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Bonus Torrents that cease to be bonus?
godfan:
I downloaded Redrum and Suicide Club the other day after seeing they were bonus torrents. I was hoping to earn up more on bonus points you see, since I've been unable to find torrents I want and I lost my older computer which used to seed a lot of stuff.
But strangely, after adding them and downloading them, they now no longer appear to be bonus torrents. This irks me cause they don't seem to be as actively downloaded, but now they're affecting my ratio too.
Is there a way to know if a torrent will remain Bonus for long or are bonus torrents being converted to normal ones once a number of seeders is reached?
EDIT:
I'm aware of this:
"The trick to this is to keep those torrents going, the bonus status may drop depending on the number and ratio of seeders, but as they say, a watched pot never boils. Pick about 10-12 of these seeder-starved torrents, and just keep them going for as long as possible. Don't pick too many (unless you're a seeder who likes to keep these torrents seeded, which is a different story), otherwise you might spend too much bandwidth on bittorrent protocol overhead."
I was wondering if there's a formula/announcement page that I best check in the future to determine if a bonus download needs more seeders and will stay in bonus mode or not.
Mirgond:
In short: no
Xiong Chiamiov:
--- Quote from: godfan on September 10, 2010, 06:41:06 AM ---Is there a way to know if a torrent will remain Bonus for long
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Yes, but not for you as a normal user. More on that in a moment.
--- Quote ---or are bonus torrents being converted to normal ones once a number of seeders is reached?
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It's not just number of seeders - number of leechers is taken into account as well. We don't publish the exact numbers because they change from time to time, so you just have to look at which torrents are bonus and which aren't and make educated guesses.
godfan:
I see. Well, I'll just leave the two recent downloads seeding then til they hit the required ratio. I was hoping to build up again on Bonus points though. Its hard to keep one's ratio up when the kind of anime I prefer ain't usually the ones sought by many.
Southrop:
Try something freeleech on this page: http://bakabt.me/browse.php?ordertype=leechers
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