How would "You" get good members

[Sanka113]

Like I said my suggestion is basically there as an after the fact resource. Meaning, basically the app is just an invite that people have to put some effort into getting to know their invitee before they generate it. It is only if the inviter invites a bad member (cheater, trader, etc.) that the application actually will be reviewed. Based on the quality of the responses on the application they can see if the inviter actually put any effort into the application or not. If it seems that the inviter put a half-assed effort into the application and if they keep inviting losers, then they face consequences.

Now, the reason I put in things like speed and stats from quality trackers, I meant them to be there as benchmarks. If the invitee has X speed and has Dl/ul x amount from x trackers, when he gets invited and then he gets caught for cheating then it means that it's possible that the inviter wasn't putting any attention into that persons stats. The quality of a tracker is relative to what kind of tracker that my invite policy would be invited too . IE if your running a community tracker than stats from the big F's and whatnot could be considered quality.

[mamacita]

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.

This could have good and bad side effects, but honestly it works better than you might think.

It often happens that the newbs, in their extreme desire to achieve that which is beyond their grasp or considered "golden," will totally transform into model examples of a good user for whatever community it might be.

Sure, there will be those who never get it, and only fake at being good. But there are lots and lots of people who, if given the right role models and supervision, can become excellent community members and contributors.

That is why I made the random suggestion of having a sister or "dummy" site earlier in this thread.

[Sanka113]

Basically, this is what people do at smaller BT forums. If your looking to recruit members of a forum FST is probably not the best place to start.

[zoeygirly]

I definitely do not agree with this "application" stuff--if a site can't trust it's long-term members/staff/mods etc to give out invites then who can you trust? Might as well just open signups and roll the dice.

Also, when we are talking about "good" members i don't think it should be restricted to "500" posts or "uploading amounts", "donation" etc. A good member is a member that follows the sites rules and contributes the best they can in whichever way they can. Period.

[7th]

I definitely do not agree with this "application" stuff--if a site can't trust it's long-term members/staff/mods etc to give out invites then who can you trust? Might as well just open signups and roll the dice.

and knowing about this application, the user could tend to know just about the needful (or substantial) infos about the invited while the "yet non-users" will tend to 'act' like if they where in a interview for a new job... don't know.

Also, when we are talking about "good" members i don't think it should be restricted to "500" posts or "uploading amounts", "donation" etc. A good member is a member that follows the sites rules and contributes the best they can in whichever way they can. Period.

Agreed. There should be life beyound internet
If you work, study, have a girlfriend/wife... if you have a normal life, you'll never have time for all of this. Maybe you'll find time to keep in touch with the tracker you like most, maybe two and no more.

And if we have like 4 or 5 trackers, we'll always end up not being a active user in some of them, which I assume that is not so good (as it could be) to the community, even if I keep good ratios and follow all rules.

[Tinfish]

I like people who post, forums/irc

of course i also know many dont like to for theyre own reason, and are still good users.

i think most will agree that they need to be active (in some way) and obey your rules. anything else is a bonus.

[cinephilia]

Also, the severe misconception where people feel they _have_ to recruit other to torrent sites from other torrent-replated places should be stopped. Many trackers' FAQ pages tell you everything you need to know, so tracker userbases feeding off of each other shouldn't be the only option.

Good point, meant to mention that myself. I'd love to see recruiting done in active forums that have nothing to do with torrenting. Of course, those people recruited from these places would need a little "hand holding" at first.

I totally agree - so far, i invited 3 persons to KG from a yahoo! group dedicated to independent movies and all i can say is that they turned out to be good members in the longer term (after a bit of "torrent education" of course).

[RedRansom]

well these are my thought i just saw and wrote if this will help someone i am so glad...
and i want to say what the f*ck going on ?
this topic posted yesterday and got 99 replied and some of post really bull $hit
yeah someone really love the spam ppl arguing...
FST staff really must do something i realy dont belive someone will read 99 post yeah maybe stoi will do cuz he want to know members thought about his topic but how come i will read 99 post ...
stop the spam!

Actually your post is one of the few spam posts in this thread

Most of us are having a decent conversation about a hot subject. So keep it on topic please

O'Really
Next time plz read carefully(if you did you would see what was my thought and i wrote in quote) someones post and write somethig "usefull" that is exactly what i was talking about and now "spamming" oneself...
edit
At least my last post is not class of spamming cuz someone can get something usefull like "read someones post if you will write a target post"....
edit
Well, that was why i wrote my thoughts with different fonts and dont think to you will read this edit too but I wanted to edit my post cuz i already started to think i spammed enough (for me) and look like stoi far away from the topic....

[mamacita]

Just for future reference RedRansom, its not a good idea to write what you want to say within a quote of someone else. I'm not about to read through a quote of a post i've already read.

Anyways, my indignation was at the fact that you claim that most of the posts in this thread were spam only because you saw there were lots of posts in very little time.

I beg to differ

[Lovestoned]

Good point, meant to mention that myself. I'd love to see recruiting done in active forums that have nothing to do with torrenting. Of course, those people recruited from these places would need a little "hand holding" at first.

I totally agree - so far, i invited 3 persons to KG from a yahoo! group dedicated to independent movies and all i can say is that they turned out to be good members in the longer term (after a bit of "torrent education" of course).

I've been having hard times finding good members like what you've said to KG since not much of the human beings really really love indie movies.

If you've got a few to recommend then do tell me through PM, I'll be likely to invite them to KG after a small interview.
I'm PU on KG if you were wondering.