FTN opened the doors!

Now all donors get invites! Hope it helps the site survive.

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I've gone ahead and given everyone who's donated at least 10 euro's an invite, and in some situations you received more than one if you went above and beyond. We're still evaluating the "donor perks" thread and will decide whether or not we want to go that route and update you on the status of that when we come to a final decision.

I will however continue to hand out invites to donors from here on, but please be aware that if you are caught abusing this privilege you and your inviter and invitees will suffer severe consequences.

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Originally Posted by Hombre

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I will however continue to hand out invites to donors from here on

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FTN is soon gonna be filled with traders. :ermm:

Let the requests and trading begin.

Good News :naughty:

Wow, I thought I'd never see the day.

invites for donators only, as always... that's what i call invite selling. good job Brandon.

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Originally Posted by cinephilia

invites for donators only, as always... that's what i call invite selling. good job Brandon.

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Less QQ, more PewPew. :shifty:

I'd rather see him taking the money than those filthy invite sellers.
Hopefully this will decrease the trading value of those invites, and he'll be able to keep the site going.

For the record, there is no donate-to-receive-an-invitation system at FTN. The staff there are still very strict about who gets an invite and who doesn't (especially this time around). Yes, traders lurking in the shadows may have received an invite for donating opportunistically (without actually contributing anything to the community), but that is a pretty common occurence in our BitTorrent world. And not everyone who donated received an invite; I donate regularly to FTN and did I receive an invite? No, and this is the same for a few of my friends who are ranked much higher and are more active on the tracker than I am.

As always, most of the account and invite traders will be sniffed out and have their accounts disabled; these traders will fade back into the shadows and the account and invite trade requests here will die.

I remember that I used to start threads like this one. Now I don't see the point. People who are looking for FTN shouldn't be looking for it just because invites were handed out.

I guess we all learn all the time, huh?