FTN opened the doors!

AbyBeats said:
Also there are trackers which run out of passion.They dont ask you anything except sharing.And still people are so eager to donate to these trackers even if they dont give you anything in return.Animebyt.es,TranceTraffic,FSC,x264 comes to mind.
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TT gives you invites for donating. :P (its the only way of getting invites or you get in touch with a guy called Imm**** on TT.(his account is deleted. :cool:)
 
cinephilia said:
but a tracker needs dedicated members in the first place to make people donate, is that so hard to understand for you?
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People donate regardless, just as people seed regardless of other aspects of the tracker. I find annoying staff, I stay the hell on the tracker side of things, and I might even donate considering they're offering me a service I can't find elsewhere. At that point it doesn't really matter what I think of other people's seeding habits, I'm just happy I'm getting my content fix.

Same thing goes for seeders. Some people find it an obligation, and even if the tracker is close to dying due to low donations, they will continue seeding so that they can say they tried helping the place out till the end.

Trying to relate the success of both seeding and donations simultaneously is completely wrong, since the lack of one does not mean the lack of the other. You're better off with the argument that without the seeders (which is an impossible concept...) a tracker would quickly wither and become useless.

For a better explanation; without donors tracker staff say "Donate or tracker will die... 1111!" but without seeders tracker staff will say "No hit and runs or you will be bum-raped by our banhammer."
 
Tv Controls you said:
Back on topic.... Why would someone want Ftn over Ptm or Gft then?
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Want my opinion? Two main reasons. The first being everybody wants to be the cool kid showing off their FTN passkey; and second, I'm* getting pretty sick of GFT's rate that ass thread.

As for PTM, I'm no longer a member there, so I can't tell you how the tracker is doing nowadays, but you know what? It's still alive, should mean it's doing well enough to get support. ^.^

* Not saying that I have anything to do with anything, I'm just pointing out the focus of the GFT community... =p
 
Donations are necessary for a tracker to function.When someone donates,its because he wants to help it.When something is given as an incentive for donating,its not 'donation' anymore.It is Buying.Its not with the goodwill of heart that people are donating atm.They are buying Invites.But a tracker gotta do what a tracker gotta do.If people are not donating then they have to look for alternatives to keep the tracker alive
TBH whenever in BT there is something to do with money,it only turns bad.

Also there are trackers which run out of passion.They dont ask you anything except sharing.And still people are so eager to donate to these trackers even if they dont give you anything in return.Animebyt.es,TranceTraffic,FSC,x264 comes to mind.Also people love to donate to SCC,TL etc...because of what the trackers have to offer.When a tracker's main objective is to make a community of file sharers,it seems the tracker has no problems in meeting the donation goals.
 
Good, now more people will know how overrated this place is and they can get 15 announcements a week bugging them at the top of every page. We can now stop the FTN circle jerk.
 
cinephilia said:
let's put it another way:

staff = coding, implementing new features, improving the site and running the tracker.
members = content, retention, community = the backbone of the site and the tracker's soul

my point is that members are what makes a tracker better than another random one, more than staff or anything else.
i've seen countless trackers with good staff, great layout and features dying because a lack of dedicated members.

people don't donate just to please staff nor because they like the site design.
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I think this is one of the best summations of a successful tracker that I have seen in quite a while. It's cut and dried, to the point, and in my experience, on the money(hyuk hyuk hyuk :P )

As far as the subject of the thread, I think it's nice that they decided, retroactively, to give the donors that stepped up, with no promise of reward, a reward. I am a bit perplexed about the animosity over the decision to change their invite policy to something not really that much different than the pre-existing policy, but I guess I'm just easily confused.
 
Yes idol but this isn't like any other site which is the point I'm trying to make.

It's more difficult for a legitimate member to get into Ftn as compared to other sites, where as the ease still exists for traders.

This is in return going to attract a majority of poor members, which will trade for their way in.
 
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