Question about making a torrent Freeleech and seed points.
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Hi,
Just an idle thought. When I spend seed points to make another member's torrent upload freeleech for a while, does the original uploader get those seed points, or do they go into the general void?
thanks!
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@galwaybiguy The points go into the void so to speak, but anyone downloading the torrent in the time that it is freeleech do not get dinged for downloading it.
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@MrMazda Thank you, was just wondering as it could make for a nice big thanks to the og uploader, but them going back into the void also makes sense!
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Freeleech is good for helping new and/or low ratio seeders recover ratio and get back into the mainline. I don't think making a torrent (mine or someone else's) freeleech has a net benefit to my seedpoints or upload count, but I have a lot of both, and sometimes I'll spend to points to freeleech an older torrent--mine or someone else's--to give it new life. There's some older stuff on here (10+ years) that will soon go to Torrent Heaven w/o being freeleeched that I think new users would find interesting.
Just my opinion, of course.
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@galwaybiguy said in Question about making a torrent Freeleech and seed points.:
@MrMazda Thank you, was just wondering as it could make for a nice big thanks to the og uploader, but them going back into the void also makes sense!
you can still make a nice big thanks by thanking multiple times, in case you didn't know it was possible, but how thankful can you be?
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@eobox91103 the system will automatically freeleech certain torrents to help prevent them from going to torrent heaven, but it's like a lottery system so unfortunatelly most will meet their torrent makers before they're picked up
