Bonus Points Aren't Working?

[Laraso]

Hey, I was browsing around for torrents yesterday when I realized I had a terrible seed ratio. (Most of that was from a month ago when I started torrenting, and I hadn't realized that I somehow accidentally turned off seeding on my client)

I'm actually very, very surprised I hadn't gotten warned (I had a 0.010 ratio...), but I'm determined to fix my ratio. I've raised it to 0.024 now, but I can't seem to figure out how the bonus point system works. I did a bunch of searching for all kinds of freeleech + bonus point torrents, and started uploading them, but it continuously says I'm earning 0 bonus points per hour.

I'm confused as to how the bonus points work; what am I doing wrong?

"Amorphous Plate Wiggle"

[xgraphy]

Keep in mind that Bonus torrents are dynamic, the status will be added/removed depending on the amount of seeders the torrent has.

So in this case it is likely that when you were added to the seed pool, the status was removed.
If you keep running a good amount of torrents with few seeds, some points will come your way eventually when users drop out.

Side note, bonus torrents are not a good way to build up ratio in a short time; so you may want to try something else.

(Wiki)

[Freedom Kira]

Hey, I was browsing around for torrents yesterday when I realized I had a terrible seed ratio. (Most of that was from a month ago when I started torrenting, and I hadn't realized that I somehow accidentally turned off seeding on my client)

I'm actually very, very surprised I hadn't gotten warned (I had a 0.010 ratio...), but I'm determined to fix my ratio. I've raised it to 0.024 now, but I can't seem to figure out how the bonus point system works. I did a bunch of searching for all kinds of freeleech + bonus point torrents, and started uploading them, but it continuously says I'm earning 0 bonus points per hour.

I'm confused as to how the bonus points work; what am I doing wrong?

"Amorphous Plate Wiggle"

Impressive, I think you're the second person I've ever seen quote that phrase. The first was a couple years ago or so.

Anyway, it's as xgraphy said. Let's see if I can add some details based on personal experience.

I've noticed that anything with less than five seeders is automatically bonus. Beyond that, if the ratio of seeders to leechers is low enough (either that or the difference between seeders and leechers is small enough), the torrent will be marked as bonus.

To get a bonus point on a torrent, it must stay a bonus torrent for a full hour. As you can imagine, a lot can happen in an hour. A seeder might hop on, or a leecher might complete the torrent. Either case could result in a violation of the seeders < 5 criterion and eliminate the bonus status.

Anyway, don't rely heavily on bonus torrents. They should be merely what they are - bonus. To get 10GB of upload credit, you have to seed for at least 160 hours. That's approximately one week straight, 24 hours per day, getting ten bonus points per hour. In that time you should have been able to seed far more than 10GB if you pick the right torrents.

[undetz]

Yeah, Bonus Points are for collecting and not for using.

Stick to Freeleech torrents and just keep uploading. Eventually your ratio will go up.

[Laraso]

Impressive, I think you're the second person I've ever seen quote that phrase. The first was a couple years ago or so.

Anyway, it's as xgraphy said. Let's see if I can add some details based on personal experience.

I've noticed that anything with less than five seeders is automatically bonus. Beyond that, if the ratio of seeders to leechers is low enough (either that or the difference between seeders and leechers is small enough), the torrent will be marked as bonus.

To get a bonus point on a torrent, it must stay a bonus torrent for a full hour. As you can imagine, a lot can happen in an hour. A seeder might hop on, or a leecher might complete the torrent. Either case could result in a violation of the seeders < 5 criterion and eliminate the bonus status.

Anyway, don't rely heavily on bonus torrents. They should be merely what they are - bonus. To get 10GB of upload credit, you have to seed for at least 160 hours. That's approximately one week straight, 24 hours per day, getting ten bonus points per hour. In that time you should have been able to seed far more than 10GB if you pick the right torrents.

Yeah, I figured as much. I was downloading them because I figured if I was going to fix my ratio, I might as well help seed the torrents that need it.

I went from 0.010 ratio to 0.213 in a day, so I don't really need them anyways. I was just wondering why I wasn't getting the bonus points, but I didn't know that they could lose their bonus-point status so quickly.

EDIT: As for an unrelated question, what does it mean if a torrent is "snatched'?

[megido-rev.M]

Downloaded completely i.e. all files in the torrent, so to speak.

[Sashamaru]

Snatched is the number of times the .torrent file was downloaded. This does not mean the number of times the torrent has been completed.

http://wiki.bakabt.me/index.php/BT_Terminology

[Freedom Kira]

Downloaded completely i.e. all files in the torrent, so to speak.

That's the definition of "completed."