What.cd Staff dont like our giveaways!

Think here would be the best place to post it!

Staff at What.cd did just disabled all the members i invited, it was 14...
Now they dont accept giveaways anymore. In the rules it's doesn't stands anywere, but they are working on it.

I got a message from Phi:

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Hello ******, please let your friends on FST know that their accounts have been disabled and that they can come to irc.what.cd #what.cd-disabled to interview for their account back.

Also inform them that what.cd does not tolerate giveaways, trades, or the sale of invites.

I'm going to leave your account with only disabled invites, as you seem to be a good user.

Thanks for understanding, and I hope you pass my message along to FST.
Phi

So, be ware dear FST members.
to all the FST mebers who want invite Phi said that you should go to #what.cd-invites .

i'm very sorry for the people i invited, but the ones of u who were active might get your account back, he said.

Edit: "only" five people got disabled.

why u have same username as here ?

:) you should change it :)

wade003 - I didn't, or there is one account on what.cd with the name ConkiZz, it was mine, but me and a friend changed accounts..why i dont know, but whateva
And ConkiZz Is my nick, havn't take it from anyone..

I went to #what.cd-invites and typed !queue, as in were in topic, and i got banned. :|

Strange, wonder why. :/

Today my account in What was disable.
Even this morning I was there, but now will afternoon when he was already unable to enter.
Why is that? I had good ratio.

P.S: I was not invited by ConkiZz

this is why it's best to keep your tracker/site names different

NPAX1 i have that... but the IP is the same u know..

What.cd staff themselves was giving away invites here at the site beginning, but now, they grew up , have everything, putting other way rulez. great

Yeah, I also got my account disabled today, even though I never actually gave away an invite to people. FYI, I also had a good ratio.

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Originally Posted by colyu

Yeah, I also got my account disabled today, I also had a good ratio.

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same here :(

For all those who lose your account, visit their invite IRC channel.

well, dont signup with same username at trackers

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Originally Posted by wade003

well, dont signup with same username at trackers

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But i don´t hav ethe same username.

i fully understand why they do this. when i got interviewed, they asked me questions such as what transcoding is, what vbr and cbr is.

they want people to join who know about music, not just leechers. and come on, what other sites allow those who got disabled to have an interview to get their account back!

Hi there againg.

Just to let you know that i have very positive impression of What.cd staff. I've joined their irc server, went to #what.cd-disabled, but soon got banned, guess it has something to do with my iprange. :\

Well, soon after, Stewy came to me on pvd and after a little chat, he was aware of my situation (i was about to get an invite from ConkiZz before he got his invites disabled) and i got a fresh new invite from him to join What.cd!

So, he asked me to tell you guys who got accounts disabled or something to join their irc server and the channel #what.cd-disabled, in order to get an interview for getting your account back.

That's it. Be wise and good luck to all. :)

Hasta!

A other good thing is that al the members who i invited has now got enabled :)

At least their staff is kind and considerate, and didn't ban all of the accounts involved.

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Originally Posted by ConkiZz

For all those who lose your account, visit their invite IRC channel.

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what is the irc address if u don't mind :)

irc.what.cd #disabled :)

it's been in the rules for a long time.

Maybe it has... dont know.. but now i know atleast :)

Yep mine was also banned. I went on the IRC and spoke to stewy. He seemed understanding and gave me my account back, but with disables invites, which is kind of annoying but reasonable I suppose.

Disabled invites is better than a disabled account!

Yep definitely. I'm not sure I would use the invites anyway!

Do you know if it is permanently disabled or just for 6 months or something?

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Originally Posted by ConkiZz

irc.what.cd #disabled :)

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not working dude
:)

do u have another address ?

Try this irc.what.cd #what.cd-disabled

Hey omarsz the correct thing is #what.cd-disabled . Do you know how to get it working because if you don't I can explain it to you

ConkiZz & ukgenius

thank u guys :)

Not trying to be smart but if you cant even give them away then what do they give them out for

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Originally Posted by ryan20021982

Not trying to be smart but if you cant even give them away then what do they give them out for

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You can invite friends or people you trust privately, or do a giveaway on exclusive private forums. You can't do a giveaway in a public thread on FST because it's not private.

Very true. I was an outstanding member there until they threw that chain of trust bs at me. Point is I also got disabled there from giving invites via FST. Just do it privately from now on (Through pm to people you trust). You live and you learn.. no big deal.

ya this is why it pays to use a different name on every tracker and every messageboard .... . .

sucks but thats the way this torrent world works . .. .

if i were one of the guys who got their invite privileges taken away, i'd just change my ip address and get a new account...

there are problems with that, i'm sure; and you really have to weight the costs (loosing your history, status, social proof on the site) and benefits (MOAR invites!).

*edit* this is just like the struggle between pirates and record companies. if they enforce the laws, the giveaway-ers will just find more obscure and secure ways of doing what they do...

seriously, people love the reciprocal altruism

maybe it's time to develop the habit of announcing that you'll giveaway some invites, and force the requests to be pm-only... maybe by closing the thread containing that announcement.

the what.cd staff may identify the giveaway-er by cross-referencing the amount of invites a person on fst gave away and the time at which they took place to the people on what.cd who gave away that amount of invites at that time.

with the knowledge of how many people a person on fst invited to what.cd, and the time at which that took place, i imagine it wouldn't be too hard to deduce the what.cd user-name of that fst giveaway-er...

however, in the spirit of confidentiality, there could be a randomly imposed time-dilation between the announcement and the time at which you hand out the invites.

there could also be a liason on the fst staff, who could see ever fst-user's ip address, and subsequently divulge that information to the what.cd staff at their leisure. then we'd just have to use proxies, then, wouldn't we?

now where did i put my tin-foil hat...

now how many of you really have real life friends who know about torrents/private trackers/transcodes/lame/flac/bitrates...)*@^(@&$^@!!!! ????

IMO you chain of trust should be short as possible ;)

anyways its nice of what.cd staff to keep a interview and give back the accounts... they could have just banned em all after all....

I am one of the people whose account was disabled and was given it back, but without any invites. In response to your suggestion Skerven about getting a new account: Personally I don't really think I need the invites. And secondly, I would find it hard to get another invite, because I don't believe in trading, only in giveaways and they are not given away that freely. And also these forums are viewed by the what.cd staff so I couldn't get an invite here and I don't know where else to get one, as most of my friends don't even know what a torrent is. And finally is it really worth going through all that effort of changing my IP address just so I can have invites? Not really.

dont flame what.cd, it kills any other music tracker IMO
i dont see why you have to post their invite channel for their IRC, if a tracker such as scl or its had one you would be far too pussy to post it

I think you misunderstood me. I really like What.cd. It is great. I am just saying that as long as I have a account, thats all that matters, and I don't need to be able to give invites. And the reason the IRC was posted up was to be able to speak to someone to get our accounts enabled.

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Originally Posted by ukgenius

because I don't believe in trading

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meh just do it. seriously, having invites and giving them to people is so cool. you want them, don't lie to yourself.

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Originally Posted by T.S.O.L.

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Originally Posted by ryan20021982

Not trying to be smart but if you cant even give them away then what do they give them out for

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You can invite friends or people you trust privately, or do a giveaway on exclusive private forums. You can't do a giveaway in a public thread on FST because it's not private.

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i have a bunch of un-given invites for what (yay, i follow the rules!)... i try to give them to friends, and they don't want them.

i guess i need to work on my sales pitch.

but really, how many people do you know who you can simply walk up to and ask them if they want an invite to what.cd, and who will gladly accept it _without_ you having to basically sell it to them (like telling them what bittorrent is, what what.cd is all about, how awesome it is to have all the music you will ever want at your frikkin fingertips... all for just following the rules and keeping a good ratio!)

the whole ratio thing really turns people off... they'd rather use that vuse for 15 bucks a month. no lie. fukking retards... meh, maybe their is some logic in actually not breaking the law (forget what.cd's laws!).

no, if they start to really enforce this no-giveaway rule... they will see a major decrease in the amount of users coming to their site. but hey, maybe that's what they want.

i got disabled in what.cd for that yesterday and i hope someone can help me to back my what.cd and waffles accounts and i will not giveaway with them anymore