Disgraceful!

[Stardragon 4]

FS: Please post here if you vote in the Poll above.

With the recent flood of SPAM and PIRATED uploads, (not going to name names but you know who you are) the STEX is truly in danger of becoming much like the Official Exchange: A pile of CRAP with a few gold nuggets hidden underneath. This may be averted, but only if action is taken. First of all, the locked uploads that have been pirated from Oppie and others and the Spam uploads that do nothing NEED TO BE REMOVED. It is depressing to open up the STEX and see a couple of real uploads surrounded by Spam and Pirate Loads.

Perhaps access to upload rights to the STEX should be restricted. Maybe not like SimPeg.com or SC4Devotion, but restricted nonetheless. Maybe one upload for a new loader until the uploads has been scrutinized and then full upload rights should be given. But then again, maybe upload rights should be restricted like at SC4D. I don't know if much of the population knows this, but uploads at SC4D tend to only be locked when they become obsolete. There has never been a case of SPAM and PIRATING like the one currently choking the STEX and it's bandwidth.

Why? Because lots or whatever are submitted to a commitee BEFORE they are uploaded, looked at and tested, then posted on the LEX. I'm sure the actual process is different from the one described, but it is there nontheless.

This is a problem for the community, INCLUDING the mods and Dirk, to solve together.

I've kept this rant/speech short so that it will be coherent. Voice your opinions. Solve the problem NOW and keep the STEX from suffering the same fate as the Official Exchange: go there to get specific uploads and leave, never to return if all bodes well.

~~Stardragon/Dragonshardz~~

PS: Those of you who HAVE had their uploads locked because they are Spam/Suspected Piracy, this is NOT a B_-_h Thread for you. Go complain somewhere else and let this thread do what it is meant to: solve a problem that is beginning to loom over ALL our heads.

PPS: Please post here if you vote in the Poll above.

[Jasoncw 11,949]

A thread like this has been getting made every month or two for over a year. Go browse the forums and check those ones out.

[jayo 44]

Theres no need for this thread-Your just slagging off the STEX.I just because people over at EA can't BAT like jasoncw or autovino doesn't mean its a pile of crap-You have to start somewhere

[MrCinatit 30]

In short, it has been suggested many times, but Dirk himself believes it is best that this remains an open exchange - and I could not agree more. And, this horse has been beat so often, the horses around it are dead.