Who invented the term "elite tracker"?

**TrollinThunder** · 09-30-2009, 09:40 PM

Irony.

My post is purportedly redundant but you reiterate the point that it was the WTAW, which it either was or wasn't, depending on how you feel about the chicken or the egg conundrum.

**KushBlow** · 09-30-2009, 09:46 PM

Contemptuous sarcasm

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**TrollinThunder** · 09-30-2009, 09:48 PM

:insert smiley of choice:

**Duckater** · 09-30-2009, 09:50 PM

Originally Posted by TrollinThunder

Everything I'm about to post was related to me directly from a sysop of a major tracker who was in fact involved in the relevant negotiation. In or about December 2007, a meeting was held in #sys0p on EfNet. The purpose of said meeting was to determine a precise arrangement of tracker rarity and specialization. It was at that meeting that, among other things, for example the decision of SCT and SCC to create a false competition for pretimes in order to maximize the number of mutual users as well as the decision to go halfsies on a small hosting company known as OVH, which was then used to promote the usage of seedboxes and increase the competition among the userbase), the term "elite" was chosen in a vote of 5-2 with the other options discussed by the committee being "1337", "select", "exclusive" and the wordy "creme de la creme" proposed by the only sysop from Quebec.

The term elite or 1337 trackers was being used b4 dec 2007 so I dont think there is any validity in most of this post

**TrollinThunder** · 09-30-2009, 09:51 PM

If necessary I will produce logs.

**kallieb** · 09-30-2009, 09:52 PM

Bluntly put, and some might say harshly, the bittards are responsible for the term as applied to certain trackers. As posted above, elitism grew from some sites just wanting their security to be tight. Such security resulted in certain measures which prevented randon passerby's in BT land from joining up the site. The trackers also created rules on usage of accounts and such - again as a means to ensure safety for the members by adding an additional layer of security. From that need for security generated the fallacy of "specialness" and eventually "elitism".

**Duckater** · 09-30-2009, 09:56 PM

Originally Posted by TrollinThunder

If necessary I will produce logs.

Your logs may be right but the term 1337 was being used more than 2 1/2 yrs ago that I am 100% sure of.

I am sure some others here will have herd that term b4 dec 2007 as well

**TrollinThunder** · 09-30-2009, 09:57 PM

Perhaps that's why it won the vote handily. But you have to realize that the meeting in general was about how the sites were going to brand themselves, so a discussion of the general category is not unimaginable.