I would like to open a discussion to get an idea of how we can improve our scene. This is just a seed of my idea, maybe we could expand it into a code of ethics.. I know trackers come and go, but I believe we can slow down this process. Rules like this should be writ large as "Seed back what you leech" in my opinion.

With all the recent happenings it has occurred to me now more than ever that we savvy BitTorrent users need to take steps to ensure the survival of our precious trackers.

1. Do not talk about good private trackers, or link to them, on the open internet. "Oh yeah definitely sign up for Cheggit.net" said a million times all over the internet. If you refer to a site, you raise it's profile and make it a target. Loose lips has even brought repercussions to USENET providers that everybody thought was too good to ever fail.

2. Actively try to get and keep private trackers de-listed from search engine (irony of ironies, that being what the entertainment industry wants). For example, you used to be able to search "BTN Tracker" in Google not find the URL. Now all you have to do is type "BTN" and there it is. If you can't Google it, it simply doesn't exist to many unsavvy users.

3. Make sure that only good users get invites to private trackers. I believe we do a decent enough job of that here. Standards could always be raised.



4. Never totally rely on huge trackers, try to enrich smaller ones. Huge trackers attract too much attention. Try to be an active force on smaller/middling trackers to make the content/community there good.


One change relevant to Torrent-Invites I would like to see is making the explicitly torrent based discussion and invites forums hidden until you are logged in. And have the discussion purged from Google's Cache. Its easy enough to join if someone wants to see it.