After the world ended (the box closed down) I was completely lost. Then I found one alternative, where someone told me about another... so in a year I had 3 main trackers.
I'm always puzzled at their attitude, for example one UK only (UK TV content only) bans people from talking about where they can find a tracker for e-books. Not relevant to them, not TV content, not competition in any way shape or form.
Invites (IMO) should be earned, as they often are, with good behavior/ratio/seed time. I don't really agree with selling them for cash - but hell, if someone's daft enough to pay then it's going to happen.
I've done three exchanges (though not here) privately with folks who got shouted down for asking if they can talk about where to find some specific content 'not available/allowed' here (like US TV).
But the situation is ridiculous - for pirates to think they're better than pirates. I'm not so excited by the prospect of finding new trackers as I was then, so I am not interested to pay... and whilst I feel maybe it's not a great idea over swapping or just helping out friends, if you've got $200 ready I'll happily throw a half dozen invites at you.
I guess we're all hypocrytes, it's simply a matter of degree.
What do you tell these people when they open the doors for invites via Facebook? One of the funnier ones goes for interviews - like a professional anti-pirate can't handle such a simple task better than most torrent users already?