For me I usually permaseed, or at least seed back 5-10x if not planning to keep a download. Also have created new uploads at torrent sites and occasionally fill requests.

[–] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 12 points 2 years ago

I always try to seed whenever I can, since I only have mobile connection

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I basically seed forever, and I also upload and fill requests sometimes. I have dozens of terabytes seeding. I see it as my contribution to the preservation of the art, and if I’m going to take up the storage space with it I might as well be seeding it too.

[–] Dreyns@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

I seed as much as I can but I still have a 0.75 ratio sadly. I tend to dl random old shit nobody wants so i'm just helping the other weirdos like me. I plan on switchi g to linux and I'd like to set up my computer to be as secure as possible and then maybe upload stuff also.

And like in the old times I bring my hdd with me and share with friends when we meet in person !

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

I love seeing the seed ratio go up. For new releases it’s common to see 100:1 before I shut em off. My system is pretty disorganised and not automated which is why I manually clean up torrents. I’d love to run some long running seeds in future but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

But yea… SEED NUMBER GO UP

[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 8 points 2 years ago

Minimum 10:1 ratio always

[–] hyper@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For my automated content I go by a factor of 4. Things that I download manually usually also gets ratio 4 but things that are hard to come by or that I really like get unlimited ratio.

[–] sudoroot@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

This is me, except a ratio of 2. Hard to find things or if it's taking a long time to download, I let it seed indefinitely

[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

i usually seed until it reaches seed factor 5. i am planning to set up my NAS to seed indefinetely with a limited bandwidth.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have deluge / sonarr / radarr set to seed to 2:1

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Try to seed as much as I can, usually around 2:1, though my ratio is only 1.57 on one of the sites I frequent, so I’m apparently just a leech.

[–] rambos@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Private trackers I seed until Im running out of storage, public ones up to 1.2 ratio.

I used to upload some content, but dont have anything thats not already available anymore.

I did some donations to our fellow pirates tho

[–] Wea@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't seed. I live in a country with tight laws and actual cases of people getting sued over torrenting and seeding. With different financial outcomes between those two.

We are on the poor side and while I have some technical knowledge I'm not confident enough I can protect myself from financial trouble. So I unfortunately torrent through a VPN and have my client set to seed 0%.

[–] rambos@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Better then pay for usenet instead of VPN. Not sure is 0% enough to protect yourself

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Not sure is 0% enough to protect yourself

It's definitely not. Copyright trolls send letters to all peers in a torrent swarm regardless of uploading/downloading. And in any case the bittorrent protocol uploads and downloads simultaneously - Even if the commenter is attempting to seed 0% they are still participating in the torrent swarm and uploading pieces of data to others in the swarm during their own download.

I have to assume that commenter's VPN is working as intended or maybe they have been lucky.

[–] Vuipes@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I always seed. I also upload stuff, if I don't find it.

[–] Sabakodgo@lemmy.fmhy.net 3 points 2 years ago

Seeding whenever I can.

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I seed older stuff. Newer stuff I just get to 2:1 or so and that's it.

[–] editilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I torrent using my phone 99% of the time, so I try to get to a 2:1 if possible, but large files like tv shows that have upwars of 200 gb take up too much space, and I can't have multiple seasons downloaded at the same time, so I usually get them up to 1:1 and then download the next episodes

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Minimum 2:1 for something popular, try to do 3 or 4 to 1 for less popular ones, especially ones with a few seeds and a lot of peers. I don't uploaf or rip, because I don't know how, and have no reason to.

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Absolutely. I used to rip movies myself for my favorite private tracker. It shut down a while ago though, so now I'm just back to regular seeding.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Try to seed as much as I can, usually around 2:1, though my ratio is only 1.57 on one of the sites I frequent, so I’m apparently just a leech.

[–] formContainer@feddit.ch 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I set my thing up to seed but I think my upload speed is too slow. I occasionally seed slowly and its set to constantly do it but my ratio is not great... If anyone has tips to improve this please let me know!

[–] Yendor@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you port forwarding? You’ll have more possible peers if you have a port open, so better speeds on average.

[–] formContainer@feddit.ch 1 points 2 years ago

I just have default settings at the moment. If port forwarding will help then I will look into it

[–] Shere_Khan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does your tracker support bonus points?

[–] formContainer@feddit.ch 2 points 2 years ago

I have no idea what that even is if I'm being honest

[–] captain_samuel_brady@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are ye a pirate or are ye Robin Hood?

[–] gwi1785@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

i am a thief like we all are, no need for euphemism.

but i'd rather be robin hood than stoertebeker.

where do you think your files come from?

i just think if everybody once in a while would just buy and upload one file there would be a lot of new or unusual stuff.

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I dont upload but i do seed, im not gonna lie my ratio is below 1

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

On private trackers I seed until I delete the files(if I need space or the movie/tv-show is really bad)

On public trackers I don't take too much risks and only seed one day or ratio up to 1.

And it's setup on Radarr / Sonarr / Transmission, so I don't have to do much anymore

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't use torrents all that much to be quite honest - I just download and forget about it with my qbittorrent running in the background pretty much 16 hours a day while I'm awake.

Think the highest seed ratio I accumulated doing this was 500 ratio on a 50gb file.

[–] Inkidu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

I don't have a lot of stuff that's not already uploaded. Niche books mostly. I offer x3 the upload on public torrents and indefinite on privates.

[–] sparkl_motion@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

A lot of what I grab doesn’t have a lot of traffic, but I’ll grab and seed at least 5-10x on stuff like new releases to make up for it on IPT.

I’m on a gigabit fiber connection, so my upload on my seed box is about 5-20mbps constantly.

[–] Shere_Khan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago

I upload to the snahp forms, and i have found some hard to find stuff for dudes on reddit or whatever, but mostly i just seed