Hi Fake Tears,
Perhaps you can have your comedy/parody Let's Play as a PDF, host them on another site (there are many external sites that will host for free) and link out to them in a single post for easy viewing consuming by others?
We definitely don't want you to have to type up the whole thing but we do have a limit of images in place not arbitrarily as some might take advantage and use it for spam as well as the fact that it would become a burden on the servers if loads of people were using the site as an image hosting service.
Looking forward to seeing your Let's Play!
Cheers,
Jessica
Using a .pdf and hosting it externally makes it much less accessible to readers. It works if you are finished and want to compile it all into one file, but when it's a work in progress, you want to remove as many barriers as possible in order to keep people engaged.
The thread is a landing page, and you want people to view the most relevant content to their search. Adding an extra step before people can engage that content is likely to turn off consumers. This is especially true since most of your typical hosting websites make people jump through even more hoops (CAPTCHA, 60 second download wait on non-paid/guest accounts).
This would be alleviated if there were the ability to upload to your account, or simply to view .pdfs in-forum, but this isn't possible.
At the end of the day, you are changing the end user experience to go from:
thread -> content
to:
thread -> link -> download process -> content
In a world where free time isn't easy to come by, the extra time and work investment required to view each single piece of content becomes difficult to justify.
What if someone wishes to view multiple chapters and is
locked out for a long period of time because they have downloaded too many chapters in a short burst already. It is a common issue for many common uploading sites, and they do not hesitate to restrict access for non-paying guests.
My Let's Play is in niche territory already, and it's new. So in order to get views, I must make the content as accessible as possible, at least until I can get a sizeable and sustainable following. You idea would essentially kill the Let's Play for all but a handful of people.
I'm also unsure as to your reasoning with regards to spam, it'd be pretty easy to get around that limit simply by spamming multiple posts. As for the server issues, the onus is on the moderation team and the users. By definition, if the content on a page is useful and/or constructive, it is not spam and should therefore be allowed. Regardless of how many images there is in a post. So it is the responsibility of the users to
report posts that constitute as image spam and the responsibility of the moderation team to act and edit appropriately.
edit: even if I find a site that uploads .pdfs to be read from, users still have to deal with ads, pop-ups and other undesirables and I am still extending the process until they can actually access the content. You are asking users to
leave and go to another
external website in order to access content that should be on BSN.
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