Hello dear trap17

I can see that you have this thing called negative credits. When i don't post on forums that many then my credits go in minus. So when i am not on forums then credits drop below 0 and continue to go below zero. I was looking for good post to post, but me couldn't find good post on whole forums. I understand that you need credit to be hosted, and that is cool, but why don't you just suspend my account when i come to 0, and then leave it suspended, but don't count down in minus, because it is not good idea to go in minus. If you go my credits in minus then i need find some topic, and force my self to write something but then it looks like i am spammer, but i am not spammer.

I will put poll on this topic, and you will see people will agree that minus credits is not good idea.

Thank you for your understanding.

Negative credits seems like a good idea to me... They need to ecnourage you somehow, to write regular, and quality posts... And besides, negative credits also count how inactive you are, and when you reach a certain ammount of negative credits (-30 I think), you account is deleted... This is a free host, and resources are limited... They can't just give away space, and get nothing in return... The least we can do is provide quality content, and post regularly here... So, for me, negative credits are a good idea... I would have done it the same way...

this is not encouraging, this looks more like forcing users to write posts and that is not cool at all. i think trap17 can be much cooler and lot less evil (in google slogan evil meaning, not real evil meaning) if this credits don't go below zero.



you don't understand. we are hosted on same servers. even if it says to me that i have 500 megabytes of space, i did not spend those resources until i really have 500 megabytes of space full on my account. this is just a limit notification. so even if my account is suspended i don't waste any space to other members.

first vote was Yes, and My vote is NO!!

No one is forcing you to do anything... This is just how things work... I don't think its evil, and probably most of the members would agree with me, we'll see...


Your space is reserved for you, and thus, you are using it... That space is "occupied", no matter if you actually use it or not... And after 30 days, if you are not active, that means you are not interested in that hosting, and your account is deleted, and that space freed, for new users... I've been using Trap17 hosting for 3 years, and yes, sometimes it has been a little difficult finding inspiration to write quality posts, but I did it anyway... Because I like this service, and I like this hosting, and I want to contribute... Let's face it, you won't find a free web host, with no ads, that will give you so much, as Trap17 did, and all they want in return, is a few quality postos every once in a while... If you find it difficult to post, then why don't you switch to Trap17.Net, they offer same hosting as Trap17.com, only with text ads on the bottom of the page... And you don't have to post in the forums...

So, once again, I don't think this is forcing anyone anything... Would you like it more, if your account got suspended for what, 10 months, and then you just come and reactvate your account with one post? That wouldn't be fair to other members, who post regularly, would it?

Most hosts oversell there resources, knowing you won't use it. Some hosts offer 100gb's of space for the most beginner package. Well we know with 10+ members that's going to require a lot of hard drive space. Trap17 doesn't oversell. If we give you 500megs of space, you have 500megs of space to use. That space is allocated to you, and we actually have that space.

It's free webhosting, simply. Free is not always free, but this is as really free ask you can get, all we ask in return is a couple posts a day, there's no real reason you should go negative in the first place.

To add a bit more to it pop if they got rid of the negative credits your account won't get suspend it will get terminated, and so not only wikl you lose everything but you have to reapply. The negative credits is a 30 day grace period for you to start posting again and keep your site active, and like kubi mention they will give all this to space to use but one you don't fufill their requires they will terminate your hosting account just like that. As for being evil not even close its being smart, and as for posting there are plenty of things ot post about, heck I posted at least 15-20 topics this week alone for epople to respond to and what not. don't limit yourself to just one forum or you be dipping into negative credits every time.

Of course you do have options like moving your hosting to qupis oro get a paid hosting accounting at computinhost.

I have said yes, although I believe that they should not go below 10.

Therefore, people would still have to post to keep up their site, but would not have a massive backlog if they went on holiday or something like that.

If someone closed their hosting account, can they open another one without any problems ?? If so then whever you get close to -30 you just re-open your account and you're back to zero. What would make sense is after you reach zero, your account gets suspended and after 30 days your account gets deleted, but during those 30 days your credit stays at 0, so that if you start posting again you start from 0 not from a negative number.

This post has been edited by omarsdali: Dec 4 2007, 12:08 AM