If you could turn back the clock....

**megabyteme** · 02-06-2010, 03:38 PM

Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

Originally Posted by megabyteme

I have not even been on FST for a full year yet (anniversary on April 15 if anyone wants to get me anything I wear an XL

).

That's my birthday .True story.

We'll have to spam the heck out to this place to celebrate!

**IdolEyes787** · 02-06-2010, 05:11 PM

OK but how will I be able to tell the difference?

**anon** · 02-06-2010, 05:22 PM

If I had never discovered private trackers I guess I'd be still be using Fulldls.com (or another indexer with less junk after that became what it is now) and waiting a month for DVDs to finish downloading.

Or maybe Ares...

**dvdasacd** · 02-06-2010, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by cinephilia

you're all mentionning BT dramas like it affected you in some way... c'mon, there's nothing difficult in ignoring all this crap as long as you're not involved in these so-called dramas.

+11111

The bottom line is to not take things too seriously (at any stage of the game) and have fun. Let's be honest: drama can actually be entertaining to watch (

), and as long as you are sensible yourself you have very low chances of being "burnt" in a drama yourself (I'm talking about the staffing experience here). If anyone got burnt chances are the biggest factor that contributed to that was that they were taking things too seriously.

And whatever happens around you, shouldn't affect your experience that you have with your few favorite and great sites/communities in which you partake. That's all I do, and that's all I care about.

It is very sad but I feel the bt community is nowhere near united/connected as much as it once was. I still believe one should try to care about the wider bt community and its welfare (i.e., the welfare of not only the tracker(s) in which you are involved, but others too) and alliances between sites are good and healthy, but gee - it's obvious that some "leading" staffers don't care about anything but themselves and their OWN site (and egos) so I think that one has to be seasoned in not caring TOO much about what's going on in the rest of the scene and just do one's own thing...

To answer OP's question: I love music and I love file sharing, they're too big passions which have come together in the form of what most of my bt activities are based around. If I could turn the clock back four years, and had the knowledge I have now, I would use that to join OiNK WAY back in 2005 rather than be stuck at demonoid for three years before finally finding out how to get into what.cd and the rest of the private trackers in late 2008...