I'll admit, when I first started torrent I was not really familiar with how it worked and how important seeding was. I would just use magnet links without configuration to save the torrent and seed after completion. Well.. I have finally, got myself back to 1.00 after a couple months and working to try to always seed double what I get for each torrent.
Often times I was one of the few random seeders available for some of these torrents. Friendly reminder to give back because you never know when you're one of the rare cases that can complete someones long lost file download!
Private trackers enforce ratios, and good private trackers reward long-term seeding, which is part of why I like private trackers.
I'm very proud of my CG account that turns seventeen next month.
EDIT: No I don't have invites, before anyone asks.
Next year account legal to drink in eu. Marking date to drink one for your account.
I have yet to get a positive ratio on anything I've ever downloaded from a private tracker. Always have to sit and wait to accumulate points in their seeding time system... It's annoying because otherwise I'd be seeding a lot more shit for them.
The trick is to use autodl-irssi or autobrr to download the torrent the second it gets added to the tracker. As long as you have a very fast internet connection, you will usually be over 1:1 before it finishes downloading.
For that to work I'd have to know what I'm looking for in advance... I don't really have enough media exposure for that. I usually find out about shows/movies I might be interested in after they've been out for months.
It's definitely not easy, especially if you don't have a seedbox.
I have gotten a good amount of upload, but that's on torrents I have been seeding for literally years at a time.
Yeah, this is also a problem though. I'd love to be on a private tracker as I was in the past, but once you're out it's just too much of a hassle to get back in.
last time I gave out an invite to an internet rando I had to check with staff if it was allowed, it was, but the person never used their account so I just wasted an invite
Limited invites to give out, scarcity mindset, I've been there myself, so I understand.
I just deleted a Reddit account that old haha
I forgot how fantastic Demonoid was around 2008. It was a fucking utopia.
Those were the halcyon days, for sure,