Thread: More difficult to reach "Trusted Section"

Hi, i think that there seems to be a massive amount of new users coming into the site and within a very short period of time they can reach the "Trusted Section". I think the following about this:

1) This devalues the integrity of T-I. I am seeing people with 107 posts, 0 iGiver applying for BCG, SCC and other high(er) level invites.
2) It puts people at risk in two ways.
-->1* It is easy for the Tracker admins to get into Trusted Giveaways and see what's going on, meaning i think more people will lose their high level tracker accounts.
-->2* The integrity of the users applying for the invites is on the whole lower, so if these higher level invites are given away to users who they shouldn't really be, it puts the tracker account holder at risk and will result in more problems for the admins to handle and the good status of these forums being lowered.

What we can do:
1) Increase the difficulty to reach the "Trusted Section" I think something like 250/300 posts and 10/15 iGiver. (Perhaps also a minimum time here of 2 or 4 weeks)
and/or
2) Create an "Ultra Trusted Section" for users who the admins put on a whitelist. This could be decided from the length of time they've been here, activity, iGiver, post count and whether they are simply "trusted" on T-I.

Finally, we could also disallow certain higher level invites from being given away in the lower level section to prevent those users who are doing this.



These are a few of my ideas, i just think that it seems like there has been a massive "noob-rush" of new users joining and like many others here; although i think it's nice to be able to give away so many invites, i still want other users to have to work hard aswell and i want T-I to maintain it's high status as best "Torrent Invite Forum" please tell me what you think and vote in the poll. Thanks

it needs to be harder to get in cus i dont think anyone givin away invites like bcg to someone who could potentaly screw up and get you banned as well

this is a good point man, and i think it should be harder to get intot he trusted giveaway and creating an unltra giveaway section only for very hard tracker. This would be good for the forum because users will have to post more on the forum, therefore they will spent more time on the foum, therefore the active number of users will increase more and more. And this only in internal, im not considering here the growth of respect of our forum in the web and in front of other forums.

I voted for both, but i think the limitations should be only about igiver, how old your account is and maybe rep. I think posts limitation is useless, because it just makes people spam more.

I agree with jaz1, all his words.
Posts limit is useless because spam and also because there are users don't speak english very well (like me :laugh:), they don't have many posts but they are reliable and serious.
iGiver+rep+days "make" a mate reliable, posts "make" a mate expansive.

Maybe with this "Ultra" trusted section that has been suggested, we would all have to apply to get in to the section and we could vote on whether to let the person in or not, or maybe if someone applies, they can have 5 or so people vouch for them as trusted users and they can skip the voting process.

Originally Posted by FletchQ23

Maybe with this "Ultra" trusted section that has been suggested, we would all have to apply to get in to the section and we could vote on whether to let the person in or not, or maybe if someone applys, they can have 5 or so people vouch for them as trusted users and they can skip the voting process.

I like these ideas very much, also it is very nice to see someone, like Fletch supporting these ideas and wanting the best for the forums even though he himself has not reached the Trusted Section yet. Good job mate. Rep Added.

I already suggest this, and I wasn't the first... Staff say good idea, but nothing until now Maybe they are discussing that :001_smile:

Originally Posted by FletchQ23
Maybe with this "Ultra" trusted section that has been suggested, we would all have to apply to get in to the section and we could vote on whether to let the person in or not, or maybe if someone applys, they can have 5 or so people vouch for them as trusted users and they can skip the voting process.

Thats cool. I would like that. almost like a kool kids klub. Im for it. Reggie, ethicks, nail? What do you guys think?