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I didn't read the entirety of every single post, but I did read enough to come to this analysis. I grant I may be incorrect, and that would be the product of my own laziness, but I've also noticed this while browsing /e/ and /h/ and even /s/. Typically, I don't find two or three pages full of requests. On an average day, given the three front pages of /h/, I see maybe four or five. This number is even less on /s/ and /e/. These requests often go ignored, which is, in my opinion, the RIGHT way to deal with a request if you don't have what the person is looking for. However, I often see posts in the request threads that say "I have what you're looking for, but you haven't done this in the right way or whatever to earn it". Earn some pictures, here? Is this suddenly Anime Paper? Now, I can understand if you don't feel like a request goes outside of the request board, that's simple logic. But have we as 4channers forgotten the old adage, "Give and ye shall recieve"? I don't see how it really can hurt to provide if you have something, or ignore if you don't. It's alot like>>527872said, there is always the chance that simply supplying your own pictures to a thread can turn it into an epic one. Maybe I'm just a newfag, since I've only been here a couple of years, but I just can't see how requesting something where you're more likely to get it can be worse than endless flaming of a request when you have tons of material sitting right on your HD. Also, before anyone says anything, I have tried requesting in /r/. It's certainly not a method I would recommend when you're lookign for something abstract. Sometimes, posts don't even stay on there for more than a day or two.
tl;dr: I don't see the point of flaming a request. If you don't want to answer it, ignore it. Flaming is no better than supplying the requested material.
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