this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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I sort of agree. When everyone is trying to seed to up their ratio, getting stuff is easy and fast. But maintaining your ratio is a nightmare. The place is essentially starved of downloaders because even people who want stuff can't get it for fear of ruining their ratio. The only reason I had a positive ratio on what.cd was that they occasionally had freeleech days where you could download freely and only uploads counted. On those days I would just get the most popular torrents on the site and upload the shit out of them.
While these problems exist in any private tracker, I do still miss what.cd.
I'm on a few private trackers, never paid a penny towards any of them, and have high ratios in all of them
It did take me a little work and spent some time seeding stuff I didn't really want but I got there with a shitty home connection (my connection is pretty good now but I built those ratios with dog shit speeds)
I'm genuinely surprised to see that opinion in a ~~privacy~~ piracy sub, ngl.
Edited to correct my typo