BitTorrent Mac Fans Try To Save the Coratee
Written by enigmax on August 04, 2008Mac users missing the community spirit they enjoyed at BrokenStones are on an urgent mission to save an endangered manatee-like sea mammal which lives almost entirely on sea cabbage. But that will have to wait. There’s a brand new Gazelle-based Mac tracker in town – and it promises to be fun. We take a look.
For a commnunity more used to a certain calm, things have been quite turbulent in the Mac torrent scene recently. After hosting issues took down the BrokenStones tracker the mood was low. So, when another site, Vortex Network, offered much as a potential replacement but ultimately proved too controversial, the mood fell lower still.
What the community needs right now is less drama, a place to call home and some well-deserved fun. We spoke to a senior staffer at the brand new mac tracker, SaveTheCoratee.org, to get some answers on the important stuff – like what the hell a coratee is?
“A coratee is an animal that is similar to a manatee, its primary diet is sea cabbage” he told us. “It was hunted and killed by tuna companies and sold to you because they are easier to fish. They are slow and stupid animals that are loving and soft and on the brink of extinction, meaning they are in desperate need of saving.”
The BrokenStones community parallels are obvious – minus the “slow and stupid bit” perhaps. But, an equal (if not greater) amount of love, of course. And cabbage.
“We picked Save the Coratee because of two real reasons. One, I try to live my life and everything I do with a healthy sense of the ridiculous. Two, the mac community is a creative and innovative community. Hand them a fake animal with no description rather than ‘It’s kinda like a manatee’ and people love it. It builds community and creates a family feeling that is ‘fun’.”
So bizarre mammal protection aside, what inspired the staff to start the site? Our source told us: “When BrokenStones went down we started talking with people about getting a site up but Vortex beat us to it.” As we know, things didn’t go to plan at Vortex but in the background, slowly but surely, SaveTheCoratee was still in development. “We started talking and we were kinda moving slow, brain-storming etc. Then stuff started to go down hill at Vortex so we kicked it into gear,” the staff member said.
So, apart from all the regular categories and well-seeded torrents and cabbage-eating sea mammals one would expect at a site like this, what else is there to this site? Well, for a start, the site is based on the Project Gazelle codebase, but it’s been put together ‘in-house’. The team at What.cd weren’t involved beyond the initial development, although they did save the first coratee (a female), and managed to effect some sort of virgin birth and a successful breeding program. I didn’t pry any deeper.
Nevertheless, I was told that a big achievement during the development was that the coders managed to convert the music-based source of Gazelle into a multi-app, multi-purpose site in just 4 days, which certainly sounds like an achievement.
The staff member further told us that SaveTheCoratee hopes to develop into a small, dedicated group (5,000 members, maybe more) of users who love both Apple Computers and BitTorrent sites: “I never want the site to be big or to loose personality” he told us. The site currently has around 1000 members but it’s growing fast.
So what might convince potential users of the site to head over to their IRC channel with a big bucket of sea-cabbage bribes to smooth the entrance interview?
Our source told us: “We included a lot of…. how would I put this… win in the site……or love…….”
According to a message on the site, once you have loved a coratee, you cannot go back to a plain old manatee, because it will seem rough and stupid by comparison.
Sounds like a good time to stock up on sea-cabbage.
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76 Responses
its a good site, really
wow im so confused..
but this is cool.
yay for coratee!
come get your invites quickly. the site is going to fill so hurry up.
btw, invites are thorough so be prepared to show off stats from other sites, etc
Anybody who is on vortex should delete their account and move to this new server. Vortex is not to be trusted
mac and… torrents? wtf
oh, i get it, that tracker is for music and movies only… wait… isnt it like a normal tracker? ah, yes, they also have the 10 MacOS apps that are not free… Oh my…
By the way, you might have noticed that I love those three dots… Yeah…
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Sounds like more elitist tracker BS. Maybe you’ll need ten seedboxes to get a positive ratio on this one? Also, fuck Macs.
Sounds like more elitist tracker BS. Maybe you’ll need ten seedboxes to get a positive ratio on this one? Also, fu*k Macs (and the pathetic censorship on this site, too).
@5 Take yourself and jump off a cliff
@5 Take yourself and jump off a cliff
You are not very nice…
And you know im right
And take #6 with you
Thanks to this article we’re getting slammed with people who want invites. I guess we have our work cut out for us for a while. :P
This tracker does a great job. If you’re into easy torrenting without seeding please stay at Piratebay or Demonoid. For a quality Mactracker with a great base you might want STC. Macs and Coratees rule.
KILL IT WITH FIRE!
@4 – Isn’t Vortex gone now anyways? I haven’t been able to login in days.
I get an invite how? The registration page says invite only. Do I have to be known by others. I have the stats on other sites, just no guidence on how to show them to STC. Very elitist from the looks and sounds of things.
A quite nice idea, to start up a nice tracker with such an interesting idea in mind, which even gets used as name…
Might look around there somewhen… if I ever manage to get inside…
Oh my, that’s alot of Mac fanboys. Good for you.
it’s a long wait…..and if you don’t have great ratio’s on other private trackers you won’t get in….
If you want an invite, go to their IRC channel like enigmax said. And you don’t have to worry about ratios at this point, for all you people who were bitching about that
If elitist means ‘keeping the morons out’ than I’m OK with that.
I take elitism to contrast with the idea that: hey, I can get almost every single torrent on this private tracker from public sources, where I can actually seed files and easily maintain a positive ratio. No dealing with Nazi mods and silly rules. Considering the above, that 99% of what I want is available on the publics… what are these sites offering exactly? Only a feeling of l33tness and “keeping the morons” out, apparently.
pish, its a free internet: if they want a private community to do the same thing everyone else does publicly, thats fine. I can live with getting my torrents without feeling good about the crap operating system I use.
It doesn’t do any harm, and takes the strain, to a small extent, off other trackers. So good for them.
Based on that picture alone I will never, ever buy a Mac.
Please, somebody, boot that motherfucker into space.
Seems to me with all this publicity that this tracker and from Brokenstones forward are all doomed. hosted in canada helps maybe. But tbh, if they were as l33t as they think, none of this drama would be taking place in the first place. look at the clover, im not a member but have somewhat of an idea of them but not much. Now, that’s l33t :)(for the record, im with the majority…DL a torrent and use it. period) none of this we need to meet in real person and give hugs and chit lol
vortex is not dead there moving servers and had a mod run crazy and del stuff
coratee ftw
New Server & New Staff – posted Just now
As you may have noticed, we’ve moved to a new server and there are still a few bugs being worked over, as well as the normal DNS propagation lag. If your torrent was deleted, please reload it. If you’ve lost upload credits, let us know. We’re still working to make sure everyone is properly credited. We also have some new staff promotions and are interviewing for other positions as well. If you have an interest in helping with the rebuilding, please send a PM to Tigernetic with your brief resume.
We lost a few members in the last week, and one ex-moderator maliciously deleted accounts and forum posts. We will be cleaning up the mess over this next week, and this will mean that any orphaned threads will simply be deleted. We have no desire whatsoever to continue rehashing old topics. We will make a clear announcement soon enough regarding outstanding issues and questions, and at that time, those decisions will be final.
I’m on what.cd and a few scene trackers but they get kinda ridiculous after awhile most of the stuff I want can be found on Demonoid still even if the swarm is a little unhealthy (Currently fetching a torrent with 1 seeder, 45 leechers and 23GB in size) but I can be patent and actually participate in the distribution of files like bittorrent was designed.
You know what I need? A Nix software tracker, then I could get all kinds of free, uh, oh wait nevermind, I forgot, it’s allready… :p
Go Coratees!
I’ve uploaded more than 100 Gigs of data since I started on serious(no-porn) trackers four months ago. I keep ratios of 6.7, 57.7, 152.5 on these trackers. I was told in the interview “I can tell you are new to bittorrent” and “I can’t risk my account on you”.
The article says the new site promises to be fun. It implies that it could even serve as a Brokenstones replacement. My recent interview on the invite channel, however, points to another direction. They seem to be looking for content, content, content.
That’s quite different that the beloved Brokenstones,, which was more about the members than about hard-core torrenting. While there is nothing wrong with that, it appears less about a community of people sharing themselves, and more about strictly sharing apps, videos, etc. For some, that’s better. But not my cup of tea.
@31 HUH?????
otherwise whatever about this useless tracker. i could care less about macs less upgrades and more price. if you feel good about wasting your money than go you.
@32,
I respect your opinion about mac, but it is wrong. especially for the average user, a Mac is a better option in the long run. They last longer, dont have viruses, and are based on unix. Granted the hardware is not as wonderful as they claim,but OSX is so much better than Vista or even xp.
Sorry hackintosh all the way.
So… does anyone here have an account on the site and can invite others?
I would love an invitation to the site, since mac torrents are sometimes few and far between.
(My email is Darkenedwing@gmail.com)
@36
THANKS FOR YOUR ADDRESS
WILL SIGN YOU UP FOR MIDGET PORN
WTF? Gee, I’m a Mac user and I could give a shznit less about one more L33T tra-kuhr.
Way to try and steal the ghoul of cupertino’s RDF.
I wonder if the manatee / bastardAnimal n00bs even know what RDF stands for?
There will be a reckoning. And a quiz.
And to TF: You might want to redact this nonsense. Because that’s all it is.
vortex is still alive and well btw and cleaning things up after rachel faith left
Macs use Intel now days so it’s quite a put off for me.
Might aswell just build a good old AMD and slap on a copy of Ubuntu or something, it’s got so much support now. I’ll admit the older iMac stuff was nice but there a pain for software wise.
Good old elitism, how I have missed thee.
*hugs a coratee*
Elitism is more than rampant here, yes, however…
For those of you wondering who the hell would even use a mac: http://www.systemshootouts.org/mac_sales.html
For those of you wondering who wants private trackers, my analogy is this: When going out to buy clothes, Wal-Mart has more than you’ll ever need, but for some reason tailors are still in business.
It’s amusing how the trolls trying to insult the tracker and Macs (without any reasons, of course) are exactly the idiots who will be kept out. Keeping a good ratio on Broken Stones was never hard, and Save the Coratee (or even Vortex… ewww) won’t be hard either. Mac users need a nice and small hole-in-the-wall tracker with a good community to live up to the legend of Broken Stones.
By elite you mean we want good users who will share equally and make the site a better place. If you DL a torrent and don’t share it back thats not really fair the site wants people who will share what they take so I think its good there not like demonoid or a public tracker.
Except for one thing: There are a number of long-lived thriving Mac communities out there and they are *ALL* anti-bittorrent.
Other than that:
1/ Platform doesn’t matter. I use Mac because it’s NOT Windows. Security thru obscurity is layer one, running a *nix platform is layer 2, customization is layer 3… etc
2/ These guys are grasping for straws. They aren’t Mac users any more than they are *nix users.
3/ How many Mac related torrent files are on their site? I’m betting FAR LESS than either on Dnoid or TPB.
” I think its good there not like demonoid or a public tracker.”
Spoken like a true shill. Which is why I frequent those other two.
If the platypussies wanna run their own little USENET and be L33T, let them. What happened to the platypus?
StC is not elitist, and it’s not pointless either. It allows you to get mac apps and ipod/iphone formatted content very, very fast. Much faster than any public tracker (demonoid isn’t really private, anybody can get in.)
If you’re complaining that it’s elitist because of the IRC interview, then you don’t belong here. StC is for people who want to share content with the community. If you are just somebody who hops on TPB, downloads something, seeds for a bit, then deletes the torrent, you don’t belong there. However, if you are the person uploading torrents to TPB, seeding them forever, etc, then you will find a lot of people like you at StC.
And no, it’s not really elitist.
“I never want the site to be big or to loose personality” he told us.
…Then why are you posting an interview on a high-exposure blog?
coratee= elitist fucks. They try and make you jump through hoops with an “interview process”
bullshit. these guys are cops collecting your information to catch you later
STC is a sting site being set up by la w enforcement to collect your information and go after you with legal means in the country where you might reside.
They make you go throught an “interview” process where you have to show them you are a good little cocksucker and prove you have good ratios. again, more lies to get your info to bring you to court.
beware, these guys are scum
You got to be 31337 to join it, if you’re not a l33t, then keeping using the public trackers for fake torrents and virus infected crap with lots of transcodes.
@48
You’re full of shit, they are not law enforcement and there is no sting operation. That’s what people said about what.cd when it first sprung up, you missed out then and you’re missing out now. Fool.
i can confirm that there are rumors about these guys being tied to law enforcement
beware
Haha.
I see a lot of people that failed the interview getting all bitchy.
Law enforcement? Haha! Grabbing at straws, no?
No matter what these shitty torrent blogs say, and the even shittier comments say, STC will still be a tight knit mac community with all the latest torrents.
You’re either in, or you’re not.
Most of you guys aren’t, it seems. Mainly because you saw the article on here, and if you read this and have demonoid as your only tracker, well, you’re not getting an invite.
Good luck at vortex lol.
Keep away from Vortex, there’s a lot of censorship there on the forums. They don’t trash threads, they delete them, and they delete posts as well as ban people and delete them for their enjoyment. They call it “public beheadings” as an enjoyment in banning members whom disagree with any of their posts there. The site tries to mimic a government style class system with rules, the staff enjoy playing there mini-government roles and take them very seriously.
The old Imperialist leader Rachel Faith resigned with a retarded Churchill style speech along with a public beheading and banned from other trackers for threats against them. There is a new leadership on Vortex, a Nazi Leadership that silences anyone.
The Leader is Tigernetic who resembles Adolf Hitler, and then there’s Mactus who’s as doomed as Paul von Hindenburg. The main Henchmen (Centurions) are known as Avatar_Of_Teferi, SpaceGhost, and blackcivic. Blackcivic enjoys the fun of deleting posts and silencing the crowds. Beware of SpaceGhost, he’s a pathetic ass kisser to the site and agrees with everything Tigernetic says, especially that Vortex should be a profit tracker with a P2L system and charge $1 a GB upload credits. SpaceGhost has no skills in thinking or reasoning. I did not mention thed0000d since he’s new and has kept quiet.
KEEP AWAY from VORTEX NETWORK
The people at STC are completely the opposite of the Vortex Staff, you’ll be happy there.
@52
That’s what the rejected say.
So this is where the people I rejected during their interviews came. Beware guys! I’m really from the FBI and I’m gunna GETCHA! ;) Stick to vortex plx.
I’ll be perfectly frank, I was in an interview with these folks and tbh, half way through they could tell I lost complete interest in the site after some of the questions being asked. It was far from disruptive but they did take the approach that they were elite and chose to kick my nick when they didnt get a response they were looking for. I dont own a MAC nor would I. They new this when they asked what bittorrent software I use. I was more curious of the methods they were conducting the interview vs. being a member of this site as all the sites I’m on are perfect and savethemanatee can no way compare. So I rejoined the channel I was kicked from for not answering correctly lol, I did re enter it and take the Adult approach and simply tell them this wasnt any way to represent themselves lol and left. To me, not a aggressive individual, i can handle the different personalities on the www. But, this kind of attitude will hurt in the long run and only make a potentially good site a target for the lil kids that do get their feelings hurt.
@56
STC is a Mac tracker, and if you don’t have a Mac or a Hackintosh, why would you try and get an invite? It’s just silly to think that we would give you an invite.
I was more curious of the methods they were conducting the interview vs. being a member of this site as all the sites I’m on are perfect and savethemanatee can no way compare.
Basically bro, The intention was to learn what kind of individuals were running this site. I learned. No harm done. As I stated, I wasnt interested in being a member, if by chance i got in lol, would I have used the account? No, I sure wouldnt have. But, again I say, the maturity level of the individuals running it should be suitable for the folks that are interested in the continuation of the drama we have all read about in the past week. :)
@59
So basically you came around to waste some ones time out of curiosity? That doesn’t seem to terribly fair to the interviewers. These people do not get paid. They do it to better the community many people do, but this is the way they chose to do it.
To reiterate:
“Hey guys, I’m gonna go interview for a job. . . But, I dont actually want the job, I just wanna see what the people that work there are like.”
If you wanted to know what the process was like there are better ways to do so than a faux interview.
lol @ whining.
If you’re a decent torrent user, with a passion for macs, then you will get an invite.
If you only have one or two shitty sites that you hardly use and act like a 3 year old, and accuse us of being the the feds, then you wont get an invite.
It really is as clear cut as that.
The interviews are difficult so they can ascertain whether a user is going to be detrimental to the site, or is going to contribute in a positive manner.
Quit your whining and go back to demonoid and TPB you losers :)
Ugh, I wish I had read the three pages of comments before I had my “interview.” These people are completely insane. They wanted me to post screenshots of my profile pages at several private trackers. This is after I gave them links to my profile pages. Are you kidding me? As someone who has been around and torrenting on private trackers, this is completely absurd. I understand the need to filter out leechers etc, but c’mon. Way to start a community!
He’s most likely from Vortex.
who gives a fuk really, vortex, what, manatee…they all suck balls. I aint even a member of them and i can see this. they all p2p-network scum to put it nicely. hell they all deserve to hang by the criaa, riaa, mpaa, mafiaa, and fook knows who else. same type kiddies in the scene that like to have nuke wars and pre nfo’s about each other
grow the fuk up
Interviewers are dicks they turned me down because I like to use x-chat
@65
Because, clearly that’s why we turned you down.
If your going to bash us interviewers, at least give the TF hoard a credible reason why we denied you.
I got denied because I preferred not to give my user data from all of the sites I use, state to them what I have ever uploaded show them all my ratios etc.
If this site is not run by the cops, they sure try to frisk you like one.
I just finished with these gues and good god what a stupid interview process. “Prove us your good enough or fuck you” Stupid questions, stupid process, stupid people.
What, no room for someone that might be starting out? No room for someone that might not have the fastest internet feed? Wouldnt it make more sense to have a tight ul/dl ratio instead?
These guys act, sound and smell like cops.
Honestly!!! a torrent site run by cops, You lot are more paranoid than me. Funny.
@67
They are trying to verify if you have a good ratio and are responsible enough to become a member. Screen shots are useless as they can be manipulated.
@68
You’re only proving that the interview process works as intended.
Let’s forget about Vortex.
and just conclude that at this moment there are two good mac trackers.
STC and BS which just did return.
“If you’re a decent torrent user, with a passion for macs, then you will get an invite.
If you only have one or two shitty sites that you hardly use and act like a 3 year old, and accuse us of being the the feds, then you wont get an invite.
It really is as clear cut as that.
The interviews are difficult so they can ascertain whether a user is going to be detrimental to the site, or is going to contribute in a positive manner.”
Nicely put LOL
the bar was risen with cause in mind, to keep all abusive user OUT of the community :)
Well Brokenstones is back up now so no need…
BS is back
BrokenStones move to safety:
IP Address: 66.29.81.150
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