The Private Tracker Dictionary
April 25, 08 by sharky 1,774 views
This is a non-exhaustive list of terminology commonly used throughout the private BitTorrent community. Many obvious ones (such as "torrent") have been purposely omitted. I threw this together rather quickly; if you know of any others, please drop us a comment, and I’ll add ‘em to the list.
Adopt (a torrent):
Some sites have an ‘adoption system’ for torrents. This ensures that a torrent will always have at least one seed, and adopters are often rewarded with credit.
Axx:
Short for ‘account’ or ‘accounts’ - as in private accounts. Eg.: If you have an account at TorrentLeech and BitMeTV; then these are your axx.
Bad Invite:
You’ve given an ‘invite’ to someone who has done harm to the site, usually H&R related. In extreme cases, your account may also be deleted as some sites have zero-tolerance on this. Other sites have no policy on this whatsoever, and others may have a limitation on how many bad invites you are allowed to give (as is the case with FinBytes - which will allow 2 bad invites before disabling your account as well).
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