Thread: Most overrated trackers

The intention of this thread is not simply a debate, but to save people hassle from trying to get invites into those so called "l33t" trackers.

Possible Nominees:
FTN-For obvious reasons
TL-this one is personal, I think it's very similar to TorrentDay
PTN-Small community, small number of seeders <--This is my pick for most overrated tracker.
RevTT-Actually they have retarded staff.
HD-Torrents - Banned seed.st?? Seriously??



Give reasons why the trackers are not so impressive and possibly even screenshots to prove it.

I partially agree with you on PTN. But then again, it is ratio-less, and my internet is shit.
SCC and HDbits do not deserve to be on the list.
imo, all "community" trackers are over-rated (ts-tracker, fsc, ftn, etc)

This is totally subjective, because everybody has different opinions and I don't really know what I should think about this thread.


The problem is that the speeds of old torrents totally depend on the last or the last two, three seeders and most of the time those have very slow speeds. It's just a matter of luck and not really the fault of the tracker, on the other hand BTN's bonus and userclass system is the best I have ever seen and it lures everybody into seeding old season packs for a long time.

What makes a tracker good or bad?
This question is impossible to answer for the general public, because tastes differ a lot and I'm sure I have a completely different opinion then some of the other members.

Second of all people should only be allowed to judge a tracker they are a part of, because rumors are exactly that, just rumors and the less information you have about a tracker the worse it gets.

In conclusion I would say that the most overrated tracker for you may be the favorite tracker from another person, but I agree that a tracker that's main quality is the community is always overrated, because a good community just means, rare general tracker.

+ 1 Magister.

Also, if only the download speeds of ancient torrents are taken as a parameter to judge trackers, TL can give a run for money even to the likes of SCC.
But then again it may suck for not having free-leech, pathetic user class system blah blah.....

Same applies for BMtV considering that it may have collection of tonnes of rare TVrips etc which may suck for not having freeleech/ seeding problems etc.

So, if i like rare TV stuffs certainly BMtV will be a good option for me, If pretime is an issue for me SCC would be a shining star in my bag, and if upload is an issue GFT would be my target hence a pure subjective matter...

what I would say is, if a tracker is able to stand out even in atleast one parameter, it should not be considered "overrated"

The problem with some of the "hard to seed" trackers is that people are forced to upload stuff to boost their ratio, but almost none of them have access to exclusive content, so they just download stuff from demonoid and uploading it on the tracker.

Nice thread...

I suggest that everyone explain their choices so people can read what is relevent to them when understanding why a tracker could be judged as over-rated or not. If someone post saying a tracker is over-rated and you disagree then post why it's not.

TL - don't like the wait times and struggled with cross-seeding initially as all the RARed releases never re-check to 100%, they don't have freeleech, but most importantly because i have IPT which has more content and freeleech, so i have limited use of TL.

BitMeTV - Hard to seed tracker and i've found pre times to vary a lot with some shows (can be after 1min or 1day) which is annoying if you're trying to cross-seed to give you that initial buffer, but good thing is no RARs and good content