Trying to keep a public torrent alive is hard work, but someone has to do it.

Back when I had VDSL and even ADSL, I'd try to hit 1.1 ratio because if everyone did that the risk of information being lost would be close to 0%. Nowadays with gigabit internet, all that prevents me from seeding is hard drive space, and 8 TB doesn't fill up quickly with how few good movies and series there are these days. I guess that's one way to stop piracy, just make fewer and worse series/movies.

just had a silly idea: stopping your torrent right as it starts to seed (to avoid ISP letters) is like pulling out as a form of birth control

I did that.

And rightfully so, I was a 15 year old in a third world country with a beat up compaq computer to download movies overnight. I couldn't seed cuz my father would find out I wasted the internet.

Today, I can seed and have a 26TB hard drive, I preserve old movies in my native language (Telugu) and seed them.

Do we need people to learn about seeding and ratios? Definitely. But I believe in

Today's leechers are tomorrow's seeders.

And don't blame them.

Personally I enjoy seeing the numbers go up. Looking at the current top ten by ratio according to my torrent client most of them are obscure things that I'm probably the only one seeding — but the number one spot, at a ratio of 565, goes to "Shrek (2001) [1080p]".

I have now a ratio of 9.1 and 250TB of uploaded....

Also my hard drive is getting full. I guess I have to clean up some torrents soon.

Or buy new storage

god i even hate pausing seeding for even an hour cause i'm like BUT WHAT IF SOMEONE WANTS IT???

I don’t know about you guys, but I set mine to stop seeding at a 2.0 ratio. Give more than you get. That’s the way I think it should be.

Why is it called seeding but where is sperm in question?

People should learn how to seed. If you don't want to seed, just pay for Usenet.

I seed EVERYTHING until i run out of space. Qbitorrent doesn't like me having .torrent files in more than one drive, so i'm limited to my 14TB. But i have dozens of torrents that i'm only one of 2 or 3 people seeding it, so those help me upload hundreds of GB's with my terrible connection.

Also i'm on a private tracker, so leaving them seeding helps your ratio, even if you don't actually upload anything. They just try to encourage new people to seed and that is awesome.

Unfortunately my VPN provider doesn't support Port Forwarding (they're great in everything else, but suck on this) so if I just start seeding from scratch no peers will ever manage to connect to my machine. The only way I can contribute back to the community is when a Download session ends and starts seeding (basically all those peers that my machine checked during the download stage get recorded in the VPN's Router NAT as associated with my machine so if they try to connect to my machine later, for example to download a block, they get through), so my torrents are just left to seed after downloading (if I stop it and start seeding later, it might not work anymore depending on how long has passed).

Fortunatelly I have a fast internet connection and torrenting is done in a server machine, so I just leave it setup to a 2:1 seeding ratio for as long as it takes to get there and pretty much all torrents I download reach that seeding ratio (it pretty much only fails to reach that on really obscure torrents with very small swarms).

I've been sailing the high seas for over 3 decades and long ago saw the importance of doing my bit to keep the whole ecosystem alive.

So I might not be seeding everything I have (and as it's been 3 decades, I do have some stuff which is now very obscure), but everything I get from the community I seed 2x as much so that others can get it too.

the second it says "Seeding"

Don't worry, it will stall at 99.9% forever

I suffer with seeding unpopular torrents and rarely see my ratio even each 1.0

I would seed if people ever used me. I only have so much space, and everytime I try to seed, there's either nobody downloading, or theirs a hundred other seeders.

You guys go out and talk to girls? Disgusting, they have cooties.

Isn't that what streamio effectively does?

I used to seed in the old days, but I feel it has become more complicated now.

The primary issue (before eg.: CGNAT or port-opening issues) is it's become more and more often the case that I post-process what I download before use (rename / reencode music albums, reencode movies) so it makes little sense to keep the old files only for seeding. In theory a "seedbox" (those are the trendy thing this decade, right?) would help solve this, but I'm still rather new and have not found any FOSS, PII-free offerings in the market.