Last edited by Intr4ns1t; 01-21-2011 at 12:09 AM. Reason: it's all fun and games till someone misses the point
Originally Posted by KFlint
Maybe, because USA does the above so effectively and efficiently?Originally Posted by Robert A. Heinlein
Well, why is Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Holland and many other countries not banned in any trackers yet? I guess that the number of cheaters are so low that it wouldn't make sense to ban a whole country. I don't believe that Americans/Danes/Swedes/UK are cheating that much.
LOL, it's hard to take you statement seriously. Should I blame USA for everytime that Romanian illegal gypsy immigrants are coming to Denmark with the purpose to rob and to steal stuffs? USA has nothing to do with ban of Romanian users.
Originally Posted by KFlint
a rough estimate here, 1 in 400 usa members will cheat/trade/dupe (still a lot with the amount of americans in trackers, but not something that the staff cant handle)
Other places, 1-10 will be a cheat/trader/dupe (but they have less overall members, but its that bad its just easier to stop them signing up in the first place)
I also done a quick calculation on our donors 1 in 8 donors are from the USA, but we still have loads (well not loads as we only get about 250 in total every month but still a fair share of the members that do donate are from Brazil) of donors from Brazil, but we ban Brazil from signing up, so its got sod all to do with donations.
I dont think normal members realise how much of a headache it is, when a tracker opens up, its like, oh they are open, but they will close again, sign up 300 * with 300 different ips/emails etc, then we close and they trade them all, or we open up, members downloads, gets into kl, abandons account, signs up again etc etc, or "ah they are open, I can cheat now, if i get banned i can just get in again".
I hate banning any country, but at least we just ban them from signing up, if you already have an account, you can keep it, its not a blanket ban on everyone, problem is though we will be missing out on "some" good members, but the vast majority are not "good" members so loosing a couple of good ones is worth it if we keep out 3000+ bad ones imho.
I have been close to banning Egypt and India from signup/invite. If I ever did go through with a blanket ban on countries then I wouldn't ban the existing decent members from these countires just because of the actions of others.
Yeah, gret question, even switching to different ISP,is seems okay, sometime the ISP will NOT "allow" certain sites, Not common occurrence though.
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