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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[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ratios are a things of a past. I'm having trouble getting ratios as all of the torrents I have are straight zeros in the upload section. I still keep them around for a while just out of habit, but just to verify it's working I've downloaded some random file with high leech ratio. Got it in fast, but upload is now going at less than 5% the upload capacity. Back in late 00s running torrents would instantly saturate the entirety of my 10mbit connection, and I'd like to think that terabytes I've seeded during that time make up for my abysmal ratios nowadays. But the reality is that there just simply is enough seeders already, and as a result the trackers I frequent to either dropped it entirely or switched to a scoring system based on how much and for how long people store obscure torrents that only few people seed, but I'm too short on drive space to participate in that.

[–] eldereko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

pretty proud of my ratio of 6 yrs

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 7 points 2 days 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 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Normal ratio on private sites with free seed torrents because your download is heavily distorted

[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Mines alright seed just long enough to stay afloat

[–] ExpertisePredicament@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 days ago

Hoping to hit 400 TB uploaded this year :3

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 91 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (15 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.

[–] far_university190@feddit.org 32 points 3 days ago

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

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

last time I gave out an invite to an internet rando I had to check with staff if it was allowed, it was, but the person never used their account so I just wasted an invite

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 19 points 3 days ago (14 children)

I have yet to get a positive ratio on anything I've ever downloaded from a private tracker. Always have to sit and wait to accumulate points in their seeding time system... It's annoying because otherwise I'd be seeding a lot more shit for them.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"Session waste"?

Me with lemmy on the toilet.

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Da good stuff

[–] AbeilleVegane@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago

We thank you for your service

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 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.)

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[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago

Way to go, keep it up!

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

[–] Chastity2323@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

I'm doing my part.png

[–] eric@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days 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 5 points 2 days 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 3 points 2 days 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.

[–] clot27@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago

Wow I didnt realize I was this close..

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago

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

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 days 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 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

To be fair this is actually a linux ISO.

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[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 13 points 2 days 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 1 day ago

Thank you for your service.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Change the file name in the torrent client :)

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days 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 2 days ago

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

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[–] bobotron@lemm.ee 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

pretty proud of my TL ratio

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good work! Love seeing a fellow seeder on here!

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Giving back is good but once I realize how much I hate companies that own the media I have been seeding these Linux iso extra hard out of spite!

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[–] termaxima@jlai.lu 15 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I wish I could seed but Mullvad doesn’t allow port forwarding, and ProtonVPN has given out IPs under court order so I don’t trust them for any purpose.

I’ll have to look into other VPNs I think, because I’m ideologically very much for seeding.

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can still seed without port forwarding. This machine is running behind Mullvad

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Is there a guide? I have the same problem.

Edit: seems like that one person in the swarm has to have port forwarding enabled. So if you can't port forward, you need someone else to and then you can upload to them.

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