Bad Seeder Turned Good/Greed of TorrentLeech

Just wanted to share my story with you guys :)

Bad Seeder
Ok, I've been with TL from the very beginning. I signed up on a whim and I never would have thought the tracker would become so popular... Anyway, I was still a n00b and the concept of "ratio" was foreign to me. Also, I had a download speed of 900 KB/s but my upload was only 60 KB/s. So, as you may guess I didn't manage my ratio well and soon found myself facing a ban if I didn't pull it up in 5 days.

Donated to Torrentleech
I knew I couldn't get my ratio up in just 5 days so I decided to donate and become a VIP user. And I'll admit it, I was bad seeder, so even after the donation I didn't seed like I should have and I would hit and run constantly.


Usenet Rocks!
My 3 months of VIP was running out and I was about to donate again, but around that time I found out about Usenet. Usenet has more content than any BT tracker and I could leech all I wanted at full speed with no penalties and get content even before BitTorrent trackers! So, I didn't buy another VIP and got a Giganews account instead.


Greedy Torrentleech
Now, here's the interesting part and it shows the greed of TL. After 5 days of warning passed I got a message in my inbox that said something like:

"Your warning has been lifted, please be on your best behavior from now on"

And I thought, wow that's cool of them to give me a second chance. However, 5 days later I got two messages:

"Warning you have 5 days to meet the minimum ratio requirement or you will be banned"

and right after that I got the other message right away, it said something like:

"Your warning has been lifted, please be on your best behavior from now on"

Every 5 days I would get those 2 same messages for more than a year! So, do you get it? I donated to TL ONE TIME but they made me virtually IMMUNE TO BANNING all in hopes that I might someday donate money again! Wow, that's greedy.

Happy Ending
3 months ago I switched to an ISP with a better upload speed (fiber optic FTW) and I started taking my downloads from Usenet and using them to seed Torrentleech torrents. In this way I uploaded over 300 GB and went from a ratio of 0.06 to 2.15!

Recently I traded my account to a guy who really wanted to get into Torrentleech, he gave me what.cd AND waffles.fm!


So, yea hopefully you got some amusement out of that.

That's a very interesting story. Its good that you ended up raising you ratio by seeding. I personally don't believe in trading, but to each their own.

find good seeder, and pm him your tl acc(pass)and he can seed for you then you can dl before you ban