Restoring the confidence at the Invites Section

[ovisan]

You always admire what you really don't understand.

[sez]

The idea is well founded though its obviously liable to abuse.But I figure you guys are adept enough to tell the legit from the phony check requests.

Aside from the aforementioned suggestions I think its also a good idea if you let the party being checked know that they are being checked.It not only gives them a chance to back out of the invite application if they are indeed going to turn out albatross but also avails an opportunity for you guys to hear a second side of a story that might as well not add up to the first one.All in all it serves to ease your job.

As for long term sustainability,I like to be the optimistic type but I think with this one its gonna reach a point where it'll be too much work combined with a host of other wearisome factors that will eventually lead you guys into ditching the idea or adjust it to be material for a select few sites.

[hagckz0r]

I appreciate the idea, though I don't believe it would give some shocking results, besides .. giveaways on FST are pathetic or I am not the giveaway dude.

Well I suppose, it could be a start

[Cabalo]

This could be fine tuned with some hacks to it.

• Youde have to be the thread starter.
• Youde click a button below thier avatar.
• It would be between the bt rep and the report button.
• That request would then post to a private section.
• The section would be similar to the report section.
• The member who requested and Staff could read it.
• The basics would be posted for thread starter.

This would require that a hack to be installed.
Not sure when rossco would be able to this though...

great! That would fully automate the process and keep it clean for everyone involved.

[tesco]

As many of the older members around here might have noticed, during the past year or so, there has been a dramatic drop in the users' confidence when they decide to offer their invites in public.
This comes from the fact that FST is a site with open registrations, and a lot of people create many accounts to fit their own agendas. It's quite hard to control this, when most of them lurk in the shadows and attack via PM, and ask for the invite, without being scrutinized in public.
Let's face it, some sites don't care at all about what users do with their invites, and some do care a lot. To each, their own.
The perfect situation would always be when you invite someone you know, but as we know, it's an utopia.
The fact is that if we removed the giveaways section, it would be done somewhere else. Same happens with the trading, but that's a whole other issue not to be brought to this thread, and that will be addressed in a nearby future in its proper section.

The bottom line is this: we are considering being more active when helping members to decide whom they should give their invites to. And we have a situation to discuss with you all, so that we can tweak it, before practicing it.

Here it goes:
The member A decides to do a giveaway and offer one invite.
Members X and Y apply for the giveaway accordingly to the conditions A decided earlier.
Member Z decides to contact A via PM and not to expose himself in public.

Member A reaches the conclusion he doesn't know whom to pick.
He can then contact one of the mods here and get a return status about each member that would fit into any of these categories:

• Unique account
• Dupe account of some previous one
• Proxied or shared IP

This obviously won't solve the issue of the bad invitees who won't use the tracker, but it will help the members to make a choice having certain conditions under their control. This is done to help the members who want to share invites, but who are in the wild when they see members they never heard of, or that seem suspicious.

This could be fine tuned with some hacks to it.

• Youde have to be the thread starter.
• Youde click a button below thier avatar.
• It would be between the bt rep and the report button.
• That request would then post to a private section.
• The section would be similar to the report section.
• The member who requested and Staff could read it.
• The basics would be posted for thread starter.

This would require that a hack to be installed.
Not sure when rossco would be able to this though...

Not for a while.
I'm not writing anything new for vB3, and there's higher priorities in the vb4 todo list atm.

[kukushka]

idk, maybe i'm the only one who did this, but for me it feels much more comfortable to ask profile links with verifying that they're actually belong to the guy who asks on common trackers, so if something will go wrong, i could report the guy to staff at the trackers he mentioned. maybe it would make sense to implement system to check on guys even if giveway holder don't have no tracker that the possible inviter belongs to.
but the thing is i have some hesitations that the battle for activity in this section is a bit lost and reform won't revive it... won't like to see cabalo's efforts wasted in vain so gl

[Cabalo]

Here goes a bump.

[cinephilia]

why not simply make a guide about cautions to take before giving an invite ?

[Cabalo]

why not simply make a guide about cautions to take before giving an invite ?

Do you think anyone would read it?
(ok, it was a rhetorical question)

[brightsid]

all this new refuges atmosphere makes things worse