@frostycab said:

Over at Torrentday you are required to seed all of your downloads to either a 1:1 ratio OR at least 72 hours within 30 days, the idea being to discourage hit & runs. If for any reason you can't then you can pay off any remaining time/MB with upload credit or points. I've advocated for doing the same here in the past but it was never taken up. Perhaps Joker and the rest of the staff here might have a discussion around it? With the whole site being updated now would be the ideal time to make the necessary technical changes.

I agree with @ianfontinell that these are bad ideas.

Why seventy-two hours? I'm sure there are members who only visit at weekends, for whatever reasons. What good does that time limit add if someone downloads a torrent on a Tuesday?

Why 1:1? What if a torrent is an old one, or has limited niche appeal? The last downloader is never going to reach that ratio, which surely discourages people from downloading once they realise that. I'm sure there are many who - for whatever reason - put a cap on the number of torrents they seed at any one time.Why expect them to seed some obscure torrent they downloaded months ago instead of one that is popular, crying out for seeds, and will help them improve their ratio?

Much better to be able to pool the total amount you're seeding rather than worry about each torrent individually. People could be motivated to keep a 1:1 ratio overall. For those who can't, there could be other ways to contribute, perhaps for example by making donations towards the cost of running the site, which obviously does need to be funded somehow. Hmmm. This all sounds familiar, for some reason.

Reseeding a dead torrent -when requested - is relatively easy. Or would be except for one thing, for me at least. That's the amount of peripheral files other than the main ones that people include - primarily images - and sometimes how they've structured subdirectories within a torrent. Many, I'm sure, are happy to download a torrent and keep it "as is" somewhere on their system. But I doubt I'm alone in maintaining my own structure, and wanting stuff I've downloaded to fit that, not a never ending variety of other structures.

"Rules" are perhaps overdoing it, merely to satisfy neat freaks like me, but perhaps some "best practice" guidance would be helpful? Making it easier to reseed when required is surely a much better way of keeping torrents alive than imposing arbitrary seeding rules which both create their own problems, and don't solve the existing ones.

@frostycab said:

Over at Torrentday you are required to seed all of your downloads to either a 1:1 ratio OR at least 72 hours within 30 days, the idea being to discourage hit & runs. If for any reason you can't then you can pay off any remaining time/MB with upload credit or points. I've advocated for doing the same here in the past but it was never taken up. Perhaps Joker and the rest of the staff here might have a discussion around it? With the whole site being updated now would be the ideal time to make the necessary technical changes.

That is a terrible rule, there is no real gain for the tracker or for the users, hit & run is only a real problem in public trackers. In private communities, the ratio determines if and what amount users are allowed to download, that alone is a solid measure that discourages hit & run.

We definitely don't need to tighten up penalties for h&r when it is not a problem that we currently face in the community. If anything, it would be best to favor practices that encourage members to stay seeding indefinitely, not only for 72 hours.

I have said this before and some of the response I got was that people should not be awarded for doing what everyone is here to do, which is a stupid argument that overlooks exactly what I am saying, which is.... People don't really care about seeding if they've reached 1:1 or seeded for a given time.

That's the real issue that needs to be addressed, there's no incentive to keep torrents alive.

@MrMazda said:

There is no set time requirement on how long to seed torrents, unless it is a torrent you have just uploaded.

Perhaps there should be.

Over at Torrentday you are required to seed all of your downloads to either a 1:1 ratio OR at least 72 hours within 30 days, the idea being to discourage hit & runs. If for any reason you can't then you can pay off any remaining time/MB with upload credit or points. I've advocated for doing the same here in the past but it was never taken up. Perhaps Joker and the rest of the staff here might have a discussion around it? With the whole site being updated now would be the ideal time to make the necessary technical changes.

As for torrents that you've downloaded, there is no time requirement on how long to seed them, but it is usually recommended to seed them as long as you can, as often as you can, especially if they seem to be more popular torrents.

I have a computer I use specifically for torrents. It stays running 24 hours a day. I use a cloud storage service to sync all my personal user folders (Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos) across all of my devices, and have RDP setup so that regardless of where I am, I can poke about the website on my laptop, download whatever .torrent files I need for the torrents I want to download, then can connect to that other computer through RDP to open the .torrent files and manage them.

The setup gets a little fancier than this, but it ensures that I can keep my laptop's limited storage clear, I don't have to leave my laptop on all the time, and I can also access the contents from anywhere. It's most especially useful when I'm traveling because then I'm not doing heavy bandwidth usage on a public WiFi network, but at the same time, I can keep as much as I can running 24 hours a day.

what i suggest: focus on freeleech torrents with high demand, using the sort option to show torrents with most leechers per seeder: https://www.gaytor.rent/search.php?sortpreset=Most-needed+(leechers+per+seeder)&orderby=leechratio&sort=desc&infl=1

ideally, for torrents that are not yours, it's on your best interest to seed it until you reach at least 1 ratio for each torrent, but that's totally optional, sometimes not even doable.