lol, i had a lot of aliases/friends back then. 1 of those friends got me into ftwr, but i remember the whole place reeked of ego and lots of ppl were getting banned for stupid shit, so i didn't use the account. in b/t ftwr and skittles, an ex-ftn staffer created a secret website, but i forgot the name. i was invited there by a friend on ftn, but it died pretty quickly, maybe that's how skittles was formed, idk
i was invited to its b/c they liked my design work (sct, ftn, etc.), but they used to always threaten to ban me if i didn't design exactly what they wanted ... for free
there was a period after that where i was big into bt forums. on 1 forum, i worked my way up the ranks and then out of nowhere, the douche owner scammed a bunch of ppl out of invites and money, fst heard about it, and i guess someone, probably from ftwr, pointed the finger at me, even though i didn't do shit, so i was banned from a ton of websites b/c of that rumor (ftwr, its, etc.). later on, i read about skittles on fst, and got a friend to invite me there, but i guess they know how to track ips better than they know how to design a nice website
Originally Posted by
soulreaper
Sorry to hear about your Exigo account, thought you'd be more careful inviting ppl, what happened did the invitees cheat/trade?
i think 1 of them tried to trade their account and the rest didn't use the account or just leeched (except funkin'). i always thought i was good at vetting ppl; most of the pms i got were full of tears and begging and shit, but a few ppl, who i thought were legit uploaders from pedro's wanted in, and ironically, those were the ppl that i guess fucked me over
Originally Posted by
soulreaper
LOL@inactivity at fsc and revolt, so much for an awesome community huh? What's up with revolt, do they even recruit anymore or is that site gonna be up for auction?
hahaha, that's what i thought. fsc is probably still decent, but when i was active there, the community was cool and everything, but the website barely loaded and i got shit torrent speeds. i know they have a ton of bt vets there, but i never felt it was a good fit for me, so i just let my account die. i wonder if some of my good friends are still active there, though
revolt was shit, imo. nothing but 5 torrents w/ 0 seeders and a community that was barely active. i felt like all ppl posted there were recycled news articles, images from reddit, shitty youtube videos, etc. but back then, somehow if you talked about revolt, there was 0 zero chance you were ever getting in. why the fuck did we all fall for such a scam? bt hype at its very best, i guess
Originally Posted by
soulreaper
Congrats on getting back on Ftn, it's more than just a rare site isn't it?
it's a great tracker and website, but i don't think it's that rare; then again, i've been out of the bt website chasing game for so long. now that sct is dead, ftn is 1 of the oldest bt websites, and for good reason, b/c the members are super cool and the staffers know what the fuck they're doing (unlike some of the aforementioned websites)
i think my account is almost 6 or so years old and i'm always thankful that i was allowed to stay
Originally Posted by
soulreaper
How come you didn't join uk-t? Too shitty for the great Thor?
remember who you're talking to
i remember way back when, it was almost impossible to get invited there. do you remember that uk-t used to be called wheelmods? hahahahaha, the secret wheelmods website that was, like, level 11 or something. why was the website so hard to access? like some secret link or code or something! oh man, way too much security and look what happened
Originally Posted by
soulreaper
What about AOM, I remember AOM had these failed temporary signups and the most recent members joined with a lot of excitement only to find themselves banned by Jacqueline coz the open signup was a result of the site malfunctioning. LOL!
i never bought into aom, but i read about that bitch banning a shitload of ppl b/c of that! that was so funny and caused so much uproar, it totally made for some really juicy posts
Originally Posted by
soulreaper
Thanks for sharing details, you're one of the guys of the old times(when this section and the trades section was more fun than regular torrent site forums,remember Shalafi,SgtMajor,grimms,squirrel and that ftwr giveaway, boy that was quite a sight wasn't it? Do you also recall the crazy Ftn requests in the invites section, yea those days were sweet). Trading took a big hit when iTS came on the scene, the anti-trading sentiment was at an all time high, not sure iTS deserved all the press it was getting.
so many good memories. countless bt websites coming to fst and us tearing them apart w/ invite/account trading, levels, reviews, etc. i loved playing cowboy for being super against trading, when in the end, it was such bullshit. the ftwr giveaway was insane, ppl who had ftn invites were treated like gods, crazy trades going down, level hoarding madness, secret bt forums like bcc, staff busts, website closures, crazy hype, etc.
here's 1 story; i got a bunch of them. back in the sct days, i worked on a website that a few ex-sct uploaders started, called
mybytes. i met a bunch of ex-uploaders that had all these horror stories about feeling. as a dumb joke, i told my inviter that the uploaders should kick feeling's ass or something. the very next day, this guy sent me photos of feeling, a satellite photo of his house, e-mail addresses, aliases he used in the scene, all this delicate and super personal shit; he wanted me to start some kind of attack website against feeling and ultimately his goal was to take sct down completely. i got so nervous that i bailed from that website and didn't use my sct account for almost 3 weeks for fear of a permaban
good times!
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