I know that private trackers require users to maintain a good seed ratio. How exactly does that work out mathematically? If a bunch of users have seed ratios above 1, does that mean that there are some users who will forever be below 1, and thus end up getting kicked out, thus resulting in the private tracker just… shrinking over time?

  • truxnell@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Mechanics I’ve seen to avoid this:

    • Occasional sitewide freeleech
    • bonus points for seeding duration irregardless of upload, can be traded for reducing download
    • freeleech torrents (only counts upload not download)
    • partial freeleech (25/50/75% download counted)
    • Timed freeleech (free first 24h)
    • Download % counted reduced based on seed size (seed >1tb and everything’s freeleech)
    • Reduction of download % counted based on rank
    • Forum competitions for bonus points/freeleech tokens
    • Freeleech tokens giveouts

    Hell, there’s quite a few PT’s that don’t care about ratio and just have minimum seeding times on torrents.

    Plenty of these trackers have been running 1-2 decades on 1 or more of these methods just fine.

    Almost every site is laughably easy to keep ratio if you read the rules/FAQ, look at some what’s to build points/ratio, read the forums, and don’t go nuts In the first week while your establishing your account

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      5 months ago

      Websites that waste my time and leave my seedbox occupied yet idle until I play their games really annoy me and I quit them all. I currently have no private tracker accounts except rutracker.

      These system want to economise bandwidth and space and leave them all idle.

      The problem is your seed stays idle unless there actually is someone willing to download.