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Offline NawtSauce

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Some pointers about seeding?
« on: October 15, 2012, 08:38:14 PM »
Hey hey, well I've downloaded some anime here and I tried to seed, but when I resumed it to seed, the download bar turned red.
Also, how long do you guys normally seed something?

Thanks!
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Offline megido-rev.M

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Re: Some pointers about seeding?
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2012, 08:41:09 PM »
As some members mentioned here (feel free to browse recent posts BTW), just keep seeding as much as you can. You might also download a few freeleech torrents and seed those to bump your ratio if necessary.

There's a thread concerning red download bar somewhere here too.
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Offline Freedom Kira

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Re: Some pointers about seeding?
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2012, 04:38:21 AM »
Figure out how to get to the tracker status message in your client.

Without that, no one can really help.
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Offline Bozobub

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Re: Some pointers about seeding?
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2012, 12:37:17 AM »
Many of us seed torrents nearly forever.  The more torrents you seed, the more likely it is that you'll use more of your upload bandwidth, it's that simple.  Even if you don't keep them indefinitely, keeping at least 20-50 torrents in "forced seeding" status" will help a great deal.

As Kira mentions, we really can't help with the problem you're having (red download bar generally = error), until you tell us what the tracker status message is.  For most GUI clients, you simply right-click the category bar at the top of your torrent queue and make sure "Tracker Status" (or something similar) is checked.
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Offline buchno

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Re: Some pointers about seeding?
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2012, 12:59:25 AM »
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Offline Vahn

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Re: Some pointers about seeding?
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2012, 09:49:47 AM »
The bar turning red sounds like you're doing something wrong, is there any error message with it? In particular, have you moved the downloaded files? If you have then your torrent client won't be able to locate them to seed to other users.

As for general seeding tips, grab a seedbox - It's possible to find cheap ones that'll do the trick - and jump on new torrents. Being a semi-private site means that all torrents get a lot of hits, especially since non-registered users can't really search, but can see the newest uploads. If you've at least got a decent download speed, to be able to get the full torrent quickly, you'd be able to do this without a seedbox, you'll just not see as much uploading due to your seed restrictions.
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