All free scripts should be required to be uploaded to the thread no matter the situation, and the video link be provided to a non-supporter website (patreon, gumroad, fantia, or similar).
Those who want to also provide their patreon, gumroad, fantia, or similar are free to at the end of their post. People who wish to support you or find your other paid scripts will do so on their own accord if they like your scripts. Adding more information into this section about what you script will have more people support you
Free Scripts MUST be required to be uploaded to the thread, Paid Scripts MUST be paid (typically on an external site). Those who wish to put their free scripts behind external “support” sites should not post them into either; The solution might be another category as this is outside the “tagging” feature.
I’ve been following this site as well as its previous form for a few years now.
While I must admit I have been just someone that enjoys free content (like everyone else) and not really provide much. I thought about it ever since I’ve been learning how to script just very skidish of sharing content and kinda wanted to start leaking out the 200+ GB of videos/scripts I’ve hoarded.
I will admit however I am seriously annoyed when things are locked behind other sites. Some people go as far as to come here, post, link their their pateron or w/e… DL the .rar and its a .txt with a link to their mega… Its extra work I never complained about but has been rather annoying as more and more people start posting to their pateron.
I get it, get paid for your work but they are doing it the wrong way. I find it rude that this site was created for what we primarily use it for and other just use it as essentially free space to promote their own space to eventually get people to pay or donate. Its kinda… rude (imo)
By all means have your pateron or gumroad or w/e you want but stop making requirement for us to have to join or sign up for something else, extra. Make it optional or respectfully just dont post it at all.
Even Virt-a-mate has their own hub, you either DL it from their hub or its paid. They dont allow links to other sites to sign up just to DL a scene/look or w/e they have to offer.
Just keep it simple. External links for scripts (non-paid) should only be allowed as an optional thing like how some of my favorite scipters do. If its free, the script should have a (recommended) section where the script is uploaded, otherwise there is no post. If its paid, well that should remain the same however I expect people to lose more then they would expect.
I realized that there is one exception when free scripts should be in paid and that is when you are required to provide valid credit card information (or other valid payment information) to be able to sign up to access the free download.
This is in addition to what I already wrote earlier in
I think this policy would absolutely hurt people who use free scripts as a way to attract people to their paid content. As long as the script actually costs $0, even if you have to use an email (make a dedicated porn email) or sign up, I have no problem with that.
I think if the script.is marked free, it should be available to download here with no external link. However, in the post, the creators should absolutely be able to plug their patreon or whatever they use. If you like their work you have a way to get more that way. But free should be hosted here
The way I see it, all free scripts should be either uploaded to the forum or linked via free-to-use external storage sites.
I also think it would be useful to have a required tag for non-uploaded scripts (i.e. something like “External Script”). This will let people filter any posts that include any hoops to jump through, if they so choose. There could perhaps be exceptions for unintrusive file hosting sites which don’t make it difficult to download a file (i.e. paid account required, delay before downloading, ad block detection, etc.). If you can’t get the file with two clicks (one for the link, one for the download), then it should get a tag.
@Falafel Most people don’t want free scripts to be in paid scripts even if it requires a signup with patreon, gumroad, fantia, or similar as they are not paid.
They are neither a free script or paid script, a new category “Free Scripts - Other”, “Free Scripts - Signup” or “Free Scripts - Paywall” might be required, as these scripts are hidden behind a (free) paywall.
Let the users decide themselves. If they see a free script is behind a patreon wall or gumroad wall or whatever wall, the users will decide themselves if they want to get the script or not. Forcing a rule doesn’t make it better and you will probably have some mad scripters.
What would be good is to have it somehow hinted in the title or tags that the script is on an external source.
I am not a big fan of forcing rules to something that doesn’t need regulation. We already have that in real life. Let’s try to keep this place as a open minded as possible, without having a rule for everything. Otherwise this place becomes real life 2.0 and I don’t think we want that. We can agree on guidelines together, but shouldn’t force any unnecessary rule just to have a rule.
Same goes for the “preview scripts”, where scripters put a a half script in, but the rest is paid. Is that a bad practice and may exploit people? Yes, of course. But people will decide themselves if they want that or not, if they are ok with that or not. Should we be ban that practice? No, I don’t think we should. Should we have something like “SCRIPT PREVIEW” in the title? Yes, I think so. This should be the guideline. Preview scripts should have a “preview” tag and “script preview” in the title. Scripts that have an external source should have “external” as a tag - I think this should be enough.
People can decide themselves, they don’t “protection”. We are in the internet, we have some kind of anarchy here and we agree to some necessary rules and we accept guidelines. Scummy and annoying practices will get punished by the users. They will neither download the script or pay for it. If they still decide to do it, ok.
This is an issue where I’m happy if I know a link is going to require a login to access content on the page.
That’s all I need, being able to tell at a glance that it does.
If I’m interested enough in something, I’ll bother with it. I know the trade off.
I’d just like to know before I’m multiple clicks and page loads in.
You do learn eventually that some sites require it, but there are so many links to so many different places here it comes up often enough to be a bother.
That still doesn’t really deal with the issue where a scripter uploads a partial script for free and the full script is paid. Those should go into the paid scripts anyway?
Or the issue when a scripter uploads the scripts but their own video is behind a paywall to the free scripts.
@rovovi Personally I agree with you. However, if a partial version of a free script is posted elsewhere it shall be in the partial script section and not the free script section.
Regarding paywalls, that is the normal case for VR scripts so basically all free VR falls into that.
Personally think the Incomplete Scripts is for scripts that someone have started but abandoned halfway, and they wanted others to pick it up.
If a full script is intentionally cut off to be a “trailer” script, that should be posted alongside the complete script in the Paid Scripts section. It still serves its purpose to give people an idea of what they are buying.
A small section of a paid script posted under Free Scripts will be re-categorised if flagged. We’ve already handled a few cases of it, just haven’t written this into the rules yet.
Since this topic is up, is there a suggested way to post a Free Script and a Paid Script in one post? I know that might be confusing, but lately I have been making multiple scripts for the same video. One for free from one actor’s perspective and the other script is paid content from another actor’s perspective. I have just been putting them under paid for the sake of ease.
Purely as a consumer (I haven’t made scripts) I’m okay with calling everything that’s free, well, free, including signing up for a (free tier of) a Patreon. The scripters work so hard for us and its the least we can do imo.
I’m not against this, But I think adding a “Need Email” tag or something along those lines is a better solution. I don’t check the Paid Scripts category as I’m not typically interested in paying for scripts, and I don’t want to start missing out on some free scripts just because they’re on Patreon/Gumroad/ETC… But I do recognize the need/desire to differentiate between easily accessible free scripts and ones with “hurdles”.
If it costs $0 (free) then it belongs in Free Scripts
All Free Scripts should be uploaded to this website and linked in the post.
If you want to promote whatever 3rd party platform, that’s fine, but I believe it should also be always be uploaded here. There’s lots in Script Collections that are no longer accessible due to them being uploaded on 3rd party sites.
I am divided, because I am currently only a watcher, and not a creator. I think it’s best to make this poll only for creators as they’re the ones doing the job. I also believe it having everything accessible and easy to archive (i.e. being on this website).