March 10, 2009 by sharky
It seems like every week there’s a brand-new P2P / BitTorrent discussion board to join the ranks, aspiring to become the new big thing. This time, it’s DgDSN.com - self-billed as a "private torrent tracker community" - although DgDSN actually stands for something a little more sinister. While registration is currently open, there’s some strict rules for new members, which includes a proper introduction to the board and two ratio proofs.
We really need to put all these new torrent forums on one page, which we’ll get around to doing soon.
DgDSN - A Look Inside…
While DgDSN has the usual forum fare for general discussions, content heavily leans towards invites, private trackers, BitTorrent talk & various P2P feeds. The forum uses 20 different user classes of which each group has different abilities to access different areas on the forum (see forum structure). For example, to access the "Request Invites" threads, 50 posts are first required.
Accessing The Main Fora
After signing up, you’ll need to make an introductory post. This also consists of including two ratio proofs from private trackers. Questions you should answer in your introduction include:
- - Tell us a bit about yourself.
- - Why do you want to be a part of DgDSN, and what can you contribute?
- - What private trackers are you a part of? What private trackers would you want to be a part of someday?
- - How did you find us?
- - What’s your favorite torrent tracker?
- - What do you use torrents for (e.g movies, music, etc.)
Once this is done, simply wait for a ‘rep’ and your userclass will then be upgraded. The rest of the forums will then open up.
Signup Problems: If you find that you’re unable to register, this is likely because you’ve found yourself on the wrong end of an IP blocklist. DgDSN incorporates a rather large anti-P2P blocklist on the site.
Forum Features:
— Advanced board statistics.
— In-forum tracker checker for open registrations (similar to TrackerChecker.org):
DgDSN… At A Glance
- URL: http://dgdsn.com/forum/
- Open Signups? Yes, but conditionally.
- Number of Members — 60
- Invite / Account Trading? — No.
- Account Giveaways? — Yes
- ‘Rep’ System — Two styles: 1.) Uses an "iTrader" system (for giveaway ‘rep’). 2.) Has a regular "Rep" system (called ‘Site Respect’).
- Tracker Recruitment — None found.
- Invite Giveaways — Broken down into category (genre) of tracker.
- Last 10 Giveaways: FTS, Ozone, TL, IPT, RevTT, HD-Torrents, ExtremeBits, TheBox, TVT.com, LzTr
- Invite Requests — Yes, but 50 posts are required to access.
- Tracker Reviews — Yes. Currently just 15 reviews.
- Seedbox Reviews — Yes.
- Donations? / VIP access — Yes.