Are people here just to get invite or want to become part of this community ?

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Originally Posted by thrillerboy

I registered here long back........ the days when i came to know about ares....... I personally can't keep up with a wide community......... And I'm naturally sick of reading long posts....... So, I din't came much often to this community........ Not even to see the open signup threads....... I luckily had my small community....... I was so contented with what I got there.......

Naturally some people sign up and forget about it....... As, I came back here after an year or so........ and tried my username and password and got straight in........ then i realized, I had a account here........ dudes, its not humanly possible to be active in all of the communities you are member of, in internet........ Its my humble opinion :)

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i shit you not commas and singular periods are a thing of the past........... and this will be how everyone punctuates sentences in the future..........

I came here because it was in the k-lite program, so thought i will give the forum a shot, i was addicted to this place for awhile (just less than a year i think) made 800+ posts, and went into the IRC a lot.

Then someone from this IRC told me that daredevil the movie was on donkax, 1st tracker i believe at the time, since then i never used kazaa once, (and discovered Usenet as well) and just never came back to the site, as it was just Kazaa back then and nothing else.

Obviously i made my own tracker and was using filesoup for the torrent side as well.

then early last year the tracker went down or something, got an email from a member saying, come to FST and tell them whats going on loads of people want to know.

Tried registering with stoi and the name was already taken, thought wtf, as far as i know im the only one with that stupid name, so tried a couple of old paswords and i got in.

and i havnt been able to leave since, even though sometimes i want to lol

I came here when i knew that there is invites at that time i was seeking learnbits
then after while i got many friends that i comunicate here and at other trackers, but some times i disappear due to my work , but i return always to home(FST)

Some people say the FST is the worst community. I for once, I like coming here. Although, I come mainly for the news (because news travel fast at FST :lol:), I do admit I come also for the discussion topics. There are here few people I really enjoy reading their posts. :yup:

i have fun when i come here :) all the time !

I find it very sketchy to comment on other members motivation(I've made mistakes on people's character both good and bad here.) so I will only will comment on my own.

I came for a particular invite but stay because I made a few friends here,met some people I respect who aren't and find if I pay attention learn something new practically every day.

The only thing I find unappealing is people being holier than thou or disrespectful to others.

Well i have to admit, i registered here because of the invites section. But pretty soon i realized that there are more to fst than that. I had made quite a few new friends from here, and learned that not everyone is here for the invites. So even though i'm sick of all the invite hunting i had to pull as a noob to get my foot inside some doors, i can still hang around here for the lolz or for some discussion :D. besides, fst is also a great place to receive bt news. :)

One day, almost 1 year ago, I woke up and found my BitMeTv account disabled, Googled looking for help to know how the hell I could find the reason and all links pointed here. rvt guided me about what and how to do until thee problem was successfully fixed, while I waited rvt answers I began to read the forums and found a lot of interesting things, and I learned a lot of things too. I had never posted in any forum tracker (having several and good ones already), nor had interest in forums about sharing. I had with other pals a very big forum about football (soccer) and that took off all my time... but I was burning out, one day I dropped my responsibilities in that forum and began to lurk here and there... I liked this, I found a lot of very good people and a lot of very teaching people, I helped others, others helped me.
FST changed completely the way I faced this sharing world, good teachers I found here: SgtMajor, Sear, Polar Bear, TheFox, stoi... and many others had, and still have a big and good influence on me, I wouldn´t like to lose their advices, warnings or points of view.

Invites? I needed no invites when I came here, as I don´t need now , but some came without asking for them (except one, a SysOp recruited here... that was my first experience in community based sites, and a nice one I must say), and many were given by me, in private and choosing the invitees very carefully. The balance: I´ve had more good experiences than bad ones.
Ok, perhaps here there are 800 morons, flamers and scumbags and only a handful of good and deserving people... it works for me, it´s not so different from real world.

And on a side note there´s something that really pisses me off... FST and we the users are seen almost everywhere like crap. I´m sick and tired of that, most when many of those who always are talking shit are here day and night. Don´t like it?, leave it, but stop the hipocrisy.

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Originally Posted by Tudor

i have fun when i come here :) all the time !

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me too :happy:

It's obvious that FST does have somewhat of a community, but it's hard to find under all the much of torrent invite trading. You can't help but get tons of trolls and scammers in an age where torrent invites are SOLD ON EBAY, for crying out loud.

FST does have some benefit, as I have read some of the other forum sections and even posted a couple times to try and help people. The community aspect is just run over because of the myriad traders and invite seekers. Once upon a time, you had to build your rep somewhere, prove yourself (not just by ratio, but by participation) and then you would get invites to other places. This is how I have gotten into many of the trackers I currently have an account with. All of it came with time and patience, but there are far too many impatient people. One only needs to look at the people who ratio cheat to see that. No self-discipline, no sense of earning anything, just "gimme gimme gimme, now now now!"

The golden age of torrenting is long past. Back in the day, you could find one GREAT tracker, and get virtually everything you needed from it. Nowadays, you have to have many tracker accounts, and keep searching for what you want, because there's just too much saturation, too many little sites popping up every day, and too many of those dying off just as quickly when they can't make the second server payment.

I just think FST would be a much cleaner place without all the trading and secret trader sections. If you keep the garbage in-house, you'll get the flies, too.