I'll admit, when I first started torrent I was not really familiar with how it worked and how important seeding was. I would just use magnet links without configuration to save the torrent and seed after completion. Well.. I have finally, got myself back to 1.00 after a couple months and working to try to always seed double what I get for each torrent.

Often times I was one of the few random seeders available for some of these torrents. Friendly reminder to give back because you never know when you're one of the rare cases that can complete someones long lost file download!

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[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 hours ago

Mines alright seed just long enough to stay afloat

[–] Chastity2323@midwest.social 2 points 8 hours ago

I'm such a leech :( stupid ISP data cap. I'll make it up someday

[–] eldereko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

pretty proud of my ratio of 6 yrs

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I mean have you really only downloaded less than 500gb or is almost everything free seed and doesn't count on your download stats.

Eitherway nice seeding, good job

[–] eldereko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 13 hours ago

yeah, I mostly download free seeds and I don't think that adds to the download count, I've definitely downloaded more than 500gb

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

"Session waste"?

Me with lemmy on the toilet.

[–] eric@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

My seed ratio is 1.2. I'd seed more, but I download a lot of different things and my home server is limited on space at the moment.

[–] ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I get a gig down but only 50mbps up (fucking spectrum), so I gotta limit seeding the same way or I'd just crush my upload speed all the time.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

Spectrum is the shittiest company known to man. Double and triple billing, they bill a month ahead so your paying for service you haven't yet used, horrible speed my as well be false advertising, customer support is terrible. They fraud charged and upsold services to get discounts which was a lock you in contract scam price. All time worst companies ever.

[–] ExpertisePredicament@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 19 hours ago

Hoping to hit 400 TB uploaded this year :3

[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 18 hours ago

Way to go, keep it up!

Took me a while to find the stats tab, I didnt know it was available lol

[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 10 points 18 hours ago

I'm doing my part.png

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I have like 250 KB/s for seeding maybe 250 Kb/s max (min)

I just round it down to 0 kb(B)/s to prevent brain overhead

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

That's the spirit!
My rule of thumb has always been to share to ratio 1.1. Side thought: Maybe there's a funny correlation between birthrates needing to be 2.1 for a stable population, the extra .1 to make up for deaths, and well, the 2 is because it takes two to make a baby.

Anyway, since we're all sharing, these are my stats from 41 days ago when I switched to Nobara.

(Gigabit internet is the biggest luxury I allow myself to splurge on.)

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You can back up those by copying ~/.local/share/qBittorrent and ~/.config/qBittorrent

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 2 points 9 hours ago

I did go out of my way to check creation date and modified date on those folders to try and assess whether I had copied the statistics over from my distrohop. Might've been old stats plus new, I'm not too sure. I should really start using cp -a instead of just drag'n'drop in dolphin..

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[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 20 hours ago

Those are rookie numbers. You need to pump those numbers up.

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago

It's been at the same ratio for the last 3 years.. Never managed to get more..

1000001336

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I always lose my seeds because I like to rename my files. Any workarounds?

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Change the file name in the torrent client :)

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

This is what I do as well

I change the directory in my client. This moves the download to my preferred location for plex, etc. And it seeds from there instead

[–] samc@feddit.uk 8 points 23 hours ago

Keep the files in a dedicated torrents folder then make symlinks to where you actually want them?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 20 hours ago

Hardlinking files to their new destination and your normalized naming schema. Using symlinks would be madness.

[–] clot27@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago

Wow I didnt realize I was this close..

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Da good stuff

[–] AbeilleVegane@beehaw.org 3 points 15 hours ago

We thank you for your service

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 90 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (26 children)

Private trackers enforce ratios, and good private trackers reward long-term seeding, which is part of why I like private trackers.

I'm very proud of my CG account that turns seventeen next month.

EDIT: No I don't have invites, before anyone asks.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 11 points 1 day ago

EDIT: No I don’t have invites, before anyone asks.

Yeah, this is also a problem though. I'd love to be on a private tracker as I was in the past, but once you're out it's just too much of a hassle to get back in.

[–] far_university190@feddit.org 32 points 1 day ago

Next year account legal to drink in eu. Marking date to drink one for your account.

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[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I am seeding a torrent with less than 5 seeders I just let it go forever. So far I have about 15 of those. Eventually I’ll have to drop them… but I’ll be there hero until then.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2 points 6 hours ago

Thank you for your service.

[–] Slax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

What are you using? I need to carve time out to get my unraid server to work with jellyfin and arr and seed with deluge. My current set up moves the files to the right folder once I have completed my download so I never get over 1.0 ratio.

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This reminds me that I had to limit my public seeding.

Accidentally did 65TB in 18 days.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah... It's still going so fuck it.

To be fair this is actually a linux ISO.

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