What Can Be Done With Invites - The Tracker Rules

New from the news area of the box

As you will likely know, we reduced the member limit last week - effectively closing signups. At the rate we are losing members, it's unlikely that signups will open again until 2008.

Invites will still work though even if we are above the open signup limit, which is why some of you with good ratios will have got invites available.

For invites we need to clarify a few things. If you happen to invite a user that is a cheater or behaves badly in the community, nothing will happen to your account on the first offense (unless u invited ur self) since we are willing to accept that it was not your fault and you simply couldnt have known, we will simply put a warning on your account. On the second offense, you are expected to be much more vigilant and as such you will loose all your invite privileges permanently, shall there be a second offense obviously, and in some rare cases your account might be disabled as well (if it is obvious to us that you knew you were inviting a cheater, invite seller and all the rest of them). Shall you choose to sell your invites and get found out, you will lose your account and your ip will be banned even on a first offense.

We will calibrate these rules as it seems fit at any given point in time and let you know from the news section or the announcements (which you should check up every now and then to stay alert with) what is going on.

So, to summarise:

DO NOT SELL OR TRADE INVITES
DO NOT INVITE PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW
IF PEOPLE YOU INVITE REPEATEDLY BREAK THE RULES IT COULD AFFECT YOUR ACCOUNT - BE VIGILANT
And finally please let your friends know that we have strict ratio and uploading rules - and ask them (nicely of course) to make sure they understand these as soon as they join. You are responsible for their ratio!

1. Not sure if "TheBox" is categorized rightly. I don't know if they allow trade or giveaway but what i know is their sister site theplace and thevault does not allow trade...so from that i assume TheBox is misplaced...may be i am wrong though.

2. Similarly, "bitme" might have been misplaced as well...coz it's sister site "bitmetv" doesn't allow giveaway either. Again, i haven't looked it up so it's just an assumption. Not sure but i think i have seen bitme baning for giveaway

3. i am surprised to see ncore, kg, tt, tr, and elektronik (edit:elektROnik already answered) in first list. Obviously, i haven't read invite rules :P

4. DVD club doesn't allow giveaway or trade.

Anyways, nice list.

EDIT: seems sleepyy already emphasized #1

EDIT2: #4 already mentioned by Adam1990

EDIT 3:

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Originally Posted by fazzy07

Good work Grind

But you cant really have a list as trackers keep changing their mind about it
Just depends on what mood the staff are and if you get disabled they'll have 100's of reasons
Just having an acc here at fst is good reason for them
Only few trackers I kno of really understand the users

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totally agree! one should NOT take this thread as an excuse for giveaway or trade. Do it at your OWN RISK!

nice work buddy!
:)

RevoTT is no giveaways, on one of there pages i remember it said, "do not do giveaways on forums"

Yea, I'm pretty sure you can get banned from Bitme for giveaways of invites. I have read a few threads here from guys who were banned for this infraction.

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Originally Posted by psxcite

Yea, I'm pretty sure you can get banned from Bitme for giveaways of invites. I have read a few threads here from guys who were banned for this infraction.

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thanks for confirming.

was kinda unsure.

most of the sites doesn't want even invites to be given on forums , fews days back patrice was talking about there is an agreement bw sites and fst that invites are allowed to be given on fst but i know that u will ban u if give invites here on fst on tl too

Okay, TheBox is updated, that news post wasn't there last night.
I also did some more hardcore research on BitMe, found out the rules were stated when you go to invite someone, so I fixed that.
I will be checking up on RevoTT right now.

And for people being skeptical about this, I'm trying to only add sites when I have written proof that they don't/do allow trades/giveaways.
I also will going back to check over sites again, and I will be saving my proofs.

I guess we'll see how the more final list will turn out.

Great thread, Very useful for those of us that like to obey the rules of the sites we are privileged enough to be a part of.

NB - not allowed to trade :)

Cheers
-Vidde <3