Sooo..

[Profit]

Many people have been telling me to make Cracking Forum private since we supply hundreds of accounts weekly and people just join to leech. I have also noticed that many people have duplicate accounts to make their chances at winning better.


Would an invite only site die quickly? I believe it would. I mean CF has an active community with crackers, uploaders, staff, etc. that does there job and does it quite well. But making it invite only might make uploaders stop uploading because only people looking at there downloads are members online and no one really uses the download sections besides guests. It might stop tossers from tossing because they loose rep, etc.. Shit like this.

I was thinking of just making a forum with someone and make it invite only and have it just be a account forum only. I could run this by myself, supplying accounts (just need time, nothing hard about cracking and username leechers make it all the better) but how would you start this? Public and than after 1k members go private and have people vouch for others?

Profit Reviewed by Profit on 24th Feb 2010. Sooo.. Many people have been telling me to make Cracking Forum private since we supply hundreds of accounts weekly and people just join to leech. I have also noticed that many people have duplicate accounts to make their chances at winning better. Would an invite only site die quickly? I believe it would. I mean CF has an active community with crackers, uploaders, staff, etc. that does there job and does it quite well. But making it invite only might make uploaders stop uploading because only Rating: 5

[Benign]

Email Validation + Hidden to Guests

[Profit]

Its hidden to guests and requires 5 posts to view the forum. I was thinking of just adding a time limit on that one section like KWWH. Will solve leechers and the multiple account issue.

[Profit]

Pff, I've always had leechers. People making 10 accounts per toss is my problem. They even make multiple emails to win MU Platinum accounts and such.

My only solution is the time limit. Making it private, as I expected would kill the forum because as you said, they can go ANYWHERE and find the same shit on a different forum.

[Hyperz]

You can't do much about that. The only way to somehow control tosses is to make a system specifically for that. For example have a coder make a client that accepts a number and sends it back to your site/server plus verification and the users mac address. Obviously this is far from practical.

[Daniel]

I'm sure that invite only will fail.

[Nemesis]

Yeah don't do inv. Just prune dupes i guess.

[GeeZus]

How about only a certain group can see the tosses?

This will cut down the mass accounts and cheaters ( for abit ).

[SLiMRiDER]

Maybe have a post limit for the tosses?

[jSx@ECD]

It will die.

I didn't read any of the replies above so sorry if I repeat something.

Don't make it invite only, simple make a probation perioud + Must have 25+ posts in specific categories I'll help if ya want.