At the risk of naivety is traffic what is most desired for a tracker and its staff? I've uploaded stuff before, and it matters not to me if one person catches it or 100. My feeling of gratitude received is not exponentially improved by seeds/numbers of hits. I do realize though, that this attitude is not the norm overall, as I also appreciate the effort that goes into creating and maintaining a torrent; and as a user, I do find it particularly frustrating to finally come across a hard-to-find torrent only to see the seed abandoned in short order.
My guess is that 0-day stuff will always draw the greatest action, but the moment one drifts into anything other than that - categorically - than sheer volume of users alone will still not create torrent activity. On that latter point, my uploads have always been something other than 0-day. I consider that there is no need for me to fill that niche as it's done on all trackers by those with greater b/w and speed than I. My contribution - when I upload - is to fill those obscure niches through request filling, or offering shares that are off the beaten path so to speak. In that regard,maybe what we should consider as desirable of a site is its security combined with rarity of content, than just torrent captures per se.
My thoughts anyway.
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