Starter Torrents & Seeding While Downloading

[StarScream31]

Greetings to my new community! I found this blessed place last night and I am impressed! I am no stranger to these type of forums but I have a conundrum, what is the deal with getting your ratio up?

Do torrents SEED while they are downloading? Aka upload some as they download to set your ratio up a bit? I am from another private group that does that. Or does it upload when it's done?

Also do you have any suggestions for starter torrents to boost the ratio? I don't want my account to get hammered. I know about [F], but they don't appear to help.

I am using utorrent 3.3

[Southrop]

Do torrents SEED while they are downloading? Aka upload some as they download to set your ratio up a bit? I am from another private group that does that. Or does it upload when it's done?

Also do you have any suggestions for starter torrents to boost the ratio? I don't want my account to get hammered. I know about [F], but they don't appear to help.

Yes, torrents do seed when you are downloading, assuming you can connect to another leecher. Don't count on it though.

[F] torrents are freeleech. If you download anything with an [F], it will not count to your downloaded ratio. Anything seeded on it will still count though.

[Bozobub]

If you want to gain ratio quickly, simply sort the torrent list by leechers.  Voila!  Your busiest data "markets".

Honestly, though, the only truly reliable method is to seed a relatively large number of torrents, 24/7/365.25.  For example, I'm currently seeding 194 BakaBT torrents, of which 15-20 tend to be active at any given time.  This easily uses up as much of my upload pipe as I care to give to uTorrent, and I have a decent ratio.  Note, however, that I also do not choose torrents for popularity/"seedability"/Freeleech status, so YMMV; if you care to bother with it, you'll probably do far better than I do.