Do you donate to your favorite BT site?

**cinephilia** · 02-14-2009, 02:46 AM

Originally Posted by alcoholik

I donate on the trackers i like

it would be a bit strange to donate to trackers you don't like

**pro267** · 02-14-2009, 03:27 AM

Originally Posted by Tomtetrollet

Haven't donated, might consider doing it if the site needs an upgrade or such. I generally like small trackers with an active community and they don't have such a high monthly cost, usually I feel that my money isn't needed there, but as I said earlier, if the site needs it, I'll consider donating.

Knowing a few small sites, I can assure you that most small sites do need your contribution to keep their servers running. Even the smaller sites are not running on 30$ seedboxes, we're talking over a 100$ at least just for the server (not to mention other costs), and someone needs to pay for that.

It's quite easy to look the other way and expect others to donate, but if you enjoy the site and want to keep it running, wouldn't you want to help the site survive, regardless of what others do? I'm pretty sure none of these small sites you're referring to are profiting from filesharing, if they get above the servers costs they usually keep a few bucks stashed for a rainy day.

**Enzo** · 02-14-2009, 03:31 PM

I donate only for 2 sites.. Only this two i use more... Its hard to help every tracker

**johny1** · 02-14-2009, 04:08 PM

The ones I use most.

**walkman79** · 02-14-2009, 04:17 PM

Yeah, it's impossible to donate to all trackers but people should donate to the ones they use the most to help with the server costs.

**RizKhan25000** · 02-14-2009, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by walkman79

Yeah, it's impossible to donate to all trackers but people should donate to the ones they use the most to help with the server costs.

fully agree with you but adding only to donate to those sites which do not give any extra priviliges for donators. Donating for such sites is indeed donation as you are paying to contribute towards the community there. I give you example of Torrentbytes.net... they just don't give you anytihg extra for the donation but just a star against your username and that is it... no upload credit or unlimited downloads etc etc. So donating for such a site is a donation in real sense else it is just payments for extra features-don't call them donations.