Is it bad

**Skiz** · 05-20-2007, 10:28 PM

Is it bad to overseed?

Certainly not.

Ratios are just to ensure that you give back what you've taken, and giving is always a good thing - even to extremes. It's good for the community you're helping to build, and it keeps torrents active. Whether or not it makes seeding for others difficult, is hardly a reason not to "over" seed. If those same seeders weren't present when you were downloading, you would more than likely have had some extremely slow download speeds. One perfect example is at public trackers, where slow speeds are are a norm, due to frequent hit-n-run's and few participants seeding back to 1:1.

**ziggyjuarez** · 05-20-2007, 10:36 PM

^that only applys to small communities and public trackers.
(Figured that gos without saying)

**Wizard Scuff** · 05-20-2007, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by Skizo

Is it bad to overseed?

Certainly not.

Ratios are just to ensure that you give back what you've taken, and giving is always a good thing - even to extremes. It's good for the community you're helping to build, and it keeps torrents active. Whether or not it makes seeding for others difficult, is hardly a reason not to "over" seed. If those same seeders weren't present when you were downloading, you would more than likely have had some extremely slow download speeds. One perfect example is at public trackers, where slow speeds are are a norm, due to frequent hit-n-run's and few participants seeding back to 1:1.

So conflicting advice, that's always helpful.

**ziggyjuarez** · 05-20-2007, 10:53 PM

internetlol

**Alien5** · 05-20-2007, 10:58 PM

from a n00bs point of view its harder to get a good ratio when people overseed.

there are ways to get a good ratio, seed for as long as possible, jump on new torrents with the least amount of seeds, upload torrents yourself, download a few rars from a torrent by deselecting the files you don't need and don't hit n run.

theres nothing wrong with overseeding i think.

**Wizard Scuff** · 05-20-2007, 11:13 PM

Thanks guys.

I'm no better off than when I started now.

**ziggyjuarez** · 05-20-2007, 11:30 PM

you know,now that i think of it.its bad to seed at all.

**brotherdoobie** · 05-21-2007, 12:49 AM

The best way to contribute as a perpetual seeder, would be at torrent sites that do not track ratios, and accordingly the swarm benefits from your seeding efforts without harming anyone else in the process.

Fact.

-bd