By the way, I thank all of you for your comments, and that you put the amount of time into doing the background research to back up your statements. I was glad to find out I'm on the rational side of this.
I had a feeling it was a shady site when I first joined up with it, so I tested the waters. But by randomly perusing their forums while trying to figure out some inconsistencies (missing torrents with ads for that site), I was really disgusted to see how they ran the forum over there. So I made a thorough statement, with a conscientious effort to avoid breaking any of their rules, only to have my post deleted without notation. At first I didn't realize that was the case, so I reposted and double checked to make sure it was there, and it was for a time. Then they deleted it again. Seriously, why would they need to act so secretly? So after learning it wasn't a very respectful site, I spam posted under another name (I'm petty, so sue me).
Anyways, it seems like TD is a world built for them, but it kind of turned me off to private trackers in general (bakabt being the exception, it's semiprivate).