Should one use 2.0 or infinite?
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Why put a limit? Just infinite forever unless you have a cap in your connection.
Generally 2.0 is considered the respectful default option, if you’re just using public trackers with no ratio requirements.
Personally, I look at the torrent’s overall health.
If it’s a super active torrent with hundreds of seeders I’ll set it to 1.5 or even 1.0 and auto remove when done to save resources on my homelab server. Sometimes with high seeder counts it can take ages to even hit 1.0. They all get automatically moved to a completed folder when done so I can pick through them and categorize them.
If its a less active torrent I’ll choose 2.0 or 3.0.
If it’s a super rare torrent with less than three seeders, which there’s sure a lot of, I’ll set it to infinite to keep it alive. I’ve gotten some smaller torrents up to a 30+ share ratio.
I have a similar ruleset regarding ratio but mentally I think about time spent seeding. Active torrents I can reach well over my minimum 2.0 ratio by leaving it seeding overnight. Meanwhile, I had a torrent one time for open source software that was very active but had a very large proportion of leechers to seeders. I left it seeding for several months uploading several terabytes in the process. My seed ratio was in the several hundreds but I was happy to take keep the CDN costs off the site.
I was permaseeding Muppet Babies on RARBG (kids stuff is hard to find and I didn’t want other people to miss out on this) for these past couple of years. They’re smaller files (around 300MB), but I actually managed to hit a 9,999 seed ratio on a few of them before the site shut down as I was the only seeder most of the time.
No reason to remove until deleting the files
Seed as long as you can. If needed, remove files based on what has the most other seeders. Keep torrents alive, forever. ♥
Above 1.0 really, after that up to the user
I personally seed as much as possible, since there is not really a point to remove torrent asap for me
just seed bro, seed until the hard drive catches fire
There’s no reason to limit it. If you have a cap on traffic, it’s better to monitor the volume of traffic cut it off when you are close to the traffic limit. Because the ratio on each torrent correlates only loosely with how much traffic each ends up consuming.
This is especially true on private trackers because you want your ratio to be as high as possible. Especially if you are downloading rare torrents, it might be hard to have enough leeches to even get to 1.0 ratio. So you can make up for that by also downloading more common torrents and allowing them to seed into the 1000.0s.
I go for 3.0, it seems fair to me. 5.0 for files harder to come by.
My personal goal is 5.0 for everything. I have the luxury of some spare hard drive space and I like the buffer it gives on trackers in case I need to get something big.
