A question of ethics
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Many people will know that the front page system on TPT is based on votes per unit time - the more rapidly upvoted, the higher on FP it sits. However, many of us in less populated timezones will have faced the issue of having saves - that took many, many hours to make - go unnoticed for the crucial first hour, dashing those saves' hopes of front page.
As a result, I've deleted and republished saves in the hope of getting them better noticed. This seems borderline unethical, but there's no rule against it, and after spending 10+ hours working on a save it's a bit miserable to see it gain a single upvote then sink to obscurity.
The question is - is republishing the same, unmodified save immoral? -
@minecraft-physics (View Post)
It would be better for an actual moderator to see this and reply, but I believe this was once discussed some time ago here.
Two important things I believe were brought up;boxmein:
Bumping to the recents has been disabled, yes. I can see why, it's unreasonable to bump your save every once in a while and get more views. With enough users doing that, the "newest" page would be filled with repetitive saves and all the "new" saves would instantly go to page 2 or 3, out of sight.savask:
Why not to announce it here, on forums? You will have more chances to get good votes, also a mod can like and promote your save to FP if it's "a piece of gold buried in tons of shit" :-P
Basically, there's no rule against it, possibly because few people do it and get any success with it. If you want to promote a save, doing it on the forums is a much better way of doing so, and people used to do it some time ago too.Edited 5 times by CAC-Boomerang. Last: 31st May 2016 -
I find nothing unethical about re-uploading. its promoting. not many good products get noticed without some advertising.
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I find nothing unethical about re-uploading/re-publishing things myself, though I frown upon multiple copies being uploaded (they won't be removed unless they excessively spam, just a slight displeasure).
Edited once by Lockheedmartin. Last: 31st May 2016 -
I agree with sandwichlizard / Lockheedmartin too. I did that for my very first tpt save, I just resaved it without changes to get it noticed. These days you can only bump it every 1-3 hours or something, a reasonable limit.
Edit: the thread CAC-Boomerang linked is from back when this 3 hour limit was first added. Simon decided to make it 3 days, effectively preventing all save bumping. It isn't that long anymore, 3 days was a bit unreasonable.Edited once by jacob2. Last: 31st May 2016 -
The re-upload "cool down" is 3 hours right now.
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Sandwichlizard:
The re-upload "cool down" is 3 hours right now.
Not if you rename the save. You lose any vote score, but sometimes its tempting to do that if you get downvoted for no good reason. Personally, I see nothing wrong with it as long as you aren't doing it to troll, or spam.
Edited once by ChargedCreeper. Last: 1st Jun 2016 -
@ChargedCreeper (View Post)
You can't rename saves, only create new ones. And recreating the same save over and over again can get annoying... -
I do it if i get a down vote immediately after uploading. I wait a few hours hoping that the down voter is not watching anymore.
