"Anti-Traders, Community Lovers"

[Eargasm]

Of the trackers that I'm at, my favorite ones have the best communities. Look at CG for example. It's not high level, but if the doors shut and I was trying to get in damn right I'd say I'm getting in for the community.

In an excellent community people give a flying fuck about the tracker. When people give a flying fuck they are seeding indefinitely. They upload. They contribute. They donate. Good communities are a win win win situations for everyone. So if I hear there is a great community I'm hearing that this is probably a great tracker.

There is also the factor that people want what they can't have, there's e-penis, and there's other unsavory reasons. They do exist; however, different people have different reasons.

[sokrates]

hm i like to be active in the community more in irc chans though.. but i wouldnt put that in a request thread, as you can see from the request i wrote.. it wouldnt be a reason to join a tracker anyways imo but its a reason to join a forum.
and why wouldnt you have answered in this thread, if you had paid attention to the thread starter cheeseman?

[F.B.I]

You guys for real or do you say it in the hope that trackers will be more willing to accept your requests for invites etc?

Explain to me the mentality, if you will.

"I want that tracker for the community, it's nothing to do with it being a high level tracker that I want because it's unattainable, honest" is a hell of a cliché these days

Enlighten me peeps

//Squizzle

Separate your forums from your tracker and then see if they still want in. Those who do, you would have an opportunity to see if you want them access your tracker.

Simple as that.

[Cheeseman1208]

hm i like to be active in the community more in irc chans though.. but i wouldnt put that in a request thread, as you can see from the request i wrote.. it wouldnt be a reason to join a tracker anyways imo but its a reason to join a forum.
and why wouldnt you have answered in this thread, if you had paid attention to the thread starter cheeseman?

Oh, we just got into a small fight, there's still some bad blood between us.

The word "community" has serious identity problems on this site. Community seems to mean exclusivity these days, and it's gotten pretty ridiculous.

This whole rarity thing is actually an interesting social experiment. People seem to want something not because they need it for some purpose, or because they're friends are on it, but rather because other people want it as well. It's interesting to watch people "dream" about sites like FtN, just because other people want it, and members of the site gloat over it. It's no different from hearing about an exclusive party that everyone wants to attend, sucking up to people to get an invitation, then have it not live up to your inflated expectations. Although many "low level sites" can provide anything you could possibly want - good speed, pre, and content - people still decide to go after these exclusive sites just because they're exclusive.

[kooftspc11]

what gets me is the ones that do get into these "high level" trackers (even just the term high lvl is bollocks).

are already in 30 other trackers, and probably have 10 posts in the forum of 27 of them.

and yet they claim to be community members, when really they dont give a shit about any community, its is just for their e-penis.

and its mathematically impossible for everyone to be a member of every site, just be happy with what you have got, and lets be honest, what you have is probably better than an over-inflated high lvl site anyway (no offence to high lvl sites btw).

gosh, the things i would do to your e-penis.....

on a side note...

cliques and buzzwords for people who really dont know any better. self esteem issues pave the way for the need to be leet and trackers fill that void. just take a look around a middle school campus, you will see a parallel which makes your stomach turn

[th0r]

I love how Squizzle hasn't posted once in this entire thread except for the original post; do you even care what we have to say, Squizzle?

[th0r]

Double post!

[xnugx]

Besides high level trackers where it IS hard to get in, community is non-existent really. SCT, TL, BCG, etc. may be lower than FTN, FTWR, but they have ridiculously good content. You get into trackers for different reasons, seldom can a tracker fulfill all of them.

[aysomc]

honestly i dont give a shit about levels but the whole level thing does mean something to me. the higher up a site is i assume the staff and users are more knowledgeable, the forums are probably active and sometimes as a bonus so is the tracker. and the best thing is that 90% of the douchebags that fill these and other forums will never get in them. im not hating on these forums or similar ones, its just that its wide open to anyone and everyone and that means there are a lot of bad seeds scattered among the very few decent ones.

[Squizzle]

I love how Squizzle hasn't posted once in this entire thread except for the original post; do you even care what we have to say, Squizzle?

Yeah but I've like, been at the pub and stuff.

Everyone's voicing opinions, I'm not going to respond to each individual one now am I?

I'll keep watching

All I will say is that personally I think anyone who wishes to be part of a tracker high up on the level list in the first place already has the wrong idea and simply falls into the collector category.

Finding sites, being invited into sites, hearing about sites, it was all so much more rewarding and interesting before I started lurking FST.

It's like there's nothing new left to see any more.

Going back to the topic a bit, I'm just sick of hearing the same old "you see, I'm a community person", or "my final goal is this tracker", or whatever.

As someone else said, if you're going to chat shit like that, you're probably better off trading