What videos are the most popular?
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I am trying to raise my ratio. Unfortunately, it appears that most of the movies I download barely reach a ratio of 1. I have a few videos right now that seem to do fairly well in ratio, but wondering what kind of videos I can download that usually are really popular?
IE: bareback twinks, new videos, videos on the most seeded/popular list, etc…
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High quality 1-2gb videos with Twinks, Youngblood/frat, and bareback are the most popular.
Make sure they are full videos, not just individual scenes.
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If you disregard the positive effect of the bonus points and donations, the global share ratio of all members should be 1, because it can be uploaded only what is downloaded: upload = download, therefore upload / download = 1.
Another effect are low ratio members deleting their account, leaving left their downloads uploaders with the upload.
As a result, one should shoot for a ratio around 1 (a little under or over) in the long run. Not everyone can have a ratio above 1, due to the above said.
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Actually it is not that important what type of torrent you download and seed. More important is when you start downloading.
Basically you need to be very fast. Take a torrent when it got only one seed and not yet many downloader. That way you can expect other downloader to follow after you. However, as most are trying that, it is a real race.
Avoid torrents with multiple files in the file list, leecher can be peers who haven't downloaded all files and seed what they've got, means don't download.
You should as well only download what you expect to watch and keep a long time (count months here, not days). The second chance to upload sporadically comes when the torrent got old and there are left only a few seeds. These seeds get then good uploads, so if you offer many, one or another uploads all the time. to get there you need to be member for a long time.
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Freeleech torrents are good, if you can complete the download in the free time. The upload counts, the download not.
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Thanks for the advice. I have had my account since 2010, but lately it seems that my kind of preferred videos take weeks before I get a ratio of 1 for said video. Which is why I ask. I also come on and look over the last several days worth of videos, not just the ones that were just uploaded, but will take that into consideration.
Also thanks raphjd for the suggestions. I usually filter out those categories. Figured my tastes were pretty different from other people.
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Thanks to the moderators for the advice !
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What above is correct, timing is what matters. In public trackers, a popular torrent is a constant source of downloads; but in private trackers people keep seeding and in the end nobody will download from you. When I download just for the ratio, I usually do one of the two:
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download freeleech torrents, your ratio can only go up;
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go through the list of torrents with most snatches and pick those which have few seeders but at least one leecher.
And of course you can always upload new torrents.
Thanks for the advice. I have had my account since 2010, but lately it seems that my kind of preferred videos take weeks before I get a ratio of 1 for said video.
I had the same problem, ratio hardly moving at all soon after I uploaded new torrents, for many months. I don't like to upload stuff I don't like, nor to micro-manage torrents and timing, but I've been stupid, there is an easy solution: make the torrents you're seeding freeleech (with the bonus points you got in years). I picked some torrents I like, which received some interest but only had a couple seeders; made the most popular freeleech for a week, the less popular for 24 or 36 hours (weekend is best I suspect): interest goes away soon, but in two days I've uploaded more than in two years…
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