Participating members of Mind-Warp PaVilion are now being "promoted" to the status of VIP. A VIP member on the site is granted the following access:

- A VIP message board
- Immediate uploads of wants/ISO requests (when available)
- Ability to upload public torrents to share on other web sites and forums
- No share ratio requirement
- View Tracker statistics
- View peers participating in a torrent
- View member's download history
- View Forum statistics
- Customizable Forum title
- Special "pre-release" and "test" torrents
- Personal album in the Gallery
- More as requested...

It has always been our plan, and we feel this is extremely important in any community, to acknowledge members who have participated on the site and have gone beyond the usual "what can this site do for me today" attitude. As important (if not more so) is to attempt to award members within a vacuum. That is to say, to create a system that does not show emotion, nor prejudice, and has clearly defined parameters that is obtainable by all members -- this includes the site's Mods and Admins.

For the past 10 months many of you have been collecting credits for doing things such as uploading new torrents, seeding torrents past a 1.0 ratio, posting messages and uploading new artwork to the Gallery. The immediate benefit of this has been that these credits are applied back to your upload amount during your SRE calculation, meaning that by posting and uploading artwork, your share ratio is increasing (if you are not aware of this, then by all means have a look at the Credits FAQ located on the Tracker). Now these credits are also being used as part of the calculation to determine VIP status.

We fully realize that the credits system favor those who participate on the tracker (especially favoring those who upload new material) and that some members participate solely within the forum. To balance the process, the VIP calculation is weighted -- the more a member posts, the less credits he must earn. Therefore, it is possible for a member to achieve VIP status even if he has never participated in a torrent. Hopefully this also allows members with slower connection speeds a way to be acknowledged for their participation and not have to spend years seeding just to make a goal that can easily be obtained by another member because he/she has a bigger pipe.

Finally, there is no way to "buy into" a VIP status or purchase extra permissions on this site. MWP, its server and its hosting plan is 100% financed by the site's Admin and does not accept donations -- because as it has once been explained, that would just be a crazy thing to do.

So says the Junior VIP Member with five stars... I am not going to give away my calculation for how posts and credits work, but I will say that once you hit Junior VIP Member it shouldn't take long...

Thank you! I was starting to worry no one would notice the addition of the tracker stats in the forum... That was a PITA to pull off too.

We didn't want to make it too easy to become a VIP (actually, we've had it going a while and it was too hard)... But I assure you that you are well on your way!

Maybe you can tell us about your poota in the Low Tech's forum... I just can't resist when I see the words "rebuilding" and "poota" in the same sentence!

  hey, why thevistor says also "VIP member", and his stars are bigger and green...that`s not fair  ...or is it  (big pipe envy attacks)  ...
... could you be more explicit about the ranks 

'poota' = PC
'rebuilding' = putting it back together 

That's no way to address a VIP.      
That's all right Goa.
I wanted Gold stars, and i have eco-friendly green ones.   
Best I not complain, the hand that given, could also take away.        

I'll swap gold for green anytime, oh wait I'm colour blind anyway.   
I'm also a bilingual illiterate... i can't read or write in two languages.      

I did not understand the joke

I didn't understand what you said, i had to use http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr   


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