That can have to do with the duplicate report handling. Thanks for bringing up that issue, it allows to discuss with our members the process and alternatives. All of them having advantages and disadvantages.
Here the current standard process, for a simple (original not dead) duplicate report case:
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1/ A member reports a torrent as duplicate with a link to the original
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2/ A moderator evaluates the report
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a) If erroneous, the report is removed. End.
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b) If the report is confirmed:
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i) The duplicate is removed from the listing. It is kept tracked, to allow members to complete the download. Both seeders and leechers data upload/download amounts continue to be registered by the tracker.
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ii) The uploader is informed about the removal and ask to continue to seed by a system PM
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iii) Once there is no more leecher, the torrent is deleted ("unregistered torrent")End.
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In the past, when the torrent was de-listed in step 2b, the original uploader often stopped seeding. Therefore a few days ago it was added to the system to send the PM. Despite that PM, many uploader still stop seeding and aren't able to restart when we request them to do so. That can be one explanation for what you encounter.
The basic idea of continue to track, instead of immediate deleting, is that the downloaders get complete copies of the files, instead of having registered download for unusable files.
The alternative would be to immediately delete the duplicate.
Remark: At the beginning of last week (18th to 20ths of August), many new users signed up due to Gay-Torrents.net being down. Many of them did start to upload torrents (Rationator 3.0 has its intended effect to that respect) and there was a unusual flood of duplicates. That is now down to a normal level, searching for duplicate learning curves are mostly completed.