partial seeding improves your ratio - a myth

[jasperr]

I was going to post something along the same lines .
That's why I'm against it.It's an extremely negative act.
Whether it builds ratio more or faster I really couldn't care less.

We may not like it, but if it isn't against the specific trackers rules (hopefully most tracker staff will read this thread and do something about it), then there's not a lot we can do except live with it.

You can't blame users for exploiting a loop hole, no matter how sour it tastes, and they will do everything & anything to "buffer" and publicise gleefully how they went about it, but I do wish trackers would implement a take it 100% or leave it rule (excepting samples of course, and packs, and there may be others, but the general thrust stands).

[ghurka]

The only times I have partially seeded is when I first joined a site and there were wait times, which I've always despised. For me this was the only way to build up an acceptable ratio until the wait times are cleared.

[soulreaper]

it´s not fair...

Not fair? I'll tell you what's not fair. Thousands of Indians(barring IT workers) having shitty copper lines with 384 KB/s connections being told they have optic fiber 2mb connections, that my friend is a travesty.
While thousands of users in Romania and Sweden enjoy gbit connections without shelling out a fortune and become PUs and VIPs, Do you see the disparity?

Do they(*hint hint*) deserve a 20 GB action movie pack more than I do coz they have a fuckin gbit connection and I dont? No.

Does that mean I don't like to seed? NO.

Have the tracker staff at ratio oriented sites ever thought about those users with really bad connections without prompting them to press the P2L button? Probably not. Atleast they allow them to partial seed.

As much as I hate to say it, torrenting in the hard-to-seed sites has been reduced to a cut-throat competition, most users want massive buffers without thinking about their fellow brother torrenters who might have shitty connections.

Tell you what, come over to India(or any third world country,no offense intended to anyone) and build your ratio with 30 KB/s upspeed and 40KB/s downspeed without partial seeding on a site like Bitmetv or Waffles.

PS:- Prove me wrong and I might just show you Taj Mahal.

[Ghostbusters]

Chunk seeding worked for me built up 10:1 on Bitmetv to give me a little buffer with 50 kbps upload (60gb up & 6gb down) before starting to seed properly on a 100/100

TL is another example where chunk seeding works extremely well in the beginning if you have a slow connection.

[tknaught]

We may not like it, but if it isn't against the specific trackers rules (hopefully most tracker staff will read this thread and do something about it), then there's not a lot we can do except live with it.

You can't blame users for exploiting a loop hole, no matter how sour it tastes, and they will do everything & anything to "buffer" and publicise gleefully how they went about it, but I do wish trackers would implement a take it 100% or leave it rule (excepting samples of course, and packs, and there may be others, but the general thrust stands).

The practice is actively encouraged on BMTV.

[t1m3k33p3r]

It really sucks sometimes though. I have nothing against partial seeders except the fact that if you jump on a huge pack now knowing whether there are leechers or not, you may seriously hurt your ratio.

But I don't really care about buffering anyway...it's sharing, and that's all I care about lol.

[SgtMajor]

We may not like it, but if it isn't against the specific trackers rules (hopefully most tracker staff will read this thread and do something about it), then there's not a lot we can do except live with it.

You can't blame users for exploiting a loop hole, no matter how sour it tastes, and they will do everything & anything to "buffer" and publicise gleefully how they went about it, but I do wish trackers would implement a take it 100% or leave it rule (excepting samples of course, and packs, and there may be others, but the general thrust stands).

The practice is actively encouraged on BMTV.

Them poor newbs who sign up, then jump all over the huge torrents thinking there are plenty of leechers still leeching, then realise they have been sucked into something they can't possibly seed back, and then the only way out is to buy some GB from the P2L scheme

They couldn't possibly be doing that on purpose then.............. could they?

[t1m3k33p3r]

lol, exactly what I said SgtMajor. I agree. Guys, check the peer/seeders list and double check. I bet many people got killed on the what idoser crap.

[Something Else]

it´s not fair...

Not fair? I'll tell you what's not fair. Thousands of Indians(barring IT workers) having shitty copper lines with 384 KB/s connections being told they have optic fiber 2mb connections, that my friend is a travesty.
While thousands of users in Romania and Sweden enjoy gbit connections without shelling out a fortune and become PUs and VIPs, Do you see the disparity?

Do they(*hint hint*) deserve a 20 GB action movie pack more than I do coz they have a fuckin gbit connection and I dont? No.

Does that mean I don't like to seed? NO.

Have the tracker staff at ratio oriented sites ever thought about those users with really bad connections without prompting them to press the P2L button? Probably not. Atleast they allow them to partial seed.

As much as I hate to say it, torrenting in the hard-to-seed sites has been reduced to a cut-throat competition, most users want massive buffers without thinking about their fellow brother torrenters who might have shitty connections.

Tell you what, come over to India(or any third world country,no offense intended to anyone) and build your ratio with 30 KB/s upspeed and 40KB/s downspeed without partial seeding on a site like Bitmetv or Waffles.

PS:- Prove me wrong and I might just show you Taj Mahal.

Well there are some places that take that in to consideration with a ratio-less system. Perhaps such users should stick to those trackers if bandwidth/speed is a problem.

[DoobieSnacks]

We may not like it, but if it isn't against the specific trackers rules (hopefully most tracker staff will read this thread and do something about it), then there's not a lot we can do except live with it.

You can't blame users for exploiting a loop hole, no matter how sour it tastes, and they will do everything & anything to "buffer" and publicise gleefully how they went about it, but I do wish trackers would implement a take it 100% or leave it rule (excepting samples of course, and packs, and there may be others, but the general thrust stands).

The practice is actively encouraged on BMTV.

As it should be. Any site that doesn't want partial seeding going on needs to do it like BCG. They have all their packs rar'd up into a single (pack), so you either get the whole thing, or you don't get any.
I think partial seeding is great personally, helped me out greatly when starting on SCT.