Wishfull thinking.
I tend to repeat myself here, but the problem is not the owners of the forum/tracker, it's the BT-population itself that is seriously flawed.
No matter what the aim of these forums/trackers is, a majority of BT-users believes rarity is more important than quality. Some people have serious issues to grasp the meaning of a community, without any other intentions.
You can write 100 or 1000 pages trying to explain what these forums/trackers really are and what it is exactly the are intended for, people will continue to believe it's all about the l33tness and the fact they cannot enter pisses them off.
People should come to terms with the fact they can't be everywhere. And frankly, being a member of all these hard to get into places doesn't make you a star, far from it.
I wish more people would read my sig and reflect about it for some time, and draw the necessairy, and maybe unpleasant conclusion some forums/trackers will come for you if they esteem you will fit into it.
Making friends helps a whole lot, but your goal should be to be a constructive and active part of the trackers/communities where you already reside, instead of chasing trackers/communities without even considering why you want them so badly.
I rest my case.
Last edited by Disme; 02-05-2009 at 01:11 PM.
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I wish more people would read my sig and reflect about it for some time, and draw the necessairy, and maybe unpleasant conclusion some forums/trackers will come for you if they esteem you will fit into it.Thoughtful post, and yes, your sig line is worth reflecting on. Unfortunately those that should get it won't, and those that do, don't need to worry about it. Having said that, I would suggest IMHO that most sites are actually quite open to new membership, the denseness of the filter applied to who they'll let in versus who they won't is obviously unique from one place to the next; but in many of the forums I follow, it is common to see recurring pleas from the userbase asking that fresh blood come in - regardless of whether invites are staff-driven or provided to individual users by merit or request."Why is it that people are hellbent on getting into trackers that don't want or require new members"
Once in, how welcome a new member feels, is driven certainly by the overall feel of the site, but a chunk of it is also by the individual members themselves and how willing they are to either be cool with new members or stick to their own cliques. A good example is FSC. From the moment you join you sense that spirit of community where the boundaries of cliques are much less dense. What makes that so is the ability of the staff to set examples of welcomeness, approachability and helpfulness and it extends itself to how the users deal with each other. On the other hand, I notice in different sites - with roughly the same core userbase (BT Land really is a small community when you think of it) the sense of welcome is markedly different.
A rather interesting social examination when you think about it.
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Interesting. I have heard of the site-good things.
yeah that's right
I was one of those active fl members in that time
Admin wanted it to go p2l, and closed the classic forums creating fileforums
http://www.fileforums.org/
to be one forum for the 3 sites (list, mp3, porn)
Just wonder if FL had smarter admin, how fl would be now, it was one of the best community with the best coders and 150000 when 2004 ended
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