How would "You" get good members

[SoulEdge01]

The internet: Where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents

Yeah.

[Time-Traveller]

I'm all for honesty and that but seriously dude you post that confession in a thread by the site owner at which you cheated designed to provoke ideas on how to get rid of users like you from trackers for good and expect to be invited to the site again.

WTG Goose, if you get back I'll eat my hat !

You two are not offending me because I deserve the flames I'm receiving and I know it, the fact is you don't know me and don't know to what extend I "cheated", sometimes people misbehave and that is normal and you or anybody else here isn't an exception, just because you don't "cheat" on a torrent site doesn't mean you're Mr. Perfect who cannot have a misbehavior in other aspects of life and about posting in this thread I'm doing it because I really regret that "cheating" and I'm serious about it. Also I'm not looking for an invite since I already have an account at BCG.

Nobody is claiming to be Mr Perfect, I work hard to maintain my ratio's on my 16/1 home connection I take pride in it actually and when I hear about ratio cheating it annoys me it goes against everything the true spirit of filesharing is all about, filesharing is my hobby, it's been a part of my life for a very very long time & I'm talking about days before there's were mobile phones & internet for the general public

I just genuinely care about the sites I'm committed too and don't want to see them polluted, by cheats, traders, hit n runners and other tardish behaviour

[SoulEdge01]

Interesting proposals have been posted on this thread. Very interesting thread.

[zoeygirly]

If i was running a tracker/site and i wanted to recruit new "good" users i'd simply give invites to good users that have been on the site for over a year (older site), six months (younger site)without any problems, issues, etc. Not necessarily power users or super users whatever because a lot of times these kids have seed boxes and can be super crazy users in a freaking week and that says nothing about them as an actual member.
It's the long term members that you want helping to recruit. IMO

[Tinfish]

true, even some of them will still surprise you, but the vast majority will at least obey your invite rules.
did anyone actually mention what defines a good user in the first place ?

[Time-Traveller]

true, even some of them will still surprise you, but the vast majority will at least obey your invite rules.
did anyone actually mention what defines a good user in the first place ?

I think different people take different attributes into consideration based on their own usage habits. Personally I go for the following, taken from the 5th post in this thread:

I'd go for number of torrents upladed, contribution to the community (helpfulness in forums, financial donation etc) length of membership & total seed time instead of GB's uploaded.

[Sanka113]

I didn't really read the FP before i made my first post, but after reading a few more post here I have decided that an application process would be the best way to invite someone. The application's main purpose shouldn't be to reviewed by staff but to insure that the inviter gets to know their invitee. The app/invite should include where that person is from, how'd they use the tracker, Profile stats from 3 or more other "quality" trackers ( provided by them pming the inviter from the site they are using as proof), what's their upload/download speed, and finally, where did they meet that person.

The application itself WONT be reviewed unless infractions are made against the invitee's account. If the inviters invitee's application looks shitty (and thus led that person to be a bad member) then you lose a point against your account. THe points deducted against your account will cause you to lose invites, special privelages, or ultimately your account.

With something like this in place it will allow people to get to know the person they invite or face the consequences.

[johall]

I think different people take different attributes into consideration based on their own usage habits. Personally I go for the following, taken from the 5th post in this thread:

I'd go for number of torrents upladed, contribution to the community (helpfulness in forums, financial donation etc) length of membership & total seed time instead of GB's uploaded.

i agree except for the torrents upped because not everyone has stuff to add but they do help just as much by keeping the torrents upped by others alive as long as possible etc. but otherwise spot on

[Alien5]

invite new users to join a holding area forum with the promise of getting into a VIP area, new users have to make 500 serious posts before allowing them into the VIP site, or deciding to let them some other way.

in the vip site have a small group of the people you trust allready, but they use the holding area forum too so the new users can see their stars and makes newbs want to become vips.

[7th]

Profile stats from other "quality" trackers? My first closed tracker was bitme, from someone I don't "really" know but I was all good intention. And it was really hard to get that invite.

I'm brazilian, slow connections and, at first, it was hard to keep the ratio but you don't mess with something that was hard to get and that you really use and like (need).

The bad in all of this is that having a collection of good trackers means "status" everywhere and try harder trackers is quite challenging and addicting until you discover that you don't need more than 3 or 4 trackers or even that you don't have time to be a good user in 10 trackers. Whith lots of unused trackers, you know what comes next...

In this case I must say that my slow connections came for good as I never had many trackers. I admit I got some opensignups just to see "what's inside the box" and never came back, but no mess with those accounts too and here I "try" to show my respect to those trackers that I simple didn't like.

Ah, and I got my bitme account for free, because one guy was nice to me, so why don't be nice to others too? 3 invites to 3 "internet nice guys", and all of them swore that they would never cheat. Today I'm a happy VIP user with no invites, thanks to the nice bitme staff that spared my account.

As a christian I have a christian tracker account and is really annoying to think that some people get invites there (even saying they're christians when they are not) just for trades or who knows what! =/

Because all of this and much, much more I'm a more realistic guy today. Don't know how to get just good users.

I have (or think I still have) a parked account at bitmetv for months now. How could I blame them for blocking my entire country? Is it fair? Cheating is not fair too and that tracker have good reasons for what they did.

At the end, I can't thing about anything that could be totally fair to everybody, good and bad users. =/

btw, this is a really nice topic!