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?