• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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    15 hours ago

    Seeding shouldn’t be done on ratios - being the only one seeding 10 seasons of a tv show and getting it to 0.4:1 is way more helpful than seeding the same movie as everyone else and getting to 20:1, you’re noy contributing anything there other than decreasing your bandwidth for things that aren’t already at 100,000% availability

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      14 hours ago

      I’d you are the only one seeding it and get to 0.4, you just left others hanging with incomplete downloads.

      However I do agree in general

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        14 hours ago

        That’s what I’m saying

        It’s better to not even half-way seed a torrent with low availability than it is to seed one that everyone else is seeding, regardless of how high your ratio goes - it’s a point on how pointless it really is to waste your resources seeding something like that

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          5 hours ago

          The lazy approach is the best approach IMO. Seed everything, and if the ratio gets high, drop it. That way you get rid of useless popular torrents and keep the less popular ones. If everyone does that, things will work better.