What makes a Private Tracker popular?

still seems bizarre that you can have a percentile greater than 100, I can understand that from the coder's point of view it would be the easiest way to add up the totals in a multichoice poll but damn !
 
I believe media and hype is what makes a tracker popular, but personally it's content, retention, speed and fast load times. Anything else is just things that make it even better.

I find myself quite often going to one place to search and another to download. Quite simply because the first one is fast as hell, but a bitch to seed back on.
 
Depends on the time. For example, if a tracker like HDBits goes down, I'm stuck looking for both, a community, and content. If a tracker like GFT goes down, I'm stuck looking for purely content. If both are up, then for the most part, I'm content. This is not to say I wouldn't join a tracker, I sometimes do, and sparingly regret not joining said tracker earlier.

Primarily, I join trackers for content, as I'm sure a lot of people do the same. Since summer has just started (university's out, yay) I've been job hunting, and there's this one guy hiring a website coder/designer (I'm no prodigy, but I have style), so as of late, I've been collecting the sort of material that would help me do that work promptly, and while TPB is a great resource, I'm not going to wait on a torrent for a week to end up downloading. Now, for a person in my position, the last thing on my mind would be the elitism of the community, rather I would chase after how much its content has been hyped.

Not all the leetness factor works, or we'd have thousands of people flooding this place looking for WDMA trackers, which to my understanding, you only have a chance getting into if you were part of the original WDMA. Similarly, not all the "ease-of-getting-into works", otherwise most people would be happy with their IPT/TL fix. Whether people would agree with me or not, we all want to "feel good", and that sparks people chasing FTN, or people chasing WDMA the same. I remember posts on ScT like "We're the kings of the internet" were not uncommon, yet people enjoyed the place (and so did I); because not only did we get the files we needed, we also got a little bit of elitist exclusivity along with it.

That given, I would be especially surprised if anyone could, without even hesitating a little bit, say they would ignore one/more of the options you listed. Maslow's theory/laws apply here. People just need to satisfy different levels of their private tracker needs at different times/intervals. Hierarchical speaking, I'm sure content would be one of the lowest needs, while others like elitism would be one of the highest.
 
content first and foremost...if I continually have to go to another site to get the content I want, whats the point of me spending my time in their community? Granted there are a lot of people who downloaded from newsgroups and just like to hang out in torrent sites forums and irc

but I think for the vast majority content is king
 
Why do I think certain trackers are more popular than others?( which btw might be in fact totally opposite to why they really are) in order.
1.Reputation( real or imagined)/or more simply- being aware it exists
Contrary to the skewed perception many people have here most bt users don't know or don't care about every tracker under the sun .They hear the name TL someplace .They read it's "good" .They join and that sole membership for a majority of people is more than enough.End story.
2.Size ( which usually addresses at least in part, speed/retention/ease of seeding )also interconnected to the first point.
3.Ease of actually getting into it .Self explanatory .Some sites are "less popular " by design.
4. Content . Here we start getting into something past the "casual user " so numbers effected are clearly not going to be as great.
5. Design .Again process of diminishing returns .The more "involved" you are the more you are likely to care about such things.

and then the rest( however important they are or not in reality )follow
staff,leetness,etc.

Personally however if the question was why do I prefer certain trackers over others the order would be something like ...
The people associated with it .Whether that means "community" or staff or whatever.Doesn't even have to do with activity on forums or irc(not that I'd know about irc)Really just a certain feeling that everyone is there because they actually care about the content and respect the fact that not everyone else there is necessarily the same . This being opposed to being a member(or staff) in some juvenile attempt at proving themselves better than anyone else or as some hopeful stepping stone to whatever next level they wish to attain..
I guess I illogically choose trackers by who I prefer to associate with .
Seriously I can get movies/games/music at the store or :Oeven do without.At the end of the day I want to feel good about what I'm doing.

After that content and retention and to a much lesser degree design and then to me at least none of the other things matter at all( not saying that they never did btw.Live and learn like).
 
@Rart, What can make a tracker popular in your eyes?. So with this poll we can find who's true collector. :D.

A tracker that popular so you can spend days to find invites for it.

E.g. BCG, I've seen many members looking for it just because it rarely open invite. But after that they doesn't even use it. They're collectors or even traders.

In short, I was looking for answer on "Why trackers can be grow so popular from a small tracker?". Popular in term of many invitee avaiable or many user want to join it.

But you can add some side answer too about what should make a tracker popular?. But I think mostly people's answer for this is "content" option and second "community". We're downloader after all. :P
 
Slickerey said:
Another leeching scum. :frusty:
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Don't see why.
I primarily joined most trackers for the contents. Aren't they trackers? Aren't they supposed to help people getting the stuff they want?
I don't like to be forced into a community. If I join a site, I do it because I want to get files from there in the first place. Then, if one day I browse the forums and I find myself liking what's being discussed there, then I may join the fray.
I'll never join a site merely for the community. No. I want the files, and then I may find myself getting the "click" and starting to be active. Can't really describe the "click", but that's what happened to me some day at FST and here I am.
 
Ok, BT community is still BT community then, be it for people out there and for FST member. People still sought for content and speed at tracker.

But the conclusion to make a new tracker grow big is in order:
1. Media and Hype
2. Eliteness
Then go for most sought after by real user:
3. Content and uploader
4. Speed and Retention.

I'm just want to see your point of view about private tracker aspects.
BTW, if content was a priority why trading and even selling exist in the first place? :unsure:
 
DeadPoet said:
I'm not ignoring anything.
You might think this way but the truth is I often don't understand what you mean in your posts. Your way of writing is pretty complicated for peoples with not so good skill of english. :mellow:
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And here I was assuming it was because I usually don't make any sense.
 
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