Originally Posted by
TrueSounds
His story.
Since TrueSounds posted his story, I will post mine. It's not a fairy tale. Some of you may recognize it. I don't care. TrueSounds and I were members here over a year ago. The first contact I had with him was when he pm'ed me on Tranceroute and asked how we could get karma points. That's what I remember anyway. He and IdolEyes are two of the better people here. Much better than me for sure. So I will post this because the first time I referenced my past here the post was in moderation and I don't feel the need to hide or be anonymous.
I was involved in a forum a few years ago completely unrelated to filesharing. One day, a thread pops up about being able to download free porn. I jump on it and sign up at cheggit. It took me some searching to figure out what this bittorrent was about, but I figured it out in the name of Fap.
I used cheggit for a while, then realized one day that there must be more than porn on bittorrent. So I began to search on google. I found torrentz (I assumed the z was necessary to get the good stuff). I found torrentz public indexer and then mininova and then through the tracker, the pirate bay. I used that for a while.
On The Pirate Bay there were references to Demonoid, supposedly the best tracker ever. So I began to seek that out. I found an invite on EBay for like $10 and tried to buy it. I must have messed up during signup and never got the confirmation or something. Disappointment.
A week or two later, I suddenly get an email with an invite. I sign up and wow am I amazed that my seeding efforts don't go unnoticed. I now can watch my ratio get calculated and wow look at all those files and all those peers!
Shortly thereafter Demonoid goes down. I search google for answers and stumble upon FST. I didn't bother registering, but read about a few open signup lists. I tried dozens of sites. The first that seemed to feel right was Bitsoup. I used it for a few months and learned about seeding and connectability and uploading and the scene etc.
Then I decided I wanted something else, something that the users who uploaded torrents had, Scenetorrents, which was for me the source of torrents.
I came to FST and opened an account, dunson, which I'm sure some remember. I posted often and suddenly pm's started appearing inviting me to sites and forums. I applied for a few giveaways and within a few months I was a member of many, many trackers. Too many.
But, as some may know, I blew it. Depressed in real life and generally pissed off at torrents for distracting me in part (most of it was weed) while I lost a major scholarship ($80k down the drain and choices I couldn't begin to explain to anyone here), I decided to get revenge. I gave away or "traded" almost all of my accounts. I put trade in quotes because I never wanted or needed the account I was receiving.
In hindsight, I don't know why I thought that would help me feel better. But with some time, I was alright. I began using newsgroups and enjoyed that a lot (still do).
When I stopped smoking weed and rationalized my mistakes in real life, I saw that I had made a real mistake. I've tried to do better this time around.
I started using torrents again this spring when I got a fast new connection and a very nice new pc with which I wanted to share files again rather than just leech from usenet. I found an open signup at Pretome. I used that site for a while. I talked to the admins at FTN and got my account reenabled. I came back here several times, mostly got banned, but eventually I wore the admins down (they look out for you guys more than you could know). And I got invites to many sites and signed up to check out newcomers.
Now, I use torrents sometimes, switching between SCT or SCC or FTN or especially PTM based on what I want or the mood I'm in that day. I use newsgroups too. And rapidshare lately. But I dvr most of my shows and try to download just what I missed in theaters. So I want much less files than I used to. And I don't care much about posting on sites or idling in irc or uploading tons of gbs.
By many accounts, I'm a horrible member of this community. Yet, I don't think that's fair. I just don't fit in properly with the types of people who sign up and follow every rule to the T and never question anything. In general, I think most reasonable people I've met here and there know me as a pretty good guy.
Whatever. That's my long story. Some of you hate me. Most don't care. I'm just here to post for fun and pass the time.
. I kept seeding for months trying to get the power user status (never reached the goal though).
there were chat rooms in soulseek, and i was talking to some random people about music and someone just offered me an invite to oink.me.uk (RIP!). I had no idea that I was super lucky to get an invite to that music heaven, but I learned fast and started downloading music and building my ratio
It wasn't long before I got the oink power user status I was craving for
. I kept uploading at max speed every time I could and kept building up my ratio.
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. I kept seeding for months trying to get the power user status (never reached the goal though).
It wasn't long before I got the oink power user status I was craving for
. I kept uploading at max speed every time I could and kept building up my ratio.
.
).
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