What makes a Private Tracker popular?

[anonymous0711]

wait were they asking what we look for in a tracker and what makes it "popular"(i guess thats what its asking tho its kind of out of context in this situation) to us, or is it asking what we feel makes it popular to other ppl?

EDIT: i just assumed it was what we think makes it popular to others

[Aristocles]

Well, question was "What makes a Private Tracker popular?" not "What I like about tracker (or something like that)".

So here's the formula how to make a popular tracker (only works for the start, if your tracker won't be any good, popularity will drop in a short time).

First thing to do - get a catchy name with the.net in the end (this is must have).
Second thing - it must be ratioless. It's the new hit, everything ratioless is popular nowadays.
Third - get a nice layout/design to attract users showing your reviews on FST or any other filesharing forum, but remember, showing pic's of your tracker is forbidden...
Last thing - get a nice review on torrentfreak.

This is how things work nowadays...

So my vote goes for "Media and hype".

You are quite correct as to the question! Somehow I managed to completely lose sight of the interrogatory itself.

[Artemis]

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, or even if they did more than sleep in their own drool during maths class, but it seems the board has had a major brain fart
If you add up the percentage of voters for each option in the poll the total comes to 213.74%
tesco what the fuck have you done

[anon]

Check posts #27 and #28.

[Artemis]

still seems bizarre that you can have a percentile greater than 100, I can understand that from the coder's point of view it would be the easiest way to add up the totals in a multichoice poll but damn !

[Night0wl]

I believe media and hype is what makes a tracker popular, but personally it's content, retention, speed and fast load times. Anything else is just things that make it even better.

I find myself quite often going to one place to search and another to download. Quite simply because the first one is fast as hell, but a bitch to seed back on.

[Quarterquack]

Depends on the time. For example, if a tracker like HDBits goes down, I'm stuck looking for both, a community, and content. If a tracker like GFT goes down, I'm stuck looking for purely content. If both are up, then for the most part, I'm content. This is not to say I wouldn't join a tracker, I sometimes do, and sparingly regret not joining said tracker earlier.

Primarily, I join trackers for content, as I'm sure a lot of people do the same. Since summer has just started (university's out, yay) I've been job hunting, and there's this one guy hiring a website coder/designer (I'm no prodigy, but I have style), so as of late, I've been collecting the sort of material that would help me do that work promptly, and while TPB is a great resource, I'm not going to wait on a torrent for a week to end up downloading. Now, for a person in my position, the last thing on my mind would be the elitism of the community, rather I would chase after how much its content has been hyped.

Not all the leetness factor works, or we'd have thousands of people flooding this place looking for WDMA trackers, which to my understanding, you only have a chance getting into if you were part of the original WDMA. Similarly, not all the "ease-of-getting-into works", otherwise most people would be happy with their IPT/TL fix. Whether people would agree with me or not, we all want to "feel good", and that sparks people chasing FTN, or people chasing WDMA the same. I remember posts on ScT like "We're the kings of the internet" were not uncommon, yet people enjoyed the place (and so did I); because not only did we get the files we needed, we also got a little bit of elitist exclusivity along with it.

That given, I would be especially surprised if anyone could, without even hesitating a little bit, say they would ignore one/more of the options you listed. Maslow's theory/laws apply here. People just need to satisfy different levels of their private tracker needs at different times/intervals. Hierarchical speaking, I'm sure content would be one of the lowest needs, while others like elitism would be one of the highest.

[n00bz0r]

1337ness + Hype + Acute shortage of invites.
That goes a long way in makin a site famous and their staff ego and power tripping megalomaniacs.

[dandraesley]

Ok, BT community is still BT community then, be it for people out there and for FST member. People still sought for content and speed at tracker.

But the conclusion to make a new tracker grow big is in order:
1. Media and Hype
2. Eliteness
Then go for most sought after by real user:
3. Content and uploader
4. Speed and Retention.

I'm just want to see your point of view about private tracker aspects.
BTW, if content was a priority why trading and even selling exist in the first place?

[anon]

BTW, if content was a priority why trading and even selling exist in the first place?

Because of the first two points in your list.