FTN Gets Rid of Ratios.

[optimus_prime]

yeah, great experiment, cheers to brandon with such closed community it was this or open signups i suppose
if i recall correctly torrent protocol father always bitched about private sites and their ratio rule. i was interested to see if anything will pop up that will keep people seeding torrents for months now that ratio incentive is gone, but obviously that's not ftn's goal. anyway, cool move

[Vidde]

I loved this news the first second I saw them.
FINALLY someone have the guts to actually do this, I've waited so long.

This is truly revolutionary, and I salute the FTN staff for being so brave, trusting their members and the community enough to do this.

Let's just hope ppl actually do seed, and not cap their upload cause of this, I still want the site to be as fast as it can <3

Salute!
-Vidde <3

[jounior]

its very great move from FTN

i hope all sites remove the ratio limit

[Presto]

It's all the same, besides the fact, that you won't see your ratio anymore. What's so good about it? Anyone cares to explain?

[Brandon]

I'm not going to go into detail because I don't want to ruin the surprise.. But I've said it elsewhere so I might as well hint it here also. WE ARE NOT FINISHED IMPLEMENTING THE ENTIRE SYSTEM.

Those of you worried about seed boxes, or seeders... Trust me, I have that covered. There will be benefits of seeding as well as leeching, so both worlds will mesh quite well when we're finished.

We have a userbase maximum of 6k users. If you do not like our new system and wish to not be a part of it, please feel free to pm me on site and I will be more than happy to open another slot for someone who wishes to take advantage of what's going to come out of all of this. Once we hit 6k users, that's it. There will be no raising the limit. I can assure you, there will be plenty more users who wish to appreciate what we offer.

And FYI, it's only been a day and things are already going in a much better direction than they were. You guys need to be more optimistic about things and not criticize something just because it's new and or different.

The next phase of this project will unravel something else that has not been done on a torrent site before and will only make this system even more exciting.

[beat]

Let the man do his job and finish what he has started and in the long run we'll see the results and then we can comment. Also if things don't turn out to be as expected (which I seriously doubt) new actions can be taken. There's no reason to be afraid to do something new and different. I really admire the staff's courage.

[fstrulz]

...In the long run its not free leech even though you think it is. Cause freeleech is not 1:1 or 36 hrs...

Exactly, Freeleech is not Freeseed - that's why you have to seed back whatever you download (in FTN, 1:1 or 36 hours).

And FYI, it's only been a day and things are already going in a much better direction than they were. You guys need to be more optimistic about things and not criticize something just because it's new and or different.

The next phase of this project will unravel something else that has not been done on a torrent site before and will only make this system even more exciting.

I've never seen many leechers and seeders in so many torrents in FTN until yesterday... And you should've expected a lot of criticism coming. Just can't wait for the surprise. I hope it'd be like a monthly lottery for a free iPhone.

[Alien5]

I'm not going to go into detail because I don't want to ruin the surprise.. But I've said it elsewhere so I might as well hint it here also. WE ARE NOT FINISHED IMPLEMENTING THE ENTIRE SYSTEM.

Those of you worried about seed boxes, or seeders... Trust me, I have that covered. There will be benefits of seeding as well as leeching, so both worlds will mesh quite well when we're finished.

We have a userbase maximum of 6k users. If you do not like our new system and wish to not be a part of it, please feel free to pm me on site and I will be more than happy to open another slot for someone who wishes to take advantage of what's going to come out of all of this. Once we hit 6k users, that's it. There will be no raising the limit. I can assure you, there will be plenty more users who wish to appreciate what we offer.

And FYI, it's only been a day and things are already going in a much better direction than they were. You guys need to be more optimistic about things and not criticize something just because it's new and or different.

The next phase of this project will unravel something else that has not been done on a torrent site before and will only make this system even more exciting.

i hope it's nothing bad

[beat]

Just a thought for the skeptics this is intended to bring more activity to the site, therefore instead of the speeds dropping as some stated, because there's not a need to maintain a good ratio, the speeds might actually increase simply because there are more leechers who have to obey the rules. Also there are probably going to be implemented new scripts to trace those who are capping their connection and are abusing of this new system.

[Brandon]

No comment on the above statement.. *clears throat*

Anyways, the next phase will be something pretty damn cool IMO. But I'm a technical person so I find all that stuff neat, but it'll be very useful and very efficient and personally if I was in a user position I think it would be a sweet little perk to have for only having to seed back what I took