Account trading: Good or Bad?

[briand5379]

I'm curious to know how much of that 55% have traded in the past.

[RainRoofer]

It's very bad.PPL who voted yes they just don't realise that.

[Grind$oFine]

I think it's bad. I can't imagine any site allowing this if they knew when it was happening. I also think it throws off the tracker levels. And it throws off ratio proofs. I think it makes the whole system here a bit messier. Especially when the accounts are from sites that you can obtain an invite. Some people are desperate when sites close invitations, but theres usually a way you can get in eventually... I just don't see the point in trading accounts. I also think everyone should have to pay their own dues at sites. You should buffer your own accounts.

Use your account, or delete it. There are plenty of generous people to invite you places if you follow rules.

[briand5379]

The people of this site assigned a value to the different trackers so when you do that your bound to have people that want to trade value to acquire something with more value or that they want that's just human nature.

[enviouz]

The people of this site assigned a value to the different trackers so when you do that your bound to have people that want to trade value to acquire something with more value or that they want that's just human nature.

agreed. i wish fst would just ban ALL trading. but will never happen.

[Shadow876]

What alot of people are forgetting here is that the people that run trackers are putting themselves at risk for you. Tracker staff face fines, jail time and criminal records. The least we can do is respect their wish to lessen those risks. I don't think anyone here wants to spend time in a federal prison because someone traded an account to the wrong person.

Well said, i completely agree to your arguments, i realize more now the importance not to trade accounts. You never know for sure who you're dealing with. Accounts should stay to the original owner and when you're done with it, delete it. That way you let someone else a spare place to register. The problem is, some trackers can be access only by invite or not at all cause they have reached full capacity. Giveaway is nice but again it is a form of trading. It's good when received by a "good guy" and it become bad when it is given to traders.

Personally i don't like the idea of trading accounts, even tough i did have tried to do so earlier. Most time i got invited. I was hesitating to do this, i know it isn't right but when the temptation is too high because you want so much this x account and the guy want something in exchange. Its really hard not trying to trade low level account when you begin in the torrent community, with " good guys " (at least you think they are after checking their profile,etc.) to eventually get higher level trackers because you want to get to the top of the most wanted Bittorents trackers. Of course you still can do this the long way, patience, make friends and build trust hoping someone will one day give you the invite you dream of. (Swedvdr ) That is how it's supposed to be. But unfortunately not everybody have the time to spent all time needed to achieve this.

Also about giveaways, they are great yes of course, but still some givers ask no proof at all, ("just pm what you want and email" ) so could end up in the hands of undesirable person. At least the giver should check the reputation and ratio proof of whom he choose.

I like the idea of trading an invite for an invite. I invite you to my tracker and you invite me to yours, you put trust in each other, you respect the rules and keep good ratio share and everybody is happy !

If you have nothing to give in exchange for high level invite i wish you good luck my friend, i know it happen's time to time but again you must be member since far and have high rep point to hope get what you want. Not everyone want to risk their account being banned for having invited a trader or scammer. There will always be honest people and dishonest people.

[SkullForce]

In fact account trading is bad as is affect badly the trackers, Invites trading is better.
But what if i got a nice offer to trade a tracker account for any other tracker what will i do?! will i loss the offer for just not to trade the account ?!!

[kirktrix]

Account trading is bad..... So that people doing this is bad....

[th0r]

Basically yes, kirktrix.

[p1r4t3]

It is bad... basically puts tracker staff at risk. Ever seen tracker staff getting notices? Chances are those people got the account from a trader here. I am glad mediadefender didnt know about fst though......

FST shows up first on google for most of the queries towards bittorrent invites. Makes me wonder either how dumb mediadefender were and / or why they were not interested in any of the private trackers