Why do people want so much FTN?

[fisherman]

The answer is plain and simple for me why I want/use FTN anyway.

The site/tracker is very secure, it has all the latest scene releases with quite fast pre times, it has a very good community and.... there is no ratio!!

The no ratio is a big factor. A lot of torrenters use seedboxes to build up they're ratio's. For some very good trackers having a seedbox "was" nearly a must. I used a seedbox for a very long time but I've knocked it on the head for a couple of months as it was quite expensive as you get what you pay for when it comes to seedboxes. So to be able to go one to a tracker and not have to worry about ratio as long as you follow the rules is great.

Everybody to their own, but I'm glad to be part of FTN anyway.

[pwarrier]

F*N has it all ..... speed , rarity , community ........etc a big list ..... it has lot of packs in it .. ratio system is koolll ....a great group of staffs ..... what else can you ask for ?? i am not a member ...i have heard this from many and also to some extent u can know from the review .... i had a chance to enter provided by B but my post count here mattered ...... F*N is a tracker where ppl with slow speed also can survive .... so definitely the reasons are many to get into F*N .

[The Wanderer]

If you don't want it leave. But you will eat your words very soon.

I fully agree with that. In spite of all said in this topic, FTN is and always be a great tracker. There is something really special about this tracker imo and it has nothing to do with speeds, pretimes etc. People are actually very proud to be members of FTN and I've never see anywhere else this thing.

People are also very friendly and ready to help you with any problem you might have. If you have a low speed connection, than this tracker is for you. You can download anything and if you can't make a 1:1 ratio, you'll have to seed for only 48 hours (although this might change soon, if Brandon decides to revolutionize... yet again... the way we know the torrent world).

[IP.00]

When are other trackers with much more files and with excelent speeds

It is not about files..

[Disme]

I am no member of FTN so i'll restrain from venting my opinion about FTN. One should not talk about things one doesn't know.

What I do know is that this whole thread can be summarized into a few sentences, without the need of spending 18+ pages filled with bold statements from various members, some of them qualified to express their opinions, some others just wanting to vent their frustrations for not getting into FTN, and some others that are judgemental just because they are members at other trackers than FTN.

There are some things in this thread though I would like to react to because i find them a little odd.

On page 8 you (Brandon) say this:

if I wanted to create hype.. why would I close invites? Explain that one.. No sense in creating hype about a site that nobody can get into.

Do people want to get into FTN because access is hard. If you are honest with yourself you have to admit that a lot of people want to get in just for that reason. The demand is far greater than the supply. That is a universal law of economics and although I do not consider the 'BT-world' as the real world I have to say that some symptoms of the 'real' world apply to the 'BT-universe'.

By closing the invites you made it even more difficult to get into FTN, thus creating even smaller supply, ergo people will start to try even harder to get into FTN. Indeed...if you closed the invites for ever, and never let anymore new members into FTN and no FTN user would ever trade his/hers account than I would agree with you that closing the invite system wouldn't create a hype.

Once it would be clear for all the invite/account-diggers that there was 0% chance to get in you would have succesfully stopped the FTN hype.

I don't claim that all users are interested in FTN because of it's difficulty to get in, but surely a vast majority of them considers this fact (conscious or unconscious) as their main reason to get into FTN.

Second fact is that a lot of FTN-members are expressing their opinions about the tracker and I see a lot of positive points...the no-ratio system...the speeds...the content...the friendlyness of the staff...the warm and hearty athmosphere...maybe not the best but still very decent pré-times, etc...
This is the second reason why people want to join FTN...they hear some great things about the tracker (I am not claiming they are true because I cannot judge about that). If you would take a tracker that is as difficult to join as FTN, but without all these things the FTN members like so much, that 'hype' wouldn't last all that long imho.

I don't see the point of writing 100's of posts when the answer is really straightforward, but I believe it is only straightforward if you aren't in some way subjective because of greed, envy or vendetta.

Let every FTN-member decide if they like it or not...if they don't, they should ask the staff to delete their accounts and move on to another tracker that would fullfill their needs better.

In general I find it very courageous of you to come here to FST (and stay here) to defend your tracker, Brandon. You have not been spared by other peoples comments and keep answering them, although I am sure if I were you I would have stopped replying to those insults long ago.

Enough with my ass-kissing intermezzo ... there's something else I would like to point out about this thread.

Something has happened between ScT and FTN ... I don't know what and frankly I don't really care. I've seen a lot of threads about FTN and a whole lot of them just end in the comparison between those two trackers, sometimes it ends rather calm but most of the time it takes some mod's interference because the flaming is never far away.

You seem like a reasonable person and that is why I find it strange that you post things like this:

PS: I love how your signature says "Won't reject SCT invite "
Who's the one licking sct's balls?

SCT and SCC aren't the only ones on Spa... I'm sure they'll know what i'm talking about.

I was just hinting that I know what topsite sct and scc use, and gave the first 3 letters of the name, also hinting that it's not some big secret. Just because a torrent site can charge users for GB's and make a ton of money and pay for topsite axx and gbit servers doesn't mean they're a better site.
FTN pays for no axx, yet we're on the exact same site. To me that says a lot. Let me give you an example, keep in mind sct did this using an auto, we did it as a manual (you can see auto's on ftn by the torrent having FTN- in front of the .torrent name).
FTN uploading it manually (this takes longer)
What.Happens.In.Vegas.R5.LINE.DVDR-mVs
Uploaded 5m, 34s after pre
SCT using an auto (it's immediate)
What Happens In Vegas R5 LINE DVDR-mVs
Uploaded 4 mins, 59 secs after pre.
30 seconds.
All i'm saying is, we're just as capable.

Although you said yourself somewhere in these 18 pages you don't want this topic to evolve into a comparison between FTN and ScT you are giving yourself a very bad example.

Nobody asked, nor really needs to know the info about where ScT gets it's releases. Same goes for the pay for invites ... I think everybody knows by now how the invite-system works at ScT.
The fact you get your hands on the releases for free and ScT isn't, is really not important and anybody could come here and claim things like that, without any proof.

You yourself are starting to compare FTN with ScT (and S*C) without a real reason. It is much more credible if you just defend your tracker by naming all the positive points that were pointed out by the members of FTN that already posted here and in various other threads, than saying why you are a good tracker in comparison to others and in the mean time talking sh*t about them.

Off course I am well aware you could dismiss this post because you don't know me, because i am not an FTN member, or it would be easier for you to think I'm just another ScT-fanboy, but I can honestly tell you that I am in now way influenced when I write this and I mean this as a word of advise.

Have a nice day.

[NZBZ4U]

Had it a long time ago was not impressed,gave the account away.

[Disme]

so called top sites.

FTN isn't a top site ... it's a high lvl tracker

[BadFungus]

so called top sites.

FTN isn't a top site ... it's a high lvl tracker

How would you know if you dont have it ?!

Man and to think i really read all that crap of a testament you wrote for in the end you go and say something completely against all you have "advised" to Brandon.

Man you are full of idealisms , arent you ?

[NZBZ4U]

so called top sites.

FTN isn't a top site ... it's a high lvl tracker

let me rephrase it's a so called high lvl tracker just like the other lvl 9's
very over rated.

[Disme]

FTN isn't a top site ... it's a high lvl tracker

How would you know if you dont have it ?!
Man and to think i really read all that crap of a testament you wrote for in the end you go and say something completely against all you have "advised" to Brandon.

I don't know exactly what you are referring to, but I believe you misunderstand me if i say FTN isn't a topsite. A topsite is something entirely different than a tracker.

Man you are full of idealisms , arent you ?

I just tend to write what I think and what I stand for. you may like it or not ... I do it anyway.

Thanks a lot for reading my testament

FTN isn't a top site ... it's a high lvl tracker

let me rephrase it's a so called high lvl tracker just like the other lvl 9's
very over rated.

You shouldn't rephrase what I wrote. I don't judge FTN cause I am not a member.