Setting aside the usenet option, which I prefer as well, there are legitimate options for a new torrent user at private sites without the need for a seedbox or sucking up to people for invites.
Check out the open signups thread here or http://www.btracs.com and sign up at a tracker that is open for registration. You should be able to research the sites listed on the What Trackers Offer or Tracker Reviews sections of this forum, or just google them. I recommend a nice big general tracker like BitSoup or ILoveTorrents, although there are so many I have never even peeked at.
Or you could post a request in the request section for an invite after doing some research. Pretome or IPtorrents are great options.
Of course you could but I think you aren't getting the main thrust of eMwolB's message - that he has real self-image issues and that by pointlessly climbing the hierarchy of bt trackers he hopes to become "somebody" .
Otherwise tell me the point to any of this ? Seriously this is the type of person that is a plague on bt stripping it of a great deal of the fun and turning what should be a system intended to be devoted to sharing into some sort of wank adolescent ego-feeding competition.
Respect my lack of authority.
Seedbox whores are only a problem for those sites that don't have a proper / fair ratio 'economy' going.
There are various ways to ensure that low speed users don't get screwed, e.g. by giving them bonus points for seeding, or automatically filling the ratio to 1.0 after a certain period of seeding time, or regularly adding freeleech torrents, or simply getting rid of ratios altogether and become ratio free (with strict hit & run rules, obviously). Seedboxes can be to the benefit of a tracker and all of its userbase if done properly. Nobody wants to dowload at slow speeds, including those users with crappy upstreams.
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