Seed Bonus Whores!
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For what it's worth, I see both sides of the issue- no one likes to feel pressured into giving a 'tip', but people who upload the files offer a valuable part of the site. HOWEVER–-- people who don't upload are still needed. If you had a P2P site where nobody could join unless they uploaded files, you would have a much smaller pool of activity. It's a very symbiotic relationship. So I think it would be nice if seed bonus could be shared with anyone, not just uploaders. BUT... I do realize that any change like that requires work, so I totally understand why it hasn't been implemented.
My biggest issue is the lack of 'Thank You'- regardless of giving SBP or not. If someone can click the 'download' button, they can surely click the 'Thank You' button as well. It may seem petty, but when I see a torrent of mine has been snatched 300 times and only 4 or 5 people have said "Thanks" it makes me feel kind of unappreciated.
yea i know that feeling … i always click thank you if i liked the torrent after watching it.
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Seed Bonus greatly appreciated! Especially for guys with lame internet like me!!
If your internet is really that "lame", what are you doing on a torrent site in the first place? I don't mean to sound offensive, but I fail to understand how you could expect "high performance results" from say for example a 14.4k dial-up modem (assuming you haven't taken the jump to the big ole 56.6k lol)
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Wow, talking about mentally going through the spin cycle! My first thought was the poll should have had the "no" choice in the middle to be "objective" since the opening post is pretty convincingly leading the reader in that direction.
My second thought was as long as the 'begging' isn't in capitals AND on the post twice, I don't really mind the person asking, since it is still my choice. Sometimes after scouring the search page and looking at a couple dozen before making a selection, it may slip my mind to give seed bonus. So the request serves as a reminder.
Then I read the statistics and my mind changed again. UNBELIEVABLE - someone could get 21,000 FREE seedpoints and only give 921? Stingy and simultaneously greedy come to mind, how could it not?
But then I wondered - how much are they uploading? It must be an awful lot to GET that many points, right? So maybe overall, they are making a lot of titles available to members that we wouldn't otherwise get to see? I'd like to see some stats on how many titles and GB's the people with that many seedpoints have uploaded.
This is a minor point, but the "Thank you button" was mentioned once (or more?) Mixed feelings again. Shall I click it each time even before I see the movie? I have a very slow connection, so if I wait to see the movie, I will almost certainly forget to go back and thank the person. Or am I thanking the person simply for uploading? (for me at least, the overwhelming majority of the time, the torrent I'm uploading is something I have no prior knowledge about, I'm just basing my choice on the description and photos on GT)
Not that this will ever happen, but lets just say everyone who downloads it clicks the thankyou button. What does saying thank you mean then if everyone does it every time? Actually, I need to figure out which torrent on Utorrent corresponds to which on listing on GT, because when I click on General properties, (on utorrent) the "http://tracker.gaytorrent.ru/2650 etc." is not the address for the torrent. And the title listed on Utorrent usually isn't enough of the title to search on GT. So I would say thank you more for the movies I've seen anyway if I knew how to find the original torrent. Utorrent will not let you rename it either. Well, it will but then you can't download because then the tracker doesn't correspond or something like that. Thank to whomever can answer this.
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FancyDude, here's a suggestion for your failing memory…
If you take a look at your own profile (just click on your name in the line below the menu, the one that starts "Welcome back, "), you will find a list of the last 50 torrents that you finished, and any that you have active, along with any that you uploaded.
It should be fairly easy to match the names with a choice from that list that will let you add thanks, comments, or even bonus points.
Personally, three changes I'd like are a way of going back more than 50 items, the ability to sort it based on seeders/leechers (so it would be easy to see where more seeding would be helpful), and the ability to donate more than 50 points in one shot. I'm planning on offering 1000 points for a request of the Jack Radcliffe collection (and an extra 1000 if they are in DVD format), but right now, it would take a long time to do it.
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i think i'm a bit more generous when i'm far from hitting a seedpoint bonus level. hehehe
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I have been saying "Thank You" with seed bonus usually, as a marker that
reminds me I've already downloaded this torrent (sometimes I forget :)), and
as a sign of appreciation; I guess I have to rethink how much I give now; this
has been a very enlightening thread. I have yet to upload anything because
every time I check "it"'s already here; this database is quite massive.My first assumption as to why people were asking was that people weren't giving;
maybe I was wrong. -
I upload music here. I try to upload music that other members will enjoy, and it is nice to get a point or two, not because I need the points…but it lets me know that what I uploaded was liked. The points are great.. however, knowing that I am contributing something of value to the site is more important.
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I upload music here. I try to upload music that other members will enjoy, and it is nice to get a point or two, not because I need the points…but it lets me know that what I uploaded was liked. The points are great.. however, knowing that I am contributing something of value to the site is more important.
I love you. :hug2:
