Re: FTWR Guide for n00bs.
As has been explained a few times in this thread, as well as to many many people on IRC - we are making an effort to re-enable the people who didn't actually break the rules of our site. This will take a bit of time, so give it about a week and see if you have your account back. It's a shame that we had to go to these measures in the first place, but account and invite trading has truly been getting out of hand. :-(
We realize that some people like to trade invites, and we realize that some other sites don;t mind this - but we are not one of those sites. The whole point of the white rabbit is privacy, and the main rule is not to break that privacy by using our name or trading invites. If you can't follow the fundamental rule of the site - then you can't have an account...it's that simple.
We have made every accommodation that we can for people. If it looks like it was a one time incident, we usually let it go with just a warning. The goal of the recent purge of users was to get rid of the hardcore, longtime, notorious traders, cheaters, and leakers. We also got rid of quote a few duplicate accounts.
In only 2 or 3 cases did we actually go after invite trees. We did so when it got to the point in a tree that literally more than half of them were traders, duplicate accounts, and cheats. It was obvious at that point that the person doing the inviting was inviting MORE traders and cheats (and more accounts for himself).
However, we obviously realize that at least a small % of those disabled in the invite tree were legitimate invites who had no idea about the trading. And those people are welcome back.
As for us "breaking a deal" with FST. People need to have their facts straight first. The deal that we had with FST (as offered to us by RealitY) was that he would "help us" with account traders if we did not actively pursue invite traders using information on FST. We agreed, and even re-enabled a user that had been disabled earlier in the day using FST info. We never broke that deal. We stayed away from FST and concentrated on zeropaid and info we had gotten from other trackers.
However, as most of the traders are active on multiple trackers and also on zeropaid, many of the users we disabled were also members of FST...That was unavoidable (and should have been quite obvious).
It's unfortunate that a very small percentage of FST members have decided to respond with these childish threads. It's also unfortunate that the staff at FST is not dealing with it. As a result - ALL members of FST are getting a bad name (as well as the site itself).
M4rduK
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Eh whatever, I think what they did was not exactly right but this is ABSOLUTLY wrong! What about the members who didn't get banned? I know for a fact I invited a few people and what happened? They traded their acct, or the were caught cheating, or had dupe accts. I have given alot away here and 1 thing I'v learned is that people mess shit up. I've gotten burned on many a site but most recently this one. Sory for the rant
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ftwrsucks
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talk about stating the bottom line
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As has been explained a few times in this thread, as well as to many many people on IRC - we are making an effort to re-enable the people who didn't actually break the rules of our site. This will take a bit of time, so give it about a week and see if you have your account back. It's a shame that we had to go to these measures in the first place, but account and invite trading has truly been getting out of hand. :-(
Nice to see that you are coming to your senses. Too bad a thread like this has to be started before seeing any humbleness.
I know think this thread should be deleted as it seems to have served it's purpose.
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Re: FTWR Guide for n00bs.
To any disabled users not involved in invite or account swapping who wish to be considered for reinstatement:
If my privileges here are reinstated, I will accept and respond to any PMs here. If you want to find me on IRC, I am GMT-5 and usually available 6pm to 11pm weekdays; I will also be available much of this weekend. I am on p2pnetwork (irc.p2p-network.net) under this nick, from which I will privately direct you to our IRC. Provide your FST nick, site nick and site e-mail with any contact, please. JGG has also mentioned that he is available for PM here.
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Looks like all the people that got banned by accident might have a chance to get their accounts back!!!!!
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Nice to see that you are coming to your senses. Too bad a thread like this has to be started before seeing any humbleness.
Nothing on our end has change since this thread started. We were already re-evaluating ex-users on a case by case basis before it was started, and are continuing to do so in the exact same fashion as we were previously.
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Looks like all the people that got banned by accident might have a chance to get their accounts back!!!!!
No one was banned by accident. We realized when we were doing the bans that a handful of innocent users would get caught up in it. It was an unfortunate side effect, but unavoidable from our point of view.
Another unfortunate problem is that, because of the actions of a few of the members here, along with the staff here, we are going to have to look a lot more closely before letting any "regulars" from FST back in. You guys had it pretty good here until now - too bad they ruined it for all of you...I expect that other trackers will be taking this same view. The recent decision by FST staff to allow threads like this is surely an eye opener for many BT sites. No longer is FST "The better of two evils". ;-)
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What i mean't was the invite tree was deleted some users that didn't deserve to get deleted did get deleted.
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What a rotten weekend!
It's bad enough that it's winter time, and snow is in the air. The chill factor is minus 30. Iran may become a nuclear power. The rabbit has banned numerous people.
What a rotten weekend!
Still! Things are looking up. Summer is on it's way, which means hot weather. George Bush will teach the Iranians a lesson about power, and some members will regain their Rabbit accounts.
It hasn't turned out so bad after all!
