Are you a leecher?

[sear]

My questions are..

1) When you seed something, must it stay at the top, or can it be removed after seeding is complete? If it must stay up, how long is usually acceptable to keep it?

2) Does a high seed ratio affect uploading in any way?

1) I'm assuming by on top you mean in the 1st position in your client? no as long as the torrent is loaded and it says seeding then there is no problem.

Just to be clear you can't remove it from your client if you want to seed it.

And you can leave it as long as you want dude...just depends on your ethics and which tracker your using. If you use Private trackers then until you have given back as much as you took (at least) if not then that's realy up to you.

2) yes it does. If you have lots of seed and very few leachers then there isn't much chance of giving back 100% of what you downloaded. But having a high number of seeders won't effect it in itself. For example at the moment I'm seeding a movie and it has about 600 seeders and 50 leachers and I'm uploading fine. when I started there was about 1200 seeders and 400 leachers and that wasn't a prob either. the only thing a high number of seeders will do is increase your download speed...

or your chances of getting busted

[the_pig]

I usually seed 150-200%

[fubusmaximus]

I seed to 105% usually so I can slightly increase my ratio while not hindering others ability to do so (mostly because that is what I have to do on closed trackers)

[PooBar]

i seed as much as i can ,the higher the better :-P.as long as its over 1.100, if for some reason i cant get it on a certian torrent i'll make up for it on others ,that is if the torrent is from the same site , i dont use public

[twiter]

500+ really

[ipage17]

300%-400%

I tend to forget the client on very often

[FreeDoom]

I saw something in the web saying that the ideal would be between 80% and 100%, so everybody can seed.

[ipage17]

The ideal would be 100% uploaded back, but yes, you are right. People with good connections should stop seeding after they get over 100% to let others build back their ratios.

[Rat Faced]

I leave 'em open after i download for a couple of weeks normally... sometimes they upload, sometimes they dont.

As they're available, I dont consider myself a leecher, even if a particular file uploads nothing.

I'm only a member of a very small tracker though, so there aren't really that many people that may want a particular file.


The other thing is, they all go into a common shared folder with my other p2p programs, so although the BT may not upload... they may get uploaded on k-lite etc.

The stats wouldnt show that.

[pepsi65]

I have been good seeder with very good ratio on a Tracker that suddently closed whitout notice.
Now I just keep my ration over 1.1.