Reseed requests
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I have just signed in and there were two messages for me - see picture below.
They are both asking for the same reseed. I was just wondering why the two different wordings.
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The lower older in the picture is sent when the system auto promoted the torrent to the top of the list.
The system promotes only torrents which are seeded at the moment it does looking for a torrent to promote. However, though there is one or a few seeds, they might upload slowly or drop off.
The upper newer in the picture was initiated by a member, who wants to download the file or get it faster. You see the members nick name (user name) in that message.
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The lower older in the picture is sent when the system auto promoted the torrent to the top of the list.
The system promotes only torrents which are seeded at the moment it does looking for a torrent to promote. However, though there is one or a few seeds, they might upload slowly or drop off.
The upper newer in the picture was initiated by a member, who wants to download the file and get or get it faster. You see the members nick name (user name) in that message.
I am very surprised that you include a members nick name in a reseed request. And for the life of me I can't figure out why their SBP is also in the message. Unless, for hostage reasons. :crazy2:
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(…) Unless, for hostage reasons. :crazy2:
Can you explain a little more what you mean with that?
IMHO that indication was made to give information weather the requester is a good sharing member or not. That PM text hasn't changed since ever I'm a member here (2008) and never provoked any issue.
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(…) Unless, for hostage reasons. :crazy2:
Can you explain a little more what you mean with that?
IMHO that indication was made to give information weather the requester is a good sharing member or not. That PM text hasn't changed since ever I'm a member here (2008) and never provoked any issue.
Mmm, give me SBP and I will reseed it for you. lol.
I just wonder since it is a privacy issue to show what members have uploaded or downloaded, but it is not an issue to say if they are making a reseed request.
But I did get a reseed request yesterday on a torrent that I have never downloaded.
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It seems that the cannonmc curse of not explaining very well strikes again.
But if I understand Popper correctly one of the messages is a system response to a member initiating a reseed request, the other is a response to a staff member promoting an existing torrent. It just seems that for this particular torrent I got the benefit of both messages.
Anyway I responded and got some upload credit…my ratio was dropping to dangerous levels
Thanks for the replies
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The first part is correct "a system response [Remark: i.e. sending the PMs] to a member initiating a reseed request"
the second isn't what I tried to explain. If staff initiates a reseed request, it looks exactly like any other member did it.
We have a system (some script) which itself selects and promotes torrents. In that case there isn't any member or staff having initiated the reseed request, but the system sends them out on its own.
Those torrents are not too well seed and usually rather old. So once they pop-up on the top of the list, impatient members may ask for reseed to get the download faster. Or the last seeder(s) isn't seeding 24/7 and that provokes reseed requests by members.
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Just in passing, I rarely see the person asking for a reseed in the 'thanks' on the torrent page :sigh:
