Golden Rules

What.CD Rules

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Golden Rules

The Golden Rules on What.CD are as follows:

All staff decisions must be respected. If you take issue with a decision, you must do so privately with the staff member who issued the decision or with an administrator of the site. Complaining about staff decisions in public or otherwise disrespecting staff members will not be taken lightly.

Access to this website is a privilege, not a right, and it can be taken away from you for any reason.

One account per person per lifetime. Anyone creating additional accounts will be banned.

Avatars must not exceed 256 kB or be vertically longer than 400 pixels. Avatars must be safe for work, be entirely unoffensive, and cannot contain any nudity or religious imagery. Use common sense.

Do not post our .torrent files on other sites. Every .torrent file has your personal passkey embedded in it. The tracker will automatically disable your account if you share your torrent files with others. You will not get your account back. This doesn’t prohibit you from sharing the content on other sites, but does prohibit you from sharing the .torrent file.

Any torrent you are seeding to this tracker must only have our tracker’s URL in it. Adding another tracker’s URL will cause incorrect data to be sent to our tracker, and will lead to your getting disabled for cheating. Similarly, your client must have DHT and PEX disabled for all What.CD torrents.

This is a torrent site which promotes sharing amongst the community. If you are not willing to give back to the community what you take from it, this site is not for you. In other words, we expect you to have an acceptable share ratio. If you download a torrent, please, seed the copy you have until there are sufficient people seeding the torrent data before you stop.

Do not browse the site using proxies or TOR. The site will automatically alert us. This includes VPNs with dynamic IP addresses.

Asking for invites to any site is not allowed anywhere on What.CD or our IRC network. Invites may be offered in the Invites forum, and nowhere else.

Trading and selling invites is strictly prohibited, as is offering them in public – this includes on any forum which is not a class-restricted section on an invitation-only torrent site.

Trading, selling, sharing, or giving away your account is prohibited. PM a mod to disable your account if you no longer want it.

You’re completely responsible for the people you invite. If your invitees are caught cheating or trading/selling invites, not only will they be banned, so will you. Be careful who you invite. Invites are a precious commodity.

Be careful when sharing an IP or a computer with a friend if they have (or have had) an account. From then on your accounts will be inherently linked and if one of you violates the rules, both accounts will be disabled along with any other accounts linked by IP. This rule applies to logging into the site.

Attempting to find or exploit a bug in the site code is the worst possible offense you can commit. We have automatic systems in place for monitoring these activities, and committing them will result in the banning of you, your inviter, and your inviter’s entire invite tree.

We’re a community. Working together is what makes this place what it is. There are well over a thousand new torrents uploaded every day and sadly the staff aren’t psychic. If you come across something that violates a rule, report it and help us better organize the site for you.

We respect the wishes of other sites here, as we wish for them to do the same. Please refrain from posting links to or full names for sites that do not want to be mentioned.

Dupes

A dupe is a torrent that is a duplicate of another torrent that already exists on the site. What.CD allows many different pressings of the same CD to coexist, as long the the CDs have different content.

For example, International Versions (especially Japanese releases) often have bonus tracks that are not present in the original release or the US release. Uploading a release with bonus tracks when the original release has already been uploaded is not considered a dupe because there is different content on both CDs.

Torrents that have the same bitrates, formats, and comparable or identical sampling rates for the same music release are duplicates. If a torrent is already present on the site in the format and bitrate you wanted to upload, you are not allowed to upload it.

Scene and non-scene torrents for the same release, in the same bitrate and format, are dupes.

Rip log information (table of contents, peak levels, and pre-gaps), tracklist, and running order determine distinct editions, not catalog information. Merely having different catalog numbers or CD packaging is not enough to justify a new, distinct edition, though differences in year and label (imprint) do determine distinct releases.

Torrents that have been inactive (not seeded) for two weeks may be trumped by the identical torrent (reseeded) or by a brand new rip or encode of the album. If you have the original torrent files

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