Blocking and freeloaders
 

Do these features work? I share about 175 movies (tjw), and am always looking for more. I have happened on some files from people who I'd like to block. And I can't stand freeloaders. :mad2: I have the 'rarely allow freeloaders' checked, but I would like to know if it is working. :Smilywais: Thanks!!

I am not so sure it works. I heard it rumoured it was more or less disabled. I did sense the share min amount of files did still work though a few years ago when I experimented with different amounts. Could not be guarenteed though, after all if LW struggles to browse them then ...

To block downloader, right-click user & you will see option. But keep in mind, browse is not a 100% accurate tool. eg: sometimes I browse a host & it shows perhaps 230 files, a few mins later less or more. Sometimes it does not show any result, yet they are obviously sharing. But yes, I believed there are a lot of freeloaders out there who share rubbish or nothing.

Sometimes, when i have too much time on my hands, I will look at the 'monitor' screen to see which files people are copying from me. When there is the little sunny face next to it I click 'browse host' and 9 times out of ten it will not allow me to do that. Of course, the ones that have NO smiley face I don't even try, and - when I have a whole lot of time on my hands - I will stop those downloads altho they start up within a few seconds.

It's annoying; I share more than 3500 files with others. When I cannot access <sp?> their files it ticks me off - understatement but I want to keep it clean.

I have changed the number of files that I expect people to share with me. For the amount I share with others I think that 100 files in return is not too much to ask. Or am I too picky?? :confused:

I share almost 7,000 files, but I limit the number of files one person can download at one time. That has the advantage that since I share a wide variety of media formats & tastes, it allows a broader audience to download from me at same time. It stops one or two people 'hogging' all the upload slots. The disadvantage is that if a person selects too many files to download from me at one time, they get pushed off for that session, I occasionally see messages showing up, "Banned Greedy Servent", lol :D (Sample of this, which went on for about an hour btw, they must have selected thousands of files.) It was after that occasion I limited slots from 3 to 2 per person to be a little stricter.