The Community Rep rank is no more...

[Tokeman]

well as far as i can gather, thats ok now, basically its a free for all, you can giveaway/trade but if a staff member spots you they can ban your account now, so giveaway/trade at your own risk is all i can say.

I WOULD NOT do giveaway's. Everyone already knows my stance on traders. Giveaway's will get your account diusabled on some very good sites. Take it from me EVERYONE. If you feel like you have to giveaway invites do it discreetly through pm's. Also give them to people you feel like you can trust. Or you will lose some good accounts. Trackers are raising the bar on disabling accounts of members who giveaway their invites.

Well its not up to you to decide. Its up to people to decide. If they choose to risk it thats their choice. I agree with structured giveaways, and have done them numerous times, even on high level sites with strict rules forbidding them. You have to find the people to disable them, and thats not an easy thing to do for people who cover their tracks well, even with public giveaways. Your post sounds like you know what your saying, but its only half true. People, use your best judgment, and cover your tracks. I agree on one point at least, only invite people you would be willing to stand behind.

[C-mos]

iTS ruins everything

i agree

[stoi]

Just like to add to my post above.

I have nothing against noobs, 90% of our members (and we have had 100,000 before) came from Mininova etc and were noobs when they joined, and we have helped most of those with the ins and outs of torrents, and the etiquette of private tackers.

the problem is, its ok getting them when they can help themselves (read forums and learn from previous posts etc) but when you get 100 posts a day asking the same thing over and over and over, it does get a tad annoying.

[KFlint]

@grimms
Thanks for the nice comment, but like I said on my first post a title don't mean nothing and it wont change who I am or how I go about doing things.

i wish someday i will be able to able to remember your nick

seriously, i always appreciated fsc staff in here too

[grimms]

Well its not up to you to decide. Its up to people to decide. If they choose to risk it thats their choice. I agree with structured giveaways, and have done them numerous times, even on high level sites with strict rules forbidding them. You have to find the people to disable them, and thats not an easy thing to do for people who cover their tracks well, even with public giveaways. Your post sounds like you know what your saying, but its only half true. People, use your best judgment, and cover your tracks. I agree on one point at least, only invite people you would be willing to stand behind.

I never stated it was up to me to decide(The mods and members themselves make that choice). Just giving out some good advice. Don't get me wrong, i'm still very greatful for everyone on here, just be careful. Also be very discreetful and only associate with people you feel like you could trust. Best advice i can give. I should of said you shouldn't. I apologize for the way i phrased it.

you should get a member that wants in, and knows how to use torrents, not like a RL friend who hasnt got a clue about torrents and messes up anyway.

I made that mistake. I invited a friend at the time to Oink me, and he managed to get his account disabled for not understanding the ratio and seeding process. Be very careful with REAL friends. Some of them don't even know what faq means, nevermind figuring out how to upload and seed torrents properly.

OK, we have a external invites thread on BCG for PU and above, no trading allowed though, it has to be all giveaways.

Big Big problem with that though, is whoever gets invited to another site, might like it better than BCG, so we may loose a good member while the other tracker gains one of our good members.

But shit happens im afraid, ok this is public, but big deal, who cares, its better getting members from here, either by giveaways/trading than it is by uploading torrents to mininova/isohunt etc.

at least most members on here, know how to use torrents, and are not complete noobs.

I bet most trackers when they first start out, welcome the review and the WTAW thread on here, because they want members that know what the hell they are doing, its just after they close they get pissed off with everything that goes on with the WTAW thread and all the trading that goes on.

you cant have it both ways im afraid.

That was the whole point i was trying to make in the who is WTAW and WTO thread. They have their reasons but also you have trackers int he beginning when they first open up appreciating the WTAW, until...the tracker gains enough members to shut their doors. Then it's we don't want traders, blah,blah, blah. The WTAW thread is bad. The problem i did have with the WTAW thread was the way they phrased it. It's almost like a welcome guide to traders, or was. I think they changed the phrasing of the words thanks to stoi though.

[tweakz]

Thank god for this change, the ones that i was talking to where RUDE anyways, and never responded to me, except 4 brandon!

Now U are not so special, and u know who u are!

[RoSsoNeRI]

nice going.....there were many who didn't deserve the blue stars. From my personal experience I found only a few comreps like DKre8ive1,DV8,Brandon,Vidde,Fiamma,TDC who were actually nice to users n helpful. The rest were just arrogant, rude people who just ignore if u wanted some help, they didn't even care if u had any probs on there site.

[pro267]

Thank god for this change, the ones that i was talking to where RUDE anyways, and never responded to me, except 4 brandon!

Now U are not so special, and u know who u are!

Mate, first of all chill. Talking like that regarding all ComReps is unwarranted. As all people, some of them are excellent people while others are less than perfect. Generalizing like you did is wrong, as does gloating regarding the fact that they're not special anymore (wtf do you mean by "special" anyway?! They're all human beings like the rest of us after all.)

Be grateful for what they've done for you by keeping the trackers alive, and remember that none of them owes you a thing.

[tweakz]

Thank god for this change, the ones that i was talking to where RUDE anyways, and never responded to me, except 4 brandon!

Now U are not so special, and u know who u are!

Mate, first of all chill. Talking like that regarding all ComReps is unwarranted. As all people, some of them are excellent people while others are less than perfect. Generalizing like you did is wrong, as does gloating regarding the fact that they're not special anymore (wtf do you mean by "special" anyway?! They're all human beings like the rest of us after all.)

Be grateful for what they've done for you by keeping the trackers alive, and remember that none of them owes you a thing.

Yeah some probably thought they where special!
Maybe if some wasn't so rude, then i would have to say those things, so stay out of it!

[Saroman]

Nothing wrong with removing Comm Reps.

If some Staff wants to help, he will do it regardless of his title

Among good staffers, we shouldn't forget Ex-NB Admin - Vidde
Always Helpful and Co-operative