How you got started with invites

[Cmon]

Start around 2004, no idea why I signup with Demonoid, then I went to boxtorrents to find some anime, I register there because I need to signup if I want to use the search function I believe

On 2005 I don't know why I watch wrestling again, I forgot where did I find PWT (& FCZ?), I learned a bit about private tracker from there, got some problem with them, got banned on both site

I went to XWT & BTZ around 2006 (a busy year), I still have no idea about the other private tracker, then suddenly someone asking if I know FTN weeks later & offer me an invite, I don't really like the site before, but I forgot why I'm starting to like it though, then I saw some people talking about OiNK, ScT & stuff, I'm quite curious so I just ask an invitation to those place & got it, to make it shorter, let's fast forward to a year after that

2007.. I forgot why someone mention about this place, just curious what it looks like on WIAW? thread & it turns out to be meh, I think nothing really happen this year because no one really telling me where to go to

[thebazzla]

same with me really started off with demonoid and never looked back

[th0r]

Nice journey mate, u r famous for sure!

i do not know about famous, maybe just being at the right place at the right time

[necromantic]

I can't remember how I found out about private torrent sites but TL and Oink were my first. I got invited by a guy named Acid from the slyck forums. After that I was hooked on trading. I made a few good trades, got scammed a few times too. The funny thing is that all trades aside, I was invited to SCT and FTN for free from some nice guys at one of my fav trackers.

From my experiences karma is real, your good deeds will be rewarded. And if you fuck somebody you'll end up having hell to pay.

[kallieb]

One year ago I was still laming it out with Bearshare and a friend told me...stupid!!!....check out torrents.

I played on the open torrent sites for just a short while but got sick and tired of taking the time to download what later turned out to be hacked movie files. Really, you want to watch the last release and it's porno! No thanks.

Since google is my friend I heard about this site Demonoid. I kept checking in the site and finally hit an open invite day. I was thrilled. I was like a kid in a candy shop and downloaded literally hundreds of files. Shortly in, I was trading PM’s with another D user around my helping with an upload and to my pleasant surprise I received an invite to KG. This site rocked my socks so to speak. It’s not for everyone, but I really enjoyed the avant-garde feel of the place. They are very tight on proper torrents, so from this I learned to announce torrents that are a beauty to behold: rip specs, screenshots, review and plot summaries, imdb references, the whole bit.

I stayed blissfully content in my little Demonoid world until I was forced into Torrent cold-turkey when D had some downtime in late July. While painfully working though my withdrawal symptoms (smilie inserted here!!) it was obvious that I needed to find another site. Nothing lasts forever as they say, but I had no clue where to start!! D and KG worked for me so I had no need for something else. I thought it was just normal to have shitty upload speeds, and to take your chance that the seeder would bail on you 90% in to the download!!

Anyway, I reacquainted myself with my friend google and discovered that there were actually forums out there that devoted themselves to giving/receiving invites to private torrent trackers. I got into InvitesCentral right away, and could post from day one. I also signed up for FST, but had the one month wait till I could post in the invites section.

In my first few weeks in to Invites central I signed up to all kinds of sites during open signups and giveaways of sites like maze and so on. It was like Christmas over and over again. I really enjoyed discovering these different torrent sites that I had no clue were in existence. Around this time I became eligible to start posting on the invites board of FST. By nature I have always been respectful, detailed and thoughtful about what I want and why. This carries over naturally to my posts, and requests here on FST. On one post I asked for a movie tracker and as the discussion evolved I ended up receiving an unasked for gift of two very high level trackers. It didn’t really dawn on me what I had been given until I started to read up on these sites. This early success was great for a number of reasons; but the first and strongest impression I had was that invites are there for me and anyone, you just to give and receive, be respectful and helpful, and it all works out.

Pretty soon though I found that a lot of these torrent sites are the same in terms of content, so instead I turned my focus to what makes them different: exclusive packs, fast speeds, tight communities. With this shift in priority I did my homework in advance – I’d read up on different tracker reviews and posts of members. Once I was sure that a particular site would be interesting and useful for me I’d put out a request for a giveaway. For example I knew Bitme was all about e-learning which is a passion for me, so I asked (and rec’d) an invite. On and on this happened to the point where after one month being here I’m enjoying membership of some very cool sites that others on the forum are trying to sell their mothers and sisters to join. I don’t want to insert some judgement into this, but it’s not about try to grab as much as you can without caring how you get to where you’re going. The journey has to be given as much value and consideration as the destination.

Now, I’m very content with what I have and really do not want anything else, unless something really new comes out – and then, well, I’ll just have to see what is different about it, and whether it fits for me.

Sorry for the book!!! But it was fun to reflect on how I got to where I am so fast, and that I’m proud to say that I do so by being completely clean and honourable. No trades, account selling, lying. Just asking, and when the time comes I’ll give back.

[digitalism]

i've always been more interested in music than movie/tv/apps etc. i was chatting with a friend on soulseek (music p2p client) who invited me to oink. from there a guy i met invited me to ftn and fsc - i remember first being really disappointed because there was so little music! but have definitely taken advantage of what both trackers could offer.

was active on those 3 for awhile and then people started sending me invites for sct, ****, bitme, and finally one of my favourite trackers extremebits.

never been a trader so still waiting to find some invites (based on content) but happy to wait til a friend invites me. alot of it is just dumb luck anyways. its kinda scary how invites have turned into currency and how much some are worth. some of the buffered offers i've seen mean you could leech for life pretty much.

[Alien5]

google and invite threads in torrent sites

[Kyl3KK]

Got an invite to TD, found an invite site, and through them found this one.

[WarrenBuffet]

My first invite was to oink lol, then My second was ftn. Im not kidding. Then from their lol, I could od anything. Let's just say I had some good friends.

[Kyl3KK]

Yeah they must love you. lol