Alternative rating method?

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Originally Posted by upGrayde

if that system is adopted (and i hope it is, it appears to grade accurately), ftn speed should be at 1.5

yea you get good speeds on the relative new torrents, but after that, the speed drops dramatically with very little seeders and user activity (yeah yeah yeah)

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Good point, mate... But I think it's the same situation with most trackers when torrents gradually die (maybe with the exception of SCT, where many users have seedboxes). And in FTN, with old torrents with even just 1 seeder, I still get very good speeds over 1 MBytes/s.

i think that rarity should stay the main theme of this thread and not speed content etc... because people will still trade by the rarity of the tracker.

And the coontent is rated in the [], so I think the idea of levels by rarity is good.

I do not agree. At least the newbies will not go for the rarity and concentrate on the content. Content should be the main focus of this thread.

who cares about content or pretimes or speed?

all we are here for rarity.

I've split these posts away from the WIAW thread.

1. Keep that thread on-topic.

2. This appears to be worthy of brainstorming.

Let's make a poll instead, which one is more important for you, content or rarity.

I see one major setback: newbies will flood the invites section with requests like TL for SCT based on the new rating system, and these just won't happen, simply because there are much more TL invites out there than SCT, so there will be a lot of confusion and anger.

I beg to differ. I think the current standard is fine. If you want to know which tracker has good content just use the find option (Ctrl+F) and do a search for "[10]" and then "[9]" to see which trackers have the best content, and if you're after content then you can go for those trackers. But if you're after rarity you can go for trackers that have higher rarity.
I say this because if you change the rarity scale from 10 to 2.5 that'll make it very difficult to separate the extremely rare and good trackers from the general trackers that have good content. I mean this way you would even have to rate BitSoup pretty high, as the only thing that loses on is speeds.

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Originally Posted by raspberry1331

I see one major setback: newbies will flood the invites section with requests like TL for SCT based on the new rating system, and these just won't happen, simply because there are much more TL invites out there than SCT, so there will be a lot of confusion and anger.

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in some parts you are right but i think some trackers are overrated and some underrated, so i would like wiaw to be more offenly revised