Aren't you guys (GAOTD Staff) even a little concerned at the spamming going on in your freeware download area?
I'm a programmer and want to give away some programs I've written. While looking around the Internet for a place that is a good home for this, I found you guys. Unfortunately, your freeware area has been taken over by screensaver and puzzle spammers. Other freeware sites caught on to this long ago and found ways to stop it.
I rely on my free software to generate interest in my retail products. I can't see the logic posting my free software here when it has to compete with a thousand copies of a single "free puzzle" program that has been posted all over your categories--with only the picture changed, no less. All so the poster can give downloaders the "reward" of sending them to a site that he gets affiliate cash from.
Not only is this a masked form of payware-masquerading-as-freeware-on-other-sites-pockets (your pockets, too), it makes it clear to me that users would give up browsing LONG before they would find my program in the 1000th place down the line (since last night, even). My program would get lost in the freeware-spam you are allowing to exist on your site. Users would stop coming to the freeware area since they know it to be a joke.
Please consider doing something about this. I'd like to stick around as a programmer, taking suggestions and creating free software for others on the forums. I'd even bring in other programmers of the same mindset.
But not with the spam problem you've got right now.
Any comments?
Thanks,
Kerry