BItmetv forums - just plain wrong !

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Originally Posted by sokrates

if you possess common sense you will never have any problems posting at bmtv.. dont let anybody from here scare you away from their forum ;) recently there was a discussion from someone who tried to get banned with completely ignoring what the mods said multiple times in the pu section. so they arent as many of you describe them. its a shame many guys believe what they read here instead of just trying to make their own experiences..

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+1 on that. It takes multiple repeat acts of incredible stupidity to get banned for something you said in their forums. Unless your first post was an attack on the staff or site, of course that'll get you banned at 99% of websites. As for humiliation, that's usually reserved for the worst of the worst, like people who lie to the staff, cheat their ratios, or get caught trading invites/accounts here on FST.

If you want to see what their forums are like, just go to their discussion threads about the actual tv shows, or check out their collection of tutorial threads in the "tutorials" forum. Incredibly helpful, more so than many of the best torrent sites.

If noobs just take a deep breath and read a bit before using the site, they could learn a lot.

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Originally Posted by djkamikaze

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Originally Posted by sokrates

if you possess common sense you will never have any problems posting at bmtv.. dont let anybody from here scare you away from their forum ;) recently there was a discussion from someone who tried to get banned with completely ignoring what the mods said multiple times in the pu section. so they arent as many of you describe them. its a shame many guys believe what they read here instead of just trying to make their own experiences..

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+1 on that. It takes multiple repeat acts of incredible stupidity to get banned for something you said in their forums. Unless your first post was an attack on the staff or site, of course that'll get you banned at 99% of websites. As for humiliation, that's usually reserved for the worst of the worst, like people who lie to the staff, cheat their ratios, or get caught trading invites/accounts here on FST.

If you want to see what their forums are like, just go to their discussion threads about the actual tv shows, or check out their collection of tutorial threads in the "tutorials" forum. Incredibly helpful, more so than many of the best torrent sites.

If noobs just take a deep breath and read a bit before using the site, they could learn a lot.

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to both of you fanboys

compare the forum to other trackers forum , why isnt anyone complaining about other forums :ermm:

personally i dont know why anyone would complain about a forum at all.. but thats perhaps bc i am retarded, i dont know.. fyi i am far from being a fanboy. i got my invites removed for some bullshit reason, but what you guys write is just wrong with a few exceptions..

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Originally Posted by sokrates

. i got my invites removed for some bullshit reason.

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:whistling

they always have some bullshit reason

BitmeTV staff and uploaders really do a very good job there if you refer to their website and contents. However, I've heard many complaints from a lot of friends who say that some mods at BitmeTV are very rude and treat the members like garbage.

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many people donate just because they don't want to get band
I said it before, its commercial tracker, if you won't donate you will be band eventually
bmtv staff know that and thats why they band that easily to make people donate just to keeo their ass in the site

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that's a load of shit. people who donate aren't exempt from the site rules. Donation for UL cred was put on the site in the early days because the low bandwidth members requested it. If you look at the stats on the homepage, you'll see that less than 90% of the members have ever donated to the site, and they all manage to avoid getting banned.

more people donate to the site (NOT for UL credit) than those who do it for the UL creds. I've found their forums perfectly average... follow the rules, and you're fine. mouth off like a dumbass and you're gone.

I think the big problem is that some people expect that the internet, as a whole, has complete and total freedom of speech. that's so far from the truth it's ridiculous. I compare websites and forums to a person's house.... if you come to my house, you follow my rules, or I toss you out on your ass. If you want freedom of speech, go stand on your soapbox on the streetcorner and rant away, but when you are on someone else's webbsite, follow their rules.

I stay away from their forums, so I've never had a problem there. I've only talked to one staff member there, and she was very helpful and friendly.

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Originally Posted by djkamikaze

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many people donate just because they don't want to get band
I said it before, its commercial tracker, if you won't donate you will be band eventually
bmtv staff know that and thats why they band that easily to make people donate just to keeo their ass in the site

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that's a load of shit. people who donate aren't exempt from the site rules. Donation for UL cred was put on the site in the early days because the low bandwidth members requested it. If you look at the stats on the homepage, you'll see that less than 90% of the members have ever donated to the site, and they all manage to avoid getting banned.

more people donate to the site (NOT for UL credit) than those who do it for the UL creds. I've found their forums perfectly average... follow the rules, and you're fine. mouth off like a dumbass and you're gone.

I think the big problem is that some people expect that the internet, as a whole, has complete and total freedom of speech. that's so far from the truth it's ridiculous. I compare websites and forums to a person's house.... if you come to my house, you follow my rules, or I toss you out on your ass. If you want freedom of speech, go stand on your soapbox on the streetcorner and rant away, but when you are on someone else's webbsite, follow their rules.

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I partially agree with you. If someone donates to get upload credit, it's usually because they don't have enough bandwidth to keep a fair ratio and they probably don't know anything about seedboxes. Either if someone donates for the upload credit or not, they are contributing to the communty to keep the site alive. How can someone blame people who are supporting their tracker's costs, that's ridiculous IMO. Anyway people who donate aren't exempt from the tracker rules at all :wacko:
On the other hand, if someone invite me to your house and I don't like the way you treat your invitees and me, I would leave your house as soon as posible and will never return to it.
Besides, I think the guy who posted this thread was referring to the way mods treat the members, he wasn't referring to a mod who applied a rule.
If I'm wrong and he was referring to a mod applying a rule, he is totally wrong then, because that's their job and the rules are written. It's a must for everyone to read the rules before using a tracker.

valid point, walkman79, but what drives torrent site staff nuts is when some idiot gets himself banned, instead of coming to irc help channel and asking why, and then asking for a second chance, they either go out and try to get a new invite and/or come here and start badmouthing the site. If you want to badmouth a site or it's staff or it's content, WTF DO YOU WANT BACK IN?

many other forums don't get any complaints here because those places allow flaming, porn, foul language in their forums, etc, but bmtv does not allow this in their forums, and they police those restrictions heavily because their goal is not to be some 1337, awesome pre-time torrent tracker, their stated goal is to be a family-friendly site, where someone who wants to ask a question about something like "little house on the prairie" or "pokemon" isn't going to get 5 posts calling him a fag.

I like their forums for what they are, a place where you're not going to be attacked by other members for your forum posts. You may get some light teasing, but RARELY do you see any flaming of one member by another.

As for staff's behavior in the forums, what you WILL see are the worst of the idiots being told that they are idiots. You Will sometimes see minor 1 day warnings issued to people who spam, go offtopic, etc. If you want to argue with staff in the forums, they'll spank your ass out of there, or disable your forum posting ability without banning you from the site. If it was my site, I'd do the same thing.

finally, what i get sick of at all torrent sites are members who NEVER post in the forums, and then their first post in 2 years there is to bitch about something. That guy is likely to get hammered worse than someone who has hundreds of previous forum posts, and may have posted the exact same comment. That's they way it is pretty much everywhere in life, if the only time you ever talk to someone is to complain or attack them, they're going to think you're a shithead, and probably treat you accordingly.

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<simple_rant>they suck</simple_rant>