Ace Torrents

[Tanuki]

That was a free torrent.

Point for you. But you know that normal seed rules apply even for free torrents? The only differens is, that your download is not counted against you global ratio. Freeleech torrenst still have to be seeded to a ratio of at least 0.7 or 48hrs.

I am just saying that if you send a warning and threaten somebody with a ban in 2 weeks, keep in mind that you are giving a period of time to let that user work it out, and that was exactly what I was doing, following recommendations made at the forums where you recommended "download a FREE torrent which won't damage your ratio" or "look for the torrent with most leechers and less seeds".

If it was only your global ratio which caused your ban, I would totally agree with you. In that case choosing the torrent you chose was the right thing to do. But I also said, that global ratio might get you into trouble, because staff tends to check low global ratio accounts more, but we rarely ban because of a low global ratio. At least not fast without plenty of previous warnings.

Your fault was that you h&r within your 2 weeks warning period. This is unacceptable. What's interesting when you registered you seeded fine for about two weeks. Looks like you really understood our rules. The last three week you have only h&r's. You added even h&r's after you got warned. I doubt there are many private trackers, which tolerate such a behaviour.

Anyway, I can't have my BT on all day and I had it on as much as I could seeding. I understand your points and I am sorry that I didn't get there.

Perfectly understandable, and we accept that many members have machines, which are not online 24/7. So sensible interruptions are fine. Of course it is hard to argue with 'sensible interruption' when several torrents are days or even weeks old, seeded less then 48hrs and new torrents show that in the mean time the computer was running long enough to download other stuff. This was a general statement and not solely related to your case.

I don't want this to sound rude, but could I donate to the site?

Offering a donation is never rude. If you had done this before, you would have been allowed to h&r. Your global ratio would have skyrocketed so that you hardly ever had to worry about it again. But now you are banned. Though we always need money, the servers don't pay for itself, good and active members are of higher priority. It is fairly easy to get AceT membership, there are much harder sites to get in. But that easy that a banned member just can buy his way back.....I don't know. I will talk with Ace and the other owners about this.

[FatBastard]

To show we are willing to be reasonable, and after some internal discussion and review of your last activity on the site, we have decided to enable your account again. It does look like you were/are making an effort to improve your ratio, and hopefully you will no longer hit and run on ANY files, so we're giving you another chance. We will be keeping a watch on your activity, and any sign of repeat infractions will result in termination of the account.

Thanks.

Anyway, I can't have my BT on all day and I had it on as much as I could seeding. I understand your points and I am sorry that I didn't get there.

I don't want this to sound rude, but could I donate to the site?

[Tanuki]

I just want to add, adleos, our decision had nothing to do with you offer to donate. And you are under no obligation to donate now. We just liked the way you tried to solve the problem. Our IRC channel would have been a much better way, but you wrote you cannot use it. Why not? Our channel gives you 15mb upload for every 15 minutes you idle in it. A few hours idling there and your global ratio would have been perfect. Nevertheless, you are still under warning. And I will keep an eye on you account. One more h&r and it is bye bye forever. Unless of course you are still interested to go vip and donate.

[maj0r_pawnage]

acetorrents is gud, join the irc :-o

[cinephilia]

Offering a donation is never rude. If you had done this before, you would have been allowed to h&r.

sorry but that doesn't make sense at all... rules are meant to be enforced for everyone and that's just not fair to allow people to break the 'P2P spirit' under the pretext that they donated.

anyway... your tracker, your (stupid) rules..

[Tanuki]

cinephilia, the rules are not stupid. Sharing is fine, sharing is necessary. However, sharing does not pay our server bills. It all boils down to the necessary support to keep our community alive. Some do it by seeding back, others by donating money, yet others by investing their time in one way or another. This is totally within the rules. We could not survive without either group. Furthermore I don't think the 'P2P spirit' is just as simple as: 'I took a bit from the pool, I have to put a bit into the pool'. At least for private trackers, it is the degree of commitment to the community. Most of our best regular donators are also our best sharers.

We at AceTorrents hate freeloaders as much as any private tracker community, but leave the choice how our members want to support us up to them.

[stoi]

We could not survive without either group

Yes you could, and that is all i am going to say on this, not getting involved to deep.

Edit: you just said that most of your donators are your best sharers, so if that is the case, why do you need it???

[VinX]

AceT is nice tracker .. good in pretimes but .. eh .. just another one ?!?

[Tanuki]

We could not survive without either group

Yes you could

So I suppose your servers and seedboxes pay for itself? Some day you have to teach me this trick.

[The_Martinator]

Woah I sense a battle of staffers. Brace yourselfves, people!