Feedback for changes part I

[Rebound]

Here you can leave feedback for the announcement.

[Mr.unknown]

@ hitman :- I Objection Regarding To This Invitation System by You..

"well its difficult to hand out invites it could happen that we give them only to a specific member group like advanced user, elite, coder "

I Think Board Members May Give Like GOOD No. Of POST And No. Of Activeness

And Rest Of Point I 'm Agreed

request thread where you can request and we will decide if to give the invite or not another possibility could be that only moderators would have invites and members would meet to request them directly with a good reason.

Like / Suppose/ Imagine My Friend Need Invitation @ Reason Slow Up Speed So hard To

Maintain Ratio Above 1

And For This

the negative effects from inviting someone that is unknown could be high.

First Give Them Warning For Creating Duplicate Account And Ban Them If Possible

And Second

SET The No. Of Given Invitations

 Like U Can Get Total 5 Invitations

so I Think Its could be slow Of increasing of unknown register

[anon]

Whom to give invites to, and how many, is a sensitive issue. We're currently thinking what would be the best measure.

Your friend can currently download our mods and read others' experiences.

Also, our current policy regarding double accounts is an instant ban. It is clearly stated on the rules that each user must have his own account.

[Mr.unknown]

@ Anon Bro I Think Its Also Could Be Stopped RIGHT NOW

May Be Our Useful Mods Like VUZE may be Leak

[anon]

The mods available for guests have already been leaked...

[hojotrance]

Better yet, we can make the invites by request only.

i vote for this but you would have to show some proof that the invited user is a "good person" i

and for me, i don't even know who to invite here..

[LongbowArcher]

Oha, we have a bigger english community as i thought....oO

I think closing the registration is a good idea but i agree with Seal Lion, that the closing make no sense, when unregistered users can read the entire forum! This case have to be reworked by the team!

The invite system....mh...think there should be an thread, where users can post an request. The team, advanced user and elite users can now decide, if the request are accepted oder refused.

At the end of the day, this is a good move in the direction of beeing a elite board for filesharing!

[hitman]

there is no need to rework if there is interest into a members only part where our members want to talk only with other members without guests we can build such a section

[LongbowArcher]

I think, that we need such a section whre only members can read.

[desodorante]

I think, that we need such a section whre only members can read.

I agree. Personally, spliting the site in public and members only areas seems like the best idea. At least it will keep things under control, given the restricted registration system. The number of invites should be low, no more than 20 (IMHO) otherwise people will give them away to absolutely anyone (or exchange them!)

[rom08]

I think you shouldn't close registration or make the forum private.The free registration is the first reason of your popularity and it make the forum very active.By closing it you're risking the slow death of the forum.
For example I have an account at specialmods.eu wich was very active but now it is nearly dead because there i no activity due to the low limitation of the members.

[anon]

I think you shouldn't close registration or make the forum private.

I think no one likes it, but otherwise nothing seems to be able to be done to stop mod theft.

And what do you mean with SM "limiting" members?

[mike]

I like hitmans idea for invites, give to Mods, and limited to Elite, VIP and advanced members and have a request thread where other members can request an invite to be determined y/n by mods.

Certain areas of the forum should be members only, like cheating experiences, mod and tool settings/threads and perhaps trade (and giveaway?) threads.

Personally I'd like to see just the "title page" for each tool, mod client available to guests (to attract interest) but not the full thread and all the good information therein, this should be for members only imho!
IRC could be helpful here too.

No doubt SB-I staff will come to some conclusion on how to govern this

[hitman]

I think you shouldn't close registration or make the forum private.The free registration is the first reason of your popularity and it make the forum very active.By closing it you're risking the slow death of the forum.
For example I have an account at specialmods.eu wich was very active but now it is nearly dead because there i no activity due to the low limitation of the members.

you must see that the amount of new members that have 0 posts and only want to download mods is in this community extremly high only a low percent of them is active and i mean maybe 1 or 2%. the way how we are doing it right now have the same advantages like having the reg open only that we dont have all the negative effects. sure its now difficult to gain an invite to the forum but we will give people that really want to be active in this forum the chance.

[Dynamic]

I think agree with making a member only section to keep and test some of the newer mods before they go public.

Ultimately, it is up to the members to keep the site new and fresh and fun. It is hard to govern SBI mods when it is open reg and everyone can leech off and take credit from.

You know this is a bold move, we will have to see where it leads us.

As for invites, I agree with Rebound and Mike in keeping it very high up and have a request section. That way it is much more controllable.

[douche99]

@mike

Certain areas of the forum should be members only, like cheating experiences, mod and tool settings/threads and perhaps trade (and giveaway?) threads.

Totally agree with that, cause those are the ones where the Tracker admins can "improve" their anticheat/antitrade tactics....definitely read only to member imo