What do you think of "tracker invite" forums?

I've been at T-I(won't say full url,collectors& level traders will invade the place then) but left since I did not feel my opinions regarding trading were exactly the same as theirs, wich they had to be in order to be a member there. Well anyway, I got to see a little of the site before I left by my own and I can say it was not like what you described here above. Many useful suggestions were added and discussed every day, many members helped repping in new people, many helped discovering cheaters/traders etc. There were good topics that you could actually discuss something. There was no witchhunt on traders or anything like that; If you were caught as a trader, you were permabanned from there - finito, nothing more. Mods were a bit hard though, and I'd even say I suspected one of them to be a pure damn collector of trackers but otherwise from that I can't really say there was anything superbad over it.Except for the mod that seemed like a collector(he had ftwr,ftn all those req's going on at the same time) the other mods were very nice and helpful and rarely asked for invites and also gave away very many invites, saw one mod who gave 12 SCC and one who gave over 5 SCT. And it wasn't just giveaways to trackers where you can even get from here, some of them were truly amazing in "Trusted" section, can't think how it was in the VIP part. Anyway, there's one big thing I hate about it: People don't check on their invitees enough! People handed out invites just for the sake of reputation boxes(green boxes), some even put SCC GAs in the lowest section available in the forum just for the sake of reputation, there's no other reason to put it there really.

I think they're both good and bad. My opinion is split.

And the request part of the forum isn't cloaked up with newbies asking for ftn,ftwr and e****...there's no rules about who can req what but people feel what they can req. there's a few ftn requests from noobies and unfortunely when i was there you werent allowed to tell them that they will in no world in the universe get an invite to that place when you're a fresh newbie, dont know if it changed
 
Great thread rart.. Very nice views as well

One thing that I never liked about the Goats, is that you couldn't have a open minded discussion. Every one posted with intentions to look good infront of their friends and mostly never sticked to the topic(the kissing ass and invite hopes might have had somethign to do with that.)

Another thing I didn't like about them was the hostility. When I first joined I had a shitstorm of hate coming my way.(and I wasnt the only one. every new member suffered from the same problem)
These guys didn't like the new members at all. I think that was because they wanted a small communtiy where everyone agreed with eachother's opinions. They pictured themselves high-class thinkers, so they wanted to form the perfect forum where there's only l33t members.

Cabalo, what did they say? "We have decided that a few members don't have the capability and intelligence to hang with us, so we are thinking of a forum cleanup"...lmaoo

The reality is that these guys are not big thinkers or productive posters at all. they spend 90% of their time making goat jokes and proposing to fuck and suck eachother.. it's somewhat scary. At first i thought that it was all jokes, but when such behaviour lasts for months, you start to suspect something

Anyway enough with describing Cfs.. My overall opinion on invite forums is that they're based on artificiality. You can't even have a decent convo or warm up with someone without them asking you for a ftn invite 5 minutes later
 
1. Single minded thought train, no individual opinion
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At tps I was quite distracted after getting minus rep from staff member because of posting something that, at SOME point of view, can be considered as contradicting major community ideas there (however I know it wasn't). Don't wanna to get into further details on that case, but now I don't want to public my personal opinions on global things :)
 
Cabalo said:
They are secretive, that's what makes them secure and better communities.

aka look at ftwr and uk-t .
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Never knew that wabbit or wheelmods were secured or secretive..else why would they close...atleast in the case of wheely..

Coming back to the topic..does a forum being secret makes it secure or the other way round..I guess no..If a tracker can be penetrated then too an invite forum..which raises the very basic question abt these invite forums..does being secret serve the purpose ?

My curiosity was that some of the names of these invite forums are srsly different than what I have come across till now(these are mostly hidden and abbreviated)..but I dont think its that hard finding them or joining them if u know the right resources or have some good friends..and I think maybe FST will serve the purpose of helping me to get to know abt them..
 
TrueSounds said:
maybe you should stop signing up to every invite forum if you feel that way
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What's wrong with trying to see what the newest invite forum is like? You never know, maybe a great one will emerge some day. And I don't sign up to every new one, just to those that get good comments on the public blogs. :whistling
 
anon-sbi said:
Perhaps the Scene notice thing? yocto promised to post logs with information about how SCC would go down soon after December 1st, but it took him a few days until he finally couldn't show them, supposedly because of the way he got them. :whistling

This is merely informative, I'm not trying to bash Cabalo :)
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I've no fucking idea who that yocto character is, besides what I read here.
Now you got me curious, did he have some issues with the fellows at SCC ?
 
Bad-Day said:
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this is me. :D lol
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Witch won?
 
i understand exactly what you mean.

1. like it or not people join forums like T.I. and FST to get into what ever tracker they want, what ever level. just because fst is very old and has lots of old members who are membes of most tackers. they joined here with one thing in mind and that was to join trackers.. the fact they stopped here is another matter ( most members - not all)

2. members are asked to join forum before they enter t.i to get an idea of what they are like. unlike here an obvious trader would not be given an invite to t.i. as t.i. respects the rules of most trackers...also it stops idiots like you getting there and getting fsc invites that are given away in vip section for fun.
 
What do you think of "tracker invite" forums?

There are good and bad forums. The new ones that pop lately suck and you can see that in the moment you sign up.

Now, all the points you mentioned are the staffers fault. Nowadays most of them just create a forum to get some invites themselves, and really don't care about anything else.

But if you look at some older forums with a decent staff, you will see the true meaning of "community" or "dedicated member". (well, maybe i'm not only talking only about invite forums, but there's still 1 or 2 good ones, most of the members don't use them to get invites but mainly to chat and have a good time)

P.S: About your 1
 
I wouldn't know at all, Cabalo. Yocto claimed to have logs of SCC's owners talking with a certain member of the FBI and paying him to access one of their biggest topsites. Don't know if he's just making this up or if he's being serious, but I really don't care.

How did you get into CFS, anyways?
 
Most invite forums are okay if you ask me. I don't like the ones that are very secretive such as CFS and RiSE. Many of them are full of members who are full of themselves. I don't like the way many invite forums operate. Many of them are also full of members that do nothing but kiss each others' asses. I've heard many good things about ETIV, but it's just not for me.

There are other invite forums that are even more secretive (and interesting) which I hear about repeatedly.
 
I only know of one invite forum, and it's here on filesharingtalk.com. I think it's ok. I've used it to give away invites and to receive invites. It's pretty useful.
 
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