Bonus System

[krunktastic]

I find this is better for small sites, but there are some enormous sites who've implemented features like this and they've worked fine.

[Medooooo]

Yeh i like bouns sys like TTi .. its so great .

Also BCG have a nice bonus sys .

[C-mos]

yes..we should have bonus points everywhere

[renwickftw]

Bonus systems are always nice. Especially on dvdr trackers like tti, and music trackers like what and waffles, since they are harder to seed at.

[stoi]

I think that bonus system is helpful as soon as she "sells" only invites or requests slots, not upload credit.
To get seed-hours you only need to seed, even if you upload on 0.1 Kb/s. People can live and survive at sites only because of this seed hours they don't upload at all, but they seed.

well you will always get idiots that exploit everything we try to do to help them.

But surely with connections these days, its quicker to seed back 4 gig properly than it is to wait 5 days for SP to acrue so you get the 1 ratio.

[Swift]

I like elektronik`s seedbonus system !

[rocky1234]

Bonus system is good. Though Hit & Run rules should also exist.

Bonus system is good because sometimes when u download stuff u might not get enough peers to download the same stuff from u and downloading stuff that u dont need just to get ur ratio up by seeding is of no good use.

[cocalait]

Bonus points incentive users to keep seeding which is what keeps a torrent alive. So I think that implementing bonus system is a good thing for a tracker.

[tenis69]

More useful to users with a not so good upload speed and i like this coz my PC is always on 24 hours per day.

[TP635]

Trackers that have some kind of seed bonus system implement it differently. In the simplest from bonus points is directly credited to your upload stat. The more complicated form; bonus points can be traded for invite, it can be donated to friends in urgent need to better their ratio; etc.

Those with seed box have no use of this system. But those with slow upload speed will find it to be the only way gain good ratio. Most people think that freeleech can replace bonus point in getting good ratio. This is true if the user have good upload speed, but for those with poor upload speed, seeding a freeleech torrent with 300s other seeders with better speed will get you on way.

Trackers with seed bonus system will benefit from longer torrent life, more users will be will to dl older torrent without fear of being the last to dl. Trackers than will benefit from the system are those that have 'ever green' contain; ie e-learning trackers.

If implemented properly it will be very beneficial to both the trackers and the users.