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Well I guess people only comment here when they find something they don't like.. I've found so many great sounds with hundreds of downloads and only 2 or 3 people bother to show their appreciation. Why would anyone bother uploading sounds for such ungrateful people. It takes 2 seconds to type thank you..

I haven't been on the longest but one of my sounds I got said that I cut a sound to soon, I deleted it thou. That's the worst I got but either way I haven't been on the site for long. Here's the link to the sound thou: http://freesound.org/people/18hiltc/sounds/198121/

I love this one:
http://www.freesound.org/people/zagi2/sounds/182122/#comments

"total shit"

http://www.freesound.org/people/oceanictrancer/sounds/231720/

I’ve never got any nasty comments but I always seem to get sounds rated one star even when they’ve been downloaded fifty or so times. Weird. Would be nice if the people who download and like my stuff would leave a few stars

Well there's always next time, I go through that to and then I sometimes upload a sound that brings in the downloads and ratings!!!!

Someone wrote "you're a faggot and so is this sound" once.

I deleted the comment so I can't link up.

That was actually quite shocking.

Perhaps user Ecgrap read this thread. Or hopefully not and decided to comment about Hello_Flower's original comment:
http://www.freesound.org/people/Corsica_S/sounds/35556/

So bad its funny .

Not the most stupid one but a bit of effort arguing over a word:
http://i.imgur.com/7Q9SDdC.png
http://www.freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/194628/

@qubodup:
I replied.
Freesound IS free!
And don't diss qubodup. He's a moderator. He knows how freesound works.

@KoopaTroopa63

I am not having a go at you by any means. But when wondering why others have not commented, let me ask you something:
Your Freesound profile says you have downloaded 49 sounds. - How many comments have you left?

It is the nature of human nature: If you can take something for free (meaning absolutely free, with no effort involved whatsoever), many people will do just that.
The anonimity and stealth of the internet also makes it easier. - If you were out in the street handing out free chocolates, I am sure you would get a few "Thank you"s (along with a few "No, thank you"s and a few odd looks). But if you just left a box of chocolates out in the street people would grab then and say nothing. Even if you left a notebook by the side asking for comments. The most likely outcome of such an experiment is that the first guy to stumble across them would take the full box of chocolates (and possible the notebook and the pen...)

The sounds at Freesound are the 'box of chocolates'. Nobody is looking when you 'take' the sound, nobody sees you take it. Why leave a comment? Just move to the next sound you want and grab it too!

In an online community of uploaded contents like Freesound you have different types of users:
- Uploaders
- Downloaders
- Interactive users
- Sporadic or one-off users

Uploaders are mostly interested in uploading stuff. Some don't even bother to go to the forums. They just upload.
Downloaders pull far more sounds than they contribute. Some (leachers) exclusively download, sometimes tens of thousands of sounds. Again, the vast majority does not use the forums. Althoug a few do.
Interactive users are very interested in interacting with the community. These are the ones that are most likely to be active in the forums, comment on sounds, etc. The most extreme sub-type of interactive users are the collaborators - they actually engage with other Freesounders and create collaborative works.
Sporadic users come to Freesound once in a blue moon to download a specific sound. Some come here only once for one sound. MAybe they come back much later and create a new user accound because they can't remember the old one...

These are the extreme types. Of course there are cases in between.
Types are not fixed either, they can chenge over time for a variety of reasons - When I joined Freesound I downloaded stuff for years before uploading my first sound. And it was some time further before I started using the forums.

So, again, not having a go. What do you want to get out of Freesound?
If you are looking for followers and comments, you might find more social media focused sites (Facebook, Myspace, even Soundcloud) more interactive and possibly more rewarding.
Freesound seems to be more of a long-haul kind of place. A couple of sounds will not give you immediate attention. Even 200 sounds is no guarantee of that. - My advice is to enjoy the ride for the sake of the ride itself

wow haha, thats a pretty big reply to answer a young kid

Kodack wrote:
wow haha, thats a pretty big reply to answer a young kid

Definitely not the best sound capture but the title was apparently misleading.
http://freesound.org/people/E330/sounds/122732/

Never been accused of making a fake sound before:
http://www.freesound.org/people/Corsica_S/sounds/174763/