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"Users were required to make a donation to be able to invite friends to join the site." I'm pretty sure this wasn't the case. Someone who is not me invited sev

by buss 17y ago

"Users were required to make a donation to be able to invite friends to join the site." I'm pretty sure this wasn't the case. Someone who is not me invited several people and didn't ever donate. Glad to hear he's been cleared, though.

onewland 17y ago
I just submitted some feedback to the BBC saying this was false. I'm guessing many other people did as well. Hopefully it's not some sort of honeypot.
- zouhair 17y ago
  Actually they just stated what the prosecutor said, not that it's true.
  - onewland 17y ago
    Well I either misread it or they changed the article since my original post. (By the time you posted this comment, about an hour had passed since I submitted that correction).
hubb 17y ago
yeah that's certainly wrong. oink worked like any other private tracker, through invitations that were accrued by maintaining a good ratio
samstokes 17y ago
If the donation thing is incorrect or exaggerated, how did he make the $300,000 he supposedly had (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/8446247.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/8446247.stm) when the police raided his home? Seems impressive if it's just ad revenue.
- cookiecaper 17y ago
  I don't remember any ads appearing on OiNK. And I also seriously doubt that the bulk of that $300k, if it was really there, had anything to do with donations from OiNK. OiNK was pretty big but imo nowhere near big enough to yield that kind of bounty off of voluntary donations.
  - pyre 17y ago
    I don't know. Trent Reznor was an admitted member/user of OiNK. It's not like he couldn't have donated a decent amount to keep the site running.
- mrkurt 17y ago
  Donations weren't required. He did accept donations, however. That $300,000 thing hasn't really been substantiated AFAICT. It's directly from the mouth of the prosecutor. As someone who helps run a website where we ask users for money (but don't require it), $300,000 seems insane.
  - eli 17y ago
    and the donations did buy additional access to features on the site, yes?
    - mrkurt 17y ago
      I can't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure a good ratio got you all the same stuff a donation would have. So a donation might have made up for a low ratio in some ways.
    - deleted 17y ago
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    - aw3c2 17y ago
      no
pclark 17y ago
You got additional invites if you donated.
rms 17y ago
If you donated 5 euros, you were allowed to invite 2 friends to the site. If you were a member of the site for a certain amount of time with a certain ratio and amount uploaded/downloaded, you were able to invite 2 friends a month and had access to the same features as donators.

by buss 17y ago

onewland 17y ago

I just submitted some feedback to the BBC saying this was false. I'm guessing many other people did as well. Hopefully it's not some sort of honeypot.

zouhair 17y ago
Actually they just stated what the prosecutor said, not that it's true.
- onewland 17y ago
  Well I either misread it or they changed the article since my original post. (By the time you posted this comment, about an hour had passed since I submitted that correction).

hubb 17y ago

yeah that's certainly wrong. oink worked like any other private tracker, through invitations that were accrued by maintaining a good ratio

samstokes 17y ago

If the donation thing is incorrect or exaggerated, how did he make the $300,000 he supposedly had (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/8446247.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/8446247.stm) when the police raided his home? Seems impressive if it's just ad revenue.

cookiecaper 17y ago
I don't remember any ads appearing on OiNK. And I also seriously doubt that the bulk of that $300k, if it was really there, had anything to do with donations from OiNK. OiNK was pretty big but imo nowhere near big enough to yield that kind of bounty off of voluntary donations.
- pyre 17y ago
  I don't know. Trent Reznor was an admitted member/user of OiNK. It's not like he couldn't have donated a decent amount to keep the site running.
mrkurt 17y ago
Donations weren't required. He did accept donations, however. That $300,000 thing hasn't really been substantiated AFAICT. It's directly from the mouth of the prosecutor. As someone who helps run a website where we ask users for money (but don't require it), $300,000 seems insane.
- eli 17y ago
  and the donations did buy additional access to features on the site, yes?
  - mrkurt 17y ago
    I can't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure a good ratio got you all the same stuff a donation would have. So a donation might have made up for a low ratio in some ways.
  - deleted 17y ago
    [deleted]
  - aw3c2 17y ago
    no

pclark 17y ago

You got additional invites if you donated.

rms 17y ago

If you donated 5 euros, you were allowed to invite 2 friends to the site. If you were a member of the site for a certain amount of time with a certain ratio and amount uploaded/downloaded, you were able to invite 2 friends a month and had access to the same features as donators.