"Anti-Traders, Community Lovers"

**stoi** · 08-28-2008, 08:43 PM

not really, I would just use usenet, and get 20meg down all the way.

Thats who i think bittorrent is fighting against, not other trackers, as soon as the seedbox members jump off a torrent and its over a few days old (see my browse page thread) the torrents slow to a crawl, because members are seeding 500 bloody torrents at once.

We have a seeding limit on BCG and so far it works, you can grab a torrent from 2 years ago and it will go 500KBs, thats what we want not 1Kbs and take you 6 weeks to download it.

I would rather see a torrent deleted and reuploaded personally.

**danio** · 08-28-2008, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by stoi

not really, I would just use usenet, and get 20meg down all the way.

Thats who i think bittorrent is fighting against, not other trackers, as soon as the seedbox members jump off a torrent and its over a few days old (see my browse page thread) the torrents slow to a crawl, because members are seeding 500 bloody torrents at once.

We have a seeding limit on BCG and so far it works, you can grab a torrent from 2 years ago and it will go 500KBs, thats what we want not 1Kbs and take you 6 weeks to download it.

I would rather see a torrent deleted and reuploaded personally.

Like i said. It depends on your connection speed. Of course you shouldn't seed more torrents than your connection allows you.. but if i can keep 200 torrents seeding and only use 1/20 och my bandwidth, then i don't see a problem. I would say it's the opposite to lazy.

EDIT: of course, theoretically, all 200 torrents could get leechers at the same time, but how likely is that? like i said, mostly i have leechers on like 10-15 torrents at a time, and i never reach max UL speed if i haven't just added a fresh torrent.

**stoi** · 08-28-2008, 08:50 PM

well you see.

If I knew who you were on BCG, I would check your history, and every torrent that you were seeding, i would recycle. I have done that before.

Ok your from sweden but even if you have a gigabyte seedbox, put all your bw into 1 or 2, when another 1 or 2 have leechers, put all your bw into those. not just let 500 torrents seed for the sake of bloody seeding them, and this is why we will never have a seeding time on BCG, its bloody stupid.

**kallieb** · 08-29-2008, 01:18 AM

Originally Posted by SgtMajor

Originally Posted by kallieb

hmm...

I have no plans on making some definitive statement on this issue, just a sliver of an opinion.

And a mighty fine one it is too.

Doesn't seem that long since you were making your first steps into the foray of trackers & forums

Awww.... thanks sarge. I took a few knocks along the way, and wore the n00b label when I aptly deserved it; but I'm settling in now and having fun. I was on a bit of a hiatus for quite the spell due to a big move in job/part of the country but should get back into enjoying BT land in the near future

... oh... and my smokin' hot new ISP connection should make the experience a whole lot more fun !! The joys of no longer having to wait days for a 4GB movie.... bliss

**integral** · 08-29-2008, 01:33 AM

Is this anecdote time? Let me prepare my notes...

**neoapexi** · 11-13-2008, 10:58 PM

^^^ good post.

**TheFoX** · 11-15-2008, 10:03 PM

One or two here have stated that if you take away the tracker, then the value of the community will wither (or words to those effects). This is simply not true.

Take FST for example. How many people joined this place only to discover that there is nothing here to share except experiences.

Also, there is a tracker community that only has about three torrents, yet it maintains a healthy community, simply because people want community.

When I first started torrenting, I was only in it for the files, but after a little time, I realised that there was something more involved, and that often we need to interact with others to answer questions that perplex us. Before long, we are laughing and joking with people we will never, ever, meet (unless we have a bottomless wallet of course).

Ask the majority of site owners why they started their sites, and they will all give the same reason (excepting those who use the sites to earn a fast buck). That reason is simple; to share what they have with the world.

Why did someone start FST? Was it to create a meeting place for people with similar attitudes? Probably. What probably started as a small concern has grown into a behemoth. How many people here have found virtual friendship with likeminded individuals?

Filesharing is the common link between us all, but it is not the defining factor. No one can put their finger on what makes one place great, and another place crap. Each to his own, with his opionions...