FTN Gets Rid of Ratios.

[enviouz]

More like level 4... I see I'm in minority here. No ratio = bad. I sure hope the trackers I frequently use don't do something like this because I would stop using them.

I must say that I dont think it will be working... but you must admire the FTN staff of being innovative!

How is this innovative? The first torrent trackers didn't have ratios. The Pirate Bay is also free leech.

the thing you dont get is that ftn is tight knit enough for it to work. it would be a disastor on lesser sites that have a problem already with hit & runners users refusing to seed ect. ftn is a VERY close community.

[Night0wl]

Great news, and on FTN it will work, since FTN is a great site and people will still want to be good users.

It's pretty simple, if people misuse it i.e. limit their upload speed and remove every torrent as fast as possible, they may just feel the consequences and be left without an account.

[rvt]

it is innovative because it is the first private tracker without ratio

Not really. Like I said earlier, revolt never pays attention to users ratio. We actually got rid of the display of ratio altogether for about 3-4 months until members were asking what their ratio was on a frequent basis.

[Tiffany]

Do you have to seed 36hrs. straight or can it be 2hrs. in the morning, 2hrs. in the afternoon, 1hr at night... etc.?

[0110]

yeah is a good idea. maybe ftn will be level 11

Shut up trader

lol

[sopshr33a]

as long as you seed for the full 36 hours ,you are obeying the rules, the seeding does not have to be done all at once.

[SidVicious]

If I could download all my stuff from the one tracker without ruining a ratio i'd be more than happy to seed back all I could, think it's great idea. In a tight community it can work, as long as the uploaders are okay with it too.

[ilya]

it is indeed quite original, i can't see it work at trackers with a large amount of users like torrentleech for example... and keeping the seeding rules is what they need to keep it organized...

good luck to all users of ftn

[Melvinmeow]

More like level 4... I see I'm in minority here. No ratio = bad. I sure hope the trackers I frequently use don't do something like this because I would stop using them.



How is this innovative? The first torrent trackers didn't have ratios. The Pirate Bay is also free leech.

the thing you dont get is that ftn is tight knit enough for it to work. it would be a disastor on lesser sites that have a problem already with hit & runners users refusing to seed ect. ftn is a VERY close community.

Not slamming FTN or the concept of the idea...
But TBH... Im more of the confused type like skizo...
(Sorry to say this yes... im somewhat agreeing with skizo for once hehehe)
The idea behind it seems to have swapped meanings/interpretations quite a few times along the way.
For example... people are all like YEAH FREE LEECH WE CAN HIT AND RUN... then next page over you hear people talking about the community being real tight and hip and everyone wants to seed... obviously everyone does not want to seed if they were just gloating about freeleech. In the long run its not free leech even though you think it is. Cause freeleech is not 1:1 or 36 hrs. I think the only things that will come of this system is it will encourage people not to use cheat clients, will encourage people to just grab files at will and set their clients to 2k outgoing for 36hrs. Will be less speed for users cause everyone will more than likely just be throttling their speeds. (Just my opinion)
Those users with ubber speeds who rent seedboxes and stuff to maintain ratios will no longer need to do so... so there will be less speed just there..

Then the topic of Downloads / Uploads / Ratios were removed from the site... you contradict your statement there... you said staff can still see them... obviously if they are visible to ANYONE then they are still being tracked. And if they are still being tracked then their is still intentions of enforcing the low ratio/hitrun rules. If those fields can still be seen then they really werent deleted as they have been said they were. Obviously if the rule of 1:1 still applies they are still keeping track of ratios...

A better way to word it IMOP would be... "Ratios are pointless and thus we have them hidden." <<< Which would probably clearup more questions.

All the power to you brandon for attempting to try something new out... hope it works out well for you guys..
But I really dont see the logic behind it.
(Other than getting people to download more files.)
If you were merely looking for more people to jump on the files I would have set them for free for the first 4 - 6 hrs of their life and then have them marked with normal ratio rules. This would encourage people to grab them off you guys before anywhere else and then continue to encourage people to seed at the same time.

[game1283]

we will see what will happen