Redacted is probably the easiest "quality" private tracker to get in to - just take the interview: https://interviewfor.red/en/index.html

I took the interview in the early days, and I "failed" because I didn't rote memorize whether 192 VBR MP3 would trump a MP3 V2 or something like that; "you look it up in the site rules" wasn't an acceptable answer. I get they want to exclude clueless humps, but at some point you're not testing for cluelessness but memorisation skills. That kind of turned me off.

They're selecting for the effort you'll put in to get in as a proxy for the effort you'll put in once you are in. Same way tech companies do leetcode. Has little to no bearing on skill. Only whether you are cut out for this sort of grind.

Yes, I understand it. In spite of uploading hundreds of torrents to what.cd I never remembered the exact rules/flowcharts of things as I just have a poor memory for these kind of things. To this day I can't even recite the full alphabet.

It's their site, they can do what they want with it. And I can have my opinions on the petty bureaucraticness.

they're not testing for memorization skills but for "desire to join the community"

I don't have one, but I can send you one if you don't mind paying their fee.