The original post: /r/trackers by /u/vintologi24 on 2024-12-20 15:29:59.

I am not sure if writing this is even going to do any good given how many people who line up to join sites with bad policies (to the point where you have to be torrentmaster to join BTN, etc).

What we can do is to avoid sites that has bad policies and support sites with good policies (uploading, seeding, donating, etc).

You can also try suggestion something you view as a better system to an existing tracker to see if they deem in worth implementing (the details will depend on the tracker in question, whether or not they have a decently working economy, etc).

Let’s say i grab i download some torrent on RED only to delete it right away after i downloaded it, did that actually hurt anyone?

All i did was to waste my own buffer while some seeders get more instead. There is no real harm here. The main loser would be me since then i would have less buffer to spend on music i actually want (RED doesn’t have any H&R rules).

Of course it is better if people seed generally but having someone seed say 2 weeks really isn’t much better than having them seed 2 seconds. We need people who seed for years.

User A: seeds everything for 5 days (or whatever the H&R minimum is), then deletes it.

User B: seeds 50% forever and delete 50% shortly after downloading it.

H&R rules punishes user B but not user A even though user B is actually much better for the site.

There was even someone who got banned from HUNO when moving files to seed from another location, all that did was to push the user towards sites that are actually good and have one less seeder available for those torrents afterwards.

Looking at seeding percentage is better but still not ideal

Seeders are less important if there are more of them.

Some torrents are also more important than others and that isn’t just about the size of the torrent.

Low seed freeleech/freeload might be a better option for keeping torrents alive

On RED they have had freeload events where low seeded torrents get marked as “freeload” which rewards people who were already seeding them.

GGn has a system where low seed torrents automatically gets marked as freeleech until someone snatch it.

RED has community efforts going on to help single seeded torrents to get snatched.