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Originally Posted by brotherdoobie
I don't even wanna ask....:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by squirr3lyou now share the banhammer as well :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by bilkenter
banhammer? it is hilarious, as i said earlier i wont abide any unjust decision, However gotta admit, this just thought me a valuable lesson. I will never reject any tracker anymore, even if i dont need it, i will get it and make it a little more difficult for others who are actually in need of such trackers. BTw i dont actually see benny around here anymore for some reason anyway this place has gotten a lot more boring now. So wont bother much. now someone can ban me again and hope that i wont be back. I really don't enjoy this anymore than you guyz do.Quote:
Originally Posted by squirr3lyou now share the banhammer as well :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by bilkenter
I would never give an invite to any FST member that I didn't really know. Most people here are traders
I've had my own problems with inviting people, I had a good friend I invited to one of my favorite trackers, I trusted him. A year later, he decides to cheat one day and my account gets disabled along with his. So yea, I have trust issues, I leave my invites to rot and let other people take the responsibility of inviting new members.
No. The thing is, imo you should trust the site where you met him. for instance this is NOT a good place to find trustworthy people. Unless you've both been members here for a longer period of time. But like Benjamin's example says, people can change.
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Originally Posted by brento
but i would investigate whether he has gave up trading and try to be his friend
bollox... that's just an excuse for sites to try to consider themselves leeter than others.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Martinator
a good member is anywhere, a bad member is everywhere.
I think that it is reasonable to disable your account if you invite a cheater but I don't see the logic in what you described.Especially since it was like a year later.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benjamin
Obviously traders have to get their accounts from somewhere,they just don't materialize out of thin air.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cabalobollox... that's just an excuse for sites to try to consider themselves leeter than others.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Martinator
a good member is anywhere, a bad member is everywhere.
I've tried to make the point with tracker staff that although FST does have it's fair share of shady types they don't originate here.Hard to trade a FTN or the like account without being on the tracker first.
Like you say making the presumption that you are "bad" just because you happen to post on FST ( or "good" because you belong to wheelmods) is the height of stupidity.
Honestly, I don't remember inviting him anywhere. But then again, I have a horrible memory due to my past. If I did invite him anywhere it had to been a long time ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cabalo
And...he said he traded the account to whatever site I invited him to. If he did trade the account than I surely didn't suffer the consenquences(thankfully). I am grateful for you posting that thread Cabalo, as I never saw it. And because of dunson I will certainly think twice before deciding to invite any respected members from here that I really don't know myself.
And you're definitely right about I'm Hot(<-dupe trade account) being bt scum...
If I know someone well enough, it's not what I'd consider taking a chance. Out of the times I have taken a chance with someone in the past few years, only two have turned out to be bad out of the dozens I've invited. Even so, I've been ever more cautious about who I invite since then. There are a few people on this forum I'd invite to any site just by knowing their opinions on certain issues, etc. 99% of the people on FST will never even be considered by me because this place is crawling with the kind of people who have threatened my accounts and those of others in the past.
The only way to trust someone on the internet is to talk to them and get a feel for their personality, and perhaps get to know them in a way that's closer to real life. There really are people who just scream "shady" even though they have no apparent history of trading or whatever.
Fucking boring story really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skiz
with good friends no, but online deffo i dont trade anyways so im good :P
yes to post question
I will never use my invites people suck.
I'm afraid to take chances with people because they may be as big of an asshole as I am, if not worse. That's no good.
What if they are named Ibuprofen and promise you not cause any headaches?
Maybe, but I'd prefer they be named Codeine, and promise to keep me happily sedated.Quote:
Originally Posted by shipwreck
i also hope i never see you asking for one.Quote:
Originally Posted by fstfukinDaBest
I answered yes...
But occasionally I do give invites...I am not careless about it and I regularly check up on how they are doing. I consider them a reflection of me & my judgement. BUT you never know...I got fooled last week on a BitMe invite. I had been in a giving and trusting mood and it was taken advantage of...I haven't given up on people but am back to being leery again...
Part of my problem with invites at FST is due to the fact that it seems so common for new users or occasional users to be making requests. They have offered nothing to the site and there is no "history" to try and make sound judgments from. Or they have a trading background. Let me also add that so many of the requests are just bad! No reason or bad reasons for example. I would have to figure that some of these bad requests might be from potential good users but they shoot themself in the foot from the get go...
Looking forward to the day when I can view the giveaway section again...Regardless, of all the perils, I do like to help people.
For me I'd do it discreetly and only after observing them for some time or two.
I'm really glad there was one or two guy here in this forum taking a chance with me though, I didn't prove them wrong that's for sure.
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Oh, what a nice story!!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lovestoned
Well, sometimes it's good to take chances, but a sign on who not to take chances on is when they don't know any english at all.
This. This so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Martinator
I know it sounds terrible, but if someone has really poor english skills it sets off the biggest red flag in my mind. I've actually invited people to some trackers in the past because they have excellent diction and decent grammatical skills. :lol:
(And yeah, I know my use of grammar and stuff isn't perfect either.)
A site's invite policy greatly dictates if their members would take a chance or not. Also depends how largehearted the inviter is. Sometimes I feel sites and users value their invitations as solid gold which isn't really required. Chill out a bit and go for it.
But as a thumb-rule,most people wouldn't invite randoms to a site which have invite rules that could jeopardise the inviter's account.
I clicked 'Yes'.
People do not consider FST to be a nice place, or a place thats worth their time, but in spite of that, they stay here for reasons unknown.
In all probability, I will never post a thread 'Giving Away' invites to other trackers, but i will try my best to fill up well written requests once i get to know this place a little better, and its members even more so.
Moving on, everyone has taken chances here. Its the internet we are talkin about. How many torrenters do you know in RL (friends?). I guess every time you add someone to your invite tree on a tracker,you take a calculated risk. The only thing you can do is check up his past on trackers he is already a member of, or on the forums/boards he chooses to stay active on, or in some cases, get to know him a lil better on IM.
Thats all there is to it, and its been great going through this thread. :)
The first knock-out criteria for me is a heart icon in the thread title. That's never a good sign.
English skills are really secondary as long as I have a feeling that he / she is a good person, means a cuddly, sweet panda, inspiring me to write haikus. But since I'm a miserable bastard, that doesn't happen often.
it's not a matter of tolerance but a matter of facts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crutavvyeah :sick:
moron, world is full of people who use other language than your "nazi" english... deal with it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stellar
I am really tired read this kind of shit everyday (from people who know only one language)
try be more tolerant...
people who speak a terrible english generally don't really use their accounts on US torrentsites (and it's quite logic).
they're generally into dubbed films and just want to get into trackers for collection purpose.
fortunately, there are still some serious users who grab subtitles and really use their accounts but actually, most of the people with poor english skills i invited don't.
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Originally Posted by Crutavvyeah :sick:
moron, world is full of people who use other language than your "nazi" english... deal with it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stellar
I am really tired read this kind of shit everyday (from people who know only one language)
try be more tolerant...
I feel the same way. Unfortunately ( and I have seen it time and time again here on FST ) people equate the ability to be able to write well with being trustworthy.That simply isn't true or the world would be populated with honest lawyers and politicians.
In fairness though if you were to go simply by percentages people from certain regions ( I owe it to cultural differences more than true lack of ethics ) are far more likely to trade .
that is a very harsh comment you made there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crutavvyeah :sick:
moron, world is full of people who use other language than your "nazi" english... deal with it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stellar
I am really tired read this kind of shit everyday (from people who know only one language)
try be more tolerant...
What stellar said is pure logic if nothin else.
What use could a non-eng speaking person have with a site that tracks shows and movies that are not in his native language, or the one he understands? (learning the language? in that case, there is the Rosetta stone on demonoid of all places, or for the more security oriented, TL (it has been infiltrated though)) :P
Personally, i know 4 languages, and english is not my first language either.But,even then, i was compelled to defend a logical post here.
I originally wrote it, Stellar just agreed with me. Attack me! Oh, wait you can't cause my first language also isn't english.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crutavvyeah :sick:
moron, world is full of people who use other language than your "nazi" english... deal with it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stellar
I am really tired read this kind of shit everyday (from people who know only one language)
try be more tolerant...
Also, as it has been said, it's pure logic.
PS: I hate it when people don't know english well, enter english speaking sites and then don't want to learn and improve their skills. That's just dumb, imo.
No, never.
I was offered an invite by KFlint once. He obviously felt he could trust me, and that was before he knew who I was.
It's not just about giving an invite, it should be seen both ways. Finding someone trustworthy to invite you is probably just as difficult.
no never
Some of you guys should be ashamed of yourselves....
They may not be the english mavens that you are but at least they try,some of these people are self teaching themselves how to write in a foreign language,no teachers no nothing,try and travel the world if you haven't,it will rid you off your ignorance and you'll be humbled.
I won't go to the extremes,but take the example of switzerland.the language of instruction there is french and or german,now how do you expect the average public schooled individual from there to come to this board and articulate themselves properly in your mother tongue?
I won't call anyone a bigot but using this as a pretext to deny someone an invite sounds like it to me.
Not that I disagree with your main point, don't get me wrong, but why should a polyglot Swiss dude / gal have more difficulties to articulate him-/herself in English? If anything, growing up in a bilingual (multilingual) environment makes it easier for someone to learn a foreign language.
It isn't an issue of intolerance. It's an issue of people posting on an English-speaking forum that won't make every effort to acclimatize.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crutavv
I don't go to Spanish-speaking forums and post "HOLA MOTHERBITCHES" in an introductory thread. That would be disrespectful and certainly frowned upon. It's not wrong for people here to expect other posters to use proper grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. Like you, for example. You're fucking up the curve, man.
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I support those that are trying, but tbh some aren't even trying.Quote:
Originally Posted by sez
The only member here i would take a chance on is Malua. He seems like a standup guy who needs to be viewed as a source of inspiration for many members here. :drunk::stars::wank:
I agree with you on Malua. The guy is extremely responsible with his invites!
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