Klondike; I understand where you're coming from and I've almost "doubled" my "thanks" in only
a couple of days.
Charlie; all though the biker stuff isn't exactly what really excites me, I still applaud your efforts. Regarding the issue of your declining "thanks", perhaps you could open a poll with a few options of the various biker pictures you have and gauge which category has the most amount of fans
. Of course I can relate to your problem on a more general level: it doesn't feel very worthwhile to put in a considerable level of effort which is largely unappreciated.
However, I wouldn't go so far as to agree with you that one "owes it to the up-loader" to thank them. I do spend a fair amount of time on this board from time to time, and so many threads contain duplicates and triplicates, and viewing the board in it's entirety quadruplicates, quintaplicates (I thank google for this word) and so forth. I'm in no position whatsoever to be annoyed at this, all though "between the two of us" it does kind of irritate me slightly, particularly when the file name has been changed. There is a difference between original up-loaders and those who merely regurgitate. I can't understand why someone who downloads something has to change the name of a file, often to something like "1543559916" before uploading it again. I don't know exactly how common these two opposing practices are, but many times the file name is the same, and many times the file name has been changed. Personally, if I were to frequently thank up-loaders (I'm by no means claiming that this is the reason as to why I've barely thanked anyone during 5 years - that would be really lame), I wouldn't thank anyone that uploads downloaded material after re-naming it - unless it was an incredible picture and also very rare. This board is administered in a friendly manner; some other boards have dislike as an option. Largely speaking, I don't even see the point in thanking people for regurgitating stuff that is as frequent as an ant in an anthill.
As I said in my previous post, I've recently started to re-post stuff on various forums that I've found online. However, I only contribute where I see a genuine need. A few days ago I uploaded many videos in the rapidshare section (my only contribution during 5 years on this board, mind, and also the reason why I posted in this thread - in order to "amass" 10 posts before being allowed to post url's) belonging to the same thread and where almost all of the files had been deleted for a long time. I'm going to do the same with a couple more of those threads in the coming period. Personally I don't give a rat's ass of how many thanks I receive (all though my ego will cause me to check on it from time to time), as I'm "giving back" and my contribution is in many cases trifle in comparison to the effort of the original up-loader. As I said,; our perspectives are very different.