Seed bonus not working?

Pawpcorn

Yup, like cannonmc said, when you skip files in a torrent, they will never report back as "completed" (a standard feature of bittorrents) and thus will always show as "leeching" even when you are uploading data in these torrents… (for which you will earn seeding credit, but I don't think the .5/hour bonus)

regarding the bonus point earning...

I would try keeping your torrent client (offering fully downloaded files) running CONTINUOUSLY for three hours, without using the VPN, and see if you pick up the single bonus point during that time... then later on, try it behind the VPN for three hours... as an experiment

I think you'd need torrents sitting in the "Seeding" list (not the "Leeching" list) to be earning the .5 bonus points per hour...

...and I've suggested 3 hours just to make sure there's no issue with system time overlaps, for lack of a better term...

Please do update this forum topic with the results of the above experiment, should you have to time and opportunity to give it a try...

cannonmc

Don't quote me but it was always my impression that if you made anything you have downloaded available to others, it counted as a 'seeding connection'.

I haven't experimented, just assumed. Now Pawpcorn has raised the question it would be nice to know if you had to download the complete torrent before you got the 0.5 point an hour bonus.

Why is life so complicated…

Popper

2.875 @2015-10-06 18:05:00 CEST

@cannonmc:
The torrent must show in your Profile as "Currently seeding" to get 0.5 points. (Perhaps it is important to note that it is a flat 0.5 points per hour (total), not per hour and per torrent.)

The tracker will count as seeding any torrent which your client seeds 100% of the files in the torrent's file list. If you have downloaded all files or had them already and jumped on isn't important, means your client must not necessarily send the 'completed' download signal once to the tracker, but it needs to seed all the torrent's files completely.

cannonmc

Oh no, more complications :crazy2:

And yes, perhaps we should have made clear that you just need to be seeding any one completed download to get the 0.5 points each hour. Extra torrents will not get extra points

But you will still get download credit if you seed anything from an incomplete torrent. So all is not wasted by continuing to seed

Pawpcorn

@cannonmc:

But you will still get ~~download~~ upload credit if you seed anything from an incomplete torrent. So all is not wasted by continuing to seed

and that's only if there are actually other members downloading that video… from your computer... :cheesy2:

cannonmc

Yes, my mistake, so many things think about, so little brain

I took it as read that people would know there had to be somebody at the other end…

Pawpcorn

I'm starting to think our friend isn't going to be coming back here with the results of the "test bonus points w/o VPN vs behind VPN"…

But I'm guessing his whole issue was (from the start) nothing to do with VPNs, but instead, thinking that only if he ONLY had partial downloads seeding (and NO Completed Downloads seeding) that he'd still be earning the .5 Bonus Points per hour… [which isn't correct].

Popper

Well, 6 points earned in 18 hours are looking correct, assuming the OP's computer doesn't run 24/7

paulflying

for me it works well

obras62

Hi,
I know this question has probably been answered but I can't find it.

The .5 seed bonus per hour is for 1 or 20 videos connected?

Has it always been this way?

I thought it used to be .5 seed bonus per hour per seeding.

So the seeding bous a person gets 12 points per day if the connection is 24 hours, no matter if seeding 1 or more videos?

Thanks in adavnce for any help

Rob

cannonmc

It has always been .5 points per hour as long as you are connected, no matter how many you are seeding