I was reading the thread linked below awhile ago...
https://www.forumophilia.com/topic35277.html
And a few weeks ago I came across a posting forum that had as part of its scripting application something called hide hack. Seemed like a good idea, as it was protecting the links to files, however it was set up so that in order to get any relevant information from the posts you had to reply to them. The second part perhaps not such a good idea as in every post you are going to end up with 1000 posts saying 'thanks' for every movie actually posted. But with the amount of files being deleted by Rapidcrap due to people being lazy and not protecting their files properly with passwords and filename changes, and as a result bringing unwanted visitors to other posters threads also, I was wondering whether it might not perhaps be a suggestion to enforce a rule that, at the very least, all posted links to files have to be in plain text and the files themselves must be renamed from the original otherwise they get deleted? I've had a couple of files deleted myself in the past week on another board and I know it was as the result of unprotected files in another thread that brought the initial attention.
Just an idea. As anyone who has had a file deleted knows it severly pisses you off when you've gone to the trouble of uploading a 700 mb movie anly to have it removed at the click of a mouse due to some other bastards laziness. There is a code function in the script and it doesn't take that much to use it compared to the time it takes to re-up a movie.
