Getting FINISHED using LimeWire
 

Well, after finally figuring out what was happening and finally being able to watch/listen to downloads, I come across the following:

1. If the video download worked, it sends me to about 5 different porn sites :mad:
2. If the download worked, it is full of viruses or worms!:(
3. The downloads are NOT in fact what I was looking for.
4. I click on a selection to download and it gives me the message 'content removed'
etc etc

Does this work for anyone???? What a waste of my money and a Sunday afternoon!

Will NOT be recommending to anyone. I'm off to invest my money elsewhere and hopefully legally.

What a shame. Very disappointed. I was expecting sooo much more in regards to eficiency, ease of use and selection of downloads.

1. Check a video before download with Bitzi. If a file's been rated you'll get an idea of it's quality & content. Preview a download after say 5% to check the contents!!
How to use Bitzi

2. Be careful when downloading. The whole Gnutella network has files which are infected, it's not just a LW problem.
WARNING: Viruses on the network you should be aware of

3. See point 1.

4. Never seen the message 'content removed'... that's a new one!

It's a good idea to use LW basic (which is free) first, before spending money on Pro;)

sounds like some paid henchmen of the MAFIAA to me...

w00t?, yu feeling all full of yurself after being soooo successfull in anti-piracy efforts down under?...hmmm....exactly where in Australia do you hail from????...hmmmmm???????

Groovegoddess

You seem like one of those people that don't have the faintest idea of what they are doing, so instead of asking questions you make bold statements based on little or no knowledge.

On second thoughts, I agree with Peerless, you are just a paid Hench woman (or maybe a paid cross dresser) sent here to spread misleading propaganda.



UK Bob

peerless and UK Bob - WTF?? I have no idea what you are talking about. Nobody has paid me to use this program. I paid my own good money to download it! Henchwoman? Crossdresser?? Sticks and stones... etc I am not 'full of myself' If you must know, I currently live in Queensland but have lived all over the country due to my career in the defence force (actually doing something useful for my country instead of picking on new people in a forum)

As I probably said earlier in my original post (but if I didn't here it is again) Thanks to NO help form the forum with my problems and bounced emails to 'support' I am dissatisfied with the product. It was recommended to me, but unfortunately it doesn't work for me.

What a shame that you 'experienced' losers (oops users) could not offer some decent, helpful advice to maybe encourage me to persevere or give me some tips and assist me in the use of the program instead of being horrible and downright rude. Perhaps I was correct in my first assessment and should leave the product and it's users alone.

Thanks for nothing.

I just had a look at the other 2 posts I made today asking for help and lo and behold - no help still after nearly 8 hours! Funny how I got more responses to this thread than the ones asking for help! Does this help illustrate my point any more??

Is ANYONE willing to help or are you all just like the two above?

PS thanks Birdy for your post. Will look into the links you provided.

Sleepless did try to help you. In between him going offline & somebody else stepping in, you wrote your post in this thread (your 3rd) stating that you were finished with LW. Well, given your statements here... should somebody still have replied to your second post? You made it pretty clear that you weren't interested in using LW any more!!(your first post was ignored as double posting is against the forum rules, just because it's very confusing to have 2 threads going about the same topic;))

This is a forum of volunteers. We give our time to help people for little or no thanks. Peerless & UK Bob are fantastic members who have helped hundreds of people. When someone jumps onto the forum to have a rant about how hopeless they think LW is , it tends to p*ss people off.Understandably.

If you lose the attitude, you'll find that there are some really great people here who are more than willing to help with any problems you might have.

If those two are examples of fantastic members, how nasty does everyone else get in here? I DID ask questions as you are supposed to on the forum, I DIDN'T get any help! (as I would have expected from a forum) What right have people to call me names? Ask me if I am full of myself because of my nationality? What has being Australian have to do with being in the mafia??? Maybe their posts are some sort of 'in joke' you play on newbies? If so, I'm not laughing. I am offended. If that's the way the volunteers on here behave, no wonder your efforts are rewarded with 'little or no thanks'!! Maybe they should lose their 'attitude' My supposed one came about from a lack of help from both the forum and from customer 'support' and was fuelled by the nasty comments made here. I did thank you for your previous reply birdy in my last post.
My 'rant' has got responses, but still not much positive advice or direction. Which is what I was looking for way back this afternoon when I posted for HELP.

On some forums you don't get responses for many days or weeks. And sometimes not at all. When I joined this forum I was keen to change that. To expect a response in minutes or even a couple of hours is a little ambitious. Particularly considering Australian time is when people from other continents are sleeping or working, so the forums tend to be a little quiet over those times. There still tends to be helpers on the forums over those times however.

Tips for videos: Movie download issues

To learn more about why there's some problems with the gnutella network (being spammed) & some tips, then see this: About the spam on the gnutella network with fake, corrupt, & virus ridden files

And don't forget to do this: See Arrange search results by size (click on link) & learn to use the Junk filter to filter out basic spam. Files less than 2,000 KB (2 MB) are generally spam or viruses. ;) :)

BTW I answered your previous thread. :)

wow...yet another person just out to test ppl..and that's plain...the words you use explain it all...you are obviously very experienced at what you do, which is to fake identities...buzz off and go elsewhere (like maybe the store to legally purchase things)

Well Groovegoddess

You've doubled posted using a different name and you expect help do you, funny that you have lived all over Australia and, in addition, must have met all sorts of people. Yet you don't know how to address a forum of volunteers from around the world.

Instead, you with your bogus name, start a second post, insult the product and the forum and are surprised by the reaction you get. For one so widely travelled you come across as someone that understands very little.

Maybe that’s why you have no idea on how to use a relatively simple product and, by the way, there is no way you could ever be “widely travelled”.



UK Bob

She should say fantastic forum

I posted the answer to her first question 5 minutes after she had posted it (and at 4.10 am local time)

How rude :(

I could make a house call....:D

Yeah. Smack her around a bit for me :D

So now you resort to threats of violence?? Get over yourselves.

I do admit to posting two questions in different threads (my mistake for not knowing I couldn't double post) but I have not posted using different names. Both questions were with this name.

Thankyou Lord of the Rings for your helpful response, much appreciated.

I don't know about being sent to 'test people' and wouldn't bother with 'fake identities'. Perhaps you have me confused with another person who posted something similar around the same time.

I am very disappointed in the metality now being displayed here. It has really put me off trying to overcome my problems with the product. If all you can do is attack me and make personal threats, I think this is a place I would rather not be.

Thank to those who have offered help and genuine assistance - best of luck to you. For the rest - I won't stoop to your levels of immature behaviour to respond further.

This is actually becoming quite upsetting. Have you nothing better to do than threaten people??

I was kidding you bonehead

+ You pissed me of saying you got no help. And as it was said I went offline right after replying to your thread (5 minutes after you posted your question). And if you took some time to look at the reply you would have figured out what I meant

And last but not least

YOU STARTED

Kidding??? Sorry, but I can't accept threats of violence. I have just sent an email to administartors to remove me from this place. I don't feel welcome and obviously not many of you like or trusts me because apparantly Aussies are the mafia or something. I've really been put off and don't need the stress appearing in my inbox.

Why accuse me of all this negative stuff?? I am not in the mafia (i thought that was italians?) I am not full of myself because I am an Aussie, I don't have fake identities and I don't want to "test people'' Maybe this is all stuff I don't understand - whatever- it's still not very nice. If I can somehow find a link or someone to email to terminate my login, I will go. If you can provide the link, go for it cos I can't find one. All the emails I have sent to 'support' keep bouncing back stating 'user unknown' or something.

Perhaps as a nice parting gesture someone could point me to the exit please??:(

Send a PM to Lord Of The Rings

I would like to apoligize, I never meant what I said as a threat...
Dont be upset....:(

The post title without major efforts for trying for an answer is what upset the other members. And btw I'm also from your land. Wherever that is, afaik the middle of the ocean. When some of the members here get upset then they can let their emotions go. Prolly a build up of pressure from some of the members who ask frustrating questions such as those questions that have been answered 50-100 times already.

And yes ... I am the admin here. So if you wish to send me a message then click on my username. Perhaps you have received the wrong end of the stick but some members were a little confused by your initial approach. Sorry to see you have received a hard time. There's lots of info on these forums so it would be a waste to throw it all away. Once the basics of the program & issues with the network are understood then all these can be worked around to keep one happy. ;) :)

Thanks for your apology. Yesterday when I got the program and set about using it and things went haywire, yes I got cranky, and tried to seek help. I got more cranky when I didn't get results (libran perfectionist) so I had a "rant" Apologies for pissing people off.

My understanding was that I am in the LimeWire section of the forum? I think I got linked to this area from the program itself.

Never mind. I will be gone shortly and you can all have your little domain back. I am probably better off away from it all. I get enough stress at work, I'd rather go back on deployment to The Gulf! Thanks agian to those who offered help. Thanks to wondering why for the apology.