do you download just to upload?

[sugam]

Most of the files I download for using them. Maybe for friends or family. I rarely leech only for uploading purpose.

[FatBob]

i dont download materials that i dont use , its a waste of time and bandwidth .

i know some people do this to increase their ratio.

anyway i only download what i want , and yea i can seed that 6 months+

[Polarbear]

imagine a hard to seed, high ranked tracker would make a big file (15gb) that contains nothing, just data that reservates disk space (a dummy) and put in on freeleech. empty rare files.

i'm convinced there would be enough people who download it, if it buffers their accounts.

if it improves ratio, people tend to download anything. no matter wether it's a pack of old movies you've already seen a hundred times, i-doser noise, or big games that you never play and delete when uploaded enough.

i would like to see a tracker upload an official so called Freeleech.Ratio.Booster.Pack-NOT* that just contains data trash.

do you think people will download it? i do.


* NOT - Name Of Tracker

[That1Guy]

imagine a hard to seed, high ranked tracker would make a big file (15gb) that contains nothing, just data that reservates disk space (a dummy) and put in on freeleech. empty rare files.

i'm convinced there would be enough people who download it, if it buffers their accounts.

if it improves ratio, people tend to download anything. no matter wether it's a pack of old movies you've already seen a hundred times, i-doser noise, or big games that you never play and delete when uploaded enough.

i would like to see a tracker upload an official so called Freeleech.Ratio.Booster.Pack-NOT* that just contains data trash.

do you think people will download it? i do.



* NOT - Name Of Tracker

Ive thought of that...A "Download me to gain ratio" torrent
Edit: maybe delete the torrent every week or so to help from over-seeding

[mera]

I usually download the stuff I need and seed it for my ratio but if I am new to a site then I seek out popular torrents and download them or upload my own where its allowed.

[sense]

i would like to see a tracker upload an official so called Freeleech.Ratio.Booster.Pack-NOT* that just contains data trash.

do you think people will download it? i do.


* NOT - Name Of Tracker

I would love to see this done as well just to see how many people jump on it as well as how many people overseed and by how much.

When it comes to my download/upload habits I download only what I want/plan to watch and/or listen to. I can't even remember a time where I downloaded something just for upload sake. I avoided many packs over the holiday as I had no interest in them.

I also seed for long periods (months usually) so I have no trouble in getting my ratio to 1:1. When you seed for long periods you no longer have to jump on torrents the instant they hit the tracker.

[buggyfresh]

- how much of the content you download from trackers do you actually watch/listen to/use/play?


- do you prefer to download as much as possible or upload as much as possible?


- why?

Never used to... used to download what I want AND seed/upload what I liked (which always had "subscribers") and it always worked out. Now...starting over is hard so I find myself doing a bit of the 2nd option (downloading just so I can seed), but I still prefer to download only what I want and seed that as needed.

EDIT: Biggest problem is I have a 30 GB laptop hard drive (circa 2004) so seeding for weeks or months is not usually an option as teh drive gets filled quite easily...gotta get a backup drive and keep it connected is what (that works for DC++, but never tried torrenting from an external)!

[fstokebanget]

I use just about 20-30% of my seedbox download, the rest, I use them only to seed

[Boringdays]

I constantly grab stuff I don't need just to seed it. At BCG I DL'd halo 3 when it came out and I don't even have a 360.

[Tokeman]

LoL @ the garbage ratio pack, what an idea!

I have downloaded a few things that I did not actually want, well partially downloaded to help build ratio. But this was for ScT, and I only did it because everyone kept saying how hard it was to seed there. As soon as I realised that all those people were full of crap, I went back to only dling what I wanted again.