Wherefore.me

**anon** · 12.10.10, 21:20

Tracker: Wherefore.me
Tracker URL: wherefore.me
Open Signups?: No, invite system
Category: Music
Number of Users: 232
Number of Torrents: 288
IRC: irc://irc.wherefore.me/wherefore.me

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Browse Page

Browse Page (sorted by seeders)

User Classes

We have 6 userclasses at wherefore.me:

Peon. This is the default userclass for all new users.
Member. Temporary requirement: users are promoted to member after being here for 1 week and making 3 uploads.
Senior Member. Members are promoted to Senior Member after being here for 2 weeks and making 10 uploads.
Archivist. Senior Members are promoted to Archivist after being here for 4 weeks and making 50 uploads.
Senior Archivist. Archivists are promoted to Senior Archivist after being here for 8 weeks and making 250 uploads.
Staff. Moderators, Developers, Administrators, and Sysops.

Note: Artwork torrents do not count towards user class requirements.

Permissions are as follows:

Peon. Can leech and vote on requests. Temporary permission: can upload
Member. Can upload, submit requests, use advanced search, access top 10, make bookmarks, add artists to any group, and edit unknown release information.
Senior Member. Can access notifications, create/manage/delete/recover collages, and create polls in the forums.
Archivist. Can have a personal collage (note: this function is not 100% operational yet), access advanced top 10, delete tags, use collector, and edit any torrent.
Senior Archivist. Can see old requests, view full site log, double post in the forums, and has unlimited search frequency (for scripts).

Donors will have access to the same features as Senior Members.

Getting Invites

As of this writing, there is no information on how invites are distributed to normal users, and the interview channel is closed. You may only get invited via the unlimited offers on What.cd's Elite forum.

Description

Wherefore.me is a music tracker running on the Gazelle codebase. It's notorious for two reasons: it was created as a What.cd spin-off by users from that same site, and focuses mostly on well-tagged and named FLAC albums, with a currently small MP3 selection. The staff openly express their love for What, and don't intend WF to be "competition".

The place is currently ratio-free - to quote their ratio rules page, "we are a ratio-free community. This means you will never be automatically disabled for having a low share ratio". Needless to say, long seeding periods are encouraged, while hit & running isn't tolerated, as it hurts the background idea of keeping a virtual music "library", i.e. retention.

Personally, the only reasons to join this tracker at the moment I see are either curiosity or being very passionate about proper media tagging (or at least, what the Wherefore staff considers to be proper). Otherwise, it's not worth the hassle of looking for an invite. I think the uploaders on What.cd and Waffles do a good job when it comes to tags, so I don't think I'll be using WF too much, at least not yet. I'd comment on the site's minuscule amounts of users and torrents, but I'll pass, considering it's on its initial stages.

I can't say a thing about its class-restricted forums, since I joined very recently and haven't had the chance to reach higher user classes. I haven't tried cheating, either - I see no reason to do it, as the tracker is ratio-free and there aren't any upload amount requirements for promotions.

To finish this post, I'd like to thank the SB-I member that made getting an invite possible for me. Without his help, I'd probably have never reached the appropriate requirements.

If you want or have more information, feel free to post.

**Mihai** · 12.10.10, 21:25

It's like a mini What.cd from what I can see.And guess who is just a peon there

Also that userlimit means only one thing:It will be down soon.

**Instab** · 13.10.10, 02:20

not sure about the purpose of that tracker.
do they want to replace what.cd? unlikely.
do they want something like pedro's or exigo? not sure.

they did have something in mind i güss so what was that?

**Blocker** · 13.10.10, 04:04

So it's the What.cd's elite verison, I don't get the idea?'

Also that userlimit means only one thing:It will be down soon.

I add lack of activity too

**Mihai** · 13.10.10, 08:21

Originally Posted by Blocker

So it's the What.cd's elite verison, I don't get the idea?'

I add lack of activity too

Which leads to the site closing.That was the idea

**anon** · 13.10.10, 15:37

Originally Posted by Instab

not sure about the purpose of that tracker.
do they want to replace what.cd? unlikely.
do they want something like pedro's or exigo? not sure.

They don't want to "replace" What.cd, Pedro's or Exigo. All they want is starting a tracker where they can share the music they like, and with organized tagging and naming standards.

Originally Posted by Blocker

So it's the What.cd's elite verison, I don't get the idea?'

See above.

Of course there's lack of activity, but the place is barely two months old, and started with very few users.

**SealLion** · 04.11.10, 22:13

well, I hope that such a site doesn't close.
It might have a small userbase with small number of torrents. I think that CE may have started out similiarily, but that may also have come with advertising on FSF. I would bet that Wherefore.Me probably doesn't nor interests itself in doing so.
It's good to see the idea of ratio free music sites growing. Who needs ratio when you have other good ideas like ratio free.
Look at CE and it's managing to survive with it's idea of ratio free music torrents.
It's got well over 10,000 torrents.
It's a small community there as equally as this newer site must be. And with such close-knit communities comes a certain interest to see such a place continue.

However, I'd bet that a lot of the material there must come directly from What since it's a site with What Members there,yes??