Best way to get your foot in the door? (Metaphorically speaking)

[orfik]

Get into an easy site you don't mind losing, just to get used to the ratio system, uploading torrents, etc. Try Libble or STmusic. Hang out in the forums, make friends, don't be a douchebag, and you'll have access to wherever you want. Also, be careful with this place. Many members of the high-ranking sites don't think highly of it.

[IdolEyes787]

Also, be careful with this place. Many members of the high-ranking sites don't think highly of it.

List of things to do
1.Acquire mind reading ability so that I will know what other people that I have never met are thinking.
2.Attempt to care.

[vicious]

1. Try getting into the trackers you want when you know the invites are open
2. Ask friends whether they have the tracker you wanna sign up to
3. if the answer to step 3 is no, make new friends and dump the old ones they are losers anyhow. j/k

[ca_aok]

Sorry for the epic bump, but I thought this post would be useful for any new members who are thinking of trading their way into the BT community.

Only one year after I made this post, I managed to get onto almost every torrent site I wanted, including some which aren't even mentioned here . Basically started at What.CD, became Power User, and got into other trackers through the Invite forum. Then eventually I made friends through the forums/IRC and got into some of the harder to find trackers. So in one short year, I went from having nothing but Demonoid to having two of the "Level 9" trackers as they're listed here. However it's worth noting that as the tracker level increases the sites don't always get better... What.CD is still my favourite torrent site, even though it's easy to get into... I know a bunch of people in the community, I'm pushing towards Torrentmaster, and I find I feel more at home there than at smaller high level trackers. Sure, they have a bunch of rare stuff and that's part of the appeal, but the smaller community means less activity and a smaller selection of torrents overall, even if there are some great packs on the higher level sites.

So I guess the moral of the story here is you don't need to resort to trading to succeed, the people who gave me advice were right. Get into a lower level site, upload, get active in the community, push for power user and make friends, then slowly work your way towards your goals. And definitely be generous with what you have... one of my higher level tracker invitations came from a guy I met in another music tracker's IRC channel who didn't have What.CD, so I extended him one of my invites no questions asked. Then when it came up a few days later in conversation that he was on an unmentionable tracker, he was perfectly happy to request an invitation for me.

[Something Else]

Sure, they have a bunch of rare stuff and that's part of the appeal, but the smaller community means less activity and a smaller selection of torrents overall, even if there are some great packs on the higher level sites.

Do they really have rare stuff? Do they really have great packs?

I don't think so. I think most sites have exactly the same shite. Whether level 1 or level brazzilion. It's only specialised trackers that carry anything unique. The majority of which are not high up the tard level system.

[Villalltheway]

Sure, they have a bunch of rare stuff and that's part of the appeal, but the smaller community means less activity and a smaller selection of torrents overall, even if there are some great packs on the higher level sites.

Do they really have rare stuff? Do they really have great packs?

I don't think so. I think most sites have exactly the same shite. Whether level 1 or level brazzilion. It's only specialised trackers that carry anything unique. The majority of which are not high up the tard level system.

Agreed there seems to be a miss conspetion the rarer the tracker the more rarer stuff and better content they have, majority of these general 0day trackers have 99% of the same content.

[IdolEyes787]

I get my rare stuff off of TPB .True story.

[ca_aok]

I was referring more to the content-specific higher end sites (for example E) rather than the 0-days. The packs aren't generally rare stuff but they're nice compilations when you want to download a bunch of related stuff at once, they're often good ways to discover new movies, music, etc, and they're generally freeleech which is always nice. For regular 0-day stuff I generally get my stuff from GFT since the pretimes are better. The whole level system is ridiculous anyway, half that thread is outdated based on current difficulty of getting into sites and the reviews are all horribly outdated (the What.CD review is pre-gazelle lol). I've been disappointed by many higher end trackers that didn't live up to their hype and I don't use them that often. However there are a few that I like to frequent based on their content and their community. As I stated earlier What.CD is still my favourite site, and it's easy to get into now assuming you can answer a few music encoding questions in IRC. However the smaller sites are nice because people generally comment and thank you for your uploads, and there's a much higher number of snatches proportional to the number of members on the site.

[NippleCake]

I get my rare stuff off of TPB .True story.

Yep, They have so much that private trackers do not have.

[Villalltheway]

However the smaller sites are nice because people generally comment and thank you for your uploads, and there's a much higher number of snatches proportional to the number of members on the site.

No offence not trying to be argumentative but i really disagree with that, u hardly get any or if any comments on torrents at smaller trackers compared to big trackers. It just wouldnt make sence for that to happen.