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 3 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 19 hours ago

Mines alright seed just long enough to stay afloat

[–] eldereko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

pretty proud of my ratio of 6 yrs

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day 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 4 points 1 day 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 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Session waste"?

Me with lemmy on the toilet.

[–] ExpertisePredicament@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 day ago

Hoping to hit 400 TB uploaded this year :3

[–] Chastity2323@midwest.social 2 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] eric@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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.

[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

I'm doing my part.png

[–] 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 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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..

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, dragging and dropping in dolphin worked for me.. Idk..

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 2 points 1 hour ago

It's just that the original timestamps are lost that way. With cp -a I would've kept the original "created on" date. My memory is so shot I can barely remember what I did last week, let alone 42 days ago, whether I copied over those stats or not..

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 91 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (28 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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[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Da good stuff

[–] AbeilleVegane@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago

We thank you for your service

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

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

1000001336

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

Wow I didnt realize I was this close..

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Change the file name in the torrent client :)

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day 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

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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 18 hours ago

Thank you for your service.

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 28 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 27 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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[–] bobotron@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

pretty proud of my TL ratio

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good work! Love seeing a fellow seeder on here!

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 23 points 1 day 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!

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 day ago

This is the way.

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