Dakkus wrote:And advertising ET here is very unadvisable, as the main thought behind it is problematic from EBTs point of view: Also there it is possible following your banknotes,
BUT...
Because of the main ideology behind ET is not to track where your money goes to, but find out about the logic under which the serial numbers are made, not enough caution is taken with masking the serial numbers. There are certain ways to fetch the serial numbers from that site, which has resulted in numerous fake hits, as there are people who regularly browse through the serials entered by other people in ET in order to enter them also in EBT.
Therefore, those people who enter their notes on both sites impose a threat to EBT.
ET's a good site for what it is intended for, but it's a bad idea if the userbases of ET and EBT overlap. That ET doesn't mask the serials is quite logical and okay, as masking the serials well enough would ruin the main idea of the site. And as hits are not important for ETers anyway, it is not a problem for them. But it really is a problem for EBT, if EBTers notes are findable in ET. Therefore, I don't want any any ETers in EBT and I don't want to see any EBTers in ET. Each user using both of those is seriously harming EBT.
It's of course OK, if you only enter the coins there, but since a user finding that will also notice the note entering possibility (which is a bad thing for the validity of our database) and, not knowing the dangers behind it, might end up entering their notes there. Doing that is likely to cause fake hits which ruins the joy of getting a hit email, as you can never know if the note really was in the hands of the hitpartner or if he only fetched your serial numbers from ET.
So, just in order to protect the innocent, don't tell them about ET, even if you would tell about it only in coin sense. Or, if you do, make sure they understand it is very stupid also entering notes there.