nerd opened this issue on Sep 28, 2002 ยท 8 posts
nerd posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 1:48 PM Forum Moderator
Attached Link: 404 City
GADS! there are pages of nothing but 404 items. The time has come to weed this stuff out. Check this page out. Solid 404... http://www.renderosity.com/freestuff.ez?Topsectionid=0&Form.SortOrder=UserName&Start=217&WhatsNew=Yes
Anthony Appleyard posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 4:59 PM
These are Graphon012's entries. He has 44 entries.
nerd posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 6:57 PM Forum Moderator
Attached Link: More 404
Lady Cherry is all 404 too http://www.renderosity.com/freestuff.ez?Form.Contrib=Lady+Cherry&Topsectionid=0
Daio posted Sun, 29 September 2002 at 9:46 PM
Most of my stuff is 404 right now but that's being fixed. i hope...
"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." -- Bruce Graham
nerd posted Sun, 29 September 2002 at 11:16 PM Forum Moderator
It's not the stuff that's 404 for a few days or a week. It's the stuff that's been 404 for 6 months.
Let's face it the free stuff it R's best advertisement. That's what got me started here years ago. But if there are pages of dead links the free stuff isn't much fun.
Just my $.02
tammymc posted Wed, 02 October 2002 at 9:27 PM Site Admin
We attempt to remove "dead link" items of active members. The problems that we face in accomplishing this task are that many members use free web space that limits the amount of bandwidth or downloads in a given time frame, which is usually a 24 hour period. This may appear to many users to be dead links, but in actuality are live links that have exceeded their limits for the given time frame. If you check back frequently you will be able to see that the link will actually work as long as these limits are not exceeded. We are continuing to handle this but if anyone has any suggestions on this, we are all ears. tammy
nerd posted Wed, 02 October 2002 at 10:32 PM Forum Moderator
Couldn't a robot be written to surf through the free stuff once a week and record the 404 links. If an item is continues to be 404 for a couple of months then clear the items out. 
tammymc posted Thu, 03 October 2002 at 12:56 PM Site Admin
This has been discussed. We are not through with the free stuff. : ) tammy