Thread: Suggestion on giveaways.

Originally Posted by JamesG

they are your invites and you can ask for whatever requirements you like

what else can be said

Originally Posted by Malevich

I like all ideas about taking measures to protect against cheaters/traders, but have to agree with it being up to each individual inviter.

Just one question about the statistics proof of the seedbox; I have noticed that the statistics for, for instance Rutorrent resetting itself if the client freezes or when it's restarted. Will it require special plugins to be installed to be able to give accurate stat proofs?

Seedbox proofs are not shown to show stats but just to prove that you have a seedbox. Stats are shown from your tracker proofs. Even the slowest seedboxes are very fast connections so just proving that you have one is usually enough.

Originally Posted by JamesG

Seedbox proofs are not shown to show stats but just to prove that you have a seedbox. Stats are shown from your tracker proofs. Even the slowest seedboxes are very fast connections so just proving that you have one is usually enough.

Thank you for the reply! I also wonder if the proposed idea for seedbox or torrent software statistics matched against ratio proofs is a good extra measure against bad invitees. My rutorrent statistics seem to reset itself now and then which I think correlates with it freezing and when I manually have to restart it (not sure though).

That's actually a pretty good suggestion from DravanDarkstar, but forcing some kind of requirement for all trackers is unnecessary.
If we force this rule only for harder to get trackers it would just complicate things and a lot of newbies are already complaining how complicated things here are.

I think every inviter should be able to choose the requirements they want: if they give away Pedro's in 10% it's their own choice, not that I think anybody will do that.

When I give away some good invites in the future I will surely impliment this 'vouching for other people' rules, because it's a great idea, but forcing it for all giveaways is a bad one.

When you look at the VIP section you will also see that the good invites only go to people that have a lot of reputation, posts and thanks and last but not least, just because a lot of people apply for your giveaway doesn't mean you have to give it to one of them if they are all bad.

So what if the guys that vouch for a member are unaware that the member is a bad apple? Even traders and cheaters get far in here if they are careful. Sure they will get caught sooner or later but some still slip through and make it far on here before being caught (need I mention CptLennox29? ) The ideal is fine if people wish to do this but enforcing us to do this would in my opinion cause a drop in invites being given away here, of course I don't see this being enforced now or in the future.

It's the inviter responsibility (wow that is being said a lot lately lol) to research their potential invitees, so if they want people to "vouch" for a member then so be it, that is their right to do so as it's their accounts that are on the line.

Originally Posted by DravanDarkstar

A lot of people come into T-I and buy ViP just to get FtN or some really exclusive tracker.

Buying VIP doesn't mean you will get ftn or any other hard to get tracker.

Overall these requirements could be a very good move in the future for T-I, it has it written all over it. TI could become something of a privilege for invites than being despised and maybe sway trackers that do not respond well with these sorts of sites into actually respecting the methods that are already implemented here for the betterment of the community

Good job man

Sites who hate us will continue to hate us no matter what we do, unless we eliminate the GA section altogether. Making a bunch of rules won't change anything, even in the far future.

I for one make TG post my own words.

Originally Posted by Fractal

Sites who hate us will continue to hate us no matter what we do, unless we eliminate the GA section altogether. Making a bunch of rules won't change anything, even in the far future.

I for one make TG post my own words.

That's true, Dravan's suggestion is understandable but should we manage and take care invites of our own? So if you think your invites are at risk or too much value to give away easily then just post it in 55% section or someway that you feel safe giving it away .

I think this is a great site despite the bad reputation in the past. I've just been here a few days but I could see that the managers have a lot of passionate with the forum and closely monitoring it. I feel safe being around here. But take a look at the fact that most people come here to get invites, once they got what they wanted, they're gone. Take this topic as an example, a very good idea, but most of the replies are from Admin, Mod or senior member ... where is the new member? They should be here, because the discussion is for the very benefit of them... Maybe they just don't give much attention about this.

Making rules won't change that, no matter how strict they are, in the end someone still slip through... Instead, make it a friendly community, where ppl could hang out and making buddy , where they could chit chat everything, not just give and take invites. Based on mutual trust and friendship, maybe someones gonna change their whole idea about TI.