch!
Maps - No more 50 DotAs and 100 Warhammers and map plagiarism. Map must be ORIGINAL!
There! This should most likely purge the site for good.
Now seriously, this is what I call harsh rules. Not "OMG, you deleted my icon because it was just a recolor?" "Of course! It was a plain recolor" "But icon X is also a recolor" situations.
But we have to rethink the map section. There is no use to have 100 DotAs uselessly. I haven't seen an original map for quite some time. Not that I check the maps section anymore. It simply sickens me to look at it. We should be far more strict with it. Maps are not additional resources! They are "the product" if you want to call it that way.
~Daelin
There is plagiarism, and then there are also just maps of the same genre...
I agree that inferior copies ought to be rejected, but saying there can be no AoS's other than dota, and no footman wars maps other than the footies by hatoup, and no TD's other than... umm... whatever the original TD was is stupid.
I will do my part and remove all my maps currently on this site since nobody is downloading them anymore and I have some of them up on epicwar.
Speaking of epicwar, there is no easy way to get rid of old version of your map on that site, reporting them is the only way.
223 posts If it was the same as yours, would you still wanna ask it? joined
#98
Or we could just download the best top of the files here, completelly remove this website, and start allover again by uploading the best files. You'd be certain about the fact the links work + you know the site contains quality work. And as soon as you have quality stuff, it's gonna be easier to approve new files
WoW models should be removed or at least limited (by size...?) IMO. they are high-poly, huge-sized and, hell, some of them are just dumped here as "omg look at me, i extracted a model from wow, i am so smart, credit me for the extra hard 5 minutes this took". there is a tutorial about extracting them somewhere on these forums so the people that have WoW can extract them. as for the others...well using those models would kind of be illegal for them anyway unless they own the game.
All this bedlam and arguing.The site's on the edge of the grave.We're about to the point were we either take the plunge, or rise from the ashes.
If the site survives the delima, we should review all of the rules and regulations about uploading to the site...perhaps a maxium amount of space to which each person could download to each category?Like, for example, 11 MB for maps, 20 MB for Models, 5 MB for icons,and 6 MBs fir skins per user.And there can be any number of tools and JAZZ allowed, only after they are teted to make sure they are working properly.
you mean upload, not download But it seems to me it is not matter of space or something technical, but matter of money witch provider want and site owner can not (or do not wish) pay. And if is situation such...stagnant and none admin bother to say whats going on, who will invest to such unsure thing?
How would it be if you reset wc3sear.ch and let the people upload their things again? make a policy in each type of wc3 stuff , like maps and icons and so on and if some1 add the stuff MORE Than 1 time , the user wiLL be banned or something other.
