Does going No-Ratio really help peer activity?

Well, I can't see holding users with bad connections hostage for donations as a positive attribute, but that's just me. I guess it all depends on the end goal for the owners themselves. IMHO, if money is the priority(not to diminish the need for basic running costs to be met) then that is energy which could be used to improve the management, effectiveness and usability of those sites.

Unless a site is doing magnificently, which some quite definitely are, then all the staff are volunteers, and to find well motivated(and capable) volunteers for ANY cause, be it altruistic or social, is a struggle. Leaving the capable part out, time is still precious, and requires sacrifice. But if those sacrifices are made, the members will appreciate it when done right.

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Originally Posted by Intr4ns1t

Well, I can't see holding users with bad connections hostage for donations as a positive attribute, but that's just me. I guess it all depends on the end goal for the owners themselves. IMHO, if money is the priority(not to diminish the need for basic running costs to be met) then that is energy which could be used to improve the management, effectiveness and usability of those sites.

Unless a site is doing magnificently, which some quite definitely are, then all the staff are volunteers, and to find well motivated(and capable) volunteers for ANY cause, be it altruistic or social, is a struggle. Leaving the capable part out, time is still precious, and requires sacrifice. But if those sacrifices are made, the members will appreciate it when done right.

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Could not have been put any better :)
Donations are for the site, we believe torrent sites should belong to the members and staff of any level are there to make the site the best they can for the sort of members it was set up for :)
Yes all sites will have good and bad members so staff are there to protect it for the good members :)

Hope that all makes sense, I am having a bad news day :(

peer pressure helps peer activity

here, leech this joint, it's full of seeds

HAve to say that on the few ratio free sites I'm on teh activity is poor - the content is great on some fo them and you can find some rare uploads, but after a week it is down to 1-3 seeds. I don't mind myself as long as they are not the type of users who limit bw jsut for seed bonus - if the file is good i will wait, but 1 KB/s is ridiculous! It definitely is about the membership adn waht they think they can get from the site.

TPB has always been ratio-free; petty it is 'gone'

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petty it is 'gone'

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pity you mean

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petty it is 'gone'

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pity you mean

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Thanks for the correction; how much do I owe you?:P

To add something to what you guys are saying: It makes me extremely happy when I start downloading a very old torrent with one seed that's not a seedbox. It makes me feel like I'm really doing something significant for the site as I know I'll be seeding it for a long time and in most cases despite my pitifull up speed doubling the down speed of the said torrent.

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To add something to what you guys are saying: It makes me extremely happy when I start downloading a very old torrent with one seed that's not a seedbox. It makes me feel like I'm really doing something significant for the site as I know I'll be seeding it for a long time and in most cases despite my pitifull up speed doubling the down speed of the said torrent.

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and yet you wonder why you repel women

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To add something to what you guys are saying: It makes me extremely happy when I start downloading a very old torrent with one seed that's not a seedbox. It makes me feel like I'm really doing something significant for the site as I know I'll be seeding it for a long time and in most cases despite my pitifull up speed doubling the down speed of the said torrent.

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and yet you wonder why you repel women

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You need to post more.

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and yet you wonder why you repel women

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You need to post more.

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there are stores that sell weed here in california

posting not my highest priority....meh, neither is weed though

lol no pun intnenedned

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You need to post more.

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there are stores that sell weed here in california

posting not my highest priority....meh, neither is weed though

lol no pun intnenedned

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california is funny place....i read article....it say "out of 30 woman 2 was female" :lol:

It does, but it reduces the life span of torrents aswell, people see "1:1 or 48 hours" and most won't seed a second over 48 hours.

I am not a fan of no ratio, i prefer free leech on large files to promote activity on those. Not site wide.

@tinfish, it all comes from the mentality off the users, you have on your site, i.e whit our whiteout ratio, doesn't matter. If they're only there because off the levels...


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you are not the only person on UKT.
Quit bragging about it on FST. We know they handed out a few invites and loads of ----->>>>> collectors <<<<------- got in.

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the bottom line is that having a ratio free, no min seed requirements system does not benefit a tracker any more than a normal system .. in fact it most likely wont last very long PERIOD! anyone who thinks differently is just fooling themselves.. lmao

this is one of them endless "WHAT IF" debates... it all sounds good on paper but, trying to make it work in reality?...GOOD LUCK! hahahahaha

Well, a no ratio site usually leads to a site that has great speeds when the torrent is new, but most people drop the torrent after a few weeks and the torrent can go dead. Then again iTS comes to mind, they are ratio free, and the archive content on iTS is fairly well seeded considering the small userbase.

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california is funny place....i read article....it say "out of 30 woman 2 was female" :lol:

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:lol:

After failing to study for a giant test that I will be having on Wednesday, and then actually realizing that I'm in trouble for not doing so, this brightened my otherwise terrible day.