The hands of the Internets have guided you to our sorrowful little taverna of underappreciated (for reasons ironic or otherwise) cinema. If you're one of those people who finds a re-run of “American Ninja 3” on TV and can't turn it off, or who walks past a Chuck Norris VHS at a thrift store and is somehow compelled to buy it, then this is the place for you.

Defective	Req: Download >5GB with ratio below the minimum. Maximum of 1 concurrent download. At risk of being disabled if ratio does not improve.
User	Standard class for new users. Maximum of 4 concurrent downloads. May upload 16 images to the Cauldron. May upload 256KB images to the Cauldron. Must maintain the minimum ratio to keep this status.
Power User	Req: Upload >25GB with ratio of >1.2. Maximum of 8 concurrent downloads. Immune to automatic account deletion (due to inactivity etc.). May upload 32 images to the Cauldron. Must maintain a ratio of 0.95 to keep this status.
CG Superfan	Req: Upload >200GB, download >20GB, ratio of >1.5. Maximum of 12 concurrent downloads. May upload 64 images to the Cauldron. May upload 512KB images to the Cauldron. Must maintain a ratio of 1.5 to keep this status.
	People who have donated money. Donating £10 makes you immune to demotion below User. Defective users who donate £10 will be promoted to User. To get yourself a star, simply donate, and PM brannon - and only brannon - with the details.
VIP	Special friends of the site. Asking to become VIP usually disqualifies you from consideration. Maximum of 16 concurrent downloads. May upload 128 images to the Cauldron. May set a custom title without buying it.
Team	Our dedicated uploaders. You must upload 20 or more internal rips to become a Team member. Maximum of 20 concurrent downloads. May upload 256 images to the Cauldron. May upload 768KB images to the Cauldron.

Unless otherwise stated, all class benefits apply to the classes above.

Don't PM staff members unless it's absolutely necessary. You're far more likely to get a response by using the helpdesk. If you must PM a staff member then the lower orders are far more likely to answer y our question; the admins need only be bothered if you've broken the site somehow or have a time-critical bug report.

Your Rank is determined by the amount of activity you have put in on site. Without giving away the exact formula - you gain rank for uploading torrents, getting lots of snatches on uploads, posting in the forums, filling requests, uploading, downloading and donating.

Credits are derived from your total rank and can be spent on the Credits page. You may also gain credits (but not rank) for seeding torrents, gambling and receiving cigars. Spending credits will not affect your rank, and you may find you have more credits than rank.

Rank and credits are only updated every 9 hours. You'll have to be patient. Think like when you were 7 and it was Christmas Eve and you had to wait to get your Superman jumpsuit.

Donations fund the webserver. If you donate more than £10 you will be immune from automatic demotion and account deletion. If you are one of the top donors you will be automatically promoted to VIP.
All donors will additionally receive 12 credits per £1 donated, and get a nifty little star by their names.

The best way to find out what needs doing is to get yourself on IRC and listen to the members (and staff members) complaining at brannon about various things which are broken. If you're talented and think you can help out, or if you can design things for us, then we always want more people like you online.

If you're after a staff position, it'll be a prerequisite that you're already well-integrated into the community and IRC channel, no matter how talented you are; we need people who are going to still be here tomorrow. If we like you and you have something to offer us, don't be shy about letting us know, but bear in mind constantly asking for something isn't usually the best way of going about getting it (or of ensuring we continue to like you).

The files you download are your own to do with as you please; if you want to make a new torrent and upload our movies to another tracker, all we ask is that you keep the -CG tag and nfo intact if it's an internal rip, and don't forget to mention where you found it. However, do not share torrent files you downloaded here because they contain your personal passkey, which could enable someone to compromise your account.

If you're a high enough class you will see an “External Torrent” link to download a torrent which does not contain your passkey and is safe to upload elsewhere; however, these torrents won't work, they will simply generate an error telling the user to signup. While it may be useless as a method of file distribution, it does make for good free advertising :]

If you have movies or other content which fits the site, then by all means go ahead and upload it. However, if the moderators disagree with you on whether it should be here, it may be deleted. If you want to ensure your upload is safe, make a thread in the Customs & Excise forum.

Since most of the material on CG is pretty rare, don't be surprised if not many people are interested in the torrent at first, especially if you don't put much effort into describing what you've uploaded. If you give a verbose description and supply good pictures or a Youtube video, it hugely increases the chances that people will want to download it.

See TBDev for the source and modifications you'll need to get a tracker like ours up and running.