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Retromags Presents! Computer Games Issue 191 (November 2006) Database Record Download Directly! Scanned By: dablais    Edited By: dablais    Uploaded By: dablais    Donated By: dablais Follow us on...                         

This isn't addressed to you, but to everyone in general: The point of "ghost" status is to eliminate people who, in excess of 1 year, have contributed absolutely nothing to the site. This isn't about contributing scans - indeed, very few people do that. But someone who is a ghost has never once in an entire year contributed in any of the other smaller, but important ways that keep this a viable community. They have never posted anything in the forums. They have never said "thank you" for any of the scans they've downloaded, or "liked" anyone else's posts or scans. They've essentially been a non-member for an entire year, lurking or leeching in the background, and thus officially earned that status. Sometimes it's because they literally haven't visited Retromags all year, in which case, it's a convenient way to purge them from the system. Other times they HAVE been around, in which case the status is to remind them to try and do better. When someone visits a site and sees that the forums are rarely used, they don't bother using them. Thus, contributing to the forums benefits everyone by keeping the community aspect of the site alive. Posting in this thread is an easy out, but if you REALLY wanted to do something beneficial, you could make a post somewhere else, either replying to someone else's post or making a new topic that other people can reply to. You can also "like" or "thank" other people's posts or scans. Speaking as a scanner, it's disappointing (if not outright offensive) that so many people are happy to download my scans, yet only a handful can be bothered to make a single mouse click on the "thanks" button. I'm not sure how people think these scans get made, but I can tell you that it requires me to spend my own money and COPIOUS amounts of my own time to be able to provide everyone with a scan they can download for free. The least they could do is say thanks (they don't even have to say it, there's literally a button for it), but only a tiny fraction of people are willing to spare the single second it takes to do so. It's a heck of a thing to spend 5 hours working on a magazine and then have someone decide it's not worth even one second of their time to say thanks for it. These things might seem silly or unimportant. But they aren't. No one here is going to want to work to contribute to a dead site with no community interaction or feedback. And so the ghost status was created. Sure, you can make a pointless post in this thread to remove the ghost status and then become a virtual ghost for the next year before doing it all over again. But there's always the hope that people will try to do better and become a useful part of the community. Or, if making any kind of post or thanking someone for their hard work is simply too much trouble, just don't worry about your ghost status. Let your account die. It isn't necessary to be a member to download files. If that's all you want to do and you have no intention of ever thanking anyone for what you download, then you're no different from someone without an account, anyway. So why worry about ghost status?