If you're a member of X number of trackers you're definitely a collector...

I´ll take the same bus than SgtMajor, PolarBear and JROQuinn, as usual.

If you've got more trackers than you do teeth, than you might be a redneck...err collector.

Yeah JROQuinn, this thread is pointless. why did we post here :P lol

The answer is always subjective, and varies according to each person. But there is a thing I want to recall: there is no rule anti-collector since the term is very vague. A person like JROQuinn could be called collector since he doesn't use all the trackers where he has signed up and he has even been disabled in one of them. However, he hasn't actually broken any rule or caused harm to the tracker's community. He was probably a bad member of that particular tracker but nothing else.

Some of you use the term collector as a derogatory term, but one more time, if I've ever used the term collector in a derogatory way I was referring to people who don't take care of their tracker's contents and communities, people who usually create multiple accounts and want trackers only for their rarity.

On the other hand, if I invite someone and he/she gets disabled because of inactivity it pisses me off since some trackers see this as a sign of irresponsibility by the inviter. That's why I usually give all the information, pros and cons about the tracker in question, to my presumable invitees.
If someone doesn't have an inviter, that is, he signed up when it was open, and then is disabled because of inactivity is ok I guess :)

I consider 5 is too less.....IMO

You may focus on serveral things (ex:anime/movie/tv/ebook/game/console/app/graphic/music)

Sometimes you will use either when you are finding something you want.
It doesn't mean that you are collector.

And more trackers you own,more things you get.Not all thing will be released in single tracker.So you will need to join different tracker to find .

15 trackers and more ,I consider.

You guy's are finally getting there :)

This thread is pointless since you are assuming that a collector can be defined by the number of trackers he/she is a member of. That's totally wrong and that's why it turned into a dilemma to me and I started my own thread to clarify what a collector is (yeah, I can be obsessive sometimes :P) and I came to this conclusion after I have read all the comments here and from my thread:

A collector is someone who joins to every tracker he can and usually prefers higher levels, he is always looking for invites and sites open for singups, but he really doesn't use most of his trackers or just keep a minimum activity on them.

In this definition a collector could be a trader but not necessarily, he could also be an anti-trader who takes care of some accounts but doesn't give a damn about others. A collector could also be that scum who doesn't care about community and sells invites and accounts on ebay. That is, collector is not an insult after all. The most important thing for a collector is rarity and/or contents like collectors in the real world :)

There isn't any direct relation with the number of trackers you are member of, but there is a relation between collectors and this ratio:
trackers you use/trackers you have :).

In collecting number is not important.The point is in rarity.

So there are few collectors in this forum.

some collect cars , some collect old stamps , some collect mouse pads , cd , etc why not trackers ?:)

I collect mothers.

In my basement.

-Sherman

53 is the answer. any less and you really like torrents, any more and you're a filthy whore who just sits around collecting sites for no reason.

as i wrote that i just remembered how many people here cant pick up on sarcasm to save their life... whatever.

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if you have 15-20 trackers and your active on all of them that still doesn`t make you a collector

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thats make you an active collector lol

And you're an active trader lol

:pinch:

-Sherman

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And you're an active trader lol

:pinch:

-Sherman

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me ? lol yes you can say that ... :P

The epithet "collector" really does have a negative connotation; I understand it to be a person who attempts to join various trackers (regardless of difficulty to join) in order to brag about their membership in said trackers, trade invites to boost popularity or reputation (in forums such as these), or trade accounts once they have farmed them to decent upload/download ratio.

Now, back to the OP. Being a member of x trackers doesn't make you a collector; it's what you do on these trackers, obviously. If you're on 30 trackers, and have the time and dedication to be an active member on all of them, and don't use your membership/invites/accounts to gain power or status elsewhere, then you don't deserve a negative title such as "collector".

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to join various trackers (regardless of difficulty to join) in order to brag about their membership in said trackers

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that statement is a contradiction ... why would someone brag about a site thats EASY to join .. . . ..

collectors want the best of the best sites ... tons of them... no collector is going around bragging about being a member of FunFile or sceneleech . . . .

You forgot one little detail in this equation.

I am member at more than 20 sites, but that doesn't make me a collector. That makes me a content whore, because I download old, new, scene, non-scene, music, movies, TV etc. etc.

Many of the things I download I can only find at one or two of those sites.

ppl that register to every open tracker are collectors.
and also ppl that has more than 5 0-day (general) sites (im not talking about sites with rare torrents like zamuda and demonoid im talking about ppl that has its+scl+czone+ iplay ect).
u can use 15 trackers and still not be a collector if every site has differnt use like: tvt for tv ,tl for 0-day ,aom for magic, zamunda for rare things, kg for movies, waffles for music and more..
and ppl that tryig to get rare shit sites ( and say - its for the good community) are collectors too.

20 seems fair there are a lot of good trackers out there

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to join various trackers (regardless of difficulty to join) in order to brag about their membership in said trackers

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that statement is a contradiction ... why would someone brag about a site thats EASY to join .. . . ..

collectors want the best of the best sites ... tons of them... no collector is going around bragging about being a member of FunFile or sceneleech . . . .

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I didn't make that statement very clear, I suppose. I meant that they brag about the number of trackers they're members of, not each specific tracker, although some people do brag about easy trackers to get into (TorrentLeech).

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some collect cars , some collect old stamps , some collect mouse pads , cd , etc why not trackers ?:)

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How many mouse pads do you have to have to be a collector?

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some collect cars , some collect old stamps , some collect mouse pads , cd , etc why not trackers ?:)

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How many mouse pads do you have to have to be a collector?

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Depends on how many cat naps there are allowed in any one day.

Let's cut the bullshit. Who are you people to say what number of trackers means you're a collector?

To each his own FFS. We don't all have the same downloading habits, we don't all like the same things in trackers, so each can join as many sites as he likes.

Like Blue_Skies said, if you like rare shit, only 1 out of 20 sites will have it. So you're a member of those 20 sites, so you can have all the different rare stuff in each.

And 20 is just a random number. I'm sure there's people who are at 30 sites and they're active.

Collectors are people who, no matter how many sites they're in, are in those sites just to use them as bargaining chips, as bragging e-phallus rights, and are members in places where they're not even active, or where they don't even download anything. That's collecting trackers.

If you use your trackers, you're not collecting.

End of discussion!

-Sherman

more than 5.

You can have even 50 trackers.
As long as you use them you are not a collector.
And you can have only 5 trackers.
But if you use only one of them you can consider you self collector.

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You can have even 50 trackers.

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nah i disagree... anyone who is a member of 50 trackers is DEFINITELY a collector... regardless of their claim to be "using" all fifty trackers...

which brings things into a real grey area cause who defines "use" of a tracker... does "using a tracker" simply mean you aren't getting deleted for inactivity? or does it mean you download / upload 1 GB each day ...

adding 50 trackers to a firefox bookmark folder and clicking "open all in tabs" once a week doesn't constitute "use"

So what constitutes use then, expert? :huh:

-Sherman

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So what constitutes use then, expert? :huh:

-Sherman

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you tell me shaman

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adding 50 trackers to a firefox bookmark folder and clicking "open all in tabs" once a week doesn't constitute "use"

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Which torrenting bible is that from then?

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adding 50 trackers to a firefox bookmark folder and clicking "open all in tabs" once a week doesn't constitute "use"

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Which torrenting bible is that from then?

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so you're saying that opening 50 tabs at once just to avoid deletion due to inactivity does consitute use? ok that is your opinion. . .

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Which torrenting bible is that from then?

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so you're saying that opening 50 tabs at once just to avoid deletion due to inactivity does consitute use? ok that is your opinion. . .

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Where does it state what is & isn't use?

Opinions are fine, facts are better.

My opinion it that it has nothing to do with me what others do with their accounts, how many accounts they have and which trackers they belong to, that is up to them & their tracker staff what constitutes use, not me.

If you use the tracker and actually care about it, it's worth having. Collecting is letting an account collect dust and sits there while no one touches it. Why bother even having it in the first place unless you plan on trading it?

I have a lot of trackers but i don't collect them that is just retarded.