Thread: FSC (FSC) Review

FSC Review

General
FSC is one of the best community based trackers. It differentiates itself from most trackers by trying to return the focus to the two most important things which brings us all together, which are having fun and sharing with our friends. Although the tracker is pretty descent, most members will agree that the real appeal of FSC lies within its incredible community, which is very active in the forums. The site prides itself on the fact that no user has ever been banned due to bad ratio, and that every user with a bad ratio got plenty of chances to fix his/her ratio, which probably came along with advice from staff on how to achieve this goal. FSC also has a unique ratio system, which is called a Share Index, which takes into account the user's will to share, rather than focus only on normal upload/download ratio.
The content on the tracker is a mix of your usual 0-day releases, combined with specialized materials (see information about Clubs) and filled requests.


Stats
As you can see, FSC is a very small community:


Online Since...............2005-01-24
Registered users...........2,969
Peers......................8,922
Seeders....................8,410
Leechers...................512
Seeder/leecher ratio (%)...1643

Forums and Clubs
FSC forums are some of the best on the net. In addition to normal forums found on many trackers, FSC's forums contain clubs, which are sub-forums focusing on certain interests, where enthusiasts can get together and discuss their hobbies and views. Naturally, club members use the tracker to share files related to the mutual fields of interest. The clubs are:

The DVD Club - For discussion and developement of the DVD Club
The Music Club - lalalal la la laaaa
The Philosophy Club - Dead Poets Society
x264 Club | High Def - For encoding discussion and High Def interest
The Creative Club - For combining creativity and technology. Digital, Audio, Video, Coding.
The Anime Club - Because we never grew up
The Game Club - We came. We clicked. We conquered. - Club for all Gaming
The TV Club - All the TV-shows you ever wanted
The Fight Club - Discussion of Fight related material
The Kids Club - Disney, Cartoons and other kids related stuff

Categories

1. Anime
   
2. Appz/DOX
   
3. Appz/LinuX
   
4. Appz/Windows
   
5. Cartoons
6. eBooks
   
7. Games/Console
   
8. Games/misc
9. Games/PC
   
10. Misc
11. Movies/DVDR NTSC
    
12. Movies/DVDR PAL
    
13. Movies/SVCD
    
14. Movies/VCD
    
15. Movies/x264
16. Movies/XviD
    
17. Music
    
18. Music/Videos
    
19. TV/DVDR TV/XviD
20. XXX

(*) FSC only allows legal material to be shared. The user agreement specifically requires every member to legally own any copyrighted material he accesses.

User Classes
Leecher - Has not shared enough with the community and risks being disabled
Those members who do not practice the spirit of sharing. If a member continually disconnects from a torrent the moment it has finished (Hit & Run), then they will be demoted by staff.

Member - The default class of new members.



Advanced Member - Can view NFO files and access more of the forum.
Must have been be a member for at least 2 weeks, have uploaded at least 25GB and have a Share Index at or above 1.05. The promotion is automatic when these conditions are met.

Advanced Seeder - Same privileges as Advanced Member and is a good sharer.
Must have been be a member for at least 4 weeks, have uploaded at least 50GB and have a Share Index at or above 2.05. The promotion is automatic when these conditions are met.

Super Seeder - Same privileges as Advanced Member and is a great sharer.
Must have been be a member for at least 4 weeks, have uploaded at least 250GB and have a Share Index at or above 5.05. The promotion is automatic when these conditions are met.

Star - Has donated money to FSC.
Just donate, and send the best coder in the industry - and only him - the details.

VIP - Same privileges as Advanced Member and is considered an Important Member of FSC. Immune to automatic demotion.
Promotion based on contribution (monetory or otherwise). This promotion is a privilege, not a right. The staff reserve the right to demote anyone they feel are abusing this privilege.

Support Team - Special members who give their time to help others.
Conferred by the staff at their discretion to those that can contribute in this role.

Elite - Same privileges as VIP and is considered an Elite Member of FSC. Immune to automatic demotion.
Assigned by staff only after special consideration. (Please do NOT ask for *ELITE* status.)

Apprentice Moderator - Can edit and delete any user comments and posts. Can issue warnings and disable posting rights..
Members of our community that show they have that something special for this job!

Moderator - Can edit and delete any uploaded torrents. Can also moderate user comments and disable accounts.
Members of our community that show they have that something special for this job!

Global Moderator - Can do more than a moderator but not as much as a supervisor.

Supervisor - Can edit and delete accounts. Can IP ban a user.

Administrator - Can do almost anything (except make a cup of tea).

Invites
Since FSC is not your average tracker, getting an invite is not as trivial thing. Invites are not handed out automatically, but must be requested by members and handed out individually by staff members. Only advanced users and above may request invites, and having a huge buffer does not automatically warrant success in receiving an invite. While exact details for qualification to receiving invites is not disclosed by staff members, requesting users are expected to be active in the community (post in the forums, write meaningful comments on torrents etc.) to be considered eligble to receive them.


The Share Index System
The Share Index system is unique to FSC, and was designed to help those that find it hard to seed back enough to maintain a healthy ratio. For each 24 hours of connectivity, members earn a ratio 0.10 for each active torrent. That means that even if no one leeches from a seeder, within 10 days of sharing he will have a ratio of at least 1.0 on that torrent! This special ratio is called a Share Ratio, and is basically a bonus, added to the traditional up/down file ratio.

The Share Ratio is added to the member's file ratio to create a combined ratio, which is called a Share Index. The Share Index is the defacto measure of sharing on the site. If you are partially successful in seeding some data back, the Share Ratio for that torrent will help to boost the file ratio. All this goes into the Share Index.

Staff
One of the best things about FSC is its staff, which is extremely nice, helpful and mature. The coding of the site is excellent, and the site has almost zero downtime. The main coder is considered by many to be a legend in the BT community.

Additional Available Features
Active IRC channel with free humps.

Additional Information
To become an uploader you must fill in a request in a special forum and get approval by a staff member.

Rating:
Content: 4.5/5
Speed:...4/5
Rarity:..4.5/5
PreTime: 4.5/5

Hmm, what level tracker is FSC? It sounds like a fun community to be part of.

Originally Posted by KeiserSZE113

Hmm, what level tracker is FSC? It sounds like a fun community to be part of.

fsc is a level 9 more of a community

Fsc is one of the most important tracker i have. Not only content and speed wise.

But mostly for its comunity. Love the forum . Of all trackers i have their forum is the most i use.

FSC does have free leech all the time Every Xmass for 2-3 months they free leech and double upload. They had tons of contests for x-mass and, you got free leech tokens for just participating. They had this one contest where you make your own funspace page. The winner got 50 gigs uploads, a free invite, an a title to his/her name. The setup was really easy and i enjoyed it. This is the first time participating in a contest on a torrent site. They are usually really lame or very time consuming. I tried to compete in all of them. There layout is far better then any other site i have used. They have very friendly admins. They also have the share index, so as long as u just seed you good to go. That was just to name a few of the things I like.

Now for the bad. The site was slow, and there are not that many users. I think they do this, because they can get people to donate to join and dont have to pay high server costs. They have updated their servers and the site is a lot faster then it was previously. They are also continuing to add new people every day, so FSC is still growing and going strong.

with the new freeleech tokens the site is pretty much ratioless now. You just have to have a freeleech token which can be earned.

they had contests last year, easy ones u get one just for participating. They did give one out the other day so because they had another contest to bet with them on football each week.