FSC talent hunt

- The forums are far too full of spam for my tastes. Intelligent topics exist but are usually ignored by the forum userbase and get pushed down by the forum game threads.
- Their IRC is somewhat active considering site size but it's a small core number of people, and it's usually fairly quiet. When I come back there's usually been a mass highlight since they do try to get conversation going.
- Pretimes aren't 13 hours (at least for popular stuff) but they also aren't stellar, and sometimes I've had problems with the peering of the initial uploader (i.e. the actual torrent won't start until some other peers pick it up). It's worth noting this has only happened 2-3 times.
- The clubs are just fancy names for the different forum subject areas. The leaders are in charge of stirring up activity, holding contests, etc. I actually won a game review contest a while back so that was nice :)
- Request fills are quite good from what I understand, but I've never requested anything there. The only stuff I ever really request is obscure music anyway, in which case What is the better place to make the request since I can slap a big bounty on it.
- Feature-wise it's got a lot of cool stuff but I find it a bit cluttered and hard to find all of those features. I still figure out new stuff randomly just by clicking around.
- It's essentially ratioless if you're not a douche and can seed for a week and a half. Retention on old stuff isn't amazing but stuff often stays alive, even with just a seeder or two.
- The staff are generally nice and fairly active and approachable.
- The site itself is rather slow (i.e. loading times) which frustrates me to no end, and I've seen the frustrations voiced by others as well. It used to be practically unbrowseable, after the server switch a while back it's better but still slow.
- Security is tight, it's taken much more seriously than it is elsewhere.
- Regarding it being a successor to ScT, you'll feel more at home at SCC.

What the place really needs is more peer activity. The problem is, a lot of people get invited who are already on 20 or so torrent sites since they're "known"/noticed elsewhere, and are really only interested in the community. Even if they stick around and participate in the community, they rarely grab the content. There'll be fairly popular stuff like new 0-day TV shows that'll have hundreds of snatches elsewhere, and they'll get like 5 snatches at FSC.

Anyway if the staff want any of that removed, let me know. I tried to be fairly ambiguous about everything since I'm aware they don't want a "review" done.

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Originally Posted by Polarbear

I'm gonna throw in an invite as well.

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I want invite.

You are asking what we can offer to site but I keep thinking - why should someone try so hard to get into this tracker?

What's the unique things (besides community ofc :unsure:) that tracker can offer to us, bittorent users?

The problem with FSC is that there are too many collectors down there...I only see the same 100 ppl being active somehow.
I salute sear's initiative and i am pretty sure that his "madness" won't last forever!
Chances are small though to find genuine fresh blood here.

Would it be wrong for me to assume that the FSC members that posted in this thread are the most active ones on the site and are the ones that make FSC? :turned:

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Originally Posted by sear

So are there any Indians on FSC? Maybe I could be the first? :)

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full of indians from top to bottom :shifty:

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Originally Posted by KushBlow

Would it be wrong for me to assume that the FSC members that posted in this thread are the most active ones on the site and are the ones that make FSC? :turned:

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I didn't know that was a requirement like .
Can the mods please go back and remove all comments that anyone made about any tracker in any thread on FST that they didn't have an intimate and absolute investment in ?
Thanks in advance.

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Originally Posted by sear

@cinephilia, really? You can go fuck yourself if you want to be like that. This has nothing to do with you. I've always thought you were ok, why would you act like such a cock about us protecting our site. FFS I would say more but I'm too pissed off and I'm not just speaking for myself so I need to moderate my words.

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lol calm down dude, i simply expressed my feeling about goku's questionable behavior.

resorting to blackmail with an e-friend to get names, and making sure both his fsc and exigo accounts are disabled for an insignificant giveaway... that's what i call being determined to harm.

It's nice to see some old members of FST here , squirrel and PolarBear ;)

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You mentioned 3 times that you were SB yet I have no clue what the hell you are talking about... (I could generalize that to your whole request)

well i'm not going to bullshit you. i'll keep it short and sweet. i think i would be a vital part of the fsc community because i would have a gigabit seedbox dedicated for fsc. and i wouldn't have it for just a month i would have it the entire time i would be a part of the community and i like to donate because i believe donating keeps the site afloat and i feel that when i donate its going towards a good cause (ie hardware upgrades etc.)

He's anti-mony, obviously.

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Originally Posted by SB-087

I sell for a seedbox company, and I their for have a very specific set of skills that go along with that line of work. I am a master at creating social bonds, through irc and forums in general.

I leap tall buildings in a single bound.
I can kill cats with my mind.
I eat pandas for breakfast.
I can name people's children subconsiously.
I chew metal.
I am the anti-rape.
I am SB
I feed the hungry
I care for the sick
I carry the weary
I am a philosopher
I am a journalist
I am a friend
That is all.
SB

(I am established on a variety of different locations, I will communicate with you over other mediums and planes, I will not waste your time.)

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If this is an indication of your "mastery of creating social bonds" someone is clearly delusional.

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Originally Posted by rocknrolla2

well i'm not going to bullshit you. i'll keep it short and sweet. i think i would be a vital part of the fsc community because i would have a gigabit seedbox dedicated for fsc. and i wouldn't have it for just a month i would have it the entire time i would be a part of the community and i like to donate because i believe donating keeps the site afloat and i feel that when i donate its going towards a good cause (ie hardware upgrades etc.)

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And if there is any chance that somewhere down the road you can get an invite or two to sell trade it will be well worth the investment.

we will leave it up to the greater powers if they are too give me a chance,
and you would have no idea of my ability to create social bonds, for you have never met me, I am but an enigma to the likes of you

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Originally Posted by SB-087

Why FSC, well saying the community of course would be cliche but it is true. I am in it for a tracker that offers me not only content but a vast network of like minded men and women with my common goal... I am SB.

Hello, to start I must apologize for my lack of posting at FST, it has been as a result of what considerable else I have been doing. I sell for a seedbox company, and I their for have a very specific set of skills that go along with that line of work. I am a master at creating social bonds, through irc and forums in general. I am very skilled in the using of seedboxes, where I have learned the optimum way to seed to all my trackers. I never have to worry about ratio, never. Finally, I am very good at finding deals on items, whether they be servers, items on ebay, or anything else for that nature. They call me the everyman, and my written word is a sharp as my mind. I implore you to invite me to your wonderful tracker, I promise you will not be sorry.

I leap tall buildings in a single bound.
I can kill cats with my mind.
I eat pandas for breakfast.
I can name people's children subconsiously.
I chew metal.
I am the anti-rape.
I am SB
I feed the hungry
I care for the sick
I carry the weary
I am a philosopher
I am a journalist
I am a friend
That is all.
SB

(I am established on a variety of different locations, I will communicate with you over other mediums and planes, I will not waste your time.)

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If I read It right.
It sounds to me you want to get laid...:blink:

Hello, i would like an FSC account. I can provide gigabit scene access with very good affils in XViD and DVDR with very good pretimes on other sections. All through legit proxies of course.
I can provide account proofs on B**S*** and EZ.

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Originally Posted by SB-087

we will leave it up to the greater powers if they are too give me a chance,
and you would have no idea of my ability to create social bonds, for you have never met me, I am but an enigma to the likes of you

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You're unique. Is that a good thing where your head is at? :lol:

being unique is why they are having this contest, the differences I have are my biggest attribute, they do not want everyone in their tracker to be homogeneous

Wow ... ok for a start people who have actually honestly applied no one has been ruled out yet but tbh I'm not particularly impressed either.

As for fsc. Well we can blah blah blah all we want it's been done to death on the site. Yes we'd like to give some different types of people a chance to join hence this thread. Who the fuck thinks I'm going to look at people's links and go hmmm they're pretty 1337 look at all the trackers they're on sweet /invite sent lmao. The profile links are to confirm people are who you they say they are, and to improve accountability.

I think a lot of the points made in this thread are valid though some more so than others.

From my perspective fsc has less than 2k enabled members. About half of those use their accounts fairly regularly and about a third of those make up the hardcore member base. This is fine. Forum activity is good, spam is down outside the spam sections and the number of interesting posts is quite good atm imo. These things come in waves. Yes spamming was reaching critical mass but it's clearly on the decline now mainly because members are sick of people shitting up their forums. As for the tracker if you're a member read some of the posts made recently in the general forum on this issue. I can't really be bothered repeating myself.

This thread is an attempt (that's looking more and more like a fail) to try something different and get a different kind of invitee. W/E from fsc's perspective we don't need to recruit from outside atm. The site has a fairly stable ratio of new members joining to old members dropping off the radar to keep going indefinitely really. But being fsc we thought we'd give it a go, you don't see other tracker staff trying out this shit ... copping abuse and still offering invites. Thanks to everyone who's been a cunt for reaffirming my decision to stay the fuck away from the wider BT community.

Oh and @co_ak dude you know your full of shit right lol I think it says a lot about fsc and our staff that I/we know full well who you are and have taken no action accept me calling you a cunt (from my personal perspective of course). However if you don't like fsc and think the staff their are questionable feel free to ask for your account to be disabled. Honestly that would be the honourable thing to do.

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Originally Posted by sear

This thread is an attempt (that's looking more and more like a fail) to try something different and get a different kind of invitee. W/E from fsc's perspective we don't need to recruit from outside atm. The site has a fairly stable ratio of new members joining to old members dropping off the radar to keep going indefinitely really. But being fsc we thought we'd give it a go, you don't see other tracker staff trying out this shit ... copping abuse and still offering invites. Thanks to everyone who's been a cunt for reaffirming my decision to stay the fuck away from the wider BT community.

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Don't judge everyone here because a few people are saying things you don't like. That's just the way any thread is like here, people are given lots of freedom to say and do whatever they want. Some will always abuse that privilege. I've read through this entire thread though and don't see anything happening that's too out of line, just people speaking their opinions whether we agree with them or not. I think it would be a good thing if people give themselves away as douchebags through their posts here, as least it makes your job a lot easier as you know right away who to avoid inviting. They are doing your work for you, no need to even consider them.

If your really serious about recruiting outside your usual circles, and I wouldn't consider FST part of that usual circle, you will have to be patient and dig through all the crap. You've been around FST longer than most of us and your fairly active here, so you should know all about the good and bad you can get here. It shouldn't be a shock at all, in fact some of us are pretty used to it by now and try instead to focus on the positives here. With my own giveaways I'm experienced enough to know exactly what to look for when I'm looking for candidates, the obvious idiots don't even merit me taking the time to dig through their post histories.

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Originally Posted by SB-087

being unique is why they are having this contest, the differences I have are my biggest attribute, they do not want everyone in their tracker to be homogeneous

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Funnily enough, I heard the dean of social sciences at Harvard use the exact same logic. Guess you're not that much different, then. You just paraphrase what other people have already said. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by sear

Thread opinion.

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Woah woah, mate. Now I'm not about to go breathe down your neck about expectations vs. gains, but you should have seen this sort of thing coming from miles away. Even for non-bt related invites people use the same shite excuses; except, I think it's becoming more and more apparent that nobody is content with any reasons any longer. I run a few non-bt related forums with/for friends when they need help, and you'd be taken back by some of the excuses we get for someone asking to be let in to the VIP sections without paying (it's less high schoolish than it sounds). I've seen dozens upon dozens of people request in with reasoning like "I want to be surrounded by like minded individuals" and "I've been a member for long enough to be auto-promoted". The fact is, people want what they don't have, and minds are so twisted that they truly believe their own reasoning for that impending necessity to gain the object. That in its own is capable of fueling their desire for whatever it is, long after they have obtained it. It's like a rich guy buying a Murcielago as his 6th show car (actually, that simile is a home run, I'm remembering that one for later).

Honestly, if you were looking for different, you found it. You found the jester who's unable to string two sentences without making a fool of himself, you found the guy who's willing to bribe you without trying to test the waters with you first, and you got the guy willing to put in financial resources just to get what he wants (contrary to popular belief, I'm pretty sure nobody has a gbit box laying around unused). However, if you were looking for something closer to home, someone you can imagine fitting in well (as is the case with most interviewers in most fortune 500 companies), then that will be harder to find. The hype, the WTAW thread, the rumors and the secrecy all serve a distorted vision of what the place is like. You don't end up getting the people who can fit in with the place applying, rather the people that can fit in with that distorted image of the place. Nothing could harm the cause more than you defending the place by referring people to read the tracker's forum itself. You're only aiding a very tiny fraction of the people who read the post. Those on the website, who are willing to change their opinions and can do so easily.

So many people telling sear what he already knows.
FST's bittorent sections reflect the current state of affairs of the bt community. It is as useful to look here as anywhere else, where you even have an higher chance of being fooled by the apparent "nice" and "good" members. Here things are way raw.
Hence mine and Idol's suggestion to try and look for people on those places where no one cares for the site's reputation, as long as they get their goods.

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Originally Posted by KushBlow

Would it be wrong for me to assume that the FSC members that posted in this thread are the most active ones on the site and are the ones that make FSC? :turned:

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i really doubt. they're probably more active here then FSC. i can't even recall seeing some of these people over there (or see them once a blue moon).

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Originally Posted by sear

Oh and @co_ak dude you know your full of shit right lol I think it says a lot about fsc and our staff that I/we know full well who you are and have taken no action accept me calling you a cunt (from my personal perspective of course). However if you don't like fsc and think the staff their are questionable feel free to ask for your account to be disabled. Honestly that would be the honourable thing to do.

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this is surely not way by which u goin to help urself everyone including cinephilia is trying to be honest and realistic and wish u can accomplish the objective seems like u have landed on a wrong planet

was that a typo or was that intended for him :lol:

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Originally Posted by Cabalo

Hence mine and Idol's suggestion to try and look for people on those places where no one cares for the site's reputation, as long as they get their goods.

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Those people are generally the real deal, but at the same time you'd have to be even more careful. Some of them are very ... erm ... dangerous people. There is a reason they enjoy being themselves out in public/high profile piracy spots. A lot of them run money making schemes on the side and are looking for bait, or are scene leaks directly (I meet a surprising amount of these; the kind that would deliberately delay their own upload/sharing so nobody catches on to them, or can find them based on a race rank scheme) and enjoy the cover of daylight for their actions. A lot of them are people who are inexperienced etc. and can truly dedicate their time and effort to something they find enjoyable/worthwhile, but some of the more public gargantuan pirates (take some asshats on WarezBB for example) are truly a security issue for anyone associated with them. Tip-toeing on scene paranoia here, but it applies.

for a second, i thought we were talking about a torrentsite :slap:

I have a feeling sear wants something along the lines of...I will not participate in the forums as much as one would like but, I can guarantee I will download a gang load and seed the shit out of all of the torrents I DL. Am I an uploader? Hell No! But tell you what...my PC NEVER sleeps and seeds around the clock! That right there is HONESTY.

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Originally Posted by spongeduckie

I have a feeling sear wants something along the lines of...I will not participate in the forums as much as one would like but, I can guarantee I will download a gang load and seed the shit out of all of the torrents I DL. Am I an uploader? Hell No! But tell you what...my PC NEVER sleeps and seeds around the clock! That right there is HONESTY.

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That's cool but most of us are seeding torrents around the clock. Right now I'm seeding 57 torrents at home and on my seedbox there was even more, not all of them mine though since I was sharing the box. The oldest torrent on my utorrent at home I've been seeding for almost 7 months.

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Originally Posted by sear

Oh and @co_ak dude you know your full of shit right lol I think it says a lot about fsc and our staff that I/we know full well who you are and have taken no action accept me calling you a cunt (from my personal perspective of course). However if you don't like fsc and think the staff their are questionable feel free to ask for your account to be disabled. Honestly that would be the honourable thing to do.

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When did I call you a cunt? I never did any such thing. I gave my honest opinion when asked for it. The staff there have always been kind and active, as I quite readily pointed out (above jibe aside). I never said I hated FSC, or it totally sucks, or no one should join, etc, I gave an opinion on a few things that could use work and suggested that someone's apparent lack of qualifications shouldn't disqualify them here. I see nothing I said as false at all, though of course, different people are bound to have different opinions. If you were to ban me for having an opinion that clashes with yours, that would be the sole point in this thread that would speak volumes about FSC moreso than any other. I would think, however, that we could be mature about this.

As for knowing who I am, I've never made any effort whatsoever to hide that, unlike many here. The sole reason there's a difference between my nick here and trackers is that most of them don't allow underscores in usernames and I was going for consistency. If you're going to call me a cunt though, you could at least spell my name right.

And indeed, it's an interesting concept of a thread, and I've always found it admirable that FSC hasn't completely given up on FST unlike most of the other trackers.

@sear: I'm kinda surprised you're freaking at ca_aok.

His 'review' had the pros as well as the cons. Although I don't agree that the forum is full of spam cause I ignore those sections (tv, xxx, humor, etc) it gets some but its still my best general tracker forum and something I browse daily. I just ignore the few generic spam threads in the sections I do enjoy.

But he's right on some of the cons. Why is there a funspace button next to every torrent? Has anyone ever used that? I adblocked that and the bookmark link, it's messy clutter. Also the process of buying a request ticket and confirming it, just to make a request. That process is not streamlined.

The site WAS terribly slow, especially when all that cluttery jazz such as site ticker is enabled. It could take upwards of 10 seconds, but its fine now.

What were the other cons? Nothing really. And for some random person who just cares about downloading, that review does pretty much sum up the site.


@idoleyes: Not sure why someone who is used to using Bitsoup and hitting 1:1 in a couple hours would migrate to a site with deviations in pretimes for even the popular tv shows of up to a full night, where they might have to seed for a week to hit 1:1 if they snatch something >week old. if I were to invite a casual demonoid real life friend to a site, it would be FTN because you can hit and run and ratio does not matter. The majority of casual bittorrent users do not like to seed for 7 days... everyone I know personally closes torrents pretty quickly. am skeptical whether recruiting at 'open sign up' sites is a good idea. I'd guess most of those people have not heard of invite-only private trackers.

random users like this will have no pre-conceived connection to FSC's 'community', so why would they think to snatch from FSC? On-site, the main reason Retro stated for snatching (i believe) was because members genuinely like the tracker and the community, not because the economy or the speeds or the pres. noobs not exposed to the stigma that FSC rocks, would have no initial connection to spark particular interest in the site.

i think sear was referring to someone else whose username begins with letter 'c' as well.


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Originally Posted by cinephilia

lol calm down dude, i simply expressed my feeling about goku's [staff] questionable behavior.

resorting to blackmail with an e-friend to get names, and making sure both his fsc and exigo accounts are disabled for an insignificant giveaway... that's what i call being determined to harm.

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Originally Posted by sear

Oh and @co_ak dude you know your full of shit right lol I think it says a lot about fsc and our staff that I/we know full well who you are and have taken no action accept me calling you a cunt (from my personal perspective of course). However if you don't like fsc and think the staff their are questionable feel free to ask for your account to be disabled. Honestly that would be the honourable thing to do.

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yuup

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Originally Posted by spongeduckie

I have a feeling sear wants something along the lines of...I will not participate in the forums as much as one would like but, I can guarantee I will download a gang load and seed the shit out of all of the torrents I DL. Am I an uploader? Hell No! But tell you what...my PC NEVER sleeps and seeds around the clock! That right there is HONESTY.

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That's cool but most of us are seeding torrents around the clock. Right now I'm seeding 57 torrents at home and on my seedbox there was even more, not all of them mine though since I was sharing the box. The oldest torrent on my utorrent at home I've been seeding for almost 7 months.

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True. But I just meant it seems he wanted honesty rather than BS. Just my opinion though.

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You know, if you're being professional and all, you might want to be careful name dropping who you are, how to get to you in real life, and what you work as. At this rate, you're endangering yourself more than anything.

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Originally Posted by ca_aok

- The forums are far too full of spam for my tastes. Intelligent topics exist but are usually ignored by the forum userbase and get pushed down by the forum game threads.

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Outside the spam section I haven't seen any spam.But that's just me,I mostly visit the anime,music and general section and I find it very good.

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Originally Posted by ca_aok

- Their IRC is somewhat active considering site size but it's a small core number of people, and it's usually fairly quiet. When I come back there's usually been a mass highlight since they do try to get conversation going.
- Pretimes aren't 13 hours (at least for popular stuff) but they also aren't stellar, and sometimes I've had problems with the peering of the initial uploader (i.e. the actual torrent won't start until some other peers pick it up). It's worth noting this has only happened 2-3 times.
- The clubs are just fancy names for the different forum subject areas. The leaders are in charge of stirring up activity, holding contests, etc. I actually won a game review contest a while back so that was nice :)
- Feature-wise it's got a lot of cool stuff but I find it a bit cluttered and hard to find all of those features. I still figure out new stuff randomly just by clicking around.
- It's essentially ratioless if you're not a douche and can seed for a week and a half. Retention on old stuff isn't amazing but stuff often stays alive, even with just a seeder or two.
- The staff are generally nice and fairly active and approachable.
- The site itself is rather slow (i.e. loading times) which frustrates me to no end, and I've seen the frustrations voiced by others as well. It used to be practically unbrowseable, after the server switch a while back it's better but still slow.
- Security is tight, it's taken much more seriously than it is elsewhere.
- Regarding it being a successor to ScT, you'll feel more at home at SCC.

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Thats pretty much well said.

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Originally Posted by ca_aok

- Request fills are quite good from what I understand, but I've never requested anything there. The only stuff I ever really request is obscure music anyway, in which case What is the better place to make the request since I can slap a big bounty on it.

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I never saw FSC as my main source for files,maybe that's the reason why many get disappointed with the tracker side.I just use the request feature mostly.TBH I see FSC's tracker an extension to the forums.People requesting and sharing files and making use of the tracker to actually get what they really want.Even if FSC turned out to be an excellent Gen/0Day,I wont be using it because I rarely download Gen/0Day stuff and for Movies/TV/Music/Games/Software there are other excellent sources out there.

The below quote is what I posted in TPS and one guy called me a fanboi(maybe because I commented that he had superiority complex),I dont know how someone becomes fanboi when he describes a tracker highlighting its merits and demerits.Anyway,

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The tracker side works differently than the other trackers out there.People sharing stuff,that's all.Popular TV shows,Movies etc gets uploaded,Some good packs,normal speed on torrents,No stellar pretimes or awesome collection of torrents.But you can request anything and it gets filled if its available somewhere in the net.That is one of the best thing I like about FSC.

The forum is one is the best in whole of BT.Old timers,friends,mature conversations,people posting because they want to and not for showing purposes (makes a hell lot of a difference in quality),Lots of threads which have quality discussions and information,people expressing their "unique" opinions instead of all being sheeps,people sharing experience and enjoying the forum for what it is.You meet like minded individuals in FSC Clubs,share interests,find new stuff and actually get to know each other better.Those threads in music club discussing dnb,techno etc are essential reads buzzing with activity,quality posts and information and the general discussing section is like an archive of BT with loads of people sharing their experiences etc.The forum of FSC is what I would call a real community.People doesn't pretend there and genuinely enjoy the place.

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Some wont find the forums to be the way I do,They may have various reasons for it.But imo I like it.But I must also add that there is only a small percentage that are active in forums.It has one of the better communities in BT anyway.
In a way FST and FSC are a lot alike minus the hostility maybe :whistling

Hey sear,

I'm very active when it comes to most tracker communities, and do not post garbage, definitely not spam whore. I also seed torrents for months on end, and download plenty. I do not currently have any graphic design skills, but I am a great guy, and would be a great asset to the FSC community. *Thumbs up*