What makes you download off a particular tracker?

[fatcat69]

Wouldnt number of leechers count as that though?

not enough, number of hours to seed back torrent is also important.

there are sites where it's easy ( 36 hours - ftn ) and there are sites where it's more difficult ( f*c for example ).

Yea that is true, but I didnt want to make the poll to large with too many options as the above options are somewhat able to be controlled.

Like I can make it so there are more seeders per torrent...as for speed, the speed is there as all the seeders are on 100mb/s lines for the most part...some are 10mb/s.

The issue is that people arent downloading and it doesnt make sense to me. If a 0day site with a ratio has a pre time of 1 minute and a 0day site without a ratio has a pretime of 3 minutes...which would you download from...

[grimms]

In order for a tracker to remain healthy active you need seeders. The more the merrier. I don't care if ratio is not a factor. Also you need to have great content, a thriving community, and other incentives to keep a tracker with less seeders and no ratio alive. I don't care how fast i can complete a download.

[tedsfrozenhead]

If ratio were of no concern (i.e. seeding time adds to ratio) I would download based on the content, and the choice that best matches content is pre-time I guess, but pre-time is only part of it. I would download whatever I felt like downloading. However, if I were attempting to gain the most possible upload I would download the torrent with the most leechers, which usually would mean jumping on torrents that historically get a lot of leechers (i.e. popular tv episodes) or things that you know many people will want that have good pre-times.

[Night0wl]

None of the above. Special content is the main thing that makes me pick one tracker over another.

So if you want more leechers, make it not only 0-day

[1000possibleclaws]

well this depends largely on which tracker I'm using. If its one thats easy enough to maintain a ratio at, I'll go for the number of seeders, but most important to me is the quality of the file. With music, it'll probably be whichever site has it in v0, with DVDR, itll be whichever site has it widescreen. the options in the poll i rarely consider when downloading actually

[grimms]

Content, content, content is the key. Thats why i love specialized trackers so much like, Learbits, Bitspyder, UG gamer, and BitmeTv. They all offer content specific to my personal needs. I'm an E-Booker lover, Lynda and VTC tutorial watcher, Mame arcade player, and TV watcher (actually i barely watch any tv, but love that tracker for the collection of tv shows it offers).

[stoi]

I think i know which tracker your talking about, and no im not a member (i did get offered but refused).

But imo (if anyone cares lol) is that they have been far to selective in who they have recruited to be members.

If you get 1,000 members, who all know how torrents work, and have accounts on most other [10] trackers with fast pre-times etc, then why will they download from that site with 1 seedbox user seeding, when they know if they download from another site, they can have 50 seedbox users seeding.

The other problem is, most might already have SB Axx anyway so all they are there for is to seed. but without the e-penis aspect of a ratio involved, they may find that their bw is better used on a tracker that counts how much you uploaded.

Being selective is great for security, not so great to get people to download whats on your tracker.

when we open we get loads of noobs regarding torrenting and the ratio system.

bad thing about this is the same Questions over and over, and security obviously.

Good thing is, they are there to download the torrents, which keeps the tracker ticking over. (if they dont seed back they get banned anyway)

its no good having 1000 members, 3000 seeders and 25 leechers all the time.

[Bucktoof]

Number of leechers for me, shows that there is activity and gives me a chance to upload

[aysomc]

for a 0day tracker its basically how fast is it released and then how fast can i get it so pretimes and speed are most important to me but all of those are really important.

[torrentgeek]

i choose off a particular tracker because i see that i get a constant speed in downloads.