Ever been disabled on a torrent site? Then this thread is for you!

[RR2]

I haven't had any kind of discussion with a person from what-staff before this problem :|

[Stellar]

You might try contacting sexten, a What.cd staff member, and explain your situation. Disabling someone for similarity in usernames or emails is not considered best practice (at least IMO). Now if they had more substantial proof I could understand. Usually one needs a decent enough reason to ban someone... at least that's what I've learned to do.

[ovisan]

When staff act based on usernames and not ip addresses it becomes so easy to frame / fuck over someone you don't like

True sounds you ve spoken. There are so many lame private invite-sharing sites and absolutely anyone can make an account, chose whatever username they want and then do what they want: trade, cheat, scam and the "true" owner gets a*sef**ked. And stupid gheezas who becomes staffer overnight in some lame trackers ban the poor lad who doesnt even know what hit him. But it doesnt stop here. The cowboy staffer wants to build a name for himself, and goes to other trackers: "I am founded TRADDER ban him rapido". And this is how you loose trackers which you like, maybe paid good money for a decent seedbox and seeded as much as possible trying to be a good user. Hey, this is BT world drama. Its good to know lads that this happens quite often and there is nothing you can do to stop it.

"Play dumb all you like, we know" That is so.... I dont want to say it cause I love that tracker but banning users like that aint right. It is clear that that was not even his nickname... I hope you will get your account back mate

[sear]

On the flip side it was him and he's trying to bullshit his way out of it :/

EDIT:

just to be clear I have know idea whether it was him or not but staff hear these kind of crap excuses day in day out so there's bound to be some collateral damage, blame the dickheads trying to hack/trade/cheat/lie/scam ect ect...

[ovisan]

staff hear these kind of crap excuses day in day out so there's bound to be some collateral damage, blame the dickheads trying to hack/trade/cheat/lie/scam ect ect...

So you are okay with banning users without a proper investigation?

Now, I agree with you that most of the times the ban is well deserved and no one will ever admit he/she cheated/traded/scammed etc but there are also honest users, who get banned because the staff wont bother to check if it was really him/she who should be kicked off the tracker, while real traders swap hundreds of accounts everywhere. This is what happens when you choose your staff by their IRC activity or I don't know some other stupid thing like total upload. Why considered being guilty until proven innocent when he's got the same IP for years, seed alot to keep a decent ratio and use the forum? Oh, and btw I wonder what staff will ever admit that HE was wrong and admit in the support channel that he banned the wrong user? Not many ! They got thousands of users, they dont care about one silly bollocks, its easier to kick/ban you than to really check if you are guilty. Power puts you on another level and changes the way you see things. Now don't you think that I said that about all the BT staff out there. Most of them are foot, grate lads, always willing to help and they would do anything to make a BT fella happy

I m sorry, I was a bit pissed of this evening cause of my stupid bird, I had to take it out on something, I m glad my keybord its still in one piece.

I wish you all a good evening(including traders and silly tracker staff)
Tara


I have to add some info: Dont you think I ve said all this about the what admin. Actually I ve found what.cd staff to be one of the most reasonable out there. I could have been disabled many times by now, 1st cause some of my rips were not according to their quality standards. Ive only recieved a warning, when their rules crealy states that a few bad uploades will get you banned. And i had more than a few... Then they spared me when I ve invited someone who had an account there before and was banned for trading. I have to thank them for that, and I ve made sure that he was banned everywhere I ve invited him. I had so many plans for that kid, but he really dissapointed me. He could have gotten so far... but hey, this is the life

[lukee]

Only for inactivity.

[sear]

So you are okay with banning users without a proper investigation?

I never said that. It's important to keep in mind that we don't know exactly what kind of other proof the staff had. I think you'll find that staff on most trackers work hard to ensure no mistakes are made and when they are they're more than happy own up to it.

Even when people are guilty most staff will give them another chance if they are honest and admit to what they've done wrong. You'd be surprised how far a simple apology will go.

Regardless of the rights and wrongs in this case I don't think its fair to paint tracker staff as ban happy power hungry dictators. Sure sometimes mistakes may be made and some staff may not want to admit it but in my experience they're the minority. Most staffers are fairly level headed mature people which is how they became staff in the first place.

I would also be wary about jumping to conclusions from a screen of an alleged IRC convo. They're easy to fake for a start and who knows what was left out

[IdolEyes787]

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I would also be wary about jumping to conclusions from a screen of an alleged IRC convo. They're easy to fake for a start and who knows what was left out

Good point I do that all the time We don't except those as proofs in the report section here.

[alexdonwarez]

Just now i checked my torrentleech account , it has been disabled..... When i try to disconnect the internet and reconnect, it says my ip has been banned..... I'm a loyal user for the past 1 1\2 years. I have maintained good ratio. plz help me to solve this problem.......

[The_Martinator]

I haven't read the whole thread, but I know where you're going with it. Tbh, if you've been banned and you know you didn't do anything wrong, then FST is not the place where you'll get help, simply because 95% of trackers hate FST and their staffers come here only to catch traders.

There are other sites where I've seen this kind of things resolved (most fairly quickly), but I'm not supposed to mention them as it's against FST's rules.