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Offline Triltaison

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #20 on: June 11, 2012, 07:20:57 AM »
I seed until I run out of space on the ol' 1 TB external drive, then purge what's been watched once a year or so. The super-popular hundreds-of-seeders torrents for recent series might get cut out sooner. Stuff on my laptop or desktop's hard drive is seeded until the computer dies, pretty much. The rare, obscure, or annoying to find things get the privileged spot on the computer itself, because they're the torrents that took me months or even over a year to complete off of forgotten trackers. So, basically... I prefer to hang on to the poor, unloved torrents to pass on the love to future scroungers.

The Midori movie was a bitch to find when I snagged it in 2007, and I was the lone seeder for Grimm's Fairy Tales Classics for ages because it took me a year and a half to finally get all the missing pieces and didn't want anyone else to go through that. Now they're both here at BakaBT, so it's a non-issue and I like helping to keep it that way. -Because nothing is more frustrating than finding exactly what you want, and it has no seeds.

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #21 on: June 11, 2012, 08:49:44 AM »
My ratio here is actually pretty pathetic compared to other trackers I'm on - I'm on a total of five trackers - because the torrents I have here are often high demand torrents that prevented me seeding anywhere else, and usually when downloading maxes out my download speed. If I got something of low traffic, few seeders and low demand, I'd probably keep seeding it for a longer period of time. My speeds are pretty much always maxed from the combination of trackers - someone will almost always want SOMETHING - and more than half of the stuff I keep going have less than 5 other seeds. I'm currently the only person keeping alive some 20+ torrents. And that's just it, it's to keep it alive. I may not upload much to the sites, my speeds may not be brilliant, but I can sure as hell try not to let it die completely.

As an aside, I can confirm that every provider (I know of) in the London area either has a flat cap, or has a "traffic management" which throttles you if you download/upload too much during peak times. I have my upload dropped to ~24kb/s for ~6 hours if I upload something like 2GB within the peak time, so I figured out the exact times, calculated myself a comfortable speed (leaving some room to browse) and set utorrent to cap bandwidth during these times.

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #22 on: June 11, 2012, 11:18:23 AM »
The joys of living in a city that has 7 competing ISP's operating throughout it.

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #23 on: June 12, 2012, 03:03:04 PM »
I started seeding 2 weeks ago when i realized i would like to help this community atleast the bit i can :) And oh yes seedbox is really lovely stuff i can upload unlimited amount of data and my speed is always 4-7MB/s depends on how much people leech.
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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #24 on: June 12, 2012, 04:40:38 PM »
well, we have fixed amounts :P so we pay same sum each month.

so I seed 'cuz I want to

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #25 on: June 13, 2012, 03:21:32 PM »
I seed because, back in the day, these forums used to have your ratio next to your name. If you were anything under 1.00, you were absolutely ridiculed, nothing you said was taken seriously, and you were constantly told to up your ante. Ah, the good ol' days.

Because of that, I've always striven to be right around 1.00. Granted, I haven't downloaded anything in quite some time, but I'm happy with the 1.3 whatever I've got while being an American with throttled upload speeds.


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Offline zzzYuyu

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #26 on: June 13, 2012, 11:20:42 PM »
I basically seed to make full use of my server bandwidth. Just helping out the rest of the world with what's available to me and would remain unused otherwise.

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #27 on: June 14, 2012, 12:08:37 AM »
I seed because, back in the day, these forums used to have your ratio next to your name. If you were anything under 1.00, you were absolutely ridiculed, nothing you said was taken seriously, and you were constantly told to up your ante. Ah, the good ol' days.
Why was it removed? I'd love to have the answer to everything next to my name :3

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #28 on: June 14, 2012, 12:12:05 AM »
I seed because, back in the day, these forums used to have your ratio next to your name. If you were anything under 1.00, you were absolutely ridiculed, nothing you said was taken seriously, and you were constantly told to up your ante. Ah, the good ol' days.
I'd hate this tbh. My ratio is pretty good, but it might eventually lead to needless flaming and thread derailment.
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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #29 on: June 14, 2012, 12:26:00 AM »
I seed because, back in the day, these forums used to have your ratio next to your name. If you were anything under 1.00, you were absolutely ridiculed, nothing you said was taken seriously, and you were constantly told to up your ante. Ah, the good ol' days.
Why was it removed? I'd love to have the answer to everything next to my name :3

I'd like that too.

I seed because I like to give back to the community. I only have a 1 Mbps upload speed so I am am limited to how much I can upload but I leave my torrents seeding 24/7 (unless I am gaming online) so it adds up. My ISP is pretty decent overall but their upload speed upgrades are ridiculously over priced. They want $20 per 1 Mbps upload. I'm thinking about getting a seedbox because for $20-30 I can get much better upload speeds then I could ever get through my ISP. A seedbox seems even more enticing now that I am offering torrents.

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #30 on: June 14, 2012, 12:56:42 AM »
I seed because, back in the day, these forums used to have your ratio next to your name. If you were anything under 1.00, you were absolutely ridiculed, nothing you said was taken seriously, and you were constantly told to up your ante. Ah, the good ol' days.

I believe I've seen it before, when I still knew little about torrenting :laugh:.

Why was it removed? I'd love to have the answer to everything next to my name :3

Guess you should have picked a better name ;D.

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #31 on: June 14, 2012, 05:53:05 PM »
I seed because, back in the day, these forums used to have your ratio next to your name. If you were anything under 1.00, you were absolutely ridiculed, nothing you said was taken seriously, and you were constantly told to up your ante. Ah, the good ol' days.
Why was it removed? I'd love to have the answer to everything next to my name :3

As hadouken said just after you, it led to flame wars because not everyone is mature enough to take a joke and fewer people are capable of not flaming when given an excuse.


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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #32 on: June 14, 2012, 06:18:46 PM »
Because I know what kind of pain it is to be looking for an active torrent for the stuff I DL and Seed.
I have 30 torrents seeding, 12 of which have only me or only me and one other seeder.

Not that you get to celebrate for leeching off me, I have 100kB/s up max and I keep it capped at 50kB/s to keep the net nicely operational + I don't keep my PC on 24/7 but from experience I know, every little bit helps. And there's nothing you're more grateful for than finally finishing what you wanted after weeks or months of waiting.  :)

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #33 on: June 19, 2012, 04:39:55 PM »
Well there are torrents and they do not stop when they are fınıshed and I do not touch them uless I have wathced the stuff and need to free up some space. Some of them stay there for a year or more some of them just stay there for few days.
I do not really fallow ındıvıdual torrents, just overal ratıo on the sıte and free space on my comp. Lıke to keep my ratıo non less then 4, have no ıdea why.

No lımıtatıons on  bandwidth.

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #34 on: June 19, 2012, 09:47:58 PM »
I seed as much as i can when i am on my computer (which is most days for long sessions (gamer/anime addict)). I've only used this website for a few months when i started to watch Naruto, but couldn't find any websites to download the old series in decent quality (stream sucks), until i came across this website thanks to google search xD I couldn't just steal 123 GB of Naruto and bail, so i decided to stick around and seed like hell (as bad a movie it was, I still seed Naruto movie 1 even though it's ratio is at 43.654). Then i found out i enjoyed other anime (I'd only watched Bleach before Naruto) so now i have filled my Utorrent with plenty of anime torrents to watch then seed, and plan to get my ratio as high as possible with my upload speeds. Sadly they only reach a total of 550 Kb/s max, even though i have 100 Mb internet, speedtest only gives me 5 Mb upload, i download torrents at an average of 3 - 6 Mb/sec :(

So long story short, i seed as a way of saying THANK YOU for this amazing website :D I'm a quality-freak - streams are out of the question, so i love the fact that this site gives users 720p/1080p/blu ray quality series for pretty much everything. I don't plan on ever deleting stuff from Utorrent as my anime is stored on my new 3TB HDD, so my ratio should stay above 1.0 permanently :)

AFAIK there is no limits at all on my bandwidth (UK, Virgin Media)

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #35 on: June 20, 2012, 10:46:35 AM »
i'd guess most of the people here are doing a "seeding is a byproduct of leeching" by leaving the completed torrents active and it seeds when a new torrent starts. idiots locking upload to 0KB/s(or anything lower than 20KB/s, really) should go to hell.

how does seedboxes seed so many accounts by the way o.o

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #36 on: June 20, 2012, 11:30:50 PM »
^ 'Cause bandwidth is actually cheap?

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #37 on: June 21, 2012, 03:22:21 AM »
For the epeen....

No, seriously. I have a 220.877:1 ratio on 11eyes... Nice to know that 220 and a ninth people wanted that show and I provided. :)

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #38 on: June 21, 2012, 05:32:49 AM »
^ 'Cause bandwidth is actually cheap?
what? you really lost be there.

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Re: Why do you seed?
« Reply #39 on: June 21, 2012, 06:10:14 PM »
^ 'Cause bandwidth is actually cheap?
what? you really lost be there.

For as little as $25 a month... you can do an unlimited amount of seeding (almost 2-3 TB uploaded last month).