Let's talk about BT

[IdolEyes787]

You create an opinion based on experience as Duckater says and the same holds true about people.
If I edited ever stupid thing that came out of people's virtual mouths how could anyone tell who was a fool and who wasn't?

[Duckater]

You create an opinion based on experience as Duckater says and the same holds true about people.
If I edited ever stupid thing that came out of people's virtual mouths how could anyone tell who was a fool and who wasn't?

Thats easy to answer, you would be the fool for wasting so much time

Sorry could not resist

[cap87]

Criticizing and flaming are 2 separate things. Nothing is reason to flame someone, even if that person is flaming you. There's constructive criticism, you can say "your site sucks" or "I think your site needs to improve, x and x are not good on your site and you could improve it doing x or x". You picked sites criticism but the same goes for members flaming each other. There's no reason to be "the bad guy". Sure, it's fun flaming, but it takes you nowhere.

What i believe is that sometimes there is a certain confusion between mocking and flaming, not criticizing

[IdolEyes787]

You create an opinion based on experience as Duckater says and the same holds true about people.
If I edited ever stupid thing that came out of people's virtual mouths how could anyone tell who was a fool and who wasn't?

Thats easy to answer, you would be the fool for wasting so much time

Sorry could not resist

NP I'm a fool for a lot of reasons.

[Sonnentier]

All I can say is, don't take all this bt stuff too seriously. It's just sending files from one to another. There are many people that feel they are mighty in "bt world" (maybe they need to compensate something), but you do not need to support this. I don't see why you would need to - In the end they are just small illegal groups, receiving content from somewhere else and isolating that and themselves from the outside world.

[Benjamin]

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What constitutes trolling then? Make no mistake, I agree with your statement, but what is the difference between critique and flame? The problem lies in the fact that we all define those two things differently, so one mans criticism is another mans slap in the face.

If you watch someone's posts over time you will know if they are for real or not. Flame should be taken lightly I mean this is the internet, and respect to you for going through those bash threads and taking something from it.

I found in this torrent community there's a lot more serious business people who can't tolerate flame from people like somebody has personally insulted them. People like that are no fun, and they feed the real trolls who only exist because they take everything so seriously.

[Intr4ns1t]

All I can say is, don't take all this bt stuff too seriously. It's just sending files from one to another. There are many people that feel they are mighty in "bt world" (maybe they need to compensate something), but you do not need to support this. I don't see why you would need to - In the end they are just small illegal groups, receiving content from somewhere else and isolating that and themselves from the outside world.

See, I think it's moved past being just a bunch of small groups sharing files in isolation. Don't most trackers have a power user forum dedicated to invites to other trackers? To me that signifies a desire on the part of those trackers to deisolate themselves. It's an example of cross site cooperation and trust, and a good sign that we are part of a bigger culture than just the individual sites we belong to.

Many sites share info on bad users as well as good users, and for good or bad, that is a sure sign that the people running those sites are of the same belief. We are all taking a risk by providing the service we do, and care and seriousness are called for when risk is at hand.

[Rart]

Haven't been around much but can't miss the opportunity to post in a thread thats actually on topic for the most part

Why do you use bit torrent, and why to the degree that you use it?

I use it to steal files . I don't want to pay 30-40 bucks for just a season of a TV show I might not like in the first place. My opinions on games tend to be drastically different from review sites such as IGN and as such I almost never know whether I'm really going to like a game (IE I hated Oblivion but loved Prototype, both of which seemed to get quite contrasting reviews).
And if a game is done well enough, I always end up buying it to play the multiplayer to the full extent that it's available. My single player attention span is mediocre at best, but I love MP as I'm pretty competetive and a major sore loser. So basically I use BT for games and TV shows, and not really too much else as I don't really listen to music very much. I have DLed a couple apps like WinRAR so I don't have to click that goddamn popup every time .

What do you feel is the ideal tracker for you, and are you a member of a site that fills those requirements?

I think it's a site that's easy to seed or has a good bonus system to make up for that. What's the point of downloading files if you have to constantly worry about whether it will kill your ratio? Takes the fun out of it . And yes, I feel like I'm a member of a couple sites that fufill that .

Do you feel you are on enough trackers, and what do you think is too many trackers?

I really feel like I am on enough trackers right now. I use to join the new trackers on blogs to check them out and see what's new, but once you've seen a couple of them you've seen them all. New 0day sites that really don't bring anything interesting to the table aren't needed at all, and I've learned to be rather skeptical of new trackers. I have what I need already so why join others? I'm set. I think too many trackers is too the point where you log on to the site for a second every day from your bookmarks just to avoid pruning. If thats all your doing, you probably already have another tracker that fills that niche and don't need another one.

What do you see the politics of BT entailing, and does it affect your actions in this field?

I really despise of BT politics and I think I've expressed my opinions of it in quite a few threads here. People get wrapped up in this world of "leetness" and awsomeness from owning/being on a secret tracker, and people from this forum constantly throw punches about past mistakes. We also get threads like "zomg pedros spending donation money!!!111" and random scene notices "warning" tracker owners to stop leeching their files and "hacking" personal files from people like the ST admin just to show they can. We're just here to share and discuss files, not find how who has a bigger epenis .

Do you think there is an ethos necessary when interacting, and if so, what does it consist of? By this I mean what do you think the "morals" of BT are, if you think there should be.

I think the only real ethos needed is not randomly attacking members to the point where its degenerating, or attacking their "l33tness". Random, unrelated insults are unnecessary. If you have a valid on topic point about another person and can express it well, so be it. That's whats great about this forum, no one will ban you for having a negative opinion of almost ANYTHING. But it gets to a point when short, offtopic remarks about other members that really annoy me.

On another note, as I kinda think I saw a while back Idoleyes raised a good point in another thread. We should'nt use the word "steal" when talking about sites stealing other sites releases and stuff. It is kind of hypocritical.

Good thread by the way, got me thinking .

Edit: I just noticed, I tend to use a lot of smilies in my posts o.0

[Bad-Day]

I had no idea, they share good info about the users...... That comes has a surprise to me.

"We should'nt use the word "steal" when talking about sites stealing other sites releases and stuff. It is kind of hypocritical."

So true!

[sear]

Yes of course they do.

If sites have an agreement to share info (and this usually comes down to personal relationships between staffers) they may come to you and say look I'm thinking something about this member I know he's on your site so what's he been like on your tracker...or can you confirm this is the same guy I want to invite him or promote him or whatever. Though most information sharing is about bad members.