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Was recovering an old virtual machine onto a new box and was shocked to see 9,999, I presume thats an upper limit in the UI. Dune (2021) for those curious

Now wheres my crossbones flag?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Must be from a public tracker

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yessir, and frankly I'm caring a lot more for the torrents that are barely breathing on public trackers, its made me a little sad seeing how inaccessible some content can tend to get, but to be fair I haven't sailed the deep end with private trackers or anything yet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately with public trackers you're mostly helping leechers and debrid users who don't contribute back anything at all

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

And lets be honest, a lot of us were once in the boat of at least not being able to seed back. With the content I seed I see it more as a preservation service...

Family and friends requesting even couple years old shows that just arent available in this region or what be it like come on, its the digital age, I can message someone halfway around the world but I can't watch some movie because someone wants the most nickel and dime. /rant

I don't expect any of them to know what bittorrent is, if it brings them joy when there may be no other option, that is what this is for afterall

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

all you have to do is freeleech some stuff with a new account

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To reach 10000 seed ratio? Not quite

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
  1. download new torrents with the freeleech tag
  2. seed the freeleech torrents for a little while
  3. download an ebook or something that isn't freeleech

yes quite. this happens to me every time I join a new tracker.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The screenshot is showing the ratio on a single torrent, not a tracker. The only time you'll see that is usually if you are the person that submitted the torrent.