Thanks Dax!

Hey Uwe, your proposal to reduce the rate for older torrents is good, it should help if implemented.

I am not sure however about the limitations you mentioned, how do they apply to my proposal? I was proposing that the "freeleech" property be based on a fixed amount of Mb leeched on the torrent from the time the freeleech property is bought. Is that something that is impossible at the moment? In my proposal once the the amount has been exceeded everyone would revert to leeching while spending ratio points.

I don't know the details and am really asking because i don't know how those things work.

[not too sure how easy it will be to follow several conversations on different topics all at once, for new readers? it won't be a problem for me because i can skim through the bits I know were not in my original discussion.]

Thanks Uwe.

Dax, i'm not sure you read my post well.

If the freeleech is limited in time, and nobody notices that a torrent was made freeleech before it expires, then yes the seedpoints have been wasted. Hence my proposal that freeleech be linked to amount seeded rather than just time.

i am of course referring to old torrents whereby only a search would reveal as they would not be on the first page. unless you allow torrents placed on freeleech to re-appear at the top as if the torrent was new, which could be an idea also on top of the one i proposed above.

Idea regarding freeleech:

First of all, great idea to start that scheme. Thanks! Second, I would like to propose an idea or possibility for reflection.

When freeleech was announced, it gave access to a lot of old torrents which I would normally not download, because since they are old the likelihood that I would be able to seed on them would be low. In other words, old torrents are likely to be only download therefore complete cost on ratio regardless of sharing.

I was therefore thinking the freeleech for such torrents was great, since it would benefit the seeders and leechers alike in comparison to more recent torrents. In general if one does not want to harm his ratio, one needs to check the site very often to get the latest torrent and have a chance at uploading a decent amount before people move on.

Anyway, I favorited a lot of those torrents pages in my browser because I was busy packing to go back home from home (usual xmas stuff). By the time I was back most of the freelech had expired. I was well sad of that  :blownose:

SO to the point.

The idea I would like to propose is to relaunch scheme for older torrents one in a while, since they are mostly for all intents and purposes "dead". That is first proposal. Second proposal would be to make freeleech not dependent on time with respect to seedpoints used to get the status, but to the amount of data downloaded on said torrent. I am explaining myself: if you "buy" freeleech on an old torrents and it happens that no one look it up for a while, then it might expire before anyone gets to download it (unless i misunderstood how freeleech works). it's seedpoints wasted both for the uploader and the interested leecher alike. Changing to allow for a fixed size (say, 4 or 5 downloads? I don't know), maybe as an option for the uploader, would allow the freeleech to stay on up until someone finds the torrent again. Everyone wins - as far as i can tell.

What do you guys think?

Ok, i missed your credit at the beginning.

Yeah it seems you do have a certain vision of what a man is, otherwise you would not say that straight acting men are more of the quantity man. It all boils down to what makes a man, a man.

It's a nice video, and song

Aww leather bear, cute xmassy iconography you have there

Haha merci! j'avais meme pas verifie les points en fait, je pensais que sans reponse sur ce thread c'est que mon message etait passe inapercu :))

ok not to be naughty (and maybe you meant it as a joke) but in french we say "faux amis" when it comes to words which are spelt the same in two languages and mean different things

Uwe peut etre que tu es trop occupe sur l'autre Thread pour repondre a ce message?  ::)