thebox.bz - at last, a great british tv tracker

[Unstable1]

hi

ive been a member of uknova, tvtorrents and bitmetv for a while but theres loads of british tv that still isnt available on those sites so i was really delighted when i discovered www.thebox.bz a few days ago.

unlike uknova, they allow commercially available british tv dvd/video rips, so theres a much better selection of torrents than uknova.

if you're looking for british tv, then thebox.bz gets the thumbs up from me... its only been open a couple of months and has 22,000 members and over 3000 torrents!

sign-ups are still open, but at the rate theyre growing, it wont be long until registrations are closed, so i'd sign up quick if uk tv is of interest to you.

cheers

[iNSOMNiA]

ty i just signed up :)

[Unstable1]

you're welcome. :)

[mievmo]

is it good ?

[Unstable1]

is it good ?


why not take a look for yourself and make your own mind up.

i would hardly start a thread about it if it was crap.

22000 members and 3000 torrents should give you a clue though. ;)

[mievmo]

nice tracker.... 3k torrents.

[Tom McRae]

yeah its nice tracker

[Melvinmeow]

Ive been a member there for a week or so...
While I probably wouldnt dl much from there anyways...
I know some of the staff there and I know they have been putting alot of work and effort into the site.

It looks really great from what ive seen so far. Who knows maybe ill dl a UK show or 2 lol

[SAM]

it's a good site thanks

[InstantClassic]

Great site, thanks :)

[ghurka]

Shows there's still a need for new specialist trackers.

With the amount of downtime that uknova has and their new totally non-user friendly interface I'm sure thebox will soon overtake them as the premier UK tv tracker.

[Unstable1]

i agree ghurka... im far from impressed by uknova's new interface, i preferred the old version.

[KevinGarnet]

great tracker.. i really like it very much..

[theboxsucks]

Good luck trying to reason with the morons they've appointed forum moderators. It's a great site, if you enjoy dealing with obvious n00bs and feeling like you're back in grade school or working minimum wage in telemarketing. In other words, if you like dealing with thick people.

[Melvinmeow]

Good luck trying to reason with the morons they've appointed forum moderators. It's a great site, if you enjoy dealing with obvious n00bs and feeling like you're back in grade school or working minimum wage in telemarketing. In other words, if you like dealing with thick people.

In other words you tried ratio cheating and dont like their responce?
(just a thought since its open signup I doubt you would need to try and trade accounts or anything else)

[theboxsucks]

No, that's not even close.

I'm not going to go into a detailed narrative here. Just take my word for it that their forum moderators are petty dictators with no capacity for reason whatsoever. If you don't believe me, just try telling one of them they they screwed up. They'll react like an incompetent elementary school teacher or telemarketing manager every time.

To give a detail-free summary: I had my account deleted and IP banned for telling a forum moderator he was wrong in a private message. Regardless of circumstance, any moderator who would do something like that is a petty dictator and should not be allowed anywhere near a forum. Moderators are supposed to be like judges or community leaders--not like freaking Judge Dredd with a mental handicap--and TheBox has their priorities seriously screwed up for allowing those numbskulls to manage their community.

Like I said, I don't want to go into the specifics of my experience. Nobody believes firsthand accounts anyway, I don't have copies of the comments and PMs since I was banned, and divulging the content of my posts could reveal my identity on other forums.

Just do this if you don't want to take my word for it: Join the site and search the forum archives. Look closely at the Sin Bin to see a) how many threads are put there and b) how tenuous the moderator's justification is for having done it. Read through the comment histories of the moderators, paying close attention to spelling errors, poor grammar, and general lack of any signs of intelligence. Finally, if you still aren't convinced, tell one he made a wrong decision and just try to reason with him. It's like talking to a brick wall--they're that thick.

I've been offended by mismanagement before, both online and off, but TheBox really pushes the limits of credulity with their gross mismanagement and incompetence.

[chuckythedoll]

This is fantatsic, been looking for Men Behaving badly for ages. THANKS.

[briand5379]

Well I'm pretty sure tv torrents allows that stuff also so you should upload what you download there if it's not already present.

[Giallorosso]

thx bro ... seems like a good tracker

[Jaits]

the box doesnt have forum moderators LOL

get ur facts straight :P



Look closely at the Sin Bin to see a) how many threads are put there and b) how tenuous the moderator's justification is for having done it. Read through the comment histories of the moderators, paying close attention to spelling errors, poor grammar, and general lack of any signs of intelligence.

a) so answering the same questions 10 times shows lack of intelligence?
b) oh, so someones grammar, spelling errors and comment histories shows someones itelligence? ... weird cause i judge ppl by the context, not the container of a post... i guess ur that shallow...

[sokratis87]

mmm...i'll try it.

pretty good....

[theboxsucks]

the box doesnt have forum moderators LOL

get ur facts straight :P

They have people who patrol the forums, moving threads around and removing posting rights from accounts, who hold the title "moderator." That's what I call a forum moderator. If they have no specifically designated forum moderators, separate from general site moderators or admins, then please extend my criticism to the entire website staff. If I happen to have dealt with the site owner, then the site owner is a retard.


a) so answering the same questions 10 times shows...intelligence?Yes, for the following reasons:

1. Newbs need education to advance beyond the leeching stage and contribute to the community.

2. Everyone needs review, including the staff.

3. Every time a newb asks a question, some joker says they should use search; but search doesn't work because all it brings up is 99 other threads in which some joker told somebody to use search. Every question deserves an answer. For the sake of the person asking, for the sake of the person answering (who learns by teaching), and for the sake of future users who might find the question and answer on search.

I should also note that "frequently asked questions" are only one type of thread that moderators remove. If you look in the Sin Bin, you'll find many threads that were removed for no good reason.

[quote]b) oh, so someones grammar, spelling errors and comment histories shows someones itelligence? ...

Yes. Every intelligent human being everywhere--except on the Internet--recognizes this as true.

I used to ignore comments that were completely without merit, but I've found that even the worst argument--if left unchallenged--can fester in the imaginations of fanboys who will imagine that they've already won the debate phase of the engagement and will proceed directly to aggressive mockery. It's best not to give any ground when criticizing anything vaguely Internet-related.

Here I've criticized egocentric forum moderator behavior, which is something most forum geeks aspire to. I've also criticized bad spelling and grammar, which is typical of forum geeks. And, since online geeks self-identify with the Internet itself, where they become kings, complaining about any fact of online life is grounds for open ridicule. So I'm expecting a lot of dumb-fucking-comments, many of which I will not have the time or energy to address.

I write this knowing I will bring a smile to the face of the one non-geek who reads it.

Buy Andrew Keen's book, The Cult of the Amateur (http://www.amazon.com/Cult-Amateur-Internet-killing-culture/dp/0385520808).

[lynx]

You obviously don't like the site, they obviously don't like you.

So where's the problem?

Btw, you made a typo in your second thread, thicko.

[blackbird]

hi

ive been a member of uknova, tvtorrents and bitmetv for a while but theres loads of british tv that still isnt available on those sites so i was really delighted when i discovered www.thebox.bz (http://www.thebox.bz) a few days ago.

unlike uknova, they allow commercially available british tv dvd/video rips, so theres a much better selection of torrents than uknova.

if you're looking for british tv, then thebox.bz gets the thumbs up from me... its only been open a couple of months and has 22,000 members and over 3000 torrents!

sign-ups are still open, but at the rate theyre growing, it wont be long until registrations are closed, so i'd sign up quick if uk tv is of interest to you.

cheers

thanks mate ... :) .. i just signed up

damn .. still cant find this show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075537/

:(

[theboxsucks]

You obviously don't like the site, they obviously don't like you.

So where's the problem?

It's true that I would have never visited the site again anyway.

The problem is that the mismanagement of TheBox is only symptomatic of broader issues. I touched--very lightly--on that in my last comment, but I don't have time to go into the whole argument. I'll just say that, if people stop to examine any one instance of Internet jackholery, it may cause them to recognize the existence of the broader issues.

For example, why is it that you (like so many others) question the very thought of criticizing a website? If it's improper to criticize something that's "free," and if the majority of our cultural and intellectual capital becomes "free," then what will happen to criticism? What will happen to standards? And to what extent has this decline already happened?

I would argue that joining TheBox is not free. It may cost you your competence.


Btw, you made a typo in your second thread, thicko.1. "BTW" is an acronym and should be written in all-caps.

2. They're called comments, not threads.

Forgetting to close one tag is a far cry from consistently misspelling words, botching grammar, making erroneous statements, and refusing to defend one's argument through any means other than force (e.g., locking threads, removing posting rights, suspending accounts, and banning IPs).

Ordinarily, I correct errors as soon as I see them. In this case, I am leaving the comment unedited so that everyone can see just how minor the typo was.

Now I need to duck out of this thread. The Internet is a huge timesink.

EDIT: Now there's a mistake. You were referring to the repeated word ("they they") in my second comment, and I thought you meant the missed tag in the third comment. Shit like that happens, especially in rant mode. The difference is between typos and fundamental errors, between mistakes that are corrected within minutes and that are not ever recognized. It's difficult to get online geeks to admit they've ever made a mistake, and the mistakes are often huge and pervasive.

[Artemis]

Speaking of a huge timesink I want the time back that it took to read that superfluous drivel that you wrote theboxsucks.

As for the site, thanks for the tip poster one all signed up:D

[Jaits]

lol i didnt even bother reading the whole thing ;)

[lynx]

It's true that I would have never visited the site again anyway.

The problem is that the mismanagement of TheBox is only symptomatic of broader issues. I touched--very lightly--on that in my last comment, but I don't have time to go into the whole argument. I'll just say that, if people stop to examine any one instance of Internet jackholery, it may cause them to recognize the existence of the broader issues.

For example, why is it that you (like so many others) question the very thought of criticizing a website? If it's improper to criticize something that's "free," and if the majority of our cultural and intellectual capital becomes "free," then what will happen to criticism? What will happen to standards? And to what extent has this decline already happened?

I would argue that joining TheBox is not free. It may cost you your competence.


Btw, you made a typo in your second thread, thicko.1. "BTW" is an acronym and should be written in all-caps.

2. They're called comments, not threads.

Forgetting to close one tag is a far cry from consistently misspelling words, botching grammar, making erroneous statements, and refusing to defend one's argument through any means other than force (e.g., locking threads, removing posting rights, suspending accounts, and banning IPs).

Ordinarily, I correct errors as soon as I see them. In this case, I am leaving the comment unedited so that everyone can see just how minor the typo was.

Now I need to duck out of this thread. The Internet is a huge timesink.

EDIT: Now there's a mistake. You were referring to the repeated word ("they they") in my second comment, and I thought you meant the missed tag in the third comment. Shit like that happens, especially in rant mode. The difference is between typos and fundamental errors, between mistakes that are corrected within minutes and that are not ever recognized. It's difficult to get online geeks to admit they've ever made a mistake, and the mistakes are often huge and pervasive.
You are clearly a very arrogant person who thinks the internet (and presumably the world) should be run to your rules. It isn't, and it never will be. If you want a forum that's run like that go and start your own, I'm sure there are lots of other sad people who will join you. Mind you, since you will all be perfect I'm not sure what you will find to talk about.

Btw, btw is an acronym, but since it was at the beginning of a sentence I capitalised the first letter, that's standard grammar in case you missed it. If you are going to try to insist on perfection from everyone else you ought to find out and understand the rules yourself first.

[theboxsucks]

You are clearly a very arrogant person who thinks the internet (and presumably the world) should be run to your rules.

My rules happen to be the basic rules of logic, which are human beings' basis for determining truth or falsehood, so I'm in a pretty good position to demand that people either follow those rules or admit they are wrong.


Btw, btw is an acronym, but since it was at the beginning of a sentence I capitalised the first letter, that's standard grammar in case you missed it. If you are going to try to insist on perfection from everyone else you ought to find out and understand the rules yourself first.No, that isn't standard grammar, and I didn't miss it. I doubt it's possible for you to write a single correct statement.

[Unstable1]

Good luck trying to reason with the morons they've appointed forum moderators. It's a great site, if you enjoy dealing with obvious n00bs and feeling like you're back in grade school or working minimum wage in telemarketing. In other words, if you like dealing with thick people.

you're talking rubbish.

[lynx]

You are clearly a very arrogant person who thinks the internet (and presumably the world) should be run to your rules.My rules happen to be the basic rules of logic, which are human beings' basis for determining truth or falsehood, so I'm in a pretty good position to demand that people either follow those rules or admit they are wrong.There's your problem, it isn't your site so no-one has to follow your pedantic rules. You aren't in a position to demand anything. Like I said, make your own site and you can apply your own rules.



Btw, btw is an acronym, but since it was at the beginning of a sentence I capitalised the first letter, that's standard grammar in case you missed it. If you are going to try to insist on perfection from everyone else you ought to find out and understand the rules yourself first.No, that isn't standard grammar, and I didn't miss it. I doubt it's possible for you to write a single correct statement.If capitalising the first letter of a sentence isn't standard grammar, how come you do it with every sentence you write?

I can't understand why they kicked you at thebox, trolls are such useful community members.

[ohdear]

Lutherblisset/becalm strikes again me thinks.

[theboxsucks]

Lynx, you're a dipshit.

[blackbird]

Lynx, you're a dipshit.

wait until he finds your other account.. :whistling

[theboxsucks]

Lynx, you're a dipshit.

wait until he finds your other account.. :whistling

Oh, because I'm using a sock puppet to mindlessly "troll" this board; and lynx is really much smarter than me.

Get your head out of the sand!

Lynx is a dipshit because everything he has written is wrong, and I called him a dipshit because the argument had already descended into absurdity and could only get worse.

You see, this is what I meant when I wrote (http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/p-theboxbz-last-great-british-tv-tracker-post2244787/postcount22): "I used to ignore comments that were completely without merit, but I've found that even the worst argument--if left unchallenged--can fester in the imaginations of fanboys who will imagine that they've already won the debate phase of the engagement and will proceed directly to aggressive mockery."

Look a little more closely at lynx's last comment, will you?


If capitalising the first letter of a sentence isn't standard grammar, how come you do it with every sentence you write?

Fair enough. Capitalizing the first letter of a sentence is standard grammar. However, that isn't what lynx wrote.

Lynx wrote:


Btw, btw is an acronym, but since it was at the beginning of a sentence I capitalised the first letter, that's standard grammar in case you missed it.

Which was wrong, and which I rightly corrected. It is not standard grammar to capitalize the first letter of an anagram.

Not only was lynx wrong, but he had the audacity to misrepresent the meaning of what he wrote in a blatant attempt to sidestep the argument. In other words, he tried to play stupid. That is intellectual dishonesty at its worst, and it shows that he will do anything to weasel his way out of an argument. (To be fair, another possibility is that he actually is stupid.) Therefore, I decided to stop humoring him and to call him a dipshit.

Finally, this fanboy delusion that anyone who proves them wrong is a "troll" offends me on multiple levels. The Internet is one of the few places left where people are insulted merely for opposing institutionalized idiocy and ignorance.

[Allygemz]

I signed up 2 days ago, I still haven't gotten a confirmation, I've checked my spam and tried to sign up again. My guess, it's full.

Isn't that what people are complaining about regarding UKNova?

I was looking forward to the new site but I'm guessing I'll never get the chance to experience it. Oh well

[Unstable1]

I signed up 2 days ago, I still haven't gotten a confirmation, I've checked my spam and tried to sign up again. My guess, it's full.

Isn't that what people are complaining about regarding UKNova?

I was looking forward to the new site but I'm guessing I'll never get the chance to experience it. Oh well

ive had this problem with one of my email addresses that completely deletes torrent site emails before you even get to see them. hotmail is one such email service that is notorious for this.

try to sign up again using a completely different email address (yahoo or gmail are usually safe bets), username, password and preferably a different IP address too, and then once youre in, immediately notify the staff that you created a previous account for which you couldnt receive a confirmation email, so as not to be banned for having a dual account. ask them to delete the failed account. either that, or contact them thru irc to see if they can fix your current account.

for your information, new registrations are NOT FULL, but they are going to close really soon, so you need to act fast.

[lingo]

Wonderful tracker! I have to build up a nice buffer before I hammer it down with the great comedy and drama shows. At last, I've got the chance to see "Smiley." :P

[theBlackLime]

best uk torrent site! but my ip was banned :(

[Barbarossa]

Btw, btw is an acronym, but since it was at the beginning of a sentence I capitalised the first letter, that's standard grammar in case you missed it.

Which was wrong, and which I rightly corrected. It is not standard grammar to capitalize the first letter of an anagram.


Btw, "btw" is not an acronym or an anagram. It is an abbreviation. :happy:

[AugustoP]

Which was wrong, and which I rightly corrected. It is not standard grammar to capitalize the first letter of an anagram.


Btw, "btw" is not an acronym or an anagram. It is an abbreviation. :happy:

It is an acronym and abbreviation.

[Barbarossa]

it doesn't make a word you can say.

Acronyms are things like radar, laser and NATO.

"BTW" doesn't make a word, so it's an abbreviation. At best, it's an "alphabetism".

[coolfella]

Good tracker, great torrents...... everything good, except some mods.

My ratio was 1.6, until i used an unsupported(i guess) BT client and they disabled my account, accusing me of cheating in the IRC, kicked and banned my IP.

I tried to explain what might have happened, i never intended to cheat or never will on any site, and those morons won't even listen. Anyway I'm no longer interested. I have to agree with "theboxsucks" to some extent.

[Irritated]

I'll have to chime in here to totally agree with the people who have had problems with the mods.

My experience was not that the guy I spoke to was totally outside of his rights to ban me, but that there was absolutely no chance for redemption from an honest mistake.

I signed up for the box shortly after moving to a place where I was on a router - The owner of the router was uncomfortable about me fiddling with the port forwarding so as such I was unconnectable and uploaded very little to torrent sites. I found I had downloaded nearly 9 gig of stuff and uploaded barely 2 - it wasn't looking good. I got the automated warnings, demoted to "peasant" status etc.

So a few weeks later I finally convinced the "powers that be" at home that it would be OK if I forwarded the ports in the router and got myself fully connectable - I went right back to TheBox.bz and started sharing what I had grabbed as fast as I could, posted on the "help im a peasant" thread, sent an email explaining my situation to mods. Left my machine running day or night with my 56 megabit connection working for all it was worth - which wasnt fast enough considering the limited stuff I had to share (my bandwidth was massive overkill for what was being taken)

I had a read of the rules and noticed that you had a set time limit to lose your peasant status or your account would be banned. Around this time I signed my room-mate up for an account on his computer, thinking at least if my account was terminated it would be OK, he could get the stuff for us both and we would be fine now that we were fully connectable. - Of course this is where I went wrong - even though it's two different computers, the rules say one account per household or you will be banned, and I was.

So I went to the IRC forum, cap in hand, explaining that I knew I had broken the rules, that I knew I should have read the rules properly and explained there was no "cheating" intended, I fully understood why I was banned, asked for my clear efforts to revive my "deep in the ratio hole" peasant account to be taken into consideration, but ultimately said it was their call.

Now, if the reply had been a "Sorry, rules are rules and unwittingly or not, you broke them so we cannot reactivate your account" I would have been totally fine with it - I SAID in my speech on my own behalf id be fine with any decision they made.

Instead I got a spiel about how I was obviously trying to cheat, about how "If I couldn't even handle one account how could I expect to handle two" (this, despite my explanation of my router firewall issue which was now resolved) and told to "leave and not return".

Nice bit of diplomacy there - I come to plead my case politely and am treated like a cur from the gutter by some holier than thou fuckwad.

Again, I'm aware I screwed up trying to make an account for another person's computer on this network, but the absolute zero tolerance and outright rude response to someone who has clearly come to try to do the right thing irritated the hell out of me. If I had wanted to "cheat" thebox I would have simply used free proxies to take what I wanted.

[djnbscience]

I agree that the mods are unfair. i've just been banned and when i asked why on irc, they said i was cheating. I wouldn't even know how to cheat on it! I asked them how i was cheating but they said they couldn't tell me. Then i got chucked out of the channel.

[Fibre]

Praise UKNova :-)

[speedkid]

Just wanted to share my experience of being booted out of thebox.bz.
Have been a member for a few weeks, been a good boy ratio wise uploaded a couple of torrents etc.
Last night I attempted to upload the WRC from the weekend from DAVE and with my first attempt I forgot to list the date of airing source codec etc , so it was instantly deleted. Fair enough.
So I had another go this time making sure to get details correct in torrent file name, but adding a different description for the title. Again instantly deleted and my uploading rights cancelled.
PM one of site administrators for a reason, I just get a snotty 'read this' from an A hole I wont mention.
Went on to have a series of emails between us where I am trying to find out what I've done wrong and him not telling me (I remained cordial and polite by the way). So then I get a 2 week warning ! He then started throwing personal insults at me basically making out I must be really thick, which in these exact words I said 'that wasnt nice'
To which the response was 'this account has been disabled' Thrown out for annoying a little jumped up **** of a person who has nothing better to do than keep deleting torrents for no real reason other than it makes him feel like he has POWER!

So beware of upsetting anyone on thebox.bz wont you!

As you might imagine I am somewhat annoyed!!

[Jaits]

2008-04-01 23:21 - Warned for 2 weeks by xxx.
Reason: For not doing as you were told to do READ the PM i sent - when you don't add the date , source and codec to the title you get it deleted plain and simple - telling me that there was one when the logs prove there wasn't is pure stupidity on your part - now go do as you were told

first attempt - torrent title:: WRC Round 4 Rally Argentina from DAVE
no source, no codec, no date
2nd attempt - torrent title: WRC Round 4 Argentina 2008 from DAVE
no source, no codec....

+ ur ratio was 0.5.. i dont see how that was a good ratio.. yea u werent in ratio watch, but seeding 1/2 of what u uploaded isnt good either.. its just ok.

and u were speaking with a moderator, not an admin.

everything u need to know about uploading is in the upload guide and in the upload page.. u obviously failed to do both, then ignored the pm's u were sent by only doing one of the 3 things that u were asked to do..

get ur facts right.

--- as for the rest of the 1 time posters, i wont even bother except:


but the absolute zero tolerance and outright rude response to someone who has clearly come to try to do the right thing irritated the hell out of me.


not very clear.. might be to u, but not to ppl that get this everyday... the rules are in place for that exact reason.. u break them, u get the same treatment as everyone else... its clearly stated in the rules that u agreed to read when u signed up..



asked them how i was cheating but they said they couldn't tell me

... right.

[SgtMajor]

Just wanted to share my experience of being booted out of thebox.bz.
Have been a member for a few weeks, been a good boy ratio wise uploaded a couple of torrents etc.
Last night I attempted to upload the WRC from the weekend from DAVE and with my first attempt I forgot to list the date of airing source codec etc , so it was instantly deleted. Fair enough.
So I had another go this time making sure to get details correct in torrent file name, but adding a different description for the title. Again instantly deleted and my uploading rights cancelled.
PM one of site administrators for a reason, I just get a snotty 'read this' from an A hole I wont mention.
Went on to have a series of emails between us where I am trying to find out what I've done wrong and him not telling me (I remained cordial and polite by the way). So then I get a 2 week warning ! He then started throwing personal insults at me basically making out I must be really thick, which in these exact words I said 'that wasnt nice'
To which the response was 'this account has been disabled' Thrown out for annoying a little jumped up **** of a person who has nothing better to do than keep deleting torrents for no real reason other than it makes him feel like he has POWER!

So beware of upsetting anyone on thebox.bz wont you!

As you might imagine I am somewhat annoyed!!


2008-04-01 23:21 - Warned for 2 weeks by xxx.
Reason: For not doing as you were told to do READ the PM i sent - when you don't add the date , source and codec to the title you get it deleted plain and simple - telling me that there was one when the logs prove there wasn't is pure stupidity on your part - now go do as you were told

first attempt - torrent title:: WRC Round 4 Rally Argentina from DAVE
no source, no codec, no date
2nd attempt - torrent title: WRC Round 4 Argentina 2008 from DAVE
no source, no codec....

+ ur ratio was 0.5.. i dont see how that was a good ratio.. yea u werent in ratio watch, but seeding 1/2 of what u uploaded isnt good either.. its just ok.

and u were speaking with a moderator, not an admin.

everything u need to know about uploading is in the upload guide and in the upload page.. u obviously failed to do both, then ignored the pm's u were sent by only doing one of the 3 things that u were asked to do..

get ur facts right.

--- as for the rest of the 1 time posters, i wont even bother except:


not very clear.. might be to u, but not to ppl that get this everyday... the rules are in place for that exact reason.. u break them, u get the same treatment as everyone else... its clearly stated in the rules that u agreed to read when u signed up..



asked them how i was cheating but they said they couldn't tell me

... right.

FST - our very own soap opera, beats the living shit out of corrie & bentenders any day of the week :D :P

[Saroman]

I really love this tracker (thebox.bz) .. I am not british so i cant cap and upload there..

But i definitely seed 'Free' torrents 24x7 and got pretty good ratio there and finally i can download 100 GB of Bookmarks that i made over 15 days :P

Some of very old shows are also there... Havent had any mixup with MOD as of yet (lucky me).. Nevertheless i am not plannin to upload there anything so risk of missing on minor details and getting warned is out of picture..also first i made the buffer and now i will use it for my shows so ratio wise too i am safe.. I dont post stupid.. so i guess i can say that i wont get banned :P

[speedkid]

See what kind of people you are dealing with everyone, RULES MUST NOT BE BROKEN, have you got that, its RULES RULES and more RULES. Sounds like an f***** dictatorship to me. Hey Jaits (http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/../../members/jaits-120240) do you run a country maybe like Zimbabwe?

Look you stupid Pratt, all you had to do was tell me that instead of putting the info in the torrent file I needed to put it into the torrent title. If you care to check I had already uploaded 2 other torrents, so it was obviously an oversight on my part, but a nice simple , 'this is what you've done wrong and this is what you need to do, ' kind of PM would have been the way to go, you know like you might get on other Torrent sites not run by jumped up little ***** like yourself.


With regard to my ratio, yes it was 0.5 but I have only been joined up a few weeks, and was just about to increase my ratio again by uploading my third torrent ,when you decided to do a hatchet job on me.

Now SOD OFF.

[SgtMajor]

Drama - has to be the best form of entertainment there, just wish I could download more of it :P

[Saroman]

^^
lol i thought atleast you must be fed up with all of this... so seeing you enjoying this comes as a surprise to me :P

[soulreaper]

Thebox,hmm. I LOLed at their "how to get banned from thebox" headline.

Nice site though,plenty of rare uk shows and it's easy to seed too.

[21122012]

Fantastic site (much better than UKnova if your a UK telly seeker)

Great discussion on the forums

jobs a gud en

:)

[Jaits]

See what kind of people you are dealing with everyone, RULES MUST NOT BE BROKEN, have you got that, its RULES RULES and more RULES. Sounds like an f***** dictatorship to me. Hey Jaits (http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/../../members/jaits-120240) do you run a country maybe like Zimbabwe?

i m seeing exactly the kind of ppl i m dealing with lol... and who ever said its a democracy? did u agree to join a democracy? lol.. and yes, rules are rules.. u are free to not join a site if u do not like them, which is exactly the reason u can read them without being logged in ;)



Look you stupid Pratt, all you had to do was tell me that instead of putting the info in the torrent file I needed to put it into the torrent title.

i dont have to do shit all unless i want to.. further more, y should i tell u what is clearly stated in that that u agreed to read prior of joining? ... i dont think im the stupid one here... at least i have the decency to read the rules of sites i join in (regardless of the fact that i know most of the rules by heart by now - i still spend the 2 min it takes to read through them..



If you care to check I had already uploaded 2 other torrents, so it was obviously an oversight on my part,

believe me i dont care enough to even open ur profile; let alone check the other 2 torrents u uploaded... lol ..



but a nice simple , 'this is what you've done wrong and this is what you need to do, ' kind of PM would have been the way to go,
oh but u did get a pm that explained exactly what u need to read in order to correct ur mistake... that u failed to read it isnt my problem.. it only attests to ur own level of interpretation of the world ;)


you know like you might get on other Torrent sites not run by jumped up little ***** like yourself.
i dont give a shit what u get on other torrent sites... and if u think i d spend my valuable time searching for upload mistakes u must be really deluding urself..



With regard to my ratio, yes it was 0.5 but I have only been joined up a few weeks, and was just about to increase my ratio again by uploading my third torrent ,when you decided to do a hatchet job on me.


frankly, i m glad the moderator banned u.. i wouldnt have usually, but then again, i dont deal with ppl like u which is probably y i have a much larger patience than the mods that did .. thank god they did ban u though.. ppl like u devalue communities by being part of them..

believe me when i say, that if i didnt find u as entertaining as i do, i wouldnt havent even bothered to post here.. but i found ur complain funny enough to comment on it.. be proud of that.. u at least achieved something with ur post :D

[dunkItOut]

I have to agree with ya'll....a wonderful site for UK shows...

[speedkid]

My point is made, I feel no further need to comment.
Other than this Jaits, it seems that I have taken it that you were the one dealing with me in such an unreasonable manner last night, yet it appears it was not you. So I must say that no personal venom is directed towards yourself.
You can disregard any misguided insults that came your way.

Just try a bit harder not to be quite this much up your own arse though.

[dtw]

One of my fave sites now, very easy to keep good ratio :)

[Spillage]

One of my fave sites now, very easy to keep good ratio :)

Ditto .

The best for UK TV . If you follow the Rules & take notice of the various ratio guides, take advantage of the many & frequent Freeleech's, it's almost impossible not to maintain a good ratio .

[eatpepsi]

Also not to forget Documentary section is super awesome :D

Every TV Show 'fanatic' should compulsary have "BitmeTV and Box" :)

[Unstable1]

thebox is my home, i simply love it there and am logged in and on the forums many times a day.

the content is amazing, simply amazing, and everything is so well seeded, the speeds are excellent.

with regard to the mods, i've never had a problem with them, but i chat a lot in the forums and sometimes chat in IRC so you get to know them and theyre all decent enough people, i find them very helpful, dedicated and fair (and no, im not on the staff).

its an exceptional tracker, with an exceptional community, and a beautifully designed and highly functional website which is easy and pleasant to use.

ive uploaded over 2TB there and now ive got a seedbox, i dedicate about 80% of my bandwitdth to thebox.

if you're not a member, i can't recommend it enough. it simply rocks!

[rowiko]

Not so great anymore after getting banned!
I have been a regular user for over a year and recently got the "extreme user" status, with a ratio of way over 3.

Last night I installed and used a software ("WM Recorder", even legally purchased) that allows recording of streaming video.
And BANG! - a few minutes later I was logged out of my TheBox account, with no way to log back in, as the account is now disabled and the IP banned!
I have absolutely no idea what one should have to do with the other, but at the same time it would simply be too much of a coincidence.
Does anyone have any idea why this could have happened?

Contacting The Box on IRC was unsuccessful (nobody there!). So in my desperation I tried to create a new account on my laptop PC, but I was told again that the IP was banned. But isn't the IP of every PC unique???

I'm at my wit's end. I have uploaded way over 1 Tera over the past year, and then I get kicked out for something I did that doesn't even seem connected to the site? I don't understand!

[kuracat]

try again on their irc channel, they are very helpfull people, I am sure they will listen to you!

[rowiko]

try again on their irc channel, they are very helpfull people, I am sure they will listen to you!

Previous comments in this thread suggest otherwise, but I'll try again anyway.

[rowiko]

I wasn't sure whether "kuracat" was being sarcastic when he said that those support people are "really helpful".
After getting their so-called "support", I have to conclude that he was...
Being told a dozen times that I cheated and that cheating is not allowed, is not much of a support, now is it? They refused to answer my question as to what I actually did wrong, and kept repeating the same thing over and over again, making fun of that fact that a "cheater" was actually expecting help from them...
:frusty:
Screw them!

So I guess that's it then for me. No more TheBox. As I cannot think of any way to get back in again, I'll have to forget about the great downloads. It was fun while it lasted.
With only really one alternative for Brit TV torrents, I'll have to take good care of that account now...

[Jaits]

WM Recorder is the shittiest thing ever designed... it goes on and tampers with the headers ur client sends to the tracker which is why u got banned (u are more than welcome to go and complain to their developers for doing such a thing - especially if you paid for it :P )... at some point i ll ban it completely from the tracker to resolve this issue.

anyhow.. i ve enabled ur account since i am aware of WM Recorder and what it does, but i strongly suggest u completely uninstall it (and hope it actually uninstalls properly :P ) be4 trying to use the tracker again as u will get an instant ban with that software installed.. if the system disables u again I will not re-enable u.

the torrent client allowed list (http://thebox.bz/forums.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=2189#25244) clearly indicates to not install this software..

[rowiko]

THANK U SO MUCH!!!
:D

I was, quite honestly, more than a little pissed off last night, after talking to support on IRC, and I'm so glad you guys did listen after all!
I honestly was not aware that this software was listed in the forum, and it didn't even occur to me to check, as I didn't in the slightest assume it could affect my TheBox account.

Anyway, I've thrown WM Recorder out for good, never mind the cost. The great torrents on TheBox are worth a lot more to me!

Again, thanks for listening and re-instating my account. Happy days are here again!
:yup:

[NPAX1]

see? not all staff is bad

[divbis0]

stay away from thebox.bz forums. they are worthless, and if the moderator doesnt like you, they will ban you from both the forums and the tracker.

the tracker is good tho.

[Unstable1]

I have to admit, I am much less enamored with their forums than I was a year ago. The forums were so much fun when the site first started but now they are heavily over-moderated.

Still, content-wise it's a bloody good tracker and that's the most important thing.

[Albo Da Kid]

I definitely agree. Thbox.bz is a great tracker. I found some rare shows in there

[105802]

if ur from the uk this is the best torrent site to get your favourite shows from definitely

[ukgenius]

Wow this thread is really old! But I agree TheBox is a really good site.

[pioneer123]

Hi

I just tried to sign up for this site but it says that it is full and the only way I can be considered is by way of an invitation from an existing member.

Would someone be kind enough to send me an invitation? :)

[CPC464]

this isn't really the place to ask for an invite. but if you could pm me i would send you one, but you can't. so i won't

:D

also i igree fantastic tracker

[pioneer123]

this isn't really the place to ask for an invite. but if you could pm me i would send you one, but you can't. so i won't

:D

also i igree fantastic tracker

If my email address was [email protected] then you could send it to me but it isn't so you can't! ;)

[pone44]

Edit your email- Not cool to post it in public.

[pioneer123]

Edit your email- Not cool to post it in public.

What are you talking about?!

Can someone please send me an invitation?

Thanks

[TranceMaster6003]

Very good site

[andresgriego]

Hello,

I am wondering if someone could comment on my situation.

I was banned from thebox.bz for having duplicate accounts but I don't remember ever creating two accounts. When I search my inbox I can only find one email from thebox.bz, the initial confirmation/activation email for my account.

So why am I flagged as duplicate?

I got to thinking: I live in a house converted into apartments and most of the residents share a wireless internet connection. Maybe another resident here had an account at thebox.bz and when I created my account it got flagged as duplicate because we're both connecting through the same router.

Does this sound reasonable?

Has anyone had a similar problem in the past?

Is there no reprieve for us unwealthy?

[RedRansom]

yep if you are using a router and admin set nat to disabled then all users will get same ip adress but if he set nat to enabled every pc will get a different ip adresses...
As far as i know but not sure all about it, do some search :unsure: then you can find the key

[Qlix]

Yeah I signed up to this site as I thought it was a tracker for TV (U.S TV) but as it's only brittish ones I can't say I have any use for the site... But they did have a huge amount of torrents, pretty decent design and many peers. So I guess it's awesome if you're into UK television. :)

[rrichard]

The Admin boys at the Box are not so good. I have been a member for quite some time and have always donated. I upgraded my Utorrent to 1.7.7 and then all probels start, my ratios drop although I always seed for at least 2 to 3 weeks if not more.

I had a message saying my ratio was too low so I dontaed some more to them and the next day they banned me, despite email to them they have chosen to ignore me, although they took my money.

I would say not a good site, especially if they fail to look after people that actually try to support them.

[prasannab13]

it is now with 40k torrents and nice community

[ashford]

3000 torrents per 20000 users that's not a good ratio. IMHO this site sux big.

And yeah site only to british people as nobody else but them alone enjoy their crappy movies, where's a lot of their imperlialismus, racism etc.

Just my two cents :)

[brerbear415]

Trying to figure what a 30 day holding period means and why ? Does this mean that we are ineligible for downloads before this period is up ?

[Swepsycho]

more spesifik brebear.. ;)

[Skiz]

If you have a question, create a thread. There is really no reason to keep bumping a thread from 2007 to ask a completely unrelated question. :dabs: