How does F*N know??

[Shadowfire]

What logic would allow you to figure out who's ratting just by their IPs?

[General2k]

Not by their IPs. There were alot of Ratio proofs posted there. Most used image hosting services, such as Photobucket or the like. Some used private websites where they could quite possibly look at the log files. Similar to how I did it. Now it could be a transparent gif, a very small image (1X1 pixel), or it could have even been someone ratio proof.
But pinpointing it down to the correct user is the difficult part.

It cant be their avatar since it is accessed from the FST site.
If you look at the properties of the avatar its address is
hxxp://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/image.php?<blah blah blah some numbers>

[kavalchuk17]

haha. dvhrld, you are the man.

[Alien5]

It could directly be a mod or admin there, since I see no posts in their publicity thread about this.

//: Although I don't exactly understand why they would take away invites for giving them away to good -trusted- users who show good ratio proofs. It's not trading at all, and it can potentially bring in good members.

it can also potentially bring in some cheating members, i think they must be fed up with all the bad users who have got in.

[Shadowfire]

But logically, wouldn't people who invite those who have shown good ratio proof invite more good users than someone who invites people they know in real life that don't exactly understand the concept of sharing? Or, at least the probably would be even? At least the invites aren't traded. I dunno, maybe my logic is just screwed up.

Btw, dvhrld, you could be an excellent network security professor. =)

[General2k]

Btw, dvhrld, you could be an excellent network security professor. =)

I really would rather not get into the computer business. Fixing my computer I have no problem with doing that. When I start fixing computers for others I start to get frustrated and feel pressured that I have to get it done quickly. I actually went to college for a year to get into computers and said screw this, I either knew more than the professors or wasnt interested in the class itself.But thanks for the compliment.
I really enjoy what I do for a living.

[Alien5]

But logically, wouldn't people who invite those who have shown good ratio proof invite more good users than someone who invites people they know in real life that don't exactly understand the concept of sharing? Or, at least the probably would be even? At least the invites aren't traded. I dunno, maybe my logic is just screwed up.

Btw, dvhrld, you could be an excellent network security professor. =)

no your logic is not screwed up. people who invite those who they have met in a public forum like this one, are the people who are being targeted as unable to be trusted with invites. i have had invites taken off of me, and warned before, but after inviting one of my best friends in real life, he failed to keep a good ratio or even login to his account to check his ratio, people like this dont understand torrent invites and private sites.

[Submission]

uh that doesn't help you. How do you differentiate from browsers and posters?

[man2069us]

I finally managed to get an account at f*n yesterday at long last but it was disabled after a few minutes of being traded because the guy i made the trade with uses the same id here as he does on f*n and he had made a thread here with the id offering his account for trade. So I guess that would have been a real easy target.

Btw since this account was banned immediately after a few minutes after he made the thread/trade because of his rookie mistake of using same ids do u think it is fair i shud ask the account that i traded with him back. That was my most precious account yet and the only reason i traded it was i was desperate for f*n.

[General2k]

Just keep on monitoring posts whose viewing the thread and eventually you find out what each members ips are. Im not saying thats the way FTN did it here. Im just saying its a possibility.