In the past month or so, I have got 3 requests for demonoid invites, that too by people who have joined on that day itself and are still validating.
Normally I ask em to make some useful posts and check back with me in a week. But recently, one of them replied saying that I have been looking for an invite since 3-4 months and what not.

What do you think, should I give it to em?? or Maybe the PM system should be banned for people with less than say 10 posts and atleast 2 weeks of membership. Though this may lead to more useless posts in the Laughs section.

Whats your standpoint and have you received such requests??

I have very strong feelings towards this matter.
I am also regularly pestered by people with 0 posts asking for Demonoid and Oink invites.
Till some time ago I had been quite generous with Demonoid invites, but now I am not allowed to generate more codes, I don't know why.
As to Oink, I have given 2 invites to people who met some criteria (useful contributions to this project), but I won't have more invites until I become a Power User+, and that will take several months, if ever.
Yesterday I got 2 identical messages asking for invites from a new user. I tried to reply, but my message couldn't be forwarded, because his inbox was full, if you please!
Generally speaking I feel that these people are abusing our generosity.
We should do something about it, like banning people with less than 50 posts from using the Website Invitation Exchange or sending private messages. There should also be a sticky in the Website Invitation Exchange making very clear that people who register for the sole purpose of abusing our invites system are NOT welcome.

if someone is still validating you should at least gently ask to validate AND use the proper section to ask for invites
same behaviour should be followed if you don't trust the user(registered).. lead to the invitation section.
as always if there are users spamming your inbox asking for invites or whatever... just let us know it(PM) and we'll find a solution

I just feel that unsolicited pms (i.e. from people you don't know) begging for invites is unacceptable behaviour in any case, and particularly from entirely new members.. I'd ignore them.

A good idea. But I still feel that a sticky in the Website Invitation Exchange section would make much sense.

I feel the same way about this matter, yesterday i received a pm from a guy who was validating and he was asking for Demonoid invitations. I think that kind of behavior its at least weird.

I rather doubt anyone who is likely to pm begging for invites would read that any more than they read what is already there, but in any case I added a notice to http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=21051 who knows, it may help.

Thanks for doing that. I am afraid it is a bit too mild, though

This is why I announce when I give away invites (and I'm overdue for demonoid). Then, I will select the ones I give it to based on prior knowledge of the poster and/or post count.

Yeah, i tend to ignore these, only once did i negotiate with this guy because he gave me a cannot refuse offer .

P.S. Alessandro, its ON

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I think that the invite threads should have a ~50 post minimum before being able to post or even being able to access the invite area.

You know I felt more strongly than most people regarding the "Website Invitation Exchange" section and people with 0 or very little posts wanting invites. I felt so strongly about it that Kevin_4e and I started a long chain of PM's over a couple of weeks/months as to how we could improve the section. He was basically my door to the rest of the staff (have no idea why I decided to use this method). We threw ideas back and forth for a good while and then all of a sudden I realised that a lot of the people in the Demonoid thread in particular, are asking/begging/screaming for an invite because they need one to be able to follow what this site was designed to guide them on. Installing OS X on a PC.

When I started there was no need for a Demonoid invite as everything was on The Pirate Bay which didn't need membership. Now just to be able to get hold of a OSx86 DVD image and to try and test if it will install on your PC you need a Demonoid invite. There's just no way around it. So where else are you going to go and asking for an invite but this site. So I'm a little more understanding than I was previously about the matter because I myself could very easily be in their situation. dyeing for a invite just to get past step 1 of a guide. That doesn't mean everyone asking for an invite is only asking for it solely because they need a DVD image. They may have no intentions of even trying to install OS X on their PC but we right at the moment have no way of differentiating between them all.

Previously I thought member's with less than 20 posts should be banned from that section altogether, but that may lead to useless posts just to top up their post count. I had a few more ideas (that were better) but no need to go into them now. I now think a major way to deal with this influx of Demonoid invite requests is to have the torrents hosted/uploaded/... (not sure what the torrent terminology is) on another torrent site which doesn't requite membership such as The Pirate Bay. That should help greatly.

Now the legal part.

ive receved five or 6 in pm, and more in my PERSONAL email, it blows, i am about to just stop responding, its quite annoying honestly.

I am beginning to believe that this forum needs a much stronger hand, otherwise it will go to the dogs, absolutely.

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I didn't want to start a new one and couldn't find my answer elsewhere

Is there a post-count requirement for the website invitation exchange forum? I can't seem to get in and I know 18 posts kind of makes me a noobie still

Any replies are appreciated

Bump

I am also curious because for some reason whenever I click on the Invites Section it has the message:

Sorry, but you do not have permission to use this feature. If you are not logged in, you may do so using the form below if available.

Thanks for the help
Mr Mook Mook