Thread: Addon to the Invite section rules

since I had a problem in my GiveAway thread but I also see that the other T-I members sometimes have the same problem, I suggest a little addon to the Invite section Rules...

this addon could/would be : when U apply for some specific invite but U have also applied for the same invite in other thread(s) too, U must report it to the Inviter... or something like this...

I suggest this simply to avoid the confusion & misunderstanding which happens often & to prevent possible scam...


if this kind of suggestion has been made in the past, I'm sorry...

Yes.This would be nice.It happened to me a few times in the past.When I wanted to send an invites I get the error that the email is already in use.When I ask for explanations I get:"Sorry,I received it in another thread."
So it would be nice to implement this.:)

The rule would make sense IMO. Not everyone has the decency to withdraw the requests from other threads after receiving an invite, it's like GRAB GRAB GIMME and then they no longer care.

It should be common sense to tell everyone that you have applied in other threads for the same invite, but yes I have seen many people Not do this.
There could also be a rule something like you have to wait 24 or 48 hours before applying for the same invite just to give people a chance to reply in there own thread.

I totally agree with you Takayama :) It happened to me a few times that someone asked for invite and then i asked him/her to pm me their mail or i gave it to him/her and he/she then said that he has already got it :/

It's common decency to give inviters a heads up if you've applied for the same invitation in various give-aways. Although, I believe it's also the inviter's duty to confirm with the user (send a PM) to determine whether or not he still requires the invitation.

Before I send out an invitation I do my research. I check histories, lookup forum posts, iGivers, and anything that may help me get a better feel for my potential invitee. Obviously, these actions takes time to do so I usually send off a PM asking the user if he's still interested. If he is, I'll go ahead and do my research.

You could also outline this as one of your pre-reqs. Simply ask users to link you to other GAs they've applied in. If they don't, disqualify them.

One of the reasons why members are receiving multiple invites is due to those just ask and PM me your email give-aways. If those types of GAs are against the rules, I'm sure the entire issue would drop more than half of its current count. Although, who am I to say what can or can't be done? I believe this was brought up before and many members agreed it's the decision of the inviter to list his specific requirements.

The just ask portion of the requirement doesn't tick me off as much, but the PM me your email portion does. A successful invite give-away should include three processes: (i) the applicant sends his ratio proofs/profile links, (ii) the inviter reviews the proofs and if he's satisfied, ask for the invitee's email address. and finally (iii) the invitee responds with the email and a smiley face. With these three phases, both parties are kept in the loop and situations described in the original post will recede.

Originally Posted by el2em

One of the reasons why members are receiving multiple invites is due to those just ask and PM me your email give-aways. If those types of GAs are against the rules, I'm sure the entire issue would drop more than half of its current count. Although, who am I to say what can or can't be done? I believe this was brought up before and many members agreed it's the decision of the inviter to list his specific requirements.

ok, those kind of giveaways ( just PM me or just give me your e-mail ) are kind of weird but I would say they are in minority... at least, this is my experience... again, I don't see what does that fact got to do with my suggestion... you put the pressure of finding out whether the applicant in your thread has already applied somewhere else on the inviter... I disagree... when somebody offers U an invite, it's an act of gratitude, kindness & very friendly from him/her so I think that the applicant can, at least, show his good will, just like the inviter did, be honest & write these few words --> yes, I've already applied for the same invite somewhere else... yes, a good & careful inviter should definately check the receiver's background before giving him/her an invite but this could save him a little time and, in the other, hand, he deserves to know that fact... I believe that it's the inviter who, in this position, should be protected & '' privilleged '', if U can call it like that...
simply, even when the inviter asks just for an e-mail or PM, I don't see any reason not to put this small addon to the Invite section rules because, like I said before, it would prevent ackward & suspicious situations, not to mention possible scams &, at the end, inviter's time...
btw, U say that this kind of suggestion was brought up here before without a success but I see now that some T-I members agree with it...


cheers !

Pressure on the inviter? The point is not to do any research until confirming the applicant is still interested in the invitation. I don't see the confusion everyone speaks of. Don't members PM the applicants before sending out an invitation? Isn't that common sense as well? If members PMs the user, they wouldn't run into these situations.

PM him. If he's interested, do the research. If he received the invite from elsewhere, it will be in his iGivers. Yes, members may not have had the chance to give the iGiver, but a simple PM would give all the answers you need to either continue the background checks or move on to the next applicant.

And again, my scenario in the last post is relevant. The only way for a member to send another user multiple invitations is if he already had the email address in the first place. I only ask for it when I'm about to send the invitation. After PMing the potential invitee if he's interested, after doing my research, and after PMing him again for his email address.

I'll throw in another useless scenario for you. Let's say I applied to your RevTT give-away, but since you didn't respond I also applied in usedblender's RevTT GA on the same day. He replies instantly and sends me an invitation. Rules state I give him an iGiver so I do that. Being the lazy and noobish member that I am, I did not go back to your thread and withdraw my application. The next day, you log in and see that I've applied in your GA. What do you do? You send me a PM asking if I'm still interested. What do I say? No, I've received the invitation from usedblender.

The scam you're speaking of only exists if I lied to you and said I was still interested. Either way, you would still do a thorough background check before sending the invitation.

You also mentioned wasting the inviter's time. I don't know about other members, but I always do a background check. My motto is not to trust anyone when handing out an invite. If you're not taking the time to do these checks and simply hand out invites just to boost your iGiver count, then I almost want to say you deserve to be scammed. Yes, it's possible the scam may still result even after all these thorough checks, but that's something you couldn't avoid since you did your due-diligence and anything else you could have possibly done to prevent the scam.

If you're going to add rules, ArnoNymous suggestion should have been amended ages ago. Members need to go to past applications and withdraw them if they have already received the invite or isn't interested anymore.

Your rule only applies if the applications were made within a shorter time frame. If I applied for a SceneAccess invitation months ago; then just today, I applied for one in another thread, I'm not going to say "oh and I also applied here two and a half months ago." People forget. It's in our nature to forget nonrecurring events.

All in all, I never disagreed with your suggestion. I simply stated both parties needs to do their due-diligence. I hope I made my points clear and if anyone have anything else to comment on, please do so. Thanks.

Originally Posted by el2em

Pressure on the inviter? The point is not to do any research until confirming the applicant is still interested in the invitation. I don't see the confusion everyone speaks of. Don't members PM the applicants before sending out an invitation? Isn't that common sense as well? If members PMs the user, they wouldn't run into these situations.

U PM the applicant if he's still interested for the invite, I don't... this is not necessary because I presume that, when he has already applied in my thread, that he's very well interested... if his/her application is ok, I ask him/her to send me direct profile links & other informations, if I need them, in PM & then, if everything checks ok, I send the invite... and I believe that I'm not the only one who does this procedure... you say that it's common sense that U should ask the applicant if he/she is still interested but it's common sense to me that, if he/she has already got the invite from the other member, I should be informed about it... also, I think that a person who has applied for some invite can wait a little bit ( couple of hours, even a day ) to get the response from the inviter and then, when his/her application has been rejected, he/she can jump in other thread... this is also a common sense to me... but obviously, everyone of use has his/her own '' pattern '' when giving the invites...

Originally Posted by el2em

You also mentioned wasting the inviter's time. I don't know about other members, but I always do a background check. My motto is not to trust anyone when handing out an invite. If you're not taking the time to do these checks and simply hand out invites just to boost your iGiver count, then I almost want to say you deserve to be scammed. Yes, it's possible the scam may still result even after all these thorough checks, but that's something you couldn't avoid since you did your due-diligence and anything else you could have possibly done to prevent the scam.

well, I disagree with U here, again... do I ( or somebody else ) deserve to be scammed just because I want that applicants behave more responsable & fair ? I believe that majority of inviters do a thorough background check but I think that, since their giveaway is an act of their good will, the applicants could do their part too... and above all, NOBODY who offers some invite deserves to bescammed even if he/she is the most superficient & careless person in the world...

Originally Posted by el2em

If you're going to add rules, ArnoNymous suggestion should have been amended ages ago. Members need to go to past applications and withdraw them if they have already received the invite or isn't interested anymore.

Your rule only applies if the applications were made within a shorter time frame. If I applied for a SceneAccess invitation months ago; then just today, I applied for one in another thread, I'm not going to say "oh and I also applied here two and a half months ago." People forget. It's in our nature to forget nonrecurring events.

look @ my 1st post and U'll see that after my suggestion I wrote '' ... or something like this... ''... I believe that I made my point clearly in all my posts in this thread... the point is that the addon to the rules should make the applicants to behave more responsable...

more responsable behaviour means :

1. U must report to the inviter that U have already applied for the same invite in other thread... this should apply to a short-time period ( for example, a week or so )... & not to a situation when U have applied for the same invite a few months ago...
2. when some member has made a multiple applications for the same invite and eventually he/she has got the invite in 1 thread, he/she must report that fact to the inviters in other threads...


I think that this addons would improve the whole inviter/receiver process & make it more fluid...