Torrents

Dabamf_sl said:

I'm at 1.5 radio on IPT with ~130 gigs uploaded and have 5 hit and run warnings. I'm just waiting for the day I get banned for getting another. The system is flat out dumb. 6 days without seeding, as if no one goes out of town or has busy weeks and can't be bothered to think about seeding for a short period of time. Oh but you can notify them to avoid that. What are they, my god damn parents? I have to check in? It's ridiculous. At 130 gigs and 1.5 ratio, I think I've made it pretty damn clear that I seed back what I download.

I can seed a god damn torrent for 3 weeks, go out of town for a week and come back to a hit and run warning because in those 3 weeks it seeded 30% of the damn torrent.

It's like, buy plane ticket, plan trip, arrange transportation to and from airport, get days off work/school, get approval from IPT to stop seeding temporarily...which of those doesn't belong?

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I get your point, to an extent, but if you seeded that torrent for 3 weeks, you'd have gained far more than enough bonus points to spend the 50 to zap it. So just seed each torrent for as long as you feel is appropriate, and then let each one lapse and zap them. There's pretty much nothing else to spend those bonus points on anyway. Some torrents are never going to seed back 1:1 no matter how long you leave them up, so eventually you'll have to zap them due to their retarded new system, it's just a matter of how many bonus points you want it to accumulate for you first. I go through once a week or so and delete the oldest ones and do just that. I figure it is worth it to me to spend a couple of minutes every week since I save $150 a month by not having cable plus however much more I save due to all the movies I don't pay to rent anymore.

Oh yeah, their system is beyond retarded, no doubt. But I'll manipulate the system just like you are until they realize how dumb it is. I'd rather have the account than not.

Man, you don't even want to see my stats The benefits of having business internet with no bandwidth cap, and a computer I can run 24/7 doing nothing but seeding. I realize that isn't normal, however, which is why I try to be realistic when answering people that are having issues with ratio/HnR. It isn't necessarily commonplace to be seeding over 1000 torrents at a time like I am.

However, it should be noted that it doesn't really take much more in the way of resources to seed a larger quantity either. Aside from the obvious storage space required to hold onto torrents, having 100 in my client isn't much different than having 1000, except for the massive delay in startup time for uTorrent. Once it is loaded it isn't a big deal, and since I reboot that computer once or twice a month at most, the startup time isn't a big deal. So if you've got the space, just set your upload speed to something low so you don't blow out any bandwidth caps you have, and it will still show as seeding all of those torrents even if you're doing a piddly amount. The bonus points skyrocket just from time seeded. I have almost 45,000 bonus points, so I could just zap every single one for years and not worry.

Hey, I agree with you Dabamf. If I suddenly had to go away for awhile and my computer shut off, I'd end up with hundreds of HnR's all of a sudden and I'd probably be fucked. Personally I feel I should be able to disappear for a year if need be and not worry about my account, but they'd ban it for HnR's or even outright delete it for inactivity far earlier than that, and I'd lose my 7TB of buffer for no real reason. But there isn't much we can do about the system except give feedback on their forums about it, and in the meantime just work within it. If you're just frustrated by that and wanted to vent, I can understand that.

EDIT: Although you posted that terrible analogy while I was posting, which hurts your case a little A better analogy would be that someone gives you free movies, porn, games, and tv shows, all you want, an endless supply...but then releases 5 mosquitos into your bedroom and wants $5 for him to stop doing that. If I couldn't get those free items anywhere else, or as easily, then yeah, I would pay the $5. Of course, in this case you also have the option of spending these magical bonus points on a bug zapper every so often too, which doesn't prevent the mosquitos but still deals with them 100% effectively, and doesn't cost a cent of real money.