What's your view on 'filesharing' on the Exchange.

[Feverish]

I never understand why they write biographies for the sims they upload. In what way would that be beneficial? In what way should I even care? I just download them for content. It's usually themed content that I search for.

[Lhop]

The Typical Sim Description on the Exchange:

This is Madisyn from my story [no story in existence]. She and Robyn are best friends. She is the most popular girl ever! She is a cheerleader and has a boyfriend named Crys. But, she is a slut. She is really depressed and goes home and cuts herself. Rate high and sign my g/b!!

[Warning actual exchange descriptions may be less literate and idiotic. Views represented here are not views of the author. All rights reserved.]

I think I over did the y's. But yeah emo or slutty describe most sims on the Exchange. Either that or they are a bunch of Maxis crap on a Maxis face template.

I came across a very disturbing simpage once that had sims with special stories to go with them.
It was scary.  There were al these skanky girls, and in the description it was like: "So and so, mom of so and so.  She got pregnant at 11 and is a prostitute." and then, "So and so, daughter of aforementioned slut.  She is starting to be a slut like her mom, she recently had sex with a guy and gave him a blow job."
Now, this was stated much less intelligently, but I've gotten the idea across.  I was so disturbed by the sim descriptions that I remember them all these months later.  There was stuff about rape, and the word fuck was used a lot.  And I could tell by the writing that the person who made the sims was relatively young.
But I also don't get why people will upload stuff with all maxis crap on a face one either.  It's like, why would I download this?  Do you think I am not capable of clicking on the first face and putting the ugliest maxis outfit on a sim?  Then again, I don't use face one a lot, so I guess it would be somewhat unique.  I've been using the face with the elf ears, and face four (I think?) a lot as a starting point.
I'm going to do what a few people above said though, and put up a whole bunch of pay crap on a sim.  Probably a slutty one, because I don't do emo.  I like to make goth sims, but not emo.  Emo is too boring.  (I almost typed "Elmo"!)

[Grace]

I came across a very disturbing simpage once that had sims with special stories to go with them.
It was scary.  There were al these skanky girls, and in the description it was like: "So and so, mom of so and so.  She got pregnant at 11 and is a prostitute." and then, "So and so, daughter of aforementioned slut.  She is starting to be a slut like her mom, she recently had sex with a guy and gave him a blow job."

 :shock:
I don't know what's more disturbing, that simpage or the fact that I've seen that sort of things several times on the Exchange.
I suppose some of my sims that I've uploaded for the PMBD cause are more "goth" or "dark" rather than the OMGILOVEFOBPETEWENTZCHANGEDMYLIFE!!! emos. You can see on my simpage (http://thesims2.ea.com/mysimpage/uploads.php?user_id=542445) which sims have gotten the most downloads..."Emo Kawachi" has gotten 200 or so I believe while the teen girl (with the fracking glitched peggy cap) has gotten the least, suprisingly. I would have thought she would have been most popular because most simmers are teen girls, and she had "cute hair" in the summary. I suggest, if you're making a slutty sim, go for the blond hair, tan skin, whore makeup style. The BBS kids seem to like that.  :lol:

[SparklePlenty]

I never understand why they write biographies for the sims they upload. In what way would that be beneficial? In what way should I even care? I just download them for content. It's usually themed content that I search for.

The children that do that work really hard on the bios and storylines to go with the sim they upload, not understanding that all their hard work is futile. I used to try to help them by explaining that if you want the sim to carry all that baggage you have to put them on a lot and upload the lot, but I gave up. Futile.  :roll:

[Grace]

The children that do that work really hard on the bios and storylines to go with the sim they upload, not understanding that all their hard work is futile.

When I download sims, I hardly ever keep them the way their creators intended unless if I think it suits the sim. (I usually download sims for the genetics). I create a story and personality in my mind for my sims as well, but why would I expect people who download them to think the same?
I will never get how people like Aikea_guinea never shares their sims because they have an emotional attachment to them. Hell, I'm fond enough of my sims enough to not murder them (Well, usually fond enough), but I'm more than happy to share them.

[cheekylilgirl]

Well, following on from a few weeks ago.  I uploaded a few sims with pay items included and full credits to the creator.  They stayed there for about 2 weeks and then got deleted, even though they were rated high.

My other older downloads were not touched..  

How disappointing.

[djslippyman]

I guess I need to find people on the exchange that have Pets or Seasons (that have patched too).  I downloaded about 15 sims i saw (just registered there about 2 weeks ago for the hell of it) and only about 2 showed up as they were missing meshes i guess.  

Again as stated lots of entries said "no meshes" but they needed them of course.  Lots of pay hair (but no meshes). Maybe if you get them from Pets or Seasons users then it could possibly be worth it.  

If I don't have Pets or Seasons (I have Nightlife and Univ) will i bork my game if import them in?  It will if its a Lot but how about a Sim??

[Ieliminate]

I don't think it matters on sims. If there is stuff from a missing EP it shows up as Maxis in BodyShop. I wish it was the same with lots. I've found some awesome lots, but I only have NL.

[keirra]

How do you know if your uploaded sims get deleted?  Do they disappear off of your simpage?  I uploaded sims for the first time July 23.  They are all still on my simpage and loaded with pay content.  I don't know how that site works at all though.

[cheekylilgirl]

How do you know if your uploaded sims get deleted?  Do they disappear off of your simpage?  I uploaded sims for the first time July 23.  They are all still on my simpage and loaded with pay content.  I don't know how that site works at all though.

Well my older uploaded sims that have been there for years are still on my uploads page.  The newer sims with some pay content are no longer listed or showing up on my page so were obviously deleted.  

It's a shame and obviously another case of contradicting messages.   They were rated highly and all so it can't be that, and they were the newest uploads.

[djslippyman]

were your skins "Detailed"?  I think that's a deal breaker for them.  then again I don't now how much they pick uploads apart?

[keirra]

I doubt that the mods actually download and look at the sims.  I could be wrong though.
I know that the 5 I put for upload have Peggy's pay skins and they are very detailed.  :lol:

[Frank]

My opinion, per the thread title, is that as long as paysites are advertised on the main site, and paysites continue to steal work and pass it as their own, I have no prob with uploading pay files with my uploads. Giving credit, eh, depends on the site, but I'm not going to claim it as my own.

[JFederated]

I doubt that the mods actually download and look at the sims.  I could be wrong though.
I know that the 5 I put for upload have Peggy's pay skins and they are very detailed.  :lol:

To the best of my knowledge, the only ways an asset (sim or lot) will be deleted from your page are due to low ratings (they do cull the exchange every couple weeks, I think) or because it was reported by several people for having inappropriate or broken content.  Anatomically correct skins will get yanked, but only if reported enough times.

[cheekylilgirl]

I doubt that the mods actually download and look at the sims.  I could be wrong though.
I know that the 5 I put for upload have Peggy's pay skins and they are very detailed.  :lol:

To the best of my knowledge, the only ways an asset (sim or lot) will be deleted from your page are due to low ratings (they do cull the exchange every couple weeks, I think) or because it was reported by several people for having inappropriate or broken content.  Anatomically correct skins will get yanked, but only if reported enough times.

That's what I was wondering about, seems like the only thing inappropriate was a matter of opinion and that was the pay items attached.  Otherwise they were detailed, and rated quite highly.  I never include anatomical correct skins in these uploads.   It's all interesting but still confusing.  

Thanks for the answers everyone