Personally, I think that it makes no sense that you need to reply before you can download things because it encourages revival of dead threads and also implies that you should thank a person before you can see if they are thank-worthy.
I wish to make it clear that this is not any form of speech against this site which I have stumbled upon for the first time today and I do not think repercussions are necessary, I am merely being interesting in my required response.