There were quite a view. I've seen some from Vietnam, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

Em I think there are much fewer East Asian (China/Korea/Japan etc.) spotters than you think on AG. Plus AG often deletes the posts of the new accounts no matter where they come from (mostly due to they only upload one photo of the cars they saw).

I agree with the other stuffs that was mentioned. They can often remove one of your spot due to some stupid reasons. My F8 Tributo spot (in Shanghai) was deleted by them after getting 2K views within a few days (which is a lot of views based on that site's standards today, especially when they are accumulated for only a few days. My 5 generation Ford GT spot got only 700 views after posted for almost two months), the reason they told me is that the car is from an event. Their evidence is that there are a few Ferrari flags next to the car, which shows it's an event. I was like seriously, I saw the car on a flatbed truck while there were absolutely no other Ferrais around. Since the car is brand new and very few of them were delivered why a few Ferrrari flags show that this is from an event?
Plus posting spots from Montreal F1 season, Car Week etc will be considered as event spots and they will delete these spots.
The "PrEmiUM mEmBeRsH1p" thing is absolutely stupid for sure, I won't be surprised if that website actually closes within the next few months. Also there are not a lot of active members on ES, so I guess most carspotting contents will only come from IG in the future.

Stay on the site!! I can't get on IG so this is my only website! :)

I would say this is not true and a huge exaggeration, but each to their own. It just seems to me that you and your friend are targeted for some stupid reason. Premium is the worst thing I have ever seen though, and the fact you aren't able to view pictures without an account. It has certainly driven me off the site.

And AG is getting even worse now.

I've sent an e-mail to the admins regarding the horrible spot-breaking bug (where in some unfortunate cases caused many of your photos to be unuploaded to the site) several days ago. However, I had never got any response from them, which can be said that my message was ignored by them.

Even now, should any of your spots be removed for any reasons, it will count as a violation, no matter what. Even if you're caught in an unfortunate situation (like getting caught in a spot-breaking bug), it will still rack up your violation record. Once your violations racked up to the point where they can tolerate you anymore, they will outright ban you for good.

That's AG nowadays. Refusing to hear feedbacks from people and kept thinking they were right. They just won't realize that it will bring their doom. Losing supporters.

It's losing that communal environment. Right now, it's like a government, if you don't contribute, then you don't get the perks. If you screw up, then you get banned. If you ask for help, you get ignored. I know that this last statement might sound crazy, but if you think about it, it's true: It's basically communism!

The end.

A group of scumbags on Autogespot had reported all of my friend's spots. The admins believed about this, they were very pissed on his violation records and now he got banned for good. All because of this very false report. Event, dealer, event, dealer, event, dealer, and event. Which is absolutely nonsense.

Now it's all about time before all of his spots got removed.

No more new spots from Indonesia on Autogespot. Done.

Do you know if your friend has the right to know who accused him? That way he/she can message that person personally and sort it out

Unfortunately, I don't know who accused him exactly. But as said, it could be just anyone on the site.

That sucks... I don’t understand how they let this sh*t happen year after year to different people.

Update:

At least a good news from Autogespot.

An admin had told us that a ban request on me and my friend had been lifted due to the false evidence found being directed to us. So it means that we can still continue participating on Autogespot.

However, he told us not to re-upload the non-event Ferrari pictures again, as now several angry mobs (users) on the site had placed a hate target on the said spots. Should we re-upload the spots again, it will be targeted by angry mobs and will be attacked via comments and reports, and if that happened, the admins had to take down the spots to make sure the site goes under control.

At least they're making the effort to fix a problem, but you shouldn't have too take down legit spots to avoid hate.

The admins juat don't want a huge drama to happen again. Remember when someone upload the black Maserati MC12 spot in Beverly Hills, and it ended up with hundreds of 'drama' comments before the spotter took the spot down? That's what the admins told me.