I am a bit confused. I remember a producer who had used editing software to update and remaster her videos that asked the admins if she could rerelease the videos and promote them and was told no. Now I am seeing some producers do that exact thing like they are above the rules. Do the rules not apply to everyone?

If you see someone doing something you think is in breach of the ToS, or even that you just think is iffy, click "report" on the post in question, select either "Spam" or "Needs Attention" from the list of options, and detail in the text box exactly what you think is off about the post - feel free to paste in URLs of previous promos of the same material, the more detail you provide the more easily and efficiently the item can be dealt with. While all mods can see the reports, only MM can see which user submitted any given report, so you've a good level of privacy in reporting things.

If its an obvious breach of the rules then any admin can nuke the post in question, but all the flags, including ones other mods have handled, ultimately go to MM for final review so if one if us oversteps it can still be rectified.

But when making reports, please do type in full details of what you think needs attention, all too often people select an option and submit with no further detail and it's not always obvious to the rest of us what the actual problem is. There is no such thing as too much information, add as much detail as possible.

I mean maybe I am not understanding why someone would need to repost an old clip with a model. Why don't they just make another video with the model? I mean maybe the models won't return their calls or block there numbers. I have never had that issue.

I don't see an issue in any producer improving the playback quality of a previously released video and rereleasing it.

If someone is "remastering" something it's probably from some time ago and the model may well have moved on and no longer be doing WAM - I know someone who basically did it to fund their student lives and stopped when they finished university. And some customers do seem to get attached to models from previous eras, see all the threads where people ask about long-gone models.

But the rules are clear, any given scene should only be promoted once, with one additional plug allowed if it then gets added to a different site. The main use of which is one promo when put on a producer's own site, and one more when added to the UMD store system, though if someone doesn't have their own site but say has both UMD and Vidown, they can have one plug for each.

MM is the ultimate arbiter, he's sometimes away for a few days but will eventually see all reports, and respond in private.

Upgrading existing scenes is fine, the issue is with re-plugging them. If that was allowed, every producer would slightly upgrade all their older scenes, promote them, upgrade a bit more, promote again, and we'd all be drowning in seventh level repromotes for scenes from six years ago.

I was just referring to the horror stories I have heard about models who were harassed and bombarded by text, calls, and messages from wam producers and fans that make them never want to make another messy video. I don't know why people here think these models want anything to do with them.

I have noticed that too and wondered what it was about. Occasionally I'll see a producer post a thread promoting a video that's been in their store so long that it's 480p. Or a random video that I saw posted here and bought from a producer years ago being advertised like it's a brand new video. Could some of it be an exchanging of rights thing? Like, one seller sells the rights for an old video to another seller and they post it in their own store and since it's new to their store, it's technically not against the rules. Is that a thing that happens here?

EDIT: Nevermind, I see you already explained it in the comments. We're good!

I was playing around and found I had some old videos I could remaster

in their existing format their value is virtually nil - but even with a remaster, there might be small value and a better version available to anyone who might have already got the clip from, ahem, 20 years ago

Mind. In my cases, even if i knew where the forms were I wouldn't reupload cos the person depicted in them wouldn't be happy and we mutually agreed to take them down, 20 years ago.

but yeah, otherwise, sometimes rules exist and someone slips the net - cos - it happens. Hitting 'report' usually puts it right.