Now that I’m through defending TPS, I want to give my opinion on the whole concept of private trackers and invitations. Tracker staff, whether or not invite forums exist, you can’t stop a bad user from joining. If anything, the best of the bad can find ways to join your tracker with ease and are experts in avoiding the banhammer. The paradox is, the more a tracker tries to keep bad users out, the more desirable it becomes to such a user. Increasing invite rarity or eliminating them altogether will only make the tracker more attractive to the bad user. Other measures, such as having a “secret” url will make the tracker seem more “elite,” and as I’ve written before, the users who are fixated on joining a tracker they perceive as “elite” are the ones trackers would least want in their tracker. Should a tracker convince an invite forum to follow their rules, then the rule-breaking just goes underground. I note that at TPS, the staff will not snoop in on our members’ PMs or private IRC conversations.

There is an opinion circulating in the filesharing community, that the whole concept of tightly restricting access to private trackers will lead to their downfall. The greatest example of this is the “high-definition” tracker which opened invitations to their tracker after having very few for a long time. The result was numerous offers to sell their invites popped up on the internet. Another example is the new tracker which pulls the “elite” card while still getting started (no invites on forums, secret url, fake login page). The result: they come across as pretentious and potential good users will get turned off.

I lol’d

More appropriate topic would be “TPS is pretending to be a community and please consider us a special case and we need attention”

I actually did nothing. Like nothing.

Then you have many people who were banned for simply expressing their opinions or asking questions.

the very people that contributed many many hours into making this place what it was, were cast aside, like their contributions meant nothing. You may have noticed your forum and irc activity has dropped precipitously, which could be signaling the beginning of the end.

it is understand the fanboys are jumping to protect TPS, but even they must realize some of the stuff that went down was pretty shitty

And this comment will vanish I guess.You people are so used to deleting/editing comments anyway.What a joke of a post.

Happy watching!