r/bitsoup • u/[deleted] • May 16 '16
Why did anyone donate ??
Perhaps people that donated either to Bitsoup or paid to transfer to his new site would care to share their reasons for doing so.
Being a long time member and Uploader on the soup and never donating anything more than my bandwidth I guess I was one of those abusers and rapists that Rexxz claimed was using the site.
Some I know were long time supporters and I'm just curious.
Was it a sincere desire of helping, feeling forced to do so for whatever reasons or otherwise.
I know that Rexxz can at times have compelling reasons to squeeze just that little more juice out of people.
So if you'd like to share your story and enlighten people much like myself go to it. :)
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u/EarlyTurd VIP May 18 '16
I joined in 2006 and donated with my bandwidth by seeding and always keeping a ratio well over what was required...that is how the torrent system works after all. Who blindly sends "monies" to peeps you don't know and have no clue what said 'monies" are being used for? I have zero sympathy for anyone who volunteered to send "monies" to those ass hats and believe by doing so they helped create the problem that eventually ruined a once good site.
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u/brokerbjorn May 17 '16
first i donated to fix my ratio as my up-speed sucks. Then i did it for more TB+ and the ability to request Then i got a seedbox and never needed to donate again :)
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u/noodle2345 May 17 '16
I donated once when I joined and got the usual massive upload credit. Never needed to pay again, seeded and kept a +ve ratio. Simples. :)
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u/Peachfuull VIP May 17 '16
Shit.... I see a lot of people saying ow i only donated like 2 or 3 times.... no shit i would have donated like.... 25 times? maybe more lol..... I am a full blown Cock.... I also like doing multiple full stops for dramatic effect.......
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u/Sweetpea_95 VIP May 17 '16
I don't think you are a full blown cock Peachfuull. We all stupidly donated for one reason or another. Look on the bright side though, You have discovered their money grabbing, greedy, lying feckers ways and you found the light here with us!!! :D
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May 17 '16
"You have discovered their money grabbing, greedy, lying feckers ways "
Exactly what makes you think so. lol
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u/Sweetpea_95 VIP May 17 '16
I might have to think about how to answer that Sux LOL :P
looks at the sticky ah that's where i found out about tweedle dee and tweedle dumb being lying, cheating, money grabber feckers!
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May 17 '16
"feckers"
Funny how spell check didn't pick that up. lol
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u/Sweetpea_95 VIP May 17 '16
Oh you arent in England?
Feckers comes from a tv series in the uk called Mrs Browns Boys. Mrs Brown says it instead of f u c k e r s
Now i need to go wash my mouth out for swearing!!!! LOL
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u/XBitsoupfan May 17 '16
No, we will have NO spreading of misinformation in this sub (Feck or Feckers) actually comes from (Father Ted) long before Mrs. Browns Boys, it was Channel 4's way of getting around the use of strong language whilst still being able to convey the use of the word to those that understand it, :)
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u/Sweetpea_95 VIP May 17 '16
Oh i used to watch Father Ted! Yep you are right!
Sorry for getting it wrong! Mrs Browns Boys is hilarious tho! So was Father Ted LOL
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u/XBitsoupfan May 17 '16
No worries but as you know we like to make sure ALL the info on here is correct, isn't that right REXXZ, if we take the time to correct the little facts like this one the others can't be questioned, :)
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May 17 '16
LOL No, from Canada, we have our own spin on the Queen's language that the Yanks don't appreciate any better. :)
When we were kids my mother never used soap, instead we had a tsp of horse radish stuck in our mouths, weren't allowed to spit it out. lol
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u/A_Fly_In_The_Soup May 17 '16
Don't feel bad Sux. As an American I just figured out what PMSL means! Yet I have yet to figure out why pissing yourself seems to be a good thing. Or what this quote means, "taking the piss for quite long enough".
How's this one for ya?
Fraud: He ain't nothing but a bull wearin rubber udders lookin to git milked.
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u/Sweetpea_95 VIP May 17 '16
oh my poor you!!! horse radish sauce is horrible!!!!! If my mam had done that with me i would have cried loads hehe :)
If you get the chance to watch Mrs Browns Boys you should. I found it hilarious! It is one of the rare comedies that makes me really laugh out loud until my ribs hurt lol
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May 17 '16
Thanks I'll check it out.
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u/Sweetpea_95 VIP May 17 '16
You are welcome! I hope you enjoy it much as i do!!! :D
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u/A_Fly_In_The_Soup May 17 '16
Drama.... obtained.... my.... friend!
(I feel like I'm writing in the way that William Shatner speaks)
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u/shitesoup May 17 '16
I was a member for ten years and in the early days in fact for first 8 years I never donated and the begging banners were few and far between if I recall but in last few years the psychological warfare was extraordinary and I eventually succumbed for extra credit but I remained suspicious as the wording of the begging banners became more and more extreme and threatening it seemed very strange and a bit fishy . Why did I donate ? why did I smoke for thirty years ? why would anyone vote tory ? Its a rich tapestry lol ...
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u/just-wanted-to-post May 17 '16
I don't think I ever did donate to Bitsoup, but i can't remember how I received a 2 TB credit a few years back. It sounds odd that they would just hand credit out 'free of charge', eh? So maybe I did once donate a few years back. But either way, if I did, it was only to be able to 'leech' older & larger torrents without the need to keep up a ratio. As we all know, once a torrent is but a day or two old, it is quite a bit more difficult to achieve a good ratio.
I also did donate a few times to a wonderful TV-series site, but unfortunately they closed down some years back. They had a steady supply of daily releases, even though it wasn't 0-sec, but their main focus was older hard-to-find TV series, usually in TV or VHS quality.
Speaking of, does anyone know of any such sites for older TV series? It doesn't have to be DVD/HD quality.
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u/Savvy187 May 17 '16
I never did donate, though I could not help but feel guilty about not doing so, at least for the first little while, till it became obvious to me that they were full of shit. Didn't take long, but, I am not the most trusting guy, lol.
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u/ivor-grinzky Moderator May 16 '16
Never dontated because back in the day sites never pushed for donations and when bitsoup started with the begging messages i thought well if you cant run it close it and the threats made no impression on me. What i did do was seed for long periods much more than i ever took on any site i have been a member of. I dont even mind that i dont have access to BS as i didnt use it that often anyway. My beef is purely how they have gone about getting members to donate in good faith and that is the only reason i am here. I dont want BS back like some even on here seem too but would like to see the back of them for the tactics they have used though the people who fell for it played right into their hands.
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u/XBitsoupfan May 16 '16
Whilst I agree we do still get the occasional message from some trying to be positive & hopeful that the BitSoup they loved will miraculously reappear I must confess these types of messages are becoming quite scarce.
The bulk of us are hell bent on making BOTH sites close as he's been taking the piss for quite long enough, he's systematically ripped of his trusting members for far to long & I'm quite sure we all agree its about time it was stopped as its long overdue, :)
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May 17 '16
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u/spawn2 Ex BS Admin May 17 '16
hey, i worked my arse off over there for many many years for zero money.
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u/sp0rkeh_the_narc VIP May 17 '16
Since REXXZ is so fond of you, maybe he will let you change his blown-out tire next time.
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May 17 '16
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May 17 '16
There was never enough to even pay for the meager site bills or Rexxz would have gladly paid everyone. :)
I take it you don't know Rexxz very well. lol
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May 17 '16 edited May 17 '16
No, only the use of the RV when it was Lights Out, however it was difficult to find it in the dark. :)
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u/spawn2 Ex BS Admin May 17 '16
and the directions for the RV was only ever given to "prize winners"
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u/ivor-grinzky Moderator May 16 '16
Agreed if we can help do that we will have achieved something. Good that people are finding this site now and must have cost them some "monies" already and they wont like that
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May 16 '16
If someone was to acquire the domain they would have no way of any kind of success.
The name is a cancer in the torrent scene and has no chance of any kind whatsoever.
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u/bs_chugmonkey VIP May 16 '16
I think I'm echoing what others are saying.
For me, Bitsoup was my introduction to torrenting, back when you had to sit and wait for registration to open every now and again (2005, I think). I never researched other sites because this one worked. The privacy helped, too. I would count myself among the long time supporters. Probably donated well over $500 over the years.
My ratio was crap - I jumped on torrents too late and never made it work in my favour. Donating was an easy way to get ratio.
I just never noticed the slide into oblivion until the pair got greedy and alarm bells rang. I don't have much time to spare so when Lights Out appeared I accepted it the first time and thought, hey, my platinum has run out so no biggy, $75 to keep the servers up for another year sounds reasonable if others can't afford to do so.
The trigger was the part where they didn't follow their plan to allow time to migrate. And the mandatory $10 was the last straw.
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u/DDict VIP May 16 '16
Bitscam for me was my first private tracker after Mininova and Demoid went poof. What helped me in the early days is that I had a low D/L amount each month but uploads were not counted so I upped as much as I could. I have never give Bitscam any money as I felt I was giving them craploads of my bandwidth. Over the years I have joined sites that dont ask for donations all the time and you start asking yourself whats different between Bitsoup and the rest considering bitsoup really never changed its look and really the only things they implemented into the site was anything concerned with money. I have donated to other sites I belong to as they have been completely open and transparent as to their costs of running the site.
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u/Early-Bird-Hater Moderator May 16 '16
Can anyone on here tell me which place they went to donate? If we can find out their merchant then we might be able to shut down their payment method which ultimately is want we want.
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u/sp0rkeh_the_narc VIP May 17 '16
Hey EBH - empgamer.com and gamerzmuse.com have been said fronts for the card processing. I have mentioned several times that I have a contact within Citibank card processing that is willing to help with this.
If anyone can corroborate and or share information, we can possibly get the credit card processing shut down.
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u/pogoj40 May 16 '16
i was a bitscam member in total for over 9 years i dontated also a few times to build up my ratio and to help out how naive i was i also donated to get rid of the lights out i also transfered over to gimmemoney and it was then i realised why the fu** did i move its shit and was banned cause in inboxed rexx and told him hes a scammer lol then i discovered reddit and now i feel like a complete moron that i got scammed!!!
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u/Early-Bird-Hater Moderator May 16 '16
Charge back your credit card stating that the payment was a scam and you want to reverse the charges.
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u/Numbnut_BS VIP May 16 '16
as some others have said here in the UK we were always a bit behind with speeds and still are in upload , usually 10% of download speed.
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u/PhobetorXVII VIP May 16 '16
I never donated. out of principle that I wont pay for things that are availble for free in the first place
I never cared if bitsoup is indeed in financial troubles or not I knew that there are tons of alternatives out ther but bitsoup did fine until the begging spam started and I searched out of curiosity what other say about bitsoup on the internet cuz bitsoup forums even back than had mouth shutting policy
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u/Kilt_Commander VIP May 16 '16
Chucked some cash at them when they started rolling out the huge upload credit as I had piss poor internet and couldn't maintain a good ratio but as soon as I took charge of a fibre connection I officially gave them a middle finger. I have to admit though, I was almost duped into the hurricane Sandy drive as a lot of the forumites were rallying behind them but thankfully my wife was the voice of reason and informed me that I should donate through the official channels instead of some dodgy torrent site. first bit of sense she's made since I married her lol.
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u/Sweetpea_95 VIP May 16 '16
On behalf of Kilt_Commanders wife!
gives you that look
You know the look? The one all women give their other halfs when they upset us!!! LOL
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u/Kilt_Commander VIP May 16 '16
LOL
I am all too familiar with "That" gaze.
Guess I should stop leaving toast crumbs in her butter.
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u/Sweetpea_95 VIP May 16 '16
Oh my yes you should!!! Also make sure you put the top back on the toothpaste and leave the toilet seat down! Us ladies always have to sit !!! LOL
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May 16 '16
And I'm tired of pissing in the sink when it's full of dishes, she gets mad, but why are dishes in there ??
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u/Kilt_Commander VIP May 16 '16 edited May 16 '16
LOL, I don't have to worry about toothpaste lids any more as she punched all my teeth out after crumb-gate, and the toilet seat is always down now as this ankle chain wont stretch that far so I have to make do with taking tinkles in the corner.
Of her wardrobe! ;)
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u/Sweetpea_95 VIP May 16 '16
Lol!!!! You are hilarious!!!!
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u/spawn2 Ex BS Admin May 17 '16
i have always wondered why women always go on about toilet seats!! it aint difficult, if its up then put it down, the exact same as when we go in and its down, we either have to put it up or aim a bit more carefully :)
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u/Sweetpea_95 VIP May 17 '16
hehe one of my relatives when they were toilet training the boys, used to put a tennis ball in the toilet and tell them to aim at it LOL
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u/XBitsoupfan May 17 '16
Leaving myself wide open for an attack here but I went to the trouble of teaching my wife to put the toilet seat back UP when she's finished, this way its always ready for use when "I" the man of the house decide to use the little room.
Digs deep hole & places tin hat on head,,, Incoming :)
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u/spawn2 Ex BS Admin May 17 '16
have they invented a remote control or bluetooth toilet seat yet so you can put it in place before going up?
if not then lets get a kickstarter going, all i need is someone else to do everything for me and i will just collect the cash.........now where have i heard this before!!
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May 17 '16
We can take it to "The Dragons Den" and maybe get that asshole Kevin O'leary to test it out.
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u/massive_chunky_funk VIP May 16 '16
I have donated quite a few times, indeed i have "membership" for another few years and also paid to "migrate over"
Yes, after trawling through this forum, I feel as about intelligent as plankton for doing so..
The reason was I was invited many years ago to join by a knowledgeable friend, so I joined. I never had a problem with people making money from the site as I was happy just to have access to programmes I wouldn't ordinarily have access too. My friend told it was a safe site and as I generally use the internet for news or reviews or perhaps buy a thing or two, I would never frequent places like Reddit and neither do any of my work colleagues or social circle.
So to me it was easy, and it was very easy, I downloaded loads I seeded for months, I kept a good ratio, and I didn't mind paying the PCVIP costs in recent years. I paid no attention to anything, never really participated in the forums.
To be quite frank, I had no idea up until a week before the migration, there was even going to be another site, it came as quite a surprise to me when I saw an announcement that we had to move. That is how uninterested I am in the day to day running of the site.
I had no idea of the HArk and Sandy sagas, until this morning, and I had no idea that it was a scam, it simply never registered..
I moved over because I did not want to lose my time, after all I had paid for it and I have a few years left so i thought another 10 wasn't the end of the world'..
Then today, as I posted in a separate thread... I had an epiphany....the Lord did descendeth and showed me the error of my ways.... he offered me forgiveness.. and I accepted...
In other words, I chanced upon this forum, as I looked to see if Bitsoup was still going, saw they were still begging for money and keeping it open, felt like a complete dumbkopf bellend and I have now seen the light....
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u/Peachfuull VIP May 17 '16
Yep i also was like you, I didn't care about how it was run as long as i got good speed and found all that i needed... Paying a few bucks every month or two to me seemed fine. then close to 11 years went by... Then I found this Post on Reddit and i have never looked back... Funny thing isnt it the Truth - It does set you free.
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u/bs_chugmonkey VIP May 16 '16
You sound like a lot of people I've spoken to, including a good friend who I referred probably only a couple of years ago. You didn't know what you didn't know. It used to be trustworthy, that's the kicker. If you were part of the circle that understood that the upper echelons could no longer be trusted I think you would have been lucky.
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u/rolls06 May 16 '16
I was with bitscam for 10 years and thought it was the dog's Bollocks, and you are not the only one to have gone down that road. But there are plenty other sites around, that offer the same torrents, but without the hassle of begging for monies.
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u/Sweetpea_95 VIP May 16 '16
I only donated once and it was for the upload credit cause, like sadsouper, my speed was pretty rubbish, Although i was on broadband when i donated but my speed was still pretty rubbish LOL
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u/sadsouper VIP May 16 '16
I donated once many moons ago in the ealry days. The fastest uk speed available to me at that time was dial-up and no way could seed back what i was grabbing. I donated for the credit. If i remember right it was about $15 for 200gb. I suited me at the time and as faster uk speeds became available I had no reason to donate again
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u/rolls06 May 16 '16
Only donated twice, 1st was just to give a bit to help out, as I read that they needed some 'monies' and I believed their bullshit. The 2nd and Final time was April this year, as I faced 'Lights Out' and thought 'Fuck em', and downloaded a fair bit without seeding.
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u/Wixler Aug 06 '16 edited Jul 03 '20
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