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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 day ago

So you're that one guy that shows up out of nowhere and starts seeding when I've given up on a torrent. You're doing God's work.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Is there a thing where you can link these to other trackers to make it available to more leechers?

[–] bigDottee@geekroom.tech 71 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well... if you don't need to get rid of the files and continue to have space... then great. No matter what, you are applauded for seeding for when the inevitable lone pirate comes sailing by wanting to loot your booty.

[–] 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 2 days ago

Yeah i'll run out of space one day, but the more popular movies will be the first to go because i know i can get them again.

Still plenty of chance for someone to seize my lonely booty

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Is there some metric that shows amount of time a seeder has had files available but not necessarily actively seeding?

Archivists like you should get accolades for keeping the more rarely sought after media. More so than we need yet another seed of Avengers.

Thank you for seeding them. Unless it's weird porn.

... it's weird porn, isn't it ...

[–] ashaman2007@lemm.ee 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Derickdoes@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 days ago

Uses the Gooey Decimal System

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 13 points 1 day ago

Private trackers award points for this

[–] 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago

No, it's movies, and it's largely smaller lower-quality RARBG releases. They used to have a range of qualities available and the middle was always more popular, their highest and lowest quality releases used to be harder to seed, and that was years ago before they shut down

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

I agree.

Ideally, there are two types of profiles:

Archivalists who have a lot of storage and need pretty good uptime, but no need for high bandwidth. They should be rewarded for archiving, because they don't really get a lot of upload credit.

Distributors who need low storage, high bandwidth, robust connections when online, but not necessarily high uptime. They just distribute the new and popular stuff.

I think the better private trackers recognize this and have systems in place to provide credit to people who seed rare torrents.

[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 22 points 2 days ago

I still got a torrent from 2005 seeding, with 2 other people.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

I will revive ancient torrents every time I reopen qbittorent.

[–] ashaman2007@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is it difficult to add them to more trackers? I've often wondered about this, how to keep stuff alive...

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

Assuming they're public torrents--no. You simply add the tracker address to the list of trackers on the torrent, and boom.