Best ever excuses for "No Files Shared"

Me: "refresh"

User: "Oh, now I see 17,000. Thanks! Hey, do you have..."

i'm 100% with strng hlkngtn though about users banning because a) you don't have enough files in their view, or b) (even worse) they have no use for what your sharing....had a huge, 40-messages-back-and-forth fight with another user over this (they banned me because the 4,000 files i was sharing didn't jive precisely with their tastes).

most people didn't respond to my messages when I asked them to share some folders - so I stopped messaging and started just banning from the jump. I should probably be more circumspect, tho.

I go out of my way to follow individual users' rules and yet I still manage to get banned now and again for some stupid "infraction" or another. I kind of feel sorry for them. I don't really notice "leechers" because I'm usually busy doing something more constructive than obsessively watching my uploads window.

kinda, yeah. i'm always on the lookout for new people to download from, so i like to browse the users in my upload window and see what they've got. and even if they're just sharing a small handful of folders, there's a chance there might be something i'm interested in. no hard drive space? share an mp3 disc. people KNOW the basic rules of p2p; not to comply is just dickish.

my shitty computer barely runs slsk at all, and whenever i try to share files it crashes after a couple minutes. i feel guilty for leeching, but...

IMAGINE WHAT IT'S LIKE FOR US! IF WE ARE DOWNLOADING AN ALBUM ON 56k IT MEANS WE REALLY FUCKING WANT IT OK? WE WANT IT BAD ENOUGH TO SIT THERE ALL DAY AND NIGHT RECONNECTING AND JIGGLING UNTIL IT IS DONE.

Also the only stuff anybody downloads from me ever is Reggaeton and they are ALL FUCKING SPANIARDS AND THEY TRY TO MAKE FRIENDS EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM IN SPANISH OR WORST STILL BROKEN ENGLISH.

My life is a fucking mess.

I have addressed this problem by putting all my music in one folder full of subfolders for genres, then artists (sometimes), then albums.

I fucking hate people who put elaborate rules up.

it's not your computer, it's your router that you need to configure.

Actually, it's only "A" I need to figure out where to find it. I can do those other two easily.

The only person I've ever banned was in retaliation for the "Your files don't interest me" so I banned him just in case he changed his mind.

I've got this in my personal info:
If you have more than five stupid rules for downloading listed in your profile, you are subject to BANNIFICATION!!!

btw, I just added a bunch of Ornette Coleman concert recordings.

"Fazoo"

[beege59] Hey shitbag!!
[chex] what up douche!
[chex] i got your files asshat!
[beege59] it took you 6 hours to think that up, piehole?
[beege59] what a waste!
[beege59] LOL
[chex] LOL i am back now from my $600,000 a year job
[chex] so what's up?
[beege59] my cock, your dad
[chex] HOLLA AT ME FAM

***As of 2006***

I'm starting to ban people.
I'll only do so for a couple of reasons, they are as follows:

1. If you aren't sharing stuff - banned.

2. If I message you and you don't respond in a timely fashion = banned.
I'm not big on chatting, so if I message you it's important. Well... as important as any of this stuff can be I s'pose. Really it's just a matter of being civil. It's far too easy to just be assholes to people who you can't see - lets' be nice to each other, deal?. Oh - and if you message me and I don't respond - I'm busy. or not home. I'll get back to you when I'm around.

3. If you only log on to grab stuff from me, then log off before I'm done getting stuff from you... and don't log back on for over a week - you are a LEECH as far as I'm concerned. Go use Limewire with all the other leeches.

SHAME ON YOU!!

IS THIS HOW YOU ARE IN THE SACK?? YOU JUST GET YOURS AND ROLL OVER TO SLEEP?

Good. I should hope not.
...............................................................
OK, Back to the Original Message:

Hey!

If you can't browse my files, it's cuz I got paranoid and went list only. Message me and i'll add ya. But plan on being subjected to a battery of tests to prove you are not the Man, Also - if I can't browse your files, i'm not adding you. Nothing personal, but I already have 2 infractions for filesharing copyrighted shit, and my ISP is about to drop me.

Now for the good news:
Since i'm list-only, I almost never have a queue, so go ahead and take as much as you like.

enjoy!

www.audioscrobbler.com/user/hospice_bouquet
www.myspace.com/hospice_bouquet

* choo-choo bear makes googily eyes with someone across the chatroom

The Dude (aka Lebowski) makes googily eyes across room at dapper dan

Dapper Dan Man Damnit! batts his eye lashes
*
Dapper Dan Man Damnit! and smears shit on his face
*

The Dude (aka Lebowski) farts on dapper's face and licks the shit off his face
*

Dapper Dan Man Damnit! finger fucks the dude while the dude shits on his finger

[ImaginaryFriend] sexy.
*

The Dude (aka Lebowski) pisses in dapper's ears

[hospice bouquet] you people are triflin. i aint sayin it again
*

Dapper Dan Man Damnit! stabs the dude in his asshole with his 6 inch blade

The Dude (aka Lebowski) farts shitty blood juice all over dapper's face
*

Dapper Dan Man Damnit! snorts in the yummies

The Dude (aka Lebowski) gives dapper the reach around with his feet
*

Dapper Dan Man Damnit! is very pleased by this, he has a foot fetish
*

Dapper Dan Man Damnit! chops off the dude's feet and keeps them
*

The Dude (aka Lebowski) shoots his leg blood all over dapper's stomach while cumming at the same time

[ImaginaryFriend] you fags are still going at it?
*
Dapper Dan Man Damnit! licks up the blood/cum juice, imagines it's a strawberry smoothie

*choo-choo bear remembers not make googily eyes next time

-- batman (joy18...), July 21st, 2005.

The world's greatest detective, ladies and gentlemen!

My mp3 collection is stuck behind a college firewall 100 miles from where I can download, meaning I have about 2 gigs to share at any time on an old home laptop and often none as I have to burn them off and take em away. So I get irritated by people with itchy ban buttons, it's not in the spirit of the whole thing is it? I should get an external hard drive I suppose and risk damaging it in bus holds so prissy people who might not want anything I have at all can't justify banning me.

And now I'm off to the beach, sun sun sun.

I wonder is file sharing a venial or a moral sin...

Listen. There's a Big difference between sharing music, or anything else for that matter, and pirating. After spending ,(or should I say being Gouged or Pirated), sometimes for more than $20.00 for a CD that's lining some music Mogul's pocket, I Dare you to say Who I can share it with. It's kind of like our old friend bill Gates, who started this crock of shit, saying that after spending almost $200 for a 5 cent piece of plastic CD, he wrote His Own Laws into his software saying that not only do you have NO right to share it with someone else, which is Moderately understandable if He was the one who worked and paid for that silly piece of plastic in the first place, which he DID NOT, but make it against the Law according to Dave for you to put it on a different computer of yours if your original one breaks down. What next. having rules on rolls of toilet paper, saying you can only use it on your ass, and your ass only? And the 1st. 10 sheets of it being your use agreement, your EULA? Makes about as much sense to me.
I guarantee that there is not a single one of these whiners who could lie their way out of this next scenario, at least any one of them older than maybe 30 years old:
Being 20 years old, maybe borrowing your roomates car (OMG, I wonder if that's breaking the law),picking up your new girlfriend, cruisin' down the boulevard listening to that new led zeppelin album you just recorded onto a tDK cassette tape from your album, the one you made 2 copies of and sent to your cousin in kentiucky who'd never heard of them until i sent it to him. Now your cousin and all of his friends are total led zeppelin freaks, and their friends and on and on.
Anyway, back to the good stuff. Cruisin back home after maybe a movie, breaking out a vintage year bottle of Boones Farm wine and turning on your old TEAC reel to reel tape recorder with 8 solid hours of the kind of music that makes everything come together just right.
But, OMG, they're breaking my door down. They're taking everything. My TEAC, my friends cassette player, his car that he shared with me, no...not my brother's Levi's I borrowed. Wait a minute now. You can't take my girlfriend Sharon Peters, I've NEVER shared her with anyone. She did What? I don't believe it!
Sorry, got carried away, but that is Exactly what those GREEDY Son of a Bitches are doing. Going a little too far, You Think. You think that maybe this is going into Phase 2 of this new "Homeland Security"
Bottom line Mr. Music(my ass) Mogul, more like Mr. Money Mogul. did you ever record a cassette or a reel to reel tape when you were younger. Just how did that make you feel then ? Did you feel like a Pirate, or did that New Age term everyone uses now only come about when your greed took over, and what you were ripping off from the American people and the musicians just wasn't enough to satisfy you?
Is this Phase 2 of corporate americas plan with the governments approval, to even take away the right to share music with a friend? Call it anything, you don't care, as long as there's money connected with it, and it makes it's way into your pocket. If anyone should be called a pirate it's heartless, greedy people like you.
And don't lay this bullshit line on everyone about it ripping off the musicians. That is another one of your Guilt trips you lay on people to line your pockets even more. And I Know this because I am a musician and I've had to deal with your kind more times than I even like to remember. Where I'm from, and I guess it must be some place that you're not, I would feel, and I did feel honored if people liked me, and thought enough about my music that they would want to share it with someone else. Just how do you think musicians become known? People turn each other on to new music with the kind of free advertising that money can not buy. Even your money.
Imagine if this was all turned around on your greedy asses and everyone who was sharing music sent you a bill for all the free promotion and advertising you're getting. But they won't, and do you know why? Because, being NOTHING like YOU, to them it's NOT about the MONEY. It's about the MUSIC!!!!!!!!

No there isn't, you jackass. If you are going to steal music, at least stop lying to yourself about it, and save your bullshit, self righteous drama for when you get busted.

By the way, I totally ban people who don't share. The "dude y did u ban me" messages are like chocolate angel kisses.

1 - I find this user dling files from me.

2 - I hit browse users files to see if he is sharing.

3 - He is, so I check out his stuff and find a folder I want to get, and queue it up.

4 - I am banned by this user.

I mean...DAMN.

No there isn't, you jackass. If you are going to steal music, at least stop lying to yourself about it, and save your bullshit, self righteous drama for when you get busted.

By the way, I totally ban people who don't share. The "dude y did u ban me" messages are like chocolate angel kisses.

-- snumbers (ben.carve...), April 27th, 2006.

If i was downloading music for any other reason than to enjoy it for it's own sake , such as making copies to sell, then yes you could say it is piracy what I'm doing, and I should have to answer for it. But, Since this NOT the case, and YOU are also in there using SLSK, it makes me wonder exactly what you are doing there. Since YOU consider it stealing and piracy, I guess by telling everyone else that they are thieves you justify yourself as being one and not alone in this. No, I think it is going to be you and your little business you obviously have going and your chocolate angel kisses that are going to be the hit of Leavonworth when they bust your "jackass":, JACKASS. BTW, How much do you get for your CD's. I'm sure BUBBA will Love your little chocolate angel kisses. Speak for yourself asswipe when you go calling someone a thief, because obviously you are. Have Fun

I think I have just found a benchmark in Soulseek retardedness.

It started with this:
[11:33][silent pair] oh no - banned by the illiterate cunt with m4a files
[11:33][silent pair] fuckign twat

Which was funny enough, what with the bad spelling / stones glass houses thing.
Then it got awesome, the guy assumed that I must have ignored him, so he set up another Soulseek user account just to try and insult me, which produced this absolute gem:

"to badd your to retarted to read fuckign cunt"

I would love to meet this guy in real life. He must LOVE mp3s. A lot.

Here is a great message to send people when banning them.

Hello, Soulseek has reported to me that there are no files in your public share just now. So I am sorry to have to inform you that you are banned for the time being. The reason for this detected bad share is of no importance – whether technical, temporary or otherwise. Our bandwidth is limited... We want to favour users that share seriously, without being asked to. Your music, videos or docs need to appear in searches by other users. So you need to CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMUNITY. We expect you to abide by "quid pro quo". So no taking without giving . . . even just a little! Et tu ne parles pas Shakespeare ? Tant pis, franchement. No habla Ingles ? «algo por algo» ! qui pro quo ! Dieses für das ! DON’T DON’T DON’T reply to this chat now… I am obliged to ban too many people to spend time chatting. Any replies to this message will not be read as you will be put you on IGNORE. And your login will never access my collection again. However if you fix the problem, if you can see you are at times uploading files to other users (not in your user list), you may contact me in a few days AFTER we have both rebooted. I will then unban you IF ANOTHER user friend of mine can confirm to me that your sharing has become effective (even a modest collection of *organised* files is of use to the community). For etiquette, please see http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Being-Banned-on-Soulseek Why do we ban every bad downloader we see? Because Soulseek is going to keep working only if we share effectively. And out of a sense and fairness and equity. And outrage at the large number of scroungers (this is not to imply that you are necessarily one just now!). As upload usage is often at 100%, there is no reason to be kind to an account that has not effectively been sharing with me or with the community at the time you tried downloading.

tldr

And to find out quickly if someone is sharing or not, just right click "Add to list", and see if empty or not. It is invariably accurate. However quite a number of users will authorise as soon as they are banned. So the Files count suddenly goes from nothing to some good figure. And they will come back and accuse you of acting too fast!
Asking for independent validation puts an effective end to this game.

Some freeloaders say they cant speak English.
Others will play victim, with messages like "I am so saddened".
A few will try to put you to shame, e.g "You are so aggressive".
Some try to start a chat e.g. "Can you please advise me...", sometimes after reincarnation as another user.

Once I managed to view the chat history of a freeloader, and it was full of messages to other users in the past such as "I'm new", "Pls just one song". "I'm on the laptop"

Wow, you care way too much about rules when you are stealing music.

And after getting a message like the one above, explaining why banned, almost no one will ever come back after a few days saying they are now sharing, and if the ban can be removed.

"pls just one song" = just a song junkie trying to get his fix

I think I'm pretty straightforward and low-impact about my "leeching," which basically involves occasionally downloading one or two songs, for reference or whatever, and sharing the download folder they all go into. So I find it slightly funny when someone bothers banning me or sending me a message about it. I know people care about the p2p ecosystem and all, and don't really mind being banned, but sending a whole message seems like a bit too much energy to put into a guy grabbing one old Black Sheep single off you (and offering a carefully curated selection of like two dozen random calypso numbers, Smiths covers, and bad electro in return!).

Have still never soul-sought ;_;

i have ONE rule on slsk... you must share your entire library...mot just 2 tracks. ALL "no files shared" leeches are immediately banned without warning....fuck leeches. everyone else is welcome. now if you want to be on my user list, the rules are a little tougher. the way i see it..those on my list get front of the line access to my 50000 high quality tracks, so they need to have the kind of files i want for the privilege of getting that access. the bottom line is this; the person with the files can run their shit in any which way they damn well please...and those who want files from them just need to shut the fuck up and follow a few simple rules...or look elsewhere.

You're the boss

People get really possessive about other people's stolen copyright material, eh?

i never thought i would encounter one of these people outside of soulseek

kind of intimidated tbh

Always nice to see a new poster bringing the content tho

the way I see it it's dhectorg's way or the freeway

xpost it's true

Though it kind of reminds me of this horrible person I knew when I lived in China. I had to share a taxi with him 3 days a week (long boring story), and every fucking day he'd tell me about an argument he'd had with someone in the past. But the way he'd recount these arguments, he'd cast me as the person he was arguing with in the past, and then he'd basically end up screaming at me in the course of his story. Like he'd be pointing at me as he was yelling "YOU" and his voice would get louder and louder. And of course, it was in English so the taxi drivers probably always assumed this guy was actually arguing with me. Totally crazy.

Jesus Christ, there is - at the very least - an incredible short story there. I suspect more, though.

"those on my list get front of the line access to my 50000 high quality tracks"

priceless!

I stopped checking if people I uploaded to were actually sharing anything years ago. Nice to see that it's still a major prerogative with some people.

it never occurred to me to check!!

I stole someone's TV, but then someone else stole it from me! I was so angry I went to the police...

Do people still use soulseek?

I actually sort of realized yesterday how little I ever use it. It seems like these days it's just acquire a physical copy of music or isten on youtube or wherever.

here's my excuse: it's usually when i swap out a hard drive or upgrade my os something, and some folder changes and i'm no longer sharing the right folder, but i don't realize it. then, right when i'm in the middle of downloading something obscure that i REALLY want that only ONE PERSON has, they ban me for not sharing files. usually i send em off a quick message saying "sorry i was defragging my drive, check now you'll see my 17,000 shared files. so can you unban me now?"

i rarely get a response/unban, if i do i often wind up chatting a bit about music with my fellow music fan, otherwise if no response at all i just ban em back and forget about it.

I stole someone's TV, but then someone else stole it from me! I was so angry I went to the police...

This happens more often than people realize, esp. with drugs.

"I'm losing my edge to kids who have front of the line access to dhectorg's 50,000 high quality tracks"

Dhectorg's 50000 high quality tracks=49000 versions of "Disco Duck" and one video recording of his high school graduation mislabeled as a film of Jim Morrison pulling his dick out on stage in 1969.

Leech: "Why are you bothering me, my cousin died today and I don't want to talk to anyone"
Soulseeker: "Well, then why aren't you visiting your cousins gravesite to show proper respect instead of leeching off of me?"

foolish though i know it is to correct a cust0s, but if the dude's cousin just died that day, he would have to have been pretty prescient to already have a gravesite arranged

This reminds me of when I was at a bookstore and two women buying gossip magazines were trying to cut in line, saying, "We're late for a funeral!" A boring funeral, apparently.

i have ONE rule on slsk... you must share your entire library...mot just 2 tracks. ALL "no files shared" leeches are immediately banned without warning....fuck leeches. everyone else is welcome. now if you want to be on my user list, the rules are a little tougher. the way i see it..those on my list get front of the line access to my 50000 high quality tracks, so they need to have the kind of files i want for the privilege of getting that access. the bottom line is this; the person with the files can run their shit in any which way they damn well please...and those who want files from them just need to shut the fuck up and follow a few simple rules...or look elsewhere.

― dhectorg, Saturday, June 26, 2010 5:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I wish you were dead.

Was it possible for people to be this lame on Napster or Audiogalaxy, because this is some dumb shit. I dunno. I buy most of my music these days.

the only files I have ever hesitated to share on soulseek are .mp3s that I've purchased and cannot be found in any slsk search or torrent search

I've yet to share an album that isn't already pirated/findable

I quit file-sharing, there is no substance to it at all anymore, unless it is a rare 12 inch or something, with all of the radio and subscription options, I don't think wading through garbage is worth it.