• @Podunk@lemmy.world
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    4124 days ago

    Truly despicable. Seeding to at least 1 to 1 is the bare minimum of courtesy and humanity. If you dont, its unethical

    • @1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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      24 days ago

      Seeding shouldn’t be done on ratios - being the only one seeding 10 seasons of a tv show and getting it to 0.4:1 is way more helpful than seeding the same movie as everyone else and getting to 20:1, you’re noy contributing anything there other than decreasing your bandwidth for things that aren’t already at 100,000% availability

      • @Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1424 days ago

        I’d you are the only one seeding it and get to 0.4, you just left others hanging with incomplete downloads.

        However I do agree in general

        • @1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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          624 days ago

          That’s what I’m saying

          It’s better to not even half-way seed a torrent with low availability than it is to seed one that everyone else is seeding, regardless of how high your ratio goes - it’s a point on how pointless it really is to waste your resources seeding something like that

          • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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            524 days ago

            The lazy approach is the best approach IMO. Seed everything, and if the ratio gets high, drop it. That way you get rid of useless popular torrents and keep the less popular ones. If everyone does that, things will work better.

    • @CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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      1124 days ago

      Hey now some of us just have wildly shit upload speeds and couldn’t hope to reach 1:1 without spending an entire year seeding a single movie.

      • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        224 days ago

        That’s a big part of why I stick with my ISP. My download speeds aren’t super competitive for the price, but my upload is half my download, which is nice.