Originally Posted by
llmercll
yeah, i haven't traded anything and from what everyone is telling me i shouldn't.
i don't know why though, why does everyone frown down on it? btw, were talking about trading INVITES right? not accounts?
i mean, even if many PT rules, it says you cannot publicly give away accounts, and that happens all the time. they also say you cant trade. if that's the case, why is trading looked down upon while giving away isn't?
That's a very good point you're raising there llmercll. The short version answer to your question is that most private sites frown upon public giveaways equally to the way they frown upon trading.
The longer version to that answer is a bit more complex. First, you need to understand that trading (whether invites OR accounts), allows people who are not trusted to gain entrance to a site, which tries to keep its privacy. For instance, imagine a private tracker that is trying to keep itself under the radar; traded accounts/invites are simple ways by which an anti-piracy organization may gain entrance to the site. Trackers have to continuously track members' accounts to make sure that that doesn't happen, and accounts changing hands are making that job a lot harder. Giveaways of accounts and invites, while they may seem altruistic and innocent at first, may have a similar end result in that respect.
Now to the "tricky" part: a lot of people do not understand, or do not want to understand the reasoning behind the fact that many trackers are opposed to giveaways, some even think it's because trackers want to go higher in that stupid "rarity" ranking here. They don't seem to realize that most trackers would love to be as low on that list as possible. Some of these people even start invite forums, similar to the one you've encountered, which are seemingly opposed to trading yet encourage their members to share invites/accounts amongst themselves. This encouragement comes from these people, not from BT trackers. These people think they're alright and are helping the BT community, while in fact they simply don't understand that they are, in fact, as hurtful and dangerous, security-wise, to the community as traders are.
That's my 2 cents. I'm not going to go on as I have no intention of starting another trader vs. non-trader flaming war. Hopefully, that clarifies a bit about the facts behind the scenes for you, so you can now make a conscious decision as to your future in the community.
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