former traders

[Swift]

ALL USERS HAVE TRADED !! so stfu .. and don't come here and post that your a saint !

No they haven't. As I have said I did at one point but many many people here have not.

I wouldn't put my hand in a fire for noone

I traded once and it was here

[Artemis]

ALL USERS HAVE TRADED !! so stfu .. and don't come here and post that your a saint !

Your kidding aren't you ? Do you seriously believe everyone trades ? There is absolutely no need to trade if you make a group of friends and become known by simply becoming part of the tracker communities. Feel free to check my post history, I am not a saint, I spam with the best of them yet there has never been a time when I felt the need or urge to trade.

[Swift]

ALL USERS HAVE TRADED !! so stfu .. and don't come here and post that your a saint !

Your kidding aren't you ? Do you seriously believe everyone trades ? There is absolutely no need to trade if you make a group of friends and become known by simply becoming part of the tracker communities. Feel free to check my post history, I am not a saint, I spam with the best of them yet there has never been a time when I felt the need or urge to trade.

probably , I regret trading thats it now maybe you did trade something in your hole life

[cinephilia]

Well, at my beginnings in private torrenting, i knew nothing about the way to get invited in private trackers that would fit my needs, so after signing up into 1 or 2 open trackers, i decided to search more infos about those obscures torrentsites.
So i typed something like "invite torrent" on google and i found a forum (not fst) dedicated to invite exchanges/giveaways. All i can say is that the giveaway section was closed for newcomers, and for me, it seemed to be a kind of "elite section" where people who have contributed in many ways to the forum could offer their invite for free.
So naturally, i lurked a bit in the trading section (the only one i could access to) and i also registered in several forums to try to understand how those forums were working, what was the best way to get invited and not to be taken as a noob nor a freeloader etc..
Let me tell you that trading was quite obviously the trend at this time and i really think that it was the only way for a begginer to get some invites.
Nevertheless, unlike Tudor, i don't regret the few trades i've done in the past cause i made all of them in a good spirit. For example, when i was proposing some cinema-obscura invites, i always put some informations about content and added that if the person was not interested by non-mainstream films, there was no need to contact me as i wouldn't trade with him.
Actually, i wanted it both ways: the tracker i was wishing for and not to waste my invites with "bad apples"... but i quickly understood that the major part of the users contacting me via pm were fucking retarded teenagers only motivated by levels or collecting trackers. How come those illiterate wanted an invite to KG or CO ?
Well, i've done maybe 2 or 3 trades and i finally discover the famous GA section and then, i heard about other forums and so on...
So in some way, i'm a former trader but i do not regret the way i used to trade invites as i did it in a good spirit and also because i thought it was the only way to get invites.

Just to say that for quite some time, many things have changed. Nowadays, many bt related forums are focused on giveaways and warn against trading.
Now, it's quite easy for newcomers to find their place in a forum and get what they need without having to make too much efforts. Lot of bt users are kind enough to help and introduce them to torrenting, to explain them why trading is not in the p2p spirit etc... so yes, i have no pity for all those beggars, hard traders and collectors who abuse of non-traders in the GA section in the intention to collect or trade invites they've been given. Don't get me wrong, i don't hate them (well, i hate some of them lol) but i think it's a good initiative to prevent people from them in giveaways.

[BlackBird_]

ALL USERS HAVE TRADED !!

No no, wrong

I haven't traded and I'm a member of some trackers who supply all my "needs" today.

And I have no problems with ex-traders, as long as they remain this way.

[benficao]

anyone, with some history on torrenting, in the last 4 years have traded!!!

laughs, even at ************* they trade thru the pm´s, its a well known fact!!!!

just put it out , dont be pussies, everyone has traded!!! even thoese super cool admins out there used to trade before!!!!

so sftu all of u hipocratic jerks.

[Albo Da Kid]

If you didn't have no one at the beggining of your torrent experience(like me) to invite you in or to teach you a few things about private trackers, then you most likely have traded or scammed to get in. I admit that my first account was a scam. I had no choice. No one in the torrentfreakForums would look at me unless i had something to trade, so i just had to take what i wanted. After that i dint need to scam or trade anymore because i found fst and discovered about the ga section


Edit:lol I feel like a slut^^...... >>> "why do you act that way"??? - I have no choice. He wont even look at me.. omg!!

[BlackBird_]

anyone, with some history on torrenting, in the last 4 years have traded!!!

laughs, even at ************* they trade thru the pm´s, its a well known fact!!!!

just put it out , dont be pussies, everyone has traded!!! even thoese super cool admins out there used to trade before!!!!

so sftu all of u hipocratic jerks.

Say it for yourself, i'm saying that i've never traded, believe or not, I don't care.

My first private tracker was SCC, and I was invited by a member of a private forum from my country. That time thought TL was the king of the hill, and TL's invite wasn't so hard to get...

IMO everything depends on whether you're in the right place at right time... if you make some friends, you will never need to trade.

[bumrocks]

anyone, with some history on torrenting, in the last 4 years have traded!!!

laughs, even at ************* they trade thru the pm´s, its a well known fact!!!!

just put it out , dont be pussies, everyone has traded!!! even thoese super cool admins out there used to trade before!!!!

so sftu all of u hipocratic jerks.

Classic example of an idiot...The worst kind too...An idiot that thinks he is smart...

[integral]

to be honest, "former traders" are nowhere near as bad as some of the "good" people who constantly spam tracker forums trying to be "active in the community" and kiss up to staff on IRCs just to climb a ladder that doesn't really exists. you know, the tracker whores.