What is the motive behind private trackers?

Maximilious , 7 months ago

Switch to usenet and call it a day. Switched last year and am finding the stuff I want, new and old without issue. I still have some private trackers in my list but have usenet as #1 and rarely does it not pull what I request of it.

Sharpiemarker , 7 months ago

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vilibix535 OP , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Why and how does my account’s age matter? This is pretty much the equivalent of digging a person’s old tweets to find dirt about them.

snooggums , 7 months ago

Yes, it is like that if the lack of tweets indicated that you might be hiding something. It sucks if you never participated before, but the idea is that they want to interact with reliable accounts and time and activity are used for that since that us pretty much all they have to work with.

It does suck, but there really isn't a good alternate.

RobotToaster , 7 months ago

Elitism.

yote_zip , 7 months ago

One potential advantage is that many private trackers are meticulously-curated. The more people that are on a tracker, the harder it is to quality control every single upload. Most of the top-tier trackers aren’t just a dumping ground for data, they have tons of categories and slots for each potential piece of data to go, and if a better piece of data can fit in that slot then the previous one needs to be reviewed, deleted, and replaced.

Another reason is that private trackers often have many rules to facilitate the overall health of the tracker and its swarms, e.g. minimum quality for uploads, minimum seed times, required ratios etc. If anyone could get an account they could break the rules over and over after being banned.