Laserschwert said:
Joining a collaborative community like ours comes with some adaption in behaviour. To me the OT.com community has always been about sharing and helping each other out. If I have something that can make someone else's project better, I'm happy to help out. And as far as I can tell that's pretty much how this whole community works. Need a missing audio track off a release that's not seeded anymore? Someone uploads it! Need something scanned? Done! My impression was, that this is something that's natural for projects like this.
It's not unheard of here. Sometimes there's a guy here who offers great stuff for free, sometimes with strings attached, and sometimes he talks about having great stuff and won't share with anyone (mverta).
He has his reasons for acting this way--some people think they're good enough and others don't.
Frankly, I'm a pragmatist about it. I take what I can get now and don't burn bridges in case more comes along later. I'm not saying everyone needs to approve of the choices of our more reticent users like mverta and roback214, but it can only help us in the long term if they get a good impression of our community--because apparently, they both do in fact have the goods.
