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by 312c 1076 days ago
Its also ripe for abuse; create dummy accounts that use their free stays to give a host credit, then the host sells those credits for real money.

On a certain movie tracker some invite selling scum would join via the signup process that used to exist on reddit, cheat a bunch of upload on popular torrents, convert that upload into bonus points, launder the points to their main account through a forum contest where they also gave away BP to innocent users, and buy invites to sell for real $ with the laundered BP. Similarly the dummy camping accounts could make sure to mix in some legit hosts as their free stays by picking hosts that may not be around/able to verify the dummy account stayed at their location (because it didn't).

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I enjoy the irony of complaining about people breaking the rules on a pirate movie tracker.
It's different kinds of rules, you cannot easily compare them. Similarly to how the paradox of tolerance falls apart if you consider tolerance a social contract: https://cdn.rheinneckar.social/media_attachments/files/110/6...
pirate movie trackers are notoriously strict about people breaking their rules.
The paradox of piracy?