Interviews for Etiv.in (Invite Forum) Now Open

December 28, 2009 by sharky

Etiv.in is one of those torrent invite forums that essentially remains mostly a closed-system. Rarely does Etiv have registration open directly (just twice in their site history; both times were related to FSF articles). Nor do they have a perpetually-open IRC #invite channel for aspiring members to apply - the last time this occurred was back in October for just two short days. From now until January 1st, Etiv has opened a special #christmas-interview channel - now’s your chance to get into one of the ‘nets premier torrent forums.

Etiv.in Interviews On IRC:

For those who are looking for a direct invitation to Etiv, simply visit their #christmas-interview channel on irc.etiv.in.

Here are a few sample questions that you may be asked:

  • • What quality do you feel you can bring to Etiv that would help the forums?
  • • What do you expect from Etiv?
  • • Would you be active on our IRC?
  • • Are you a member of any other invite forums? If so please provide profile links.
  • • How familiar are you with torrenting?

Etiv.in Updates:

— Merely six months old, Etiv is rife with activity.

  • • Old Stats (2009-08-14): Threads: 1,392; Posts: 10,940; Members: 697
  • • New Stats (2009-12-28): Threads: 3,638; Posts: 31,262; Members: 1,241

— Recently upgraded to vBulletin 4.0.

— About Etiv:

• Employs an iRep reputation system - used for invite GAs, fulfilled requests, seedbox, help or anything else.

• Invite GAs - Available to all members; currently lists 690 unique threads.

• Invite Requests - Only available to members who meet these criteria: 30 posts, 5 iRep, 7 days on the site.

• Tutorials - no copy/pasting of other tutorials; only original unique tutorials are allowed.

• Tracker Recruitment - Lists 26 different trackers with community reps / FLS members offering direct recruitment.

• Tracker Reviews - Indexes 109 unique reviews.

• Seedboxes for members - Look for EtivBox to relaunch soon.

Etiv & Trackers

Most torrent forums (but not all) dissuade their members from using the same username on the board as they do on their private tracker accounts. Etiv is striving to work together with private trackers:

New Policy on User Names

 

The Culture of BitTorrent and specifically invite forums is ever changing. The Etiv staff strives to provide the best possible environment for our electronic family to share information and invites as well as just hang out. The Admins here have been running P2P forums together for close to 3 years. When Etiv launched over the summer, through our prior experiences felt it was best to bar the use of your tracker name here at Etiv. This policy was driven by a few bad experiences with trackers banning our users for GAs.

 

As Etiv has grown over we have come to realize that this is counter-productive. We have nothing to hide and in fact we have common goals with the trackers: We seek to enrich the BT scene by educating newbs in the BT Culture and connecting quality torrenters with quality trackers. I would like to work with the trackers instead of operating in the shadows.

 

Etiv’s policy of mandating our users not to use their tracker name is over - effective immediately.



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