Interviews for Etiv.in (Invite Forum) Now Open

December 28, 09 by sharky   10,010  views  

Etiv.in is one of those torrent invite forums that essentially remains mostly a closed-system. Rarely does Etiv have registration open directly (just twice in their site history; both times were related to FSF articles). Nor do they have a perpetually-open IRC #invite channel for aspiring members to apply - the last time this occurred was back in October for just two short days. From now until January 1st, Etiv has opened a special #christmas-interview channel - now’s your chance to get into one of the ‘nets premier torrent forums.

Etiv.in Interviews On IRC:

For those who are looking for a direct invitation to Etiv, simply visit their #christmas-interview channel on irc.etiv.in.

Here are a few sample questions that you may be asked:

  • • What quality do you feel you can bring to Etiv that would help the forums?
  • • What do you expect from Etiv?
  • • Would you be active on our IRC?
  • • Are you a member of any other invite forums? If so please provide profile links.
  • • How familiar are you with torrenting?

Etiv.in Updates:

— Merely six months old, Etiv is rife with activity.

  • • Old Stats (2009-08-14): Threads: 1,392; Posts: 10,940; Members: 697
  • • New Stats (2009-12-28): Threads: 3,638; Posts: 31,262; Members: 1,241

— Recently upgraded to vBulletin 4.0.

About Etiv:

• Employs an iRep reputation system - used for invite GAs, fulfilled requests, seedbox, help or anything else.

• Invite GAs - Available to all members; currently lists 690 unique threads.

• Invite Requests - Only available to members who meet these criteria: 30 posts, 5 iRep, 7 days on the site.

• Tutorials - no copy/pasting of other tutorials; only original unique tutorials are allowed.

• Tracker Recruitment - Lists 26 different trackers with community reps / FLS members offering direct recruitment.

• Tracker Reviews - Indexes 109 unique reviews.

• Seedboxes for members - Look for EtivBox to relaunch soon.

Etiv & Trackers

Most torrent forums (but not all) dissuade their members from using the same username on the board as they do on their private tracker accounts. Etiv is striving to work together with private trackers:

New Policy on User Names

 

The Culture of BitTorrent and specifically invite forums is ever changing. The Etiv staff strives to provide the best possible environment for our electronic family to share information and invites as well as just hang out. The Admins here have been running P2P forums together for close to 3 years. When Etiv launched over the summer, through our prior experiences felt it was best to bar the use of your tracker name here at Etiv. This policy was driven by a few bad experiences with trackers banning our users for GAs.

 

As Etiv has grown over we have come to realize that this is counter-productive. We have nothing to hide and in fact we have common goals with the trackers: We seek to enrich the BT scene by educating newbs in the BT Culture and connecting quality torrenters with quality trackers. I would like to work with the trackers instead of operating in the shadows.

 

Etiv’s policy of mandating our users not to use their tracker name is over - effective immediately.

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89 responses for this post

  1. 01   •   ELJOKER Says:

    good review sharky

  2. 02   •   Curious Says:

    Does anyone happen to know what trackers are offered by recruiters on etiv? I’d like to know what’s there before trying to join. Thanks.

  3. 03   •   Bob Says:

    @Curious

    They offer FTN and FSC. What do you think?

  4. 04   •   IB Says:

    A great place to learn and makes lots of friends,,,,, One on my fav places to hang out at…

  5. 05   •   FryLock Says:

    Thanks for the great write up Sharky. :D

  6. 06   •   NONE Says:

    Site sucks. Fancy posting a CN review again?

  7. 07   •   The Real Bob Says:

    Great site, great staff, great members.

  8. 08   •   Beagle Says:

    It’s a decent forum run by a great bunch of guys. I like the recent rule changes. It puts them clearly in the class of forums that are trying to show some respect for the trackers and to do some good for the community and find some good members which every tracker is looking for.

    If you consider yourself a good member, not a cheater or trader, then this is definitely a forum you want to join.

    I see great potential for this one, and I highly recommend it.

    Beagle

  9. 09   •   Beagle Says:

    @ETIV staff: an http link to a java irc applet would be very helpful to those who don’t have an irc client installed, but would like to take the interview. (PJIRC is a good one)

  10. 010   •   anonymous Says:

    Good site, but it’s only for invites. Community is dead there tbh.

  11. 011   •   anonymous Says:

    btw ETIV’s coder (Backie or some shit) made a CN review. ;)

  12. 012   •   the dude Says:

    Is this site better than Torrent Invite or The INvite Club? I am a member at both and they are ok for me…. also is Trackereactor down again??????

  13. 013   •   godsend Says:

    hey i have invites to IPT and TVT.RO…for free…mail me at mangathengachakka@gmail.com
    Happy holidays everybody

  14. 014   •   R Says:

    @11

    Yes, but only to spite them. He did it just to say “Hey, look at me; I’m breaking your rules and there’s nothing you can do about it!”. That speaks a lot about him.

  15. 015   •   Invisible Says:

    Now this site is way better than that guy ass DKF..Now etiv is a great forum.

  16. 016   •   terrence.bell77 Says:

    thanks for the pointer, just started dosing them

  17. 017   •   beloooga Says:

    ETIV is really cool. They don’t give a fuck. Backie is really funny for posting that review :D http://backie.net/cn/

    CN are such uptight faggies.. lolz!

  18. 018   •   LOL Says:

    i think ETIV do a very bad thing after doing that review

    how do you want others to respect your rules if you do not respect tracker rules

  19. 019   •   LOL Says:

    Lol, but he is also n00b as that link leads to his address

    Domain name: backie.net

    Registrant:
    Iain
    557 Merry Street
    Motherwell, ml1 4da
    GB
    +44.1698789574
    (fax: +44.1698789574)

    Administrative Contact:
    Cambridge Iain
    4 Mavisbank Terrace
    Johnstone, PA5 8EL
    GB
    +44.150344430

  20. 020   •   THE TRUE ABOUT ETIV Says:

    How can you call this place a place that is setting examples they had post saying that they had no problem with trading but were deleted before most people could see them. They call tracker staff nazis because they want them to go by there rules of there tracker. They make a review for a tracker that wants to be secret causing all kinds of conflict. How is that any kind of example of a great upcoming forum?

    http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3218/etiv2.png
    http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/7972/etiv3.png

  21. 021   •   *THE TRUE ABOUT ETIV* JUST PWNED THE FUCK OUT OF ETIV Says:

    LA LA LA LA LAAA ETIV JUST GOT PWNED

    http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3218/etiv2.png
    http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/7972/etiv3.png

  22. 022   •   omglol Says:

    Etiv did not just get pwned, they are proud of the posts you are showing lol!

    Trackers have all these tps n00bs by the balls and they just take it like the little bitches that they are, but etiv have the balls to question what is right and wrong. I personally know there are a lot more traders at tps than etiv. As a huge trader and seller myself, tps is the place to do business oh baby :D etiv is just for chill conversations and shit

  23. 023   •   Carl Says:

    @20 and 21,

    That thread was made to spark debate in the “serious” forum and im guessing you were banned because we havent used that theme in a week and that thread is 6 pages long now and is not deleted. I dont know where you get your info but you fail.

  24. 024   •   Oromis Says:

    etiv ftw

  25. 025   •   THE TRUE ABOUT ETIV Says:

    How is that any kind of example of a great upcoming forum? They have you a big time trader on there forum like you it makes me wonder how many others are there? Why would anyone want to be involved with a place that can’t follow the simplest rules of a tracker? Its not about having balls its about having respect for the places you like to be.

    BTW i didn’t fail mastashakes post were deleted in the trading thread and the recruitment thread and or edited. I didn’t fail at all bud.

  26. 026   •   Carl Says:

    There is nothing wrong with discussing your personal views of trading in a debate thread. Debating and participating are two entirely different things. Just because we have a debate thread doesnt mean we allow trading or condone it.

    Also, you make it seem like we allow traders on our forums but you can take a look at our ban log and see how wrong that is. Anyone who is reported for trading is instantly banned including those that were reported from other invite forums or trackers.

    For those of you good members interested in joining we’d love to have you. I’m not sure why we’re being flamed for having an open discussion but we’re not going to censor anyone’s opinions and we truly do have a great bunch of members

  27. 027   •   THE TRUE ABOUT ETIV Says:

    I’m not flaming just stating facts the posts were edited or deleted I know that for a fact. Anyone on here can take it for what they want but when you say the things that were said in those you condone trading or are a trader yourself.

    and do not forget about uriel that been banned in evry invite forum for being trader except ETIV

    NOW TELL ME WHAT THAT MEAN ????????????/

  28. 028   •   Carl Says:

    It means we know the truth about what happened and have known for months. It also means he is innocent. Simple as that

  29. 029   •   FryLock Says:

    @*THE TRUE ABOUT ETIV*

    You post those screens like they are a secret and show your true ignorance.

    Try thinking for yourself and actually reading those threads before you blast us like the sheep you are.

    -Fry

  30. 030   •   FREE Says:

    I’ve been observing the controversy surrounding Etiv lately (Forbidden review, Pro trading views…). And as a seasoned torrenter, i have to say Etiv seems rather shady. For a tracker invite forum, you would think Etiv would, without a doubt, agree and comply with any given trackers Rules. Good thing there are other commendable invite forums such as TR, TPS, TIC, NS…

  31. 031   •   da dude! Says:

    Seriosuly is ETIV better or worse than Torent Invite, Trackereactor or The Invite Club??

  32. 032   •   Backie Says:

    019 • LOL Says: 29.12.09 at 12:14 am

    Lol, but he is also n00b as that link leads to his address

    N00b? I knew it does. I just don’t give a fuck. Not like it really matters, what am I going to get sued over some screenshots? No

  33. 033   •   T.REZNOR Says:

    fucking cupcake thinking he’s a snowflake.

  34. 034   •   octopus Says:

    i think it is really good invite forum. I think forums are really active. And give aways are good also. Admins look like a friend. Really good place

  35. 035   •   me Says:

    @ 019
    Yes, there is his address. So what are you gonna do?

  36. 036   •   lol Says:

    any invite site that doesn’t have a HDBits rep is a crap site since you can get almost all other invites at individual power user forums on trackers.

  37. 037   •   FryLock Says:

    @Free

    My personal views on trading and how we operate Etiv are two different things. I find it very amusing that you put me down for thinking for myself and expressing those opinions openly for discussion.

    BHAAAAAA I think I hear your herd calling ;)

  38. 038   •   MastaShake Says:

    Hi. We are not a trading forum.

    We have a topic in the Serious section of the forums where people are allowed to debate over topics. One topic in that forum is Trading. It’s not a thread to trade. We are debating why trading is bad. As Carl has said, we instantly ban people that we find out are traders. Uriel was/is innocent.

  39. 039   •   backie Says:

    @035

    I bet he phones up the phone numbers on there only to find they aren’t mines. He also has the problem of figuring out why are there two different address for me?

  40. 040   •   The Real Bob Says:

    Etiv should be commended for setting their own moral compass, thinking for themselves, and not being afraid to openly discuss normally taboo subjects in a logical, organized fashion.
    Their main goal is, and always will be, to make the torrenting community better by educating new and experienced user alike.
    Trackers have nothing to fear from Etiv.

    @ THE TRUE ABOUT ETIV

    Your full of shit like a Christmas tree.

  41. 041   •   Nazgul Says:

    Etiv is my favourite place to hang out.The admins are real friendly, community is top notch.I’ve made great friends and come to know good people there.And its the place i call home.I highly recommend it.

    @ THE TRUE ABOUT ETIV:

    Your full of shit like a Christmas tree.

    +1

  42. 042   •   zzzz Says:

    Nazgul

    How much rep. points did you get for those words?

  43. 043   •   FryLock Says:

    @ZZZZ and friends

    Thanks for all the activity! 40 comments in less than 24 hours is win.

  44. 044   •   rdx Says:

    Hello friends…
    Everyone has their own opinion .. I think people should not comment which they havent seen from inside …
    The forum is loaded with stuff u wont even believe (invites are plenty)… I think everyone should give it a try .. The staff is also quite friendly…

    thanks guys … Have a nice day

  45. 045   •   gitarringa Says:

    @ FryLock: Sure you can discuss everything you want unless it goes out of line.

    BUT what you cannot do is just because you do not agree with one or several rules of a tracker just go ahead and break those rules or allow breaking of those rules on your board.

    Trackers have rules for a reason, they are there to protect the site, the members and the staff. I know you think you know some stuff better and so do many, but have you actually staffed a tracker? What makes you think you know it better?

    @ Backie: We couldn’t care less about who you are, where you live and what your phone number is. You showed everybody that you are a person that cannot be trusted with anything. You have no boundaries and no concern about other peoples lifes. You make up your own rules and do stuff without thinking that what you do could actually hurt people. This makes you a giant douchebag who just lost all credibility. We’ll move on and keep doing our thing, I guess this makes you mad the most.

  46. 046   •   SmartWater Says:

    I really like etiv. Their staff have been quite nice with me and I appreciate backie’s ability to challenge convention.

  47. 047   •   Backie Says:

    @gitarringa

    So I don’t have logs of you saying you are going to cause me alot of pain? And I can’t be trusted with anything? Because I didn’t follow the rules of a tracker I wasn’t a member at? Oh you will say it’s a matter of respect, respecting rules doesn’t mean you follow them. And I don’t respect that rule. CN published their details publically and still expect everyone else to make sure CN stays a secret. CN staffers even come on to a public blog to air it’s dirty washing.

    True or false all information in the screenshots were published by CN, any damage done is the result of CN publishing the info 1st, not like I breached CN’s servers and stole data that wasn’t being published by CN.

    Oh and what is the reason for a rule saying don’t mention our name or url in public when CN does it themselfs?

    I am not mad, I am as Smartwater says challenging convention. Which I am well known to do.

  48. 048   •   THE TRUE ABOUT ETIV Says:

    I think its very funny that you claim that I am a liar. I know that post were edited or deleted. Your views on trading do make a difference on how other people feel about it. If a sysop of a forum has no care for tracker rules then why should any of your members. Your supposed to set an example for others as a owner of a forum not bash trackers and there rules. So whats gunna happen if another tracker desides that they are secret but would like some new members are you going to bash them too and post all what they don’t want posted? No matter how you put it your logic is wrong very wrong. Here is proof of the MastaShakes deleted post in the recruitment thread. http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/723/etiv4.png

  49. 049   •   MastaShake Says:

    @ THE TRUE ABOUT ETIV

    How is that proof of a deleted post of mine? Would you like a screenshot of the admin view? There are no deleted posts on that thread.

  50. 050   •   THE TRUE ABOUT ETIV Says:

    The proof is right here. The thread before your post was deleted.http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3218/etiv2.png The thread after http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/723/etiv4.png

    Anyone who is at etiv can go to the thread right now and look where your post is and its not there. If it is there now then you just put it back. I know what I am talking about you can claim whatever you want. I know the truth and anyone with some sense can see that I’m not flaming or bashing just stating the facts.

  51. 051   •   THE TRUE ABOUT ETIV Says:

    sorry for the double post but had to add a clickable link.

    The proof is right here. The thread before your post was deleted. http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3218/etiv2.png The thread after http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/723/etiv4.png

  52. 052   •   MastaShake Says:

    One screen shot is before a bad update to 3.8.4 PL2 and data loss and the second is 4.0.0 with a backup of before the bad update. Nothing was deleted. Again how is that proof? Does it say deleted message? Nope. Your proof is fail.

  53. 053   •   THE TRUE ABOUT ETIV Says:

    Really dude you expect people to believe the hiccup fucked up the post that said bad things about trackers/staff and trading. If that was what happened then why were the other post still there that day and yours was the only one gone. I’m not going to argue about this anymore. You can keep on going on with your lies if you but I know the truth. I just thought that people should know how it really is and people can take it for what it is.(THE TRUTH)

    YOU ARE FAR FROM AN EXAMPLE OF A GREAT UPCOMING FORUM!

  54. 054   •   Backie Says:

    Are you complaing because he deleted his own post? Complaining because he isn’t ass kissing trackers? TPS is there for that, they do it well and it works for them. This is the sort of thing I talk about when I complain about trackers going around acting like they are the shit, apperantly you can’t even post your own opinions that don’t agree with theirs.

    The post that is missing doesn’t really say anything bad. Shit I’ve said more converisal things in a thread about uk-t shutting down.

  55. 055   •   youraclownbackie Says:

    Thats why your not there anymore. Enough said.

  56. 056   •   The Real Bob Says:

    @ THE TRUE ABOUT ETIV

    Amazing, you are a weird little man. I like to play devils advocate, and looked at your “proof”. All I see is a post removed by the guy that wrote it in the first place. Last time I checked, there’s nothing wrong editing, or deleting, your own words. It’s called freedom of expression.

  57. 057   •   Backie Says:

    @055

    Not where? Uk-T? it shut down, can’t still be a member of a tracker that doesn’t exist. TPS? I let my account die?

    Nice to see you have the balls to put your name to your comment.

  58. 058   •   RoyalTrespassers Says:

    Yes they r Good Guys but they dont want me in this site why????

  59. 059   •   Carl Says:

    Because you duped TL accounts ROYALTRESPASSERS lol. next time dont break the rules

  60. 060   •   Wangdu Says:

    i do not know why they banned me, i waited 30 min. no one came forward and than i left after that, and whn i come back next day they banned me for whatever reason
    contact me etiv mod if you see this

  61. 061   •   Mr. E Says:

    @46 SmartWater

    Shouldn’t you be off complaining about how tracker staff are all censoring Nazis ;)?

  62. 062   •   roadman Says:

    @ frylock lolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

    http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/9220/frylockisan00bhavingb00.png

  63. 063   •   bhjgj Says:

    hey another one frylock got 6 times banned in ttinvite……….

    http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/1839/etivfuck.png

    hey fryfuck any reason wants to join in ttinvite ….. want to spam or advertise etiv???????

  64. 064   •   godsend Says:

    WHY ARENT THEY INTERVIEWING?ANYBODY ELSE GOT THE SAME PROBLEM?

  65. 065   •   me Says:

    dirty-deeds the place to be

  66. 066   •   ilikeit Says:

    i got in with out any problems and im liking it took me less then 1 hour to get interviewed and invited

  67. 067   •   tcn31 Says:

    Yep, same here less than 1 hour to get interview & invited. I don`t know much about invite forums but it seems a pretty cool place to me.

  68. 068   •   frylock=pwned Says:

    ROFL Frylock is getting so fucking pwned IMO he doesn’t deserve to be staff, hes a deceiving little cunt who only looks out for himself.

  69. 069   •   MastaShake Says:

    The reason it was taking so long as that most of us were asleep, lol.

  70. 070   •   Gaucho Says:

    Are you still asleep? The channel seems dead.

  71. 071   •   eddymonsoon Says:

    hmm I can’t get into etiv anymore. The page never loads for me…is the site down?

  72. 072   •   djExtacy Says:

    Yeah. They’re probably getting DDoS’ed right now. Their site has been down for hours.

  73. 073   •   eddymonsoon Says:

    Oh..I thought I was banned already..lol

  74. 074   •   Gaucho Says:

    IRC is down now too. Apparently.

  75. 075   •   CallMeBob Says:

    I believe that they are upgrading the source

  76. 076   •   MastaShake Says:

    We are moving to a new server and upgrading.

  77. 077   •   etiv staff Says:

    wait for 3 days idiots.

    the problem will solve soon

  78. 078   •   Carl Says:

    @ETIV STAFF

    you are not staff so why dont you post under your own nick. kthx

  79. 079   •   MastaShake Says:

    Tomorrow is the last day for interviews, get in now! :D

    Viva La Etiv
    -MastaShake

  80. 080   •   Etiv.out Says:

    MastaShake = Serb
    BlastGT1 MasterBlaster at FST = Serb

    Another forum to ip monitor people and sell his own trackers invites.

    Dont be fooled. Serb only ip monitors people and he get banned from most places recently. Global ban even wont do it, now he is in different disguises. Etiv is Serb arena, If you get in, you always have risk to loose everthing at every tracker so just becarefull.

  81. 081   •   BlastGT1 Says:

    @ ETIV.OUT:

    You are an absolute idiot. Not only is Serb NOT me, but I go by my own nick at FST, which is BlastGT1. Even if I used a pseudonym elsewhere, it wouldn’t be MasterBlaster. That would be fairly easy to make a connection with, don’t you think?

    And I’ve talked to MastaShake in the past myself. If it were Serb, I would know better. Srb has a distinct typing style, and it’s far different from mine or MastaShake’s.

    Try reading my posts ANYWHERE. I have a firm grasp of the English language. You can’t possibly mistake Serb for ME. Moron.

  82. 082   •   @ Etiv.out Says:

    If Mastashake is Serb then I am superman …..
    roflmao

  83. 083   •   pagan65 Says:

    @etiv.out
    as BLASTGT1 stated, you are a total idiot. Serb has never been a member of etiv. Now go play with the other little kids & leave the adults alone, k?

  84. 084   •   FryLock Says:

    You guys have it all fucked up…I’m the real Serb ::Pulls of rubber mask:::

    Mastashake is really Gary Coleman BTW

    Clowns

  85. 085   •   Beagle Says:

    Looks like I spoke too soon….

    … more useless drama, and a serious lack of respect.

    I take back my recommendation.

  86. 086   •   Disappointed Says:

    Well i must say reading all these comments that Im a little disappointed
    I don’t have a need to post my real nick or what I do but I’d like to think I’m a
    mature torrenter, and reading the comments has kinda put me off etiv a litte
    I ‘ve been a member at etiv for a while and the staff are always quick to help you and the forums are always active, yes you get your odd Scum that manage to creep their way into the
    doors but hey so does every other invite forum site and they would be lying if they said they didn’t but are weeded out so quickly sometimes yuo don’t notice that were there and thats why staff like Beagle (yea beagle I do know you m8 :P) and Frylock are considered
    such awesome staff at their respective forums. My dissappointment stems from the way this thread was handled and how it got out of hand staff should of known that there would be flamers and you know that there will always be those that will stay sceptical until your site dies so they can say I told you so I just wish you guys woul dhave been the bigger dudes. Nyway you still have a gem don’t let BS like this bring it down.

  87. 087   •   cc254 Says:

    who can invite me join etiv.in?
    mr.informality@gmail.com

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  89. 089   •   mariano Says:

    could anyone help me with an invitation I went on IRC but there was no one: (

    like an invitation to Peter that Top Aces is the best of all (or I think it best)

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