A question for btt tracker 'community' seekers

[1000possibleclaws]

I think it really depends. Some people join some of the "clubhouse" trackers mostly because it's where their friends hang. While, they may have better trackers for content they'll still grab an occasional torrent for their use while uploading a torrent to help out their friends. In regards to tracker forums , most of them suck. I'm not talking activity wise, but design wise. Most of them have a crappy search feature, and lack board features such as new post. I think the poor design of those forums keeps activity down because lazy people (like me) don't feel like going through every category to find something interesting to read.

But yeah, for the most part most of the people on FST that say they are in it for the community are there just to rank up their e-penis. I doubt most of them even go to the irc or look at the forums. Hell once they figure out how lacking the content is at those trackers they'll probably grab enough torrents to keep the account alive. That makes me a saaaad pan-duh.

The fact that they don't download from a tracker that is lacking in content and don't visit a badly designed forum makes you sad? Your post is so contradicting of itself that it's confused me completely on your opinion of these sites

[bumrocks]

Personally, I am one of those that enjoys the community aspect. Torrents can be found almost anywhere. Good people, good conversation, and the like can be difficult at times. Here is a generalization I haven't quite sold myself on but think it may be somewhat true. Unfortunately, I am going to throw the "level" word in on it. It is my opinion (I think) that you find a little better conversation and less douchery in some of the higher level sites and therefore do in fact have a better community aspect and forum conversation. The young and immature are less likely to end up on those sites, imo. Does douchery still happen and do youngins' (as they say here in TN) still get on the site...Yes. And yes, you do get some with super-1337 douchery attitudes cause they are at those sites. But I think there is less of it...And truly I am not sure or sold on this. This may just be a unproven theory. Haven't decided yet...

I do prefer smaller communities. For the most part I do not care for spam. Post count doesn't mean a thing...Post content and quality is what I appreciate and enjoy. Occasional spam for "fun" threads is ok if it is not abused.

I enjoy learning things and sharing info...Therefore, I do look for good communities in trackers. My favorite and most used trackers have what I consider the best communities/forums.

Added edit: Something that is was mentioned earlier is in regards to the same users at trackers...This is very true. Hence I spend time outside trackers and in forums like this one looking for something new to learn or chat about as opposed to the same old thing. I do something like stoi mentioned too, but to a more severe degree...At times I will completely leave a forum alone for days or even longer so that when I do come back to it there are fresh threads and possibly something new to talk about. Often times hours and/or even days isn't enough. I've had trouble finding threads here at FST as of late that peaked my interest as alot of them have and will continue to be like many threads before it and many more to come. But like another analogy used earlier, this forum has so many users that with patience and plenty of reading you can find good topics...As opposed to the smaller communities. See! I think I am already contradicting what I said above!

Fook...I'm beginning to screw up my post. So I am going to stop!

[Sanka113]

T.S.O.L, sorry about my post. It combined my personal opinion on the matter of why someone should want to community trackers, and the reality of why people joining those trackers. Which to have them only as trophies.

[Something Else]

I don't see much use in 'community' trackers myself. It's content that matters more than anything in my opinion. I use usenet for any scene stuff so have no need for 0day or community 0day trackers in terms of content.

I didn't expect that from you..
Isn't it ironic to say so, when your own site is thriving on the "community" aspect??

If you'd ever been a member of iTS like you claim you have, you'd know it is not a community based site.

[TheFoX]

What is community spirit? It is when people gel together, and become virtual friends.

If you sit on the IRC channels of some of those community orientated trackers, you can often see banter between virtual mates. This extends to offers of uploading material that has been personally requested.

And this is the knub. A community orientated trackers caters more closely to the needs of it's members because everyone pulls in the same directly (generally).

You may find more content on TPB, but people there are nameless entities who you may never meet again.

[puckface]

I still dont understand this community thing.

If a community consists of a forum with 10 posts a day in it and an IRC channel where 14 year old call each other 'faggot' all day, then yeah I get the community thing. Otherwise, I dont know what the hell people are talking about, its just an reason for people to justify their interests in getting into rare of small trackers.

Everyone knows its about levels, plain and simple. Community is just an excuse.

Oh I also forgot, its also a word that tracker staff/admins use to justify their existence, otherwise they would be exactly the same 0-day tracker as every other of the 100 0-day trackers.

[stoi]

@TheFoX sorry but i do have to sort of disagree with you there.

A: why would someone come into IRC to see if someone wants what they have, if it has already been requested, surely they would just upload it, as it had been requested.

B: We just recently let everyone upload and fill requests about 3 months ago, we have 4000 more torrents on the tracker, 1,000+ requests have been filled, and 60 in the last 5 days, not bad when all we do is games, and nothing else.

But we are not seen as a community tracker, we are seen as a specialized tracker with a lot of members, but to me and obviously i will say this, our community is on par or better than all the other trackers out there, OK we have some idiots, but who doesnt.

So just because you are a small userbase and people tend to go out of thier way to help each other, does not mean that the bigger trackers are not similar, just on a larger scale.

PS:I am not getting at small trackers here, i am just sick of hearing these so called Community Trackers (small), and all the big trackers have no Community, well that is just bollocks and most know it.

PPS: Since 2008-10-05 09:06:16 GMT we have had 37635 torrent comments, and we do not allow crap like some trackers do to be posted, so if that is not community, i dont know what the hell is lol