Are you a leecher?

[jweicc]

Actually, I aimed to get 500+% ratio, it won't work on all torrents, but with a little micro-management, getting an overall 500% isn't unlikely though. it just depends what you dl, I can't dl like crazy because there's this download quota thing most ISPs of this country have.

[Wizard_Mon1]

If you do seed to 500% on private trackers then you cause a problem because you take away 4 peoples ability to reach a 1:1 ratio. People with larger conx who share more than 1:1 reduce the likelyhood of people with smaller conx being able to reach a 1:1 ratio. Seed what you get but seeding more doesn't make you a better person! This is not a competition is it about keeping the files alive and sharing, over sharing ruins that for others!

[okili]

i usually seed approximately 300% if upload speed is high and it's not very big file

[raspberry1331]

it's a nice thing to aim for 500%, but the world would be nicer if simply everebody would seed to 100%, that's enough to keep things going, as you may realise.

[Adam_231]

UK upload speeds suck, makes it difficult to get good ratios when you cant leave your puter on 24/7

[j0hn]

it's a nice thing to aim for 500%, but the world would be nicer if simply everebody would seed to 100%, that's enough to keep things going, as you may realise.

theres always data lost, and failed hash checks, so if everyone did 100% exactly, the world would end (not quite)
u should try aim for a minimum 105%

[WiiiE]

I usually try to stay around 1:1, so that everyone else has a chance of getting a good ratio..

[EuphoricNoni]

I try hitting the 150% mark which In where I believe it is sharing a bit more but not over sharing...

[Warp]

My computer has been on for a week and this is what utorrent says:

Downloaded: 16.3GB Uploaded 43.7GB

not quite 500% but pretty good.

[step.down]

Everybody who says that they can't seed to whatever percentage is lying. The truth is you just don't want to.

@Peerzy
You say you get 3-5 releases a day, and that that's the reason you can't get a 500% ratio? If you wanted to get a 500% ratio you would download 1 release (I rounded up there to make the maths easier for you) and then you could seed a ratio around 300-500% better. It's not rocket science.

If people think that 1.5 is fair, then that's cool. I tend to keep mine 1.5 to 2.0 as much as I can, I think unless you are uploading new stuff to a tracker there's no reason to have a ratio of 5. Don't say you can't seed to 5, if you wanted to you could upload your own stuff and actually contribute to the community rather than recycling what's already there, it's easy.

Having said that, everybody can't seed to 500%, well done Seedler for being so amazing and better than all of us, but if you think about it, ridiculous ratios like that would be impossible for everybody to maintain. Unless there are people downloading, and thus hurting their ratios, then there's nobody to bump your ratio up. In an ideal world, everybody would keep something like a 1:1 ratio and be happy about it.