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Imagine risking your account for 5 freeleech tokens On redacted.ch you get 5 freelech tokens if you invite someone that reaches "Elite Torrent Master". Reaching that takes a lot of work since it requires you to Upload 500 GiB Upload 500 "perfect flac" torrents. Have ratio above 0.65 (will then...

People are not being rewarded enough for uploading new content While the first seeder will be at an advantage what tends to happen on sites such as redacted.ch is seedboxes autosnatching the new uploads resulting in the original uploader benefiting less from it than the seedbox who had the best...

That particular site being bad does not mean that all are bad. For some material private trackers is literally your only realistic option got getting it. Of course there are significant hurdles to actually use them, not only to get an account in the first place but also to maintain that (can...

Avoiding getting pruned for inactivity Almost all sites have systems to automatically disable inactive accounts but there are sites (generally the better ones) where you can get immunity from that. RED: power user (5 uploads, 25GiB uploaded and ratio above 0.65) GGn: pro gamer (1200 points)...

On being /pure/ and avoiding treebans Your account is /pure/ when you have only been invited to trackers via official channels, such as staff-run applications, or official recruiting threads. Staff will virtually never treeban an official recruiter since it would wipe out too many innocent users...

Defaults In the US you lose by default if you do not show up when you have been served a lawsuit, this is a big problem since people may miss that they have a trial to attend to or have other obligations.

How to avoid getting banned Obviously read and follow the rules and do not try to cheat them. It might be best not to invite anyone at all since that's only a liability, instead refer your friends to the interview site. Staff may use collective punishments against especially bad actors so it's...

How to gain access to good private trackers Once you have become member of a good private tracker and advance there you might get invited to other private trackers. So how do you get into private trackers in the first place? well some of them have an interview system...

The issue with thepiratebay is that often they do not have what you are actually looking for or nobody is seeding it anymore. Often the only way to get your hands on more nieche content is to download it via some private tracker. You might not even be able to buy it legally...

It would likely work better than democracy assuming the same level of compliance with how it's supposed to work (government officials not cheating, people having faith in the system, etc) since the selection criteria would likely be better than random selection and it would reduce the number of...

Recent steam reviews are now mostly negative The steam review scores have gradually gotten worse over time to the point where the recent ones are now mostly negative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGMxuES-Zfk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvfI3H0xH2c

There are plenty of companies that sells directly to their costumers via their own site. But selling via say amazon FBA might still get you a larger cut than having some retail store buy it and then mark it up say 50%.

Timeshares This is even worse than you think. You basically pay loads of money to be forced to rent a place a week a year until you die. You can also try selling it on the second hand market but then some other poor guy will have to take up that liability instead. Often people end up giving...

Habitable planets A big obstacle when it comes to trying to establish humanity on other planets is the difficulty in actually reaching any planet that is actually habitable. Most planets orbit around red dwarf but red dwarf tends to release a lot of nasty flares to planets that are too close...

Theoretically it shouldn't work particularly well for the following reasons. 0. The quality of the voters is low (you only need to be citizen and 18+). 1. The incentive for making good decisions is low due to you only having 1 vote out of millions. 2. The people who vote are not able to...

PlayStation Reverses Decision to Remove Purchased Content The fact that they had the ability to delete content on peoples consoles in the first place should be seen as a big warning. https://news.faharas.net/en/playstation-u-turns-on-removal-of/ With all the control sony has over playstation...

Example of 'elites' pushing nonsense: definition of the word planet There was a lot of media attention given to the IAU demoting pluto to no longer being a planet. Instead of providing a general definition of planet they opted for something that would only apply to the solar system...

The mass gaps for planets/moons in our solar system When looking at just masses we see a very big gap between Pluto and Mercury for planets (excluding moons, in 10^21 Kg): Jupiter: 1 898 187 ± 88 Saturn: 568 317 ± 13 Neptune: 102 413 ±5 Uranus: 86 813 ± 4 Earth: 5 972.4 ± 0.3 Venus: 4 867.5 ±...

How should "planet" be defined? The current official IAU definition of planet doesn't really make sense for multiple reasons. 0. Objects can be "exoplanet" or dwarf planet" without actually being a planet, that simply doesn't make any grammatical sense. 1. Whether or not an object is a planet...

Apparent dark matter When we look at the effects of gravity there seems to be a lot of matter there that we cannot detect in any other way. The most likely explanation for this is that there are particles that are interacting extremely weakly (such as only via gravity) and this wouldn't exactly...