Hello all users of Pro Audio Torrents,

Since PAT started way back it was Oz's vision and a twinkle in he's eye, Oz started 8 years ago and has moulded and set the path for PAT. One of original ideas which was set in place was the idea of the karma point system. We have been using that system for quite few years now. Karma points gives the user base a opportunity to spend the points on something that would be useful to the user. All for spending the time seeding torrents on PAT. Unfortunately the karma points are not always used in the manner they have been intended and have been used as a crouch or abused by some users regardless of status.

This is why we have decided to now change the system after much debate between staff old and new over a two year period to be exact. The karma points was an idea based on generosity from PAT and other users to be able share and help another user or increase ratio etc. The main problem is, it gets used as a crouch by some users with more purpose than others lets say. This has a knock on effect were the staff get put in a situation were they have to take action, then the fallout !! some which can be very abusive to excuses getting used in support. Now you all say just a day in the life of a tracker, ok that is some what true but another main idea behind PAT was community. The knock effect can really cause problems all over PAT and the COMMUNITY.

So we have decided to change the karma point system. It will not disappear but you will only be able to use the points to change title for the foreseeable future. As upgrades take place over the coming year to PAT we may put back a changed system were you get a lot less points but you will still be able to use them for upload credit etc. This will not happen until the end of the year or maybe never. Some times as staff we have to decide and make tuff decisions. We know the karma points are useful especially when its a good week and you are burning your hardrive into free fall for few days but the problem has just got out of hand. To help keep a balance and help out we are going to drop the seeding time required to only 24 hrs but that will only come in effect today the 04/24/2013. If you have problems before that the same rules apply (36hrs etc ). If you think you are really in trouble ask a member of staff for help or advice.

We the staff need to get the problem back under control and this is the decision we have made. Rules are always useful but to many becomes a problem for both staff and users, so we have taken this route. So please before you get into trouble and have no karma points to get out of trouble and possible run into trouble with the rules. LOOK AFTER YOUR RATIO and remember you can always seed when your computer is idle or when you have real world stuff in meat space. If you really have a problem then you can always make a voluntary donation, just ask Oz or Logic if you are not sure what to do or have a question about it.

We have some new VIP ideas coming so watch this space

Thank you for reading,

The Staff