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 web site 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. Additionally, unless your account is immune to inactivity pruning, accounts are automatically disabled if one page load is not made at least once every four months.
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. Your personal passkey is embedded in every torrent file. The tracker will automatically disable your account if you share your torrent files with others. You will not get your account back. This does not prohibit you from sharing the content of the torrents on other sites, but this does prohibit you from sharing the torrent file itself (i.e. the file with a ".torrent" file extension).
Any torrent you are seeding to this tracker must have only What.CD's tracker URL in it. Adding another BitTorrent tracker's URL will cause incorrect data to be sent to our tracker, and you will be disabled for cheating. Similarly, your client must have DHT and PEX (peer exchange) disabled for all What.CD torrents.
This is a BitTorrent 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 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, selling, and publicly offering What.CD invites is strictly prohibited; this includes on any forum which is not a class-restricted section on a private, invitation-only, BitTorrent tracker. Responding to public requests for invites may also jeopardize your account and the accounts of those you invite from a public request.
Trading, selling, sharing, or giving away your account is strictly prohibited. If you no longer want your account, send a Staff PM requesting that it be disabled.
You are 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 address or a computer with a friend if they have (or have had) an account. From then on, your accounts will be permanently linked, and if one of you violates the rules, both accounts will be disabled along with any other accounts linked by IP address. 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 BitTorrent trackers here, as we wish for them to do the same. Please refrain from posting full names or links to sites that do not want to be mentioned.