Where Has This Been My Whole Life

[Waddafocky]

No, I'm not a purist and I don't have much bandwidth to spare. But tell me, do you still troll headers? No - you search what you're looking for. And that's what I meant - there's a lot of shit out there, but if you look, there's gold.

[Detale]

The way I look at it is that BT is what you do until you go Usenet. BT is kind of like pirate adolescence. We all grow up sometime. Welcome to the club bud

[Waddafocky]

You're right. It's kind of like what WoW is to real life, except both BT and Usenet are virtual and non-essential.

Private BT provides achievement and e-penis in a way that is totally irrelevant to real life, and appeals more to teenagers. Usenet is more practical - you just get what you want out of life, and appeals more to people who just don't have the time or don't want to spend it mucking around with teenagers intent on e-penis.

[Detale]

Don't get me wrong. I still like some BT sites I'm a member of,community and all that. Also sometimes BT will have that rare item that can't be found elsewhere.

[anon]

Private BT provides achievement and e-penis in a way that is totally irrelevant to real life, and appeals more to teenagers.

I saw this and your comment on another thread about the cons of private BT being having to suck the sysops' dicks on IRC and stuff like that, and while that often holds true, what about torrenters that couldn't care less about e-penis? I'm talking about people that are on a tracker they like, grab the stuff they want, and seed it back, without involving themselves in the "community" any more than making a torrent comment every now and then.

That was me when I used BT, by the way. No forums, no IRC, no shit.

[heiska]

Private BT provides achievement and e-penis in a way that is totally irrelevant to real life, and appeals more to teenagers.

I saw this and your comment on another thread about the cons of private BT being having to suck the sysops' dicks on IRC and stuff like that, and while that often holds true, what about torrenters that couldn't care less about e-penis? I'm talking about people that are on a tracker they like, grab the stuff they want, and seed it back, without involving themselves in the "community" any more than making a torrent comment every now and then.

That was me when I used BT, by the way. No forums, no IRC, no shit.

LMAO. You kinda lost all your credibility with the ratio cheater program, y'know.

/me waits for the flame.

[anon]

Bleh. That's been discussed to death already.

[sandman_1]

The way I look at it is that BT is what you do until you go Usenet. BT is kind of like pirate adolescence. We all grow up sometime. Welcome to the club bud

++ this

LOL, I was bored and thought I would analyze your sig Detale. Who is it for?

[Waddafocky]

If anon lost all his credibility, would that make him incredible? Because I certainly think so.

Also, I am obviously making a generalization about a minority of the private BT community (oxymoron lol ohoho). It doesn't hold true for most members of a private torrent site, but I'm assuming that most people on this board aren't the regular users.

[mjmacky]

Private BT provides achievement and e-penis in a way that is totally irrelevant to real life, and appeals more to teenagers.

I saw this and your comment on another thread about the cons of private BT being having to suck the sysops' dicks on IRC and stuff like that, and while that often holds true, what about torrenters that couldn't care less about e-penis? I'm talking about people that are on a tracker they like, grab the stuff they want, and seed it back, without involving themselves in the "community" any more than making a torrent comment every now and then.

That was me when I used BT, by the way. No forums, no IRC, no shit.

I just can't do it dude, my mouth has to always be running; a smart man like myself can't develop any further without open discussion. When I say smart, smart ass should definitely be applied. I've been getting some local friends to jump into private BT (since they can't afford Usenet, bleh). I tell them exactly what you just said... "keep your head down, download what you want, seed back, keep your ratio up or buffer it, and never say a word". In actuality it's a response to their concern of being banned, because if you follow my track record, I get banned for having self-respect. Except for one case, I got banned from Kleverig (free porn indexing for usenet) for some weird reason... the only message I saw was (yeah right). WTF does that mean, it was a legit account using one of my legit emails, seriously.

So yeah, if you can just ignore everyone or are great at rim jobs, the private communities are not all that great. I've yet to have any problems with anyone at HD-Space so far, I'll see how long that lasts. Either way, Usenet is my Go To service.