"Anti-Traders, Community Lovers"

[tX]

Honestly, I'm at quite a few trackers, but I find that What.CD (with 55k members) has some of the best forums in the torrent world
Waffles seems decent but I'm not involved there

[Ghost]

I'm still new on here, though trading seems tempting to get a tracker I'm looking for, I put risk of losing my account before thinking about trading it to another trader who would trade it and likely get me disabled. I also know people scam each other for invites or accounts, especially accounts which get disabled because of a change in IP range.

I would rather start building a reputation and make a request. Sadly I've invited someone (and it wasn't a trade) who begged for one and used a ratio cheat until he was disabled. It's listed as a high level tracker here and my only invite.

[Disme]

I have a wee bit of time now that my garden is cleaned, to answer.

@ Squizzle: a little question for you, if you don't mind.
Why do you love to be at some tracker? It's no secret you are a member/staffer at a certain tracker that is way up the WATW-lists floating around everywhere.
Why do you stay there? Why do you like it? Why did you, if you did, signup there in the first place?
Basically there is only a limited amount of answers to a question like that:
- You like the content.
- You like the speeds you obtain there.
- You like the pré-times of the stuff posted.
- You like the people that are in the tracker, because you know them already, or you get to know them and like some of them.
- You are a collector and/or just wanna join or be part of a tracker because it is hard to get into, and because you are a true nobody in real life and you desperately try to achieve something in other 'virtual' worlds like BT.


I wonder why some people always wonder why some phenomenons take place, like the community-issue here.
The whole Torrenting-'scene' is just a reflection of 'real' life, where you can find honest people, trying to achieve something by working hard.
But at the same time there are also people who don't like to put an effort into achieving something and they try to find ways to achieve something in life by stealing, telling lies, pretending to be a good person, trying to disguise their true nature.

They interact with people that have already achieved something in life and they are jealous of these people and will do basically everything to obtain the same.

Bottom line is that a lot of people forget BT is mainly about getting your favourite TV-episode, the movie you like to see, the game you want to play, the CD you would like to hear, the e-book you would like to read.
The fact you make some friends and have a good time is nice, but it shouldn't be the goal to get into a tracker solely because they have a nice community.

The explanation I have read here that some members want to get in a certain tracker because their friends are already a member, is flawed. If they were real friends they would join you at the trackers where you are a member yet, instead of always talking about how great the trackers is where you are not (yet).

P.S. If kyrcer is the same kyrcer I know, than he has every right to have that signature cause he practically lives on a number of tracker forums/Irc-chans.

[Squizzle]

I have a wee bit of time now that my garden is cleaned, to answer.

@ Squizzle: a little question for you, if you don't mind.
Why do you love to be at some tracker? It's no secret you are a member/staffer at a certain tracker that is way up the WATW-lists floating around everywhere.
Why do you stay there? Why do you like it? Why did you, if you did, signup there in the first place?
Basically there is only a limited amount of answers to a question like that:
- You like the content.
- You like the speeds you obtain there.
- You like the pré-times of the stuff posted.
- You like the people that are in the tracker, because you know them already, or you get to know them and like some of them.
- You are a collector and/or just wanna join or be part of a tracker because it is hard to get into, and because you are a true nobody in real life and you desperately try to achieve something in other 'virtual' worlds like BT.

Wheels was my first private torrent site, I was invited by a RL mate 3 years ago, I spent lots of time on it, learnt how it all worked, got to know the people on it, etc.

I was on it for at least 6 months before I even knew another private tracker existed. As far as I was concerned, it was the only one in the world.

Then the same mate that invited me told me about BitSoup, so I signed up there and frequented it almost as much. Used to upload to it and stuff. I enjoyed using BitSoup but never really got involved with their community. I think I got a torrent damage account too, used that for a bit.

Obviously when I became a long-time member and ended up on staff I started finding out more about the other sites out there (FTN, ScT, whatever), eventually invites to them came my way.

It's only recently I've been aware of the wider torrent scene, filesharingtalk, all that.

So there's your answer I guess.

I do have a life, honest. Well, about as much of a life as you can have when you're still at college with very little cash.

[Presto]

"High level" trackers that users mostly request suck in every possible aspect. People just need to come up with a reasonable argument in order to be taken seriously. It's obvious to everyone that "high level" trackers have no decent content, speeds or pre-times whatsoever, so they use the infamous 'community-card'. Most users aren't aware though, that most of these "high level" trackers also have a sucky community and forums with nearly no activity.

A bit off-topic, but here's also a chart that I've come up with after years of hard work n analysin the torrentworld..

[Squizzle]

It's obvious to everyone that "high level" trackers have no decent content, speeds or pre-times whatsoever, so they use the infamous 'community-card'.

Heh, this is where you don't understand.

The high level trackers don't use the community card, or any card for that matter. The high level trackers generally have no say in the fact that they're on that list.

Users wanting to gain access to the trackers for e-penis on the other hand can't say they want them for the content because it's not as good as the more open, bigger, faster sites... so they pull the community card. See?

[Cheeseman1208]

"High level" trackers that users mostly request suck in every possible aspect. People just need to come up with a reasonable argument in order to be taken seriously. It's obvious to everyone that "high level" trackers have no decent content, speeds or pre-times whatsoever, so they use the infamous 'community-card'. Most users aren't aware though, that most of these "high level" trackers also have a sucky community and forums with nearly no activity.

A bit off-topic, but here's also a chart that I've come up with after years of hard work n analysin the torrentworld..

I like the chart. Reminds me of a bell-curve model, which looks more like this:

Users wanting to gain access to the trackers for e-penis on the other hand can't say they want them for the content because it's not as good as the more open, bigger, faster sites... so they pull the community card. See?

The only legitimate reason I can see for anyone to want a high level tracker is that their friends are on it, in which case they'd get invited anyway. Otherwise there is no real reason to want a high level tracker at all.

[KFlint]

we all have to pay respect to your drawing abilities

[dunson]

Where is the nipple?

[Squizzle]

The only legitimate reason I can see for anyone to want a high level tracker is that their friends are on it, in which case they'd get invited anyway. Otherwise there is no real reason to want a high level tracker at all.

You've changed your tune ;-)