After getting ban in RED interviewing, can this be lifted?

[avaith]

I interviewed with RED few years ago. i (stupid me) copied in one of the questions and as a result of that i failed. 5 years later i have tried to interview again and once i queued and talked to a mod through the red-invites channel, i got a permanent ban for cheating. Do you know if there is a way for me to release the ban, and how? if not, does this ban apply only for interviewing or can i join through other channels (e.g. through OPS invite forum)? Or where could i talk to red staff to get those questions answered?

Thanks!

[amalx]

ggn have an invite thread

[avaith]

my issue is not how to reach red, what i want to know is if ther will be a potential problem if i reach red through an invite (to me and potentially to whoever invited me)

[averageHomoSapien]

my issue is not how to reach red, what i want to know is if ther will be a potential problem if i reach red through an invite (to me and potentially to whoever invited me)

Get a new ip address for your home connection. Use different emails, usernames and all that shit

[anon]

Forget about talking with staff and/or lifting the ban. They aren't going to waste their time with you, because they have lost nothing as far as they're concerned.

In theory this incident has no bearing on your ability to join by having an existing member invite you, but their capricious policies can make that dangerous for both parties involved anyway. My recommendation is to either follow the advice in this forum about creating a new identity and IRC client fingerprinting and try again, or reach a RED recruitment thread somewhere.

[avaith]

Thanks for the advice, will try to find the ladder through another tracker. I am worried about messing up with creating a new identity and try to interview again. They emphasize a lot for you to answer if you have already interviewed with them etc, and I am concerned I would be making a bigger mess if for some reason i make anything wrong and they link my details back with the previous ones

[averageHomoSapien]

Thanks for the advice, will try to find the ladder through another tracker. I am worried about messing up with creating a new identity and try to interview again. They emphasize a lot for you to answer if you have already interviewed with them etc, and I am concerned I would be making a bigger mess if for some reason i make anything wrong and they link my details back with the previous ones

Why go through all this trouble to join RED anyway? OPS is far better in terms of economy and the people there are nice too.

[avaith]

OPS is very nice indeed, yes. my impression was that RED has a bigger catalogue and better opportunity for recruitment based on the recruitment graph. and considering you could cross seed your uploads in OPS->RED it sounded for me a good approach

[anon]

Why go through all this trouble to join RED anyway?

Same reason as everyone else.

[Lucas Kane]

Not very on-topic, but related to the tracker question.
How much of Anti-cheating power Red has (ratio cheating)?
Are they on par with what WhatCD was back in the day?
I have an opportunity to join through other tracker recruitment, but I don't want to mess the other account or get a global ban if anything happened.

[anon]

How much of Anti-cheating power Red has (ratio cheating)?
Are they on par with what WhatCD was back in the day?

https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?t=33047 suggests they have some anti-cheat detection, but not on the same level. Keep in mind What.cd was online for longer and predated Spotify, gigabit seedboxes, the required ratio system (which they introduced on 2010) and freeleech tokens. This gave them more time and reasons to perfect their scripts than RED.