So lets be COMMUNITY!

[Polarbear]

And that simply not going to happen before your country gets better upload capacity.

actually the upload speed is not the reason. there are a lot of countries with low upload capacity that do not have a high percentage of cheater.

the reason is a different mentality/attitude towards the internet and online services.

"my country has slow upload speeds" is often used as an excuse for cheating.

statistics show, that from a global point of view there's no correlation between upload speeds and cheating behaviour.

[1000possibleclaws]

Is there a possiblity that the numbers of cheaters from a particular country is inflated? My theory is that a person who cheat will have multiple accounts. If one account is banned he will try to get another. So in the end one cheater is seen as; say 10 cheaters. On the other hand a good user will be seen as one account holder.

The result: Let say we have 1000 account from the same country. And lets' say 90% are cheaters. That is 900 accounts but those account come 900/10
=90 users. and not from 900 users.

Just a thought.

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[Artemis]

It is a simple fact from the staff's point of view on these PRIVATE trackers - note this, it is a privilege to belong to them , not a right - that when most of their effort is expended on tracing cheaters from certain countries then it is far simpler to simply ban the offending IP ranges. Why should they have to spend the time sorting the good from the bad when a large proportion of users in certain countries are known to cheat trade sell invites etc.
I also believe this is a social problem in these countries, the attitude of users being to take what they can in any way they can. It is unfortunate for the genuine users but it comes back to the simple fact that these are private trackers created by people who want a certain type of user and have rules for users to abide by. From the point of view of the tracker staff, banning an entire offending country is the simplest and by far the most effective way to remove alot of irritation and wasted time spent checking and tracing cheats/scammers and all the rest.
It is a very simple fact, if you wish to be a member of the private communities that you have been invited to , then you need to follow the rules that were put in place for members of that community. The one thing that various staff members I talk to have to say is how frustrating and time consuming it is tracking down the cheaters, the scammers and the account hackers.

[SenorBubbz]

Hi so here on fst we always talk about community right? RIGHT!. So fst being the largest torrent oriented forum around i think we should have some pull in the torrent community.
What i would like talk about is region banning, there are alot of top torrent sites (bitme,bitmetv,sct....) that are banning whole regions from like israel romania and otheres from there sites because of a small number of users who cheat,hit and run and so forth. I think this is unfair to allot of users and should be stopped once and for all!
so lets try and get together and sign a petition and make these sites friendly to users of all nationality's

Petition? Private trackers are not democracies as you can well see...

[LordS]

LOL, FST has little to no sway on any torrent site.

[SAM]

it's not fair to ban a whole country cause there are some cheaters
every country has bad and good users

[fOrUmAs]

it's not fair to ban a whole country cause there are some cheaters
every country has bad and good users

well they havent banned whole country just becuase of some cheaters there are many more than some,but as i said its not fair anyway there are also good users who can contributing to sites like donation,uploading,helping to others...

well true every country have bad users,but it seems not many as country that are banned from couple of sites

[C-mos]

It´s their trackers. They do whatever they want.

exactly

[krunktastic]

I have never been one to punish the few for the crimes of many; I don't think it's right neither do I think it's fair.

[SenorBubbz]

I have never been one to punish the few for the crimes of many; I don't think it's right neither do I think it's fair.

I agree