Blackcats-games account "disabled" - Is it gone forever?

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Originally Posted by regs8376

liemliem, like I told you in our help channel earlier, your account was inactive for far too long. Also, you were disabled over 3 months ago and only came in to talk about it today. Your account will remain disabled but you are free to make a new account if you catch open registrations in the future.

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That makes no sense whatsoever tbh... if an inactive account has been held in the database for "far too long", and was only disabled 3 months ago, for whatever reason at all... then it's apparent that pruning (if indeed it happens) is very, very infrequent. Peoples lives don't revolve round torrent sites, so yeah why not disable for inactivity, but when users come back, is there any great problem in re-enabling them? :unsure:

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

What I have never understood though is that as presumably inactive accounts put no stress on a site's resources ,why it is they need to disabled?

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Generally I've found it's to stop collectors and traders keeping 'currency' in their arsenal... makes sense to me to disable inactive accounts, but makes no sense not re-enabling accounts if you can verify the user, and then keeping an eye on it to make sure it's being used...

I think of it like a football ground, If you have a 50,000 seater football stadium, and 50,000 fans, but only 10,000 turn up week after week, then whats the point of having the other 40,000, knock down the stadium and build a 15,000 one, so you have some room incase 5,000 want to come back.

And resources, fair enough, but they do have PMs and Forum posts linked to their accounts, which do take up space, OK 1 member wont take up that much, but 30,000 accounts do.

If you dont use the tracker, whats the point of being a member, and a lot of these we have disabled, have not used the tracker for over a year, and it was 4 months ago we disabled them, and we are still getting ppl coming out of the woodwork.

Its also not like we are shut tight anymore like we were a few years ago, I have opened and let in a few thousand members, and once the tracker side is back up, I may open again for a period, so its not like they are frozen out and cant get in, but they must not have cared about their other account that much, to not use it at all for 7months to 2 years.

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Originally Posted by stoi

I think of it like a football ground, If you have a 50,000 seater football stadium, and 50,000 fans, but only 10,000 turn up week after week, then whats the point of having the other 40,000, knock down the stadium and build a 15,000 one, so you have some room incase 5,000 want to come back.

And resources, fair enough, but they do have PMs and Forum posts linked to their accounts, which do take up space, OK 1 member wont take up that much, but 30,000 accounts do.

If you dont use the tracker, whats the point of being a member, and a lot of these we have disabled, have not used the tracker for over a year, and it was 4 months ago we disabled them, and we are still getting ppl coming out of the woodwork.

Its also not like we are shut tight anymore like we were a few years ago, I have opened and let in a few thousand members, and once the tracker side is back up, I may open again for a period, so its not like they are frozen out and cant get in, but they must not have cared about their other account that much, to not use it at all for 7months to 2 years.

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Does one disabled account + one newly registered account take less resources than one re-enabled account?

Like i said its got sod all to do with resources, they didnt use the account, so bye bye, if they want another then they can join and start from scratch.

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Originally Posted by stoi

And resources, fair enough, but they do have PMs and Forum posts linked to their accounts, which do take up space, OK 1 member wont take up that much, but 30,000 accounts do.

If you dont use the tracker, whats the point of being a member, and a lot of these we have disabled, have not used the tracker for over a year, and it was 4 months ago we disabled them, and we are still getting ppl coming out of the woodwork.

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Totally agree, that if someone's not gonna use their account it gets disabled, and I suppose quite rightly should eventually be deleted... The point I was trying to make was though... IF the account hasn't been pruned yet, and the user in question comes back with a legitimate reason for having been away, and would like the account re-enabled only to be told "no", then it comes down more to the attitude of the staffer than the fault of the user, imo... almost sounds like "I've got it, it's there, but you can't have it anymore"... what's the point in that? Apart from forcing the user to go through the inconvenience of finding an invite, or waiting for sign ups again.

Peoples lives don't (sorry shouldn't) revolve round trackers, and it's normal to be away for periods as long as you're aware your account's at risk of eventual deletion... but in this instance it wasn't (i.e. it was still there)

The point is though, they are only interested in it, when they cant use it, when they could use it, they didnt give a shite about it, if they did, they would have used it.

I know their lives dont revolve around trackers, but we are talking 7 months + without a single announce here, so have never seeded or leeched at all in that time, and we didnt delete torrents either at that time, so they cant say they did, as they didnt.

and we keep the accounts for our reference, if they turn up for a global ban somewhere, we have them and can make sure they dont get in again, instead of just saying, not here sorry, when they were a member but we havnt a clue they were a member, because we pruned them.

Hmmm... some of what you say makes sense, and I agree with, but there's others that don't and are kinda contradictory... maybe I'm picking it up wrong, and we'll agree to disagree :)

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Originally Posted by stoi

Like i said its got sod all to do with resources, they didnt use the account, so bye bye, if they want another then they can join and start from scratch.

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I don't know why everyone says that I'd be a horrible staff member as I can be as spiteful and petty as the next guy.

Btw that was an attempt at a joke.While the point I think holds true I definitely understand why someone such as yourself wouldn't exactly appreciate those members that seem to take the privilege they have been given for granted.
I know I don't appreciate the many fucks here that are a disservice to this site and I don't even have a concerned interest in it.If I had nurtured it with my own sweat and tears disabling would be the least of their worries .I'd probably see if I could hire a contract killer to go something about it.:mellow:

this happen to me and with out reason so i gorget it

There is a reason for everything, you didnt use your account (even though i have no idea who the hell you are, but if this happened to you, you didnt) so why do you still want to be a member?

People have real lives that sometimes make them too busy to do things like download games. I could understand you not wanting to re-enable an account that was never used, but if someone used their account and was an otherwise good member, then was inactive for a period of time, but later returned and explained that they were too busy in real life for torrenting but that things have now changed and they'd like to be a member again, I honestly can't understand your reasoning for not wanting to re-enable their once-active accounts. It seems very selfish, small minded, and petty to me, and it's not at all what I expected from you.

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Originally Posted by P2PDog

People have real lives that sometimes make them too busy to do things like download games. I could understand you not wanting to re-enable an account that was never used, but if someone used their account and was an otherwise good member, then was inactive for a period of time, but later returned and explained that they were too busy in real life for torrenting but that things have now changed and they'd like to be a member again, I honestly can't understand your reasoning for not wanting to re-enable their once-active accounts. It seems very selfish, small minded, and petty to me, and it's not at all what I expected from you.

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So they only come back, 5 months after they are banned, and then say, oh i want to use it now, yeah right.

I just dont have any sympathy, all they had to do was seed something they downloaded, even from elsewhere, its not hard, its what a tracker is about, if no one seeds there isnt any tracker for them to come back to.

Sorry too late, cya, bye bye, not my problem really.

^ You haven't replied to my PM :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by stoi

So they only come back, 5 months after they are banned, and then say, oh i want to use it now, yeah right.

I just dont have any sympathy, all they had to do was seed something they downloaded, even from elsewhere, its not hard, its what a tracker is about, if no one seeds there isnt any tracker for them to come back to.

Sorry too late, cya, bye bye, not my problem really.

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So say I go away for 6 months to work abroad with no net access, or if there is it certainly doesn't allow any BT traffic... no fault of my own, and my account's disabled... then is it just tough shit for me then? Despite the fact I do use the account I have now and again? And btw, I'm by no means a major user, just every so often I like to chill out and play a game for a while...

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Originally Posted by Burnsy

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Originally Posted by stoi

So they only come back, 5 months after they are banned, and then say, oh i want to use it now, yeah right.

I just dont have any sympathy, all they had to do was seed something they downloaded, even from elsewhere, its not hard, its what a tracker is about, if no one seeds there isnt any tracker for them to come back to.

Sorry too late, cya, bye bye, not my problem really.

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So say I go away for 6 months to work abroad with no net access, or if there is it certainly doesn't allow any BT traffic... no fault of my own, and my account's disabled... then is it just tough shit for me then? Despite the fact I do use the account I have now and again? And btw, I'm by no means a major user, just every so often I like to chill out and play a game for a while...

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You should have thought of that before you decided to waste your time defending the World against terrorism.

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

You should have thought of that before you decided to waste your time defending the World against terrorism.

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What the fuck does that have to do with anything? I'm using a valid and relevant example of what can happen to see what the site's stance would be on that, for other users info... (just so you're aware though, whenever I do go away, I have in the past PM'd stoi who's been pretty understanding about things)

Maybe I should just spend my time between the Gym, taking anti depressants and go playing with Moose cawks in my spare time...

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Originally Posted by Burnsy

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

You should have thought of that before you decided to waste your time defending the World against terrorism.

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What the fuck does that have to do with anything? I'm using a valid and relevant example of what can happen to see what the site's stance would be on that, for other users info... (just so you're aware though, whenever I do go away, I have in the past PM'd stoi who's been pretty understanding about things)

Maybe I should just spend my time between the Gym, taking anti depressants and go playing with Moose cawks in my spare time...

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I don't take antidepressants and what it had to do with anything is that it was meant to be an extreme example to illustrate a point,a compliment of sorts and a joke.:mellow:
Forgive me for attempting all three and please continue with the serious issue of stealing stuff and treating other people badly.

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

I don't take antidepressants and what it had to do with anything is that it was meant to be an extreme example to illustrate a point,a compliment of sorts and a joke.:mellow:
Forgive me for attempting all three and please continue with the serious issue of stealing stuff and treating other people badly.

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It was an example of someone going away and not using their account for a while... relevant, as I know it happens... extreme, yeah, but everyone has different reasons s for being away for a while... they can apply their own circumstance...

Serious issue about stealing stuff? Where was that mentioned... I think you'll find it was a question to see the site's stance on people with legitimate reasons going away for a while and not using their accounts on and off... since when did asking a question become a serious business?

I fail to see any compliment or humour in what you posted, but to each their own I 'spose...

Who exactly was being treated badly? Didn't you see my humour there either? Bummer...

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Originally Posted by Burnsy

Didn't you see my humour there either? Bummer...

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Probably because here in Canada moose cawks are serious business.

Burnsy i believe you answered your own question.

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(just so you're aware though, whenever I do go away, I have in the past PM'd stoi who's been pretty understanding about things)

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When we used to prune if someone got in touch and said they knew they were going away for awhile, lack of internet, away to Iraq etc we would make them VIP so they didnt get pruned, now no one gets pruned as we lose all disabled members by doing so (they havnt logged in so bye bye) its easy to fix actually, just never got around to it lol

Now we would add something to their staff comments, so they wouldnt get disabled.

But in 8-9 years its the first time we have done this, we have warned that we may do this for the past 3 years, we done it, and all we get is grief (seems thats pretty much all we get lol) and we probably wont be doing it again for at least another year or so (if we even do it again).

I know this is an old thread, but I'd like to ask to you Admins if you could possibly re-enable my account (same name as this account)... Although I did never enter the forums or IRC, I had no hit'n'runs and had positive ratio... My problem was when my xbox crashed and I didn't download many games for it anymore... Now I got a new one and will be back on work. I was too downloading games for Wii, but I guess that problem with the trackers got my torrents down or something, I don't really know... Anyway, if you could look into my case, it would mean a lot! Thank you!

stoi I wanted to PM you a question but don't know how to do this on here. Could you message me, just have a real quick question.

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Originally Posted by catclaw11

stoi I wanted to PM you a question but don't know how to do this on here. Could you message me, just have a real quick question.

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http://filesharingtalk.com/threads/1...on-or-send-PMs

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Originally Posted by stoi

Burnsy i believe you answered your own question.

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(just so you're aware though, whenever I do go away, I have in the past PM'd stoi who's been pretty understanding about things)

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When we used to prune if someone got in touch and said they knew they were going away for awhile, lack of internet, away to Iraq etc we would make them VIP so they didnt get pruned, now no one gets pruned as we lose all disabled members by doing so (they havnt logged in so bye bye) its easy to fix actually, just never got around to it lol

Now we would add something to their staff comments, so they wouldnt get disabled.

But in 8-9 years its the first time we have done this, we have warned that we may do this for the past 3 years, we done it, and all we get is grief (seems thats pretty much all we get lol) and we probably wont be doing it again for at least another year or so (if we even do it again).

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Hi stoi,

I just registered here at the forum, as I thought to be able to leave you a PM then.
But restrictions seem to not allow that for "new users".
So I added you to my contacts to hopefully be able to contact you _then_ directly via PM as I need to ask you something about bcn.
Thanks in advance for adding me just for a short time to be able to talk with you just quick then. :-)

Talk to you soon then hopefully,
KarlK

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Originally Posted by karlk

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Originally Posted by stoi

Burnsy i believe you answered your own question.



When we used to prune if someone got in touch and said they knew they were going away for awhile, lack of internet, away to Iraq etc we would make them VIP so they didnt get pruned, now no one gets pruned as we lose all disabled members by doing so (they havnt logged in so bye bye) its easy to fix actually, just never got around to it lol

Now we would add something to their staff comments, so they wouldnt get disabled.

But in 8-9 years its the first time we have done this, we have warned that we may do this for the past 3 years, we done it, and all we get is grief (seems thats pretty much all we get lol) and we probably wont be doing it again for at least another year or so (if we even do it again).

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Hi stoi,

I just registered here at the forum, as I thought to be able to leave you a PM then.
But restrictions seem to not allow that for "new users".
So I added you to my contacts to hopefully be able to contact you _then_ directly via PM as I need to ask you something about bcn.
Thanks in advance for adding me just for a short time to be able to talk with you just quick then. :-)

Talk to you soon then hopefully,
KarlK

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I still cant PM you.

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Originally Posted by stoi

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Originally Posted by karlk

Hi stoi,

I just registered here at the forum, as I thought to be able to leave you a PM then.
But restrictions seem to not allow that for "new users".
So I added you to my contacts to hopefully be able to contact you _then_ directly via PM as I need to ask you something about bcn.
Thanks in advance for adding me just for a short time to be able to talk with you just quick then. :-)

Talk to you soon then hopefully,
KarlK

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I still cant PM you.

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Damn! :-/
Weird forum-software here or what!? :-(
What can we do. Really need to just get ahold of you please!
Any other chance to achieve this? (which won't spam you with messages from all others here then, too, if you post it here publicly to me? ;-) )

Bye and hope we'll find a way,
KarlK

I'm sorry if I'm being offensive or something, but, with all due respect, you could've at least answered my reply... I've been waiting for it. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by karlk

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Originally Posted by stoi

I still cant PM you.

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Damn! :-/
Weird forum-software here or what!? :-(
What can we do. Really need to just get ahold of you please!
Any other chance to achieve this? (which won't spam you with messages from all others here then, too, if you post it here publicly to me? ;-) )

Bye and hope we'll find a way,
KarlK

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It's a necessary security feature as we get a lot of people who only register here to achieve there own selfish ends but then I shouldn't have to tell you that.

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Originally Posted by gabrielmgn

I'm sorry if I'm being offensive or something, but, with all due respect, you could've at least answered my reply... I've been waiting for it. Thanks!

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its gone, doesnt exist anymore.

:|
too bad... is the account creating system on right now?

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

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Originally Posted by karlk

Damn! :-/
Weird forum-software here or what!? :-(
What can we do. Really need to just get ahold of you please!
Any other chance to achieve this? (which won't spam you with messages from all others here then, too, if you post it here publicly to me? ;-) )

Bye and hope we'll find a way,
KarlK

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It's a necessary security feature as we get a lot of people who only register here to achieve there own selfish ends but then I shouldn't have to tell you that.

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Thanks. I knew the reason for this 'feature' here and understand it in general.
It's just that it's a bit sad/weird that a new user (like me yet) even can't send PMs to another registered user on here.
I mean this doesn't really have to do something with 'spamming the forum' or something like that, right? ;-)
It's even not possible to exchange PMs if both parties added eachother to its contact-list, too though... ;-))

But well, I hope that I'll be able to contact stoi after those ~14 days being a user here then. :-)
As far as those forum-rules state here officially at least. ;-)
Let's see what'll happen then...

Bye,
KarlK

Hey Stoi,

First off I would like to say thanks for all that you and the Blackcats team have done for all of us over the years....it's really appreciated.

I tried signing in to my account several days ago and found the fake page. I forgot my passkey, so I went to IRC and spoke with Mistameph and regs. They said that my account is disabled for using a proxy. I had used JonDo to encrypt my traffic from my home PC to your host so my ISP could not track my surfing habits.

They were very nice about it and I understand were they are coming from, but I would like to appeal one last time. If you and your staff could find it forgivable I would greatly appreciate it. I love the tracker and the info I learn.

Thank you for your consideration,

meep

Double post...sorry!

Bye,
KarlK

meep, like I had already told you in help, you used the proxy more than once. There is nothing more to discuss I'm afraid and the account will remain as is. Have a nice day.

Hey stoi,
After a while[2 weeks?] w/out visiting the site and my account, I've get that old Lorem Ipsum page...
I still have an account, since I'm uploading right now...
I've tried to use my old password for that page, but it didn't work: it seems it was changed/ or I'm messing up with it...
My original e-mail on my account was from terra.com.br and it wasn't accepted by BCG.
What should I do?
TIA

Man I'm really confused, my account got disabled with a ratio of 2.12, 1.5TB uploaded

I seeded everything and only had one hit and run that I was seeding at the time I was disabled

The only thing I can think that I did was I gave out two referrals to friends who didnt download or seed for a few days, but I dont see why that would do anything considering they cant leech nothing.

I've even donated twice in the past, I just cant figure out what kind of rule I broke

Their IRC channel is the place to ask rather than here.

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Originally Posted by stan

Their IRC channel is the place to ask rather than here.

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How do I get there(IRC Channell)?
Is it...
http://irc.lc/undernet/blackcats/irctc@@@
TIA

irc://irc-blackcats-games.net/blackcats according the WTO.

Thanks anon for the tip.
...but it seems the link above isn't working.