mudcat wrote:I do not understand why everyone is bitching and hating oron. I go to many other boards and they all bash Oron..do not want people to use it for some reason. I do not understand what the problem is. Is there some sort of BASH A HOSTER contest going on or something?
Most of the people who hate oron are people who refuse to get a premium account. They claim they don't want to "pay for porn" but really, that's what they are doing by not having a premium account. And I'm not just talking about oron.
Let's say Oron costs you $8 a month. If you don't dl a lot of stuff, then it's probably not worth getting. No premium service is. But if you do dl a lot, or even a moderate amount, then you waste a lot of your time downloading with a free account. If people tallied up how much time they spend waiting for downloads to begin, and add in the fact that you can't do parallel downloads without a premium account, that time would earn them far more money than $8 a month if they used it to do a job of some sort. Just how much is an hour of free time worth to you?
Think of it this way. If someone is willing to mow your yard for $2, are you going to say 'no' because you don't want to pay for yard work that you can do for free? Avoiding an hour of work for $2 seems like a steal to me. And the amount of time I save by not screwing around with a free account more than makes up the money I spend on a premium account. Which is why I have premium accounts to 3 different services.
There are legitimate reasons some people dislike Oron. Some people are still upset with how oron made it's introduction here. Fair enough. But there are legitimate reasons for some people to dislike all of the other services, too. In the past, most of the hate was directed at rapidshare and it's point whores. They were the scourge of the internet despite being the main service to bring 'free' porn to people.
Then there are those purists who think people should be willing to spend their free time finding porn, uploading porn, and then posting porn and expect nothing in return. The idea that someone might be somewhat compensated for their efforts is sacrilege to them! Despite posting at least 500 gigs of stuff here, some people still feel I should post more to their liking, which means either posting larger files or reposting with a service they like more than oron. They aren't willing to spend their money to make dl easier but they have no problem expecting
me to spend my time/money making it easier for them to dl!
Oops, I'm ranting now.