Very insightful and truer words have never been spoken and I'd say definitely online friends not "basically" though.
If you know people for years and give only to those you know and trust how much safer can you get.
Snap3r is as solid and stand-up as they come, that's why most who know him trust him implicitly.
How well can you really assess the talent that your trying to recruit from a thread such as this. Based on the biased self interest of the statements of the applicant (and usually the same type of material/sentiments), the short time it takes to review apps, verify some stats, maybe at the very best hear second hand from someone you're familiar with what they might know about an applicant in the brief encounters they've experienced.
Places like IC only recruited into itself a very select few, and only the best of friends invited each other to the rare sites (even in a so called ga you know its going to a good friend).
In all honesty everyone who has ever gotten into a private tracker that they have wanted to be a member of for while (for whatever reason) if they truely love torrenting remembers the excitement of finally being there. It's like being a frickin' kid on Christmas morning. Closed communities like that just enabled people to safely share their invites and that feeling with a few close friends they've grown to know over a period of time.
S#!T, I've wanted to get into FSc for a loooooong time. But I didn't apply in this recruitment thread, to be quite honest because having read all the prerequisites and all the details wanted , and no offense meant, but I don't know you and didn't feel 100% comfortable sharing that info. You don't get that feeling in a place that small.
And before anyone jumps me, I'm in no way knocking FST, this is a cool place too, but they are totally different beasts and you cant compare a ga in one to the other (or even recruiting in one versus the other)
However I do realize that a site rule is a site rule and he wasn't authorized or sanctioned to do what was done. But a little latitude or understanding for a good guy approaching in all humility with a lesson learned and a price paid.
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