Torrenting Etiquette

In order to clean up your queue, is it acceptable to pull the plug on an obscure torrent that you've been seeding for months and never got to share at even a 1:1 ratio, because there's simply nobody downloading it?

who cares? just do what you want

This. On the internet everyone is a jew

wew lad, leech life is best life

I want the honest opinion of people who believe in seeding to strengthen the community.

I feel obligated to keep waiting for a few people to come online and download stuff, but it never happens.

Do I leave stuff up indefinitely so it stays available for that one person who may want what I have, or is it okay to stop seeding when the torrent has been inactive for a certain length of time?

Bonus points for being a good seeder user.
I make a lot of torrents and I wish there were more anons like you.
A dead torrent is just dead. Waiting for months to make sure is more than
enough effort on your part.
Seed the ones that people still want and save your bandwidth for them.

I do Op. I seed obscure death metal albums and leave them seeding for that one leeched that feels like he hit the jackpot

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Once I reach a seed ratio that I like I stop seeding. It's usually at the very least 1:5.

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I seed obscure things indefinitely as I dont want someone to want to torrent something interesting and not be able to find it.

Okay, nigger, I'm a ratio whore as well (hasn't gone below 8 in several years, save for upgrading the operating system which wiped the stats) but removing obscure torrents is savagery.
Those are the ones that will simply disappear from the face of the earth if you delete them. Too many a time I've weeped over a torrent of an obscure tv show.
If you really need to save your space: Post the magnets&trackers here and keep the torrents for another few weeks. I'll adopt the torrents. I got space and bandwidth.

Same.

cute doggies. yours?

Depends on what it is IMO, and if you consider it valuable. I'll seed something I personally like if no one else is, even if it's never downloaded.

Depends on how invested you are in the contents, but I'll always at least try keeping dying torrents alive even when I'm not particularly interested. Few times I've come to revive torrents when I noticed renewed interest in them, feels good.

Get off my tubes fucking jewniggers.

it's because of guys like this that we can even get shit that's not a popular program, show, or porno

if it's something you like such as some obscure album or some game from 2001 that didn't sell well, I really see no reason to not keep it alive

storage is cheap now, the only concern for me is having (((Time Warner Cable))) who I feel like will fuck my asshole in the blink of an eye

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leechers are the digital equivalent of niggers

Kill yourself.


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I am flabbergasted, my fams.

This

Most of what I torrent is shows that are just released, so all though I take no pleasure in doing so, I don't seed at all. When a show is just released, you never know if their lawyers are taking note of everyone using the torrent, and I don't want to take the risk.

Sure, if you re upload it after killing it.
What is it anyways? magnet link/.torrent file ?

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If nobody has leeched for 72 hours, nobody will blame you for stopping seeding.

Torrenting is too risky, especially since some people get caught pirating due to companies being able to track who's pirating what.

if you torrent without using a VPN you deserve what you get

Use a VPN and a peer blocklist and you'll be fine.

Also, use only trusted FOSS torrent clients such as Deluge, qBittorrent, or Transmission.

Many of the popular clients such as uTorrent have been compromised with spyware for many years.

if you live in a country where companies can punish you, you deserve what you get

But it's still possible to track your purchase of a VPN provider's services. It makes it more difficult, sure, but it's not a guarantee if media kikes suddenly push your goverment to make some examples.

if you live in a country where the government can punish you, you deserve what you get

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Which is why I take precautions like not seeding newly released content.

Satan confirmed ancap

There's people that have been caught, even when they use VPN.

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I second this precaution. If you stay away from newly-released stuff, you fly under the radar.

Nobody cares if you're torrenting obscure stuff with a handful of seeders.

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I guess, but I've stopped seeding 24/7 and I try to refrain from leeching as much as possible (I go for at least 5.0+ if I do, of course). With our country desperately trying to get into EU's asshole there's no knowing when some fucktard decides to make scapegoats to appease eurocucks.

That's what I do. There's no point seeding something no one's downloading. That's the problem with torrents, they're shit for any file you're the only one that wants, and if it is something insanely popular everyone wants then it's a file the authorities will be monitoring.

It's not about the ratio, it's about the availability. The less seeders there are, the more you should seed yourself.

If it's obscure set the ratio to 5 and forget about it.

Meme

fucking niggers


seed everything forever.
if you use a non-shit client, sort them into categories, so you can ignore them / filter for ones you're looking for.

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