No announcement on the home page yet, but every Great Perv+ (equivalent of Power User in other trackers) received two invites.

Samy, an administrator in Empornium, has created a thread in the Invites section, accepting questions from users unsure about specific points in invites.


Text from the invite page of Empornium:

Rules for Giving out Empornium Invites:

DOs

Do give away your invites on the invite forums of reputable private trackers

Do give your invites to personal friends who you think will be a positive addition to our community

Do give away your invites to people who you've known for a long time and think will be a positive addition to Empornium

DON'Ts

Don't use your invites to create more accounts for yourself

Don't sell or trade invites

Don't give away your invites at any place that allows selling or trading, even if you're not selling or trading

Don't give your invites to anyone who already had an Empornium account in the past.

Don't give away invites when you are unsure if the person is trustworthy or if you have a generally bad feeling

Don't give away invites when having been pressured or talked into giving them away

The rules, especially the DON'Ts part, will have consequences for your account.

That being said, we will not search for reasons to punish users because of who they've invited. If you willingly abuse your invites, we will not be amused. If you however happen to invite someone who had an account in the past that got banned, but tricked you into believing he's a good user, it is unlikely there will be consequences for your account.

If you should notice that somewhere Empornium invites are be given out not following the rules, we would appreciate it if you could write a Staff PM to us about it. We unfortunately can not continuously watch all the places allowing such behaviour.

EDIT: Those invites are not being handed regularly, Starbuck stated. This is the second time in Emp's history that invites are handed out to its members.

EDIT 2: The invite guidelines were updated.