Does ratio cheating cause any damage to a tracker?

[Jezebel]

Maybe when he says friends, he means a lot of them. That's not the problem. The problem is that he is cheating and he doesn't realize he's doing something wrong. Moreover, in the country where he lives he has access to some very fast connections, so he doesn't need to cheat, even if he downloads 1 TB in a month. (that means an average speed of 3mbps, by the way)

I said I cheated once, doesn't mean I'm still doing it.
To be more precisely, I did it more than 2 years ago.

to download 1TB a week you'd have to RSS pretty much everything that hits the site.

i doubt you do that, and if you do i doubt you use more then 5gb of the stuff you download. i also doubt you have the HD space to keep up with that.

I don't use rss, never done.
I download things that sound interesting and stuff I've heard good words about.
As I said, I download 1tb in a month, my leechingspree doesn't happen too often. Sct's birthday for example is a time when I leech a terabyte in a week.

Also you should read through the entire thread before you judge anything. I already stated that I use everything I download except for the stuff I download for family and friends.

And about my hdds. Did you know that hdds are very cheap nowadays? 3tb does it for me, I don't store everything I download on the hdds. I burn dvd-r and music to dvds and cds,
meaning I archive movies in dvd-r. 1080p movies are only being watched once and then I delete them. You get the idea.

how do you even fake uploading a terabyte?that's 1000GB ffs.How the hell does that go undetected?this tracker never ceases to amaze fo sho.

Back to your question though,as you have readily admitted ratiocheating is ethically wrong and that's that.Robin hood too stole to help the poor and though at face it was justifiable to him it was still against the law of the land hence wrong no matter what his beliefs were(same with people who blow themselves up as a shortcut to paradise).

That said,your question is kinda tricky and am tempted to dodge it.But am not going to,you may harm a few people speedwise(coz you are not really in the swarm) but if ethics and rules aint really your thing then nothing is off the table.You are free to justify anything you want.
It won't harm the tracker like say trading does coz after all its internal.
You are stealing but with the intention of returning back what you took,that's called absentia borrowing.
If anything though,i think its embarrassing that someone can fake uploading that much without being detected,to me that equates to ignorance coz if someone was paying attention you ought to have been banned by now or you would have stopped after a few gigs.

Actually, it's 1024gb. :
Thanks for your thoughts.

[mrnobody]

[The_Martinator]

Haha, good one squirr3l!

[cinephilia]

Of course it hurts the tracker, duh.

That's why cheaters got banned

you learnt it to your cost

[Jezebel]

For the one cheating, or for the one being cheated?

[Night0wl]

Well since you needed to make a thread about it explaining your Robin Hood complex and looking for acceptance, I'm guessing for the one cheating.

[Jezebel]

Well since you needed to make a thread about it explaining your Robin Hood complex and looking for acceptance, I'm guessing for the one cheating.

I never explained any Robin Hood complex.
Someone else was talking something about Hood, not me.

[no_more_tears]

No damage for sure. What can you damage with a small program that fakes ratio

[mrnobody]

For the one cheating, or for the one being cheated?

you tell me

[sez]

Well since you needed to make a thread about it explaining your Robin Hood complex and looking for acceptance, I'm guessing for the one cheating.

I never explained any Robin Hood complex.
Someone else was talking something about Hood, not me.

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