I'm not uploading, though not through choosing not to.

[bwj90]

OK, so here's the deal. I'm a new user, have read the rules, and understand that you guys don't really love having your typical low life leecher around. And I understand. I've been using mininova for a long time now, and have been seeding since the start of it. Since it's now dead to me (I mean come on, only legal torrents? That beats the purpose.) I can't use that anymore. So I've come to you for my anime. Here's my problem: I'm now downloading "How's moving Castle", with very good speed (I'm impressed) but even with my upload enabled at "unlimited" I'm not uploading everything. 8 peers are attached.

I'm using Azureus.

Regards,

Ben Jones.

[blubart]

it might be that those 8 peers simply already have the parts of the torrent you have downloaded. of those 12 leechers that specific torrent has only 4 (including you) are still downloading parts of the torrents - the rest (8 - what a coincidence ) choose not to download the sample file that is included in the torrent so they appear as leecher, but aren't actually leeching anything.

and personally i don't really mind "low life leacher" - as long as they understand (and accept the consequences of) what they are doing.

[bwj90]

OK then, as long as it's clear that I'd really like to .. contribute, to this community, and thanks for the über quick reply. The download speed I'm getting is amazing, and the quality of the descriptions are awesome aswell. I'll keep the torrent uploading for as long as possible, and share.

I really dont like people that only leech, it doesn't help any of us. The only people helping the pirate's are the pirate's themselves .

Regards,

Ben Jones

[Arveene]

There's plenty of options available to you. A little detective work around the forums will help you a lot.

[bwj90]

Well thanks I've been browsing the forums up until now and am thinking about "adopting" a torrent, but not until I get a good idea about how to support it enough. And the trouble about uploading is that I'm on a broadband line, meaning that my download is about 16 MB/s and my upload would be about maxing at 200 kb/s. So my ratio is going to be fairly horific at the beginning, but I'll be seeding as much as possible, and keeping the torrents up until they're at least 1.0.

Anyone have a good idea about how I could help you guys up here? I mean, I'm no good at coding, but the community here seems real friendly ('ve been reading on the forums, and I've yet to encounter an all out flame war) and the speeds I'm getting are from decent (400 kb/s) to awesome (1.6MB/s). I'd really like to contribute.

Regards,

Ben Jones

[Arveene]

I'll help ya out a bit. Finding files elsewhere and seeding them here is a good way to improve your ratio here. Like I said, explore the forums a bit. There's some suggestions in this thread as well.

[blubart]

Finding files elsewhere

...for example mininova!? *g*

anyway: be careful not to ride yourself to deep into a bad ratio. it IS harder to seed stuff here (but far from impossible) than it is on a completely public tracker like mininova.
keep an eye out for freeleech torrents (basically everything 1080p, artbooks, musicvideos and everything under 100mb) you can download those without taking a hit to your download, but the upload still gets counted.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

Uploading new torrents is always appreciated, but there are generally lots of people who want to do that (with new releases).  Dual-audios and old animes suffer a bit, as do mangas and soundtracks.

I believe that you meant that you have an upload capacity of 200 kB/s (bytes, not bits), which is significantly more than most of the people here.  You can always put that to use downloading and offering things that are requested in the New Torrent Request forum and are easily obtainable (often by irc - E-D's releases are a good example).  In fact, if you want something to do right now, you could help someone who hasn't gotten around to getting a particular E-D release, yet.

Adoptions are always appreciated, and don't require you to have any specific upload rate.

Finding unadoptable torrents that don't meet our current guidelines, and then reporting them, is a lesser, but also appreciated, task.  Extra points if you can contribute to fixing them a bit ("Hey, this torrent needs the keyword foo.").  Improperly-tagged music is a particular sore point for me, so finding and reporting those (and posting proper tracklists if you can) will gain you much favor with me.

[blubart]

In fact, if you want something to do right now, you could help someone who hasn't gotten around to getting a particular E-D release, yet.

he has to become a power user (requirements: upload at least 25gb, have a ratio of 0.5) first to offer a torrent though.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

In fact, if you want something to do right now, you could help someone who hasn't gotten around to getting a particular E-D release, yet.

he has to become a power user (requirements: upload at least 25gb, have a ratio of 0.5) first to offer a torrent though.

Well, yes.  But considering that he's been able to up 313 megs from only 4 torrents in 11 hours, it shouldn't take too long.

[bwj90]

You guys have given me some great tips, and I'll thoroughly go through checking out the stuff you told me. I bow to your friendlyness . I'll be sure to adopt a torrent once I've aquired a power user button, and have a look at which torrents I should upload. It's also true I meant 200 kB/s, but I've made a habit of thinking that people 'll get that hint.

I'll just keep uploading these torrents that I allready have aquired and find some stuff that I might be able to fix (though I am nowhere near as knowledgable as most people here about anime).

Yet again, thanks for the quick and great replies, it's much appreciated.

Ben Jones

[isukianime]

don't forget the option of logging out and then downloading the torrent file. this way it doesn't mess your ratio up.

[bwj90]

Wouldn't that be cheating a bit? Is that allowed? I've seen this mentioned on the forums several times, but some people say not to, and some people say just do it. Is this frowned upon?

Regards,

Ben Jones

[Xiong Chiamiov]

If it wasn't allowed, you wouldn't still be seeing mentions of it on the forums.

[blubart]

i still think it's stupid to promote it that much, if you have at least a bit of discipline neither downloading of other sites nor circumventing the ratio system is needed to have a nice stay here on bakabt.
recently it sounds like there is absolutely no way around doing it - which is imo as far from the truth as it gets.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

recently it sounds like there is absolutely no way around doing it - which is imo as far from the truth as it gets.

This is very much true.  I've never downloaded torrents from here with a public key after signing up, but that's mostly because it won't track my statistics, then, and I love statistics.  But yes, it's completely not needed for a good ratio for the majority of users.

[isukianime]

Wouldn't that be cheating a bit? Is that allowed? I've seen this mentioned on the forums several times, but some people say not to, and some people say just do it. Is this frowned upon?

Regards,

Ben Jones

it's allowed. encourage even. it's a public tracker after all.

i still think it's stupid to promote it that much, if you have at least a bit of discipline neither downloading of other sites nor circumventing the ratio system is needed to have a nice stay here on bakabt.
recently it sounds like there is absolutely no way around doing it - which is imo as far from the truth as it gets.

true but since the site is trying to encourage leechers we might as well promote it. LOL!