https://www.scmp.com/news/china/arti...itle-site-raidOriginally Posted by JohnareyouOK
Renren Yingshi (YYeTs) is their most famous provider of pirated movies/TVs outside tracker circle, it's once again being busted by government for its high-profile use of piracy for profit (Last time is 2014).
Lockdown of chinese trackers may continue for some time caused by chilling effect.
Thanks for the info
Was expecting TTG's birthday to open their door but seems not gonna happen in this mood :(
https://old.reddit.com/r/trackers/co..._2021/glj0trf/
After 9 hours of ads, this submission still hasn't been removed, guess gonna welcome quite a few new members?The original post has been deleted now. You can still see it by clicking on that link, but it's not listed on /r/trackers or findable via the search engine. Anyway, this is not the first time. Anything there mentioning this forum in a non-negative context usually gets downvoted to death, deleted, or both, which is understandable. Also, the first reply immediately after John's, now deleted by another moderator, was begging for a BrokenStones invite... if that's what these "advertisements" bring, then I'm not particularly bothered by missing on them
On a sidenote, it's hard to follow a conversation where several comments are hidden due to downvotes and others are completely gone, with little clue as to what was being replied to, or just a long branch of [deleted]->[deleted]->[deleted]->[deleted]->[deleted]->[deleted]. I don't see a way to solve this while still allowing people to mark comments they disliked and remove their own if desired, but nonetheless resent Reddit for both features (and /r/serafuku is still banned).
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
I thought my friend might have been the person who posted it. He has an e mail address that I thought was the same as the Reddit user name. Turns out they are similar but not exact.The original post has been deleted now. You can still see it by clicking on that link, but it's not listed on /r/trackers or findable via the search engine. Anyway, this is not the first time. Anything there mentioning this forum in a non-negative context usually gets downvoted to death, deleted, or both, which is understandable. Also, the first reply immediately after John's, now deleted by another moderator, was begging for a BrokenStones invite... if that's what these "advertisements" bring, then I'm not particularly bothered by missing on them
Oh well.. I guess the problem is taken care of?
I do visit the subreddit a lot. Most of the responsaes there are usually nasty. I wonder why people dislike your forum so much. Maybe the cheating threads?
I came across this page through a basic Google search for trying to get into differentr trackers. It may have actually lead me to this thread specifically. So, I would think you are getting users of all kinds looking for invites. Good thing to know that is kind of frowned upon. I know not to ask randomly for invites to the trackers I want, but my finger is always on the send button wanting to. It is great that I have impluse control. :)
I wish one of these trackers with decent recruitment threads would have open signups. Give people the chance to prove themselves.
I also browse it regularly in a "reading the headlines" fashion, opening discussions if the titles seem interesting enough, to have a quick idea of what's going on in the torrent world. And yes, if you say something unpopular retribution will be swift. Sometimes this happens even when it's not clear what was "wrong" with the comment in question, downvoting without explaining is easy after all. In contrast, we've always tried to run this forum as a community where the amount of disallowed topics is very small (porn, warez, hacking), the rules are short and simple, and you can speak your mind without worrying about being censored or banned or having to follow an official narrative. I hope others have come to appreciate that, too.
Anyway, cheating is indeed the biggest attractive of this place, but if you think about it, we must be the nicest of the so-called bad torrent forums.
- Trading: disallowed since 2012.
- Selling: never allowed.
- Account hacking: never allowed.
That leaves duping and the aforementioned cheating. Anyone who has ever been in a position of power at any Internet site knows it's impossible to permanently ban anyone, and "one account per lifetime" policies are unenforceable against any adversary with moderate technical knowledge. To top it off, over the years I have received a few messages from otherwise legitimate users who were banned or flagged from trackers for bullshit reasons, taking advantage of the tutorials here to get a brand new start (they're admittedly a minority, but prove things aren't as black and white as some think).
Furthermore, both the frequency and impact of cheating have diminished over time as connection speeds increase and seedboxes become more affordable. I very rarely cheat myself, never with fake upload - why should I do so when my real upload speed has gone from 20 to 1200 KB/s since I joined? Of course, not everyone in the world is able or willing to pay for high-speed Internet or a seedbox just to keep good share ratios on piracy sites. They were the intended audience of this place from day one. Also, here's Voltaire from PTP claiming we're harmless because they won the "war" against cheating, and tracker staff are always right, so I don't see what people are so worked up about.
(It's cute to read such a detached comment, when ten years ago these people had threads dedicated to me on their staff forums, and would have likely slaughtered their own mother if it got them a valid IP or e-mail *snicker*)
Most people who post in this thread found it that way, apparently the title is very SEO-friendly. I know we've also been linked to a few times on 4chan. The same things have occurred with the "How to reregister on trackers/hold multiple accounts" tutorial to a lesser degree.I came across this page through a basic Google search for trying to get into differentr trackers. It may have actually lead me to this thread specifically. So, I would think you are getting users of all kinds looking for invites. Good thing to know that is kind of frowned upon. I know not to ask randomly for invites to the trackers I want, but my finger is always on the send button wanting to. It is great that I have impluse control. :)
As for not sending unsolicited invite requests, that means you've read the rules, right
Will never happen. BCG used to do it, but had to stop because they were always barraged with traders and dupers. Same with TT that one time they opened on late 2010. Now imagine this situation but with PTP or BTN... ironically, I first got in the former via open signups, which their competitor of the time TC also had sometimes; apparently it was okay to do that when they weren't yet "elite"I wish one of these trackers with decent recruitment threads would have open signups. Give people the chance to prove themselves.
Anyway, recruitment-only trackers are happy with their current membership, but at the same time recognize the long-term inviability of being 100% closed forever. Recruitment threads provide a sweet spot that can be adjusted as desired.
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
Interesting how they supposedly banned everyone from this forum, yet you are a very active moderator and still have your accounts. Didn't I hear you say something in one of these threads about how you are on all the big trackers because you joined early when you were younger and had the time? I would have thought they would have come after you as well. Then again.. Is the banning an issue of users having the same user name here as on a tracker?
On a somehwt side note.. I'd hate for a tracker to want to bann me. They would go to their tracker, ban the account "Nat", and some poor guy who did nothing wrong would lose his account.
I say if someone isn't a known cheater or troublemaker, leave it be. There is more error in losing good members randomly when banning out of spite for not liking a website.
Last edited by Nat; 06.02.21 at 19:20.
a lot of the entries (no date, 0 verified count) come from an old 4chan image, so they're likely out of date.
I've remove that entry, thanks for reporting it :)
I'll check in to this thread from time to time to make updates, and of course all of this is user-submitted so it'll never be completely accurate.
thanks :) I've added these entries to https://github.com/PredictablePirate...rInviteThreads
If you're ever willing to find out the last login date of the recruiters, or the requirements from the official thread, that would be a great help as well :)
Last edited by PredictablePirate; 07.02.21 at 15:26.
@anon Why does the image (by PTP staff) say that mRatio and clients are dead ? mRatio with normal speeds work pretty much at all places given that torrent has some leechers. From that image does that person mean that RM is more safe than mRatio ?
He is just high and delusional lolbut yeah MR isn't dead there is still a fixer running for it. and no RM isn't safer then MR, both are safe depending on how you use it.
Actually, I ended up dropping most of those accounts, PTP included, when I realized I rarely used them if ever. RED is the only "elite" tracker I'm currently on, and think is truly worth its status, despite the issue and behavior of members who join exclusively for the invite forum: their music collection is huge, meticulously organized, and most of it is available in the format you want. There isn't any other site else like it, let alone better.
So in a way, they did win the "war" against this "big player"
Absolutely. You may hear otherwise, but if someone has the same nickname here or other "bad" forums as on trackers and seems to be the same person, they get banned. In the past, browser vulnerabilities were even used to ban people who merely visited us! (And yes, it actually happened that way. The data wasn't "cross-checked" nor did it "prompt a closer investigation", it directly led to a swift decision.)Then again.. Is the banning an issue of users having the same user name here as on a tracker?
Unfortunately, such a reaction is exploitable, and we have had three fully confirmed cases of registrars abusing someone else's name, avatar, location and even writing style in order to frame them. In one instance, the person in question ended up registering here and messaging me screenshots and IRC logs showing how they got several bans because of the posts they'd allegedly written. I was devastated and promptly took action against the offending account.
Presumption of innocence and due process don't exist in the torrent world. Another reason to not stand out, irrespective of your practices.
Three reasons.
- All mods and tools are "dead" to some extent, in the sense that interest on them has declined over time, and/or their coders stopped working on updates or moved on from the community. This forum absolutely exploded when Extreme Mod was released, getting several new posts per minute. Client files for BBTEM (then VEM) and the original RatioMaster were deliberately designed to be unobfuscated text files, so that people would be able to write their own instead of requesting them. mRatio was updated regularly, going all the way from version 2.0.9 to 5.4.1, and we had a policy of not allowing requests for new uTorrent emulations, as they were guaranteed to pour when uTorrent was updated (i.e. often).
Have a look at my join date and realize Voltaire/mildlyincoherent and many other tracker staff have been monitoring us for nearly as long, therefore they're also able to draw comparisons and claim that "SB-I is a shell of its former self". Now, is the cheating community dead as stated? It's true that a lot of people now have access to high connection speeds or a seedbox, trackers have managed to improve upon the classic ratio system in various ways to make "hard" upload not the only factor, and alternatives to torrents and even filesharing exist; streaming services have managed to seduce many away from piracy with their convenience and ease of use. However, this forum remains operational, and despite being less active than in the past, it gets new posts daily with occasional program updates. So I say not completely, and the facts appear to prove me right.
- The first beta of mRatio Fixer wasn't released until several weeks after that comment was posted, and in private. Before then, mRatio was slowly becoming obsolete as trackers kept dropping support for TLS 1.0, with no solution or workaround besides "use something else".
Initial interest on Fixer (or "mRatio TLS Fix [BETA]" as it was known then) was very low, but this prompted me to move the thread to a public area, where feedback increased substantially. After around a year of beta updates and testing, we ended up with the first and so far latest stable version. I'd actually known about the local proxy method for a few years, as it's almost mandatory for Windows 9x and XP to be able to visit modern Web sites, but had never had much interest on applying it to mRatio. Did that comment saying mR was dead finally motivate me? Who knows...
- Last but not least... the credibility and impartiality of a tracker staff member discussing cheating on Reddit is up to you.
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
Last edited by linuxapple; 10.02.21 at 11:58.
uh, where's the image said here?
Post #787. I have all my album permissions set to public, so you should be able to see ituh, where's the image said here?
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
Not able to see this image. It gives me error stating clouflare's abuse etc etc. Not sure if issue is on my side
I can open it just fine... here's a copy.
Normally, I'd recommend hosting images in this forum, but this sort of information is pretty transient, and size limitations prevent ultra long/wide lists and tables from being uploaded.
"I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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