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Freedom Kira summarized all the freeleech conditions I can think of.
I'll add a few comments to this point:
If by chance it does turn off being freeleech, (which I highly doubt will happen), I assume it will count towards your total download amount. On the three years I've been using this site though, I've never heard of such a case.
You can add me to a couple of cases where this has actually happened, exactly as Freedom Kira described. I think I have about six or maybe eight torrents on my profile that I started to download under the Freeleech Holiday and the freeleech was turned off before I completed the download, so I have really weird ratios on them. It seems every year I've been here I always try to queue up 'just one last torrent' toward the end of Freeleech Holiday and get 15% or 83% into it and suddenly the remainder is credited toward my upload.
Also, if you read through the
last half dozen or so blog posts by Chiyachan, you'll see he puts several torrents randomly on freeleech just as a promotional whim. So, add those random torrents that temporarily have freeleech status, and if you're slightly unlucky you could conceivably be part way through one of those when it gets switched back to normal.
Other Ongoing Topic: licensed debris still on the tracker.
Actually, I don't particularly mind that. It's rare enough. But I also have ten or so torrents on my profile that are Banned.
The difference I noticed is that (un)Funi titles get wiped right out of the database immediately, but other titles (such as NIS) stay.
Here's the thing, though. It's nice to have those offers show up during searches for several reasons. One, the offer page provides nice information and valuable links for a particular title. Two, it shows that the title was actually here at one point ... hopefully warning potential uploaders as to why they should not try to offer it (admittedly,
the Blacklist should be plenty warning). Three, kinda cool for historical reference what was considered the "best" encode available (according to BBT) at the time licensing went into effect.
While it would be nice that these offer pages don't show up as Bonus, or possibly even not on the individual profile stats for members, it
would be nice
and useful if a placeholder page remained for pure information purposes. Don't know if that's too complicated a solution or otherwise too messy to retain here, just some thoughts. I can see how maintaining a dead torrent page is an increased burden on uploaders. If the offer pages were retained as 'informational resources,' I do think that an EDIT to those pages could be placed on them that states a little more prominently and clearly what "BANNED" means.
And, people who post in the comments about 'Why I can't t3h downlaods??' should get an automatic Warning of some sort. Maybe they need to mail a physical page of paper with the phrase "I have read the member agreement and I have now read the ENTIRE wiki, as I agreed to when I activated my account." handwritten 100 times in red pencil.
I taught Comp Sci in a major university for nearly six years and used exactly that same punishment when I caught cheats and hackers. Surprisingly, it's Super Effective. People who submitted such a punishment incorrectly (such as using ink and not pencil) got to do it again, with 250 repetitions. People who cheated or hacked University resources a second time went up before the Academic Review Board, usually a couple of weeks before getting expelled.
