Thread: invitation limits & separate idea-- bonuses and then new invites

Suggestion 1:

I have seen a couple people requesting at least 5 invites a day for various trackers. Now I know the point of the T-I is to help give invites to people but most people that are applying for 5 invites do not have a seedbox. How are they going to be able to properly keep a ratio? While some people do know how to properly seed and cross-seed to be able to do it, there is the chance that they will dig themselves into a hole and get warned/banned and in turn hurt the inviter. I suggest a max of 3 invites a week for those WITHOUT a seedbox or similar download and upload speeds. While this may be hard to impose since some low lvl trackers require no proof and no speedtest. I think eyes throughout the forum would be able to catch people doing it and at that moment ask for a speedtest.

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Suggestion 2:




My second suggestion is an important one. I also see people applying for invites, then applying for multiple upload credits/karmas, then showing that proof for higher trackers within days. Since there is no way of knowing how long that member was a member there for their safety in those higher level invites, there should be a rule if a member is caught applying for upload credit and then using that proof within a week, they should be given an infraction or banned if multiple occurrences. Many users simply look through the sections everyday, I think that would be enough and it would catch those who tried to cheat the rule.

You never know what does he need those 4-5 invites.
Maybe its for his onw use. Maybe for a friend. Maybe to trade ( you really never know)
Maybe he got banned.

I agree that 5 invites daily its to much. If there were a way to let it be shown that a certain user has had given to him 10 invites from tracker A B C D E F G H I J .
So people dont abuse.

As a new person here, with a reasonable connection, I'm not sure I'd ever want more than 1 a week anyway. I'm not sure how you'd enforce it, but 1 invite per week for those at newbie level seems perfectly reasonable. I'm not sure how you would enforce it, but I see the concern. I suppose if its limited too much, new people like myself will have a hard time giving away the lowlevel invites we build up.

My comment on #2 is that tracking what you ask for is hard. Perhaps a system to keep track of what bonuses someone got and on what site so its easy to cross check a proof with the bonuses they received would work. As a new person, I felt a bit overwhelmed with all the rules as it was, adding complex ones like this just furthers that cause.

Actually, having a system to show what invites someone got and when could help so the users giving away invites can self regulate this (I apologize if something is there already and I just missed it).

I suppose one can search, but that is not absolute.

There might be privacy concerns with all of this to, just a thought.

There is a max of iGivers person can make everyday , and no one would give out an invite without iGiver

second suggestion seems reasonable , agree

Anyone getting an invite had to put it in their profile or signature. Same for bonus.
And the user who gave them had to be the one who enforces it. Because hes the only one that knows how much he gave...

I agree with the OP and wish there were some way to limit folks receiving a certain number of invites per day or week. Though what that number would be I don't know, nor do I know how it would be enforced.

I totally agree with the OP. Being new myself I made the mistake of getting to many invites to fast. I have a good enough internet connection and learned how to cross-seed so I'm doing pretty well ratio wise. I do feel if I was limited to only a few invites not only would it help with ratio but also force me to do research or at least look into what trackers I wanted. Granted I love all the trackers I'm in there are a couple that I might have passed up if this was in place.

I also agree with the second suggestion. I have gotten a lot of points for bitgamer because they are fairly or have been fairly easy to come by. This has allowed me to get my ratio up. I feel bad using this tracker as a ratio proof though because its kinda lying saying I GOT/HAVE this ratio when really it was givin to me by others. I do agree with some rule that states if you get karma/bonus points you can't use that tracker as a proof for so long. It would just help with honesty in my opinion and people might work harder to keep up ratios themselves.

While dormat029 raises some good points, I feel as though much of that responsibility falls on the person giving the invites. They can very easily see how many iGivers given and received the potential invitee has, and determine how these all add together (a bitgamer credit thread goes to bitgamer). Then again I guess not every one is as meticulous as you or I, so it is a good percautionary way to avoid issues.

Then again, you could require those who received upload credit to say how much of their proof has been helped out by given credits and bonuses - but I don't know how easily enforcable that would be.

There has to be some limits, today i've seen a user request over 10 invites, some for the same trackers but over 7 different tracker. How could a member manage those trackers if he signed up to them the same day

Some rules on how many GA's you can apply to should be considered