Mar 24, 2017, 00:16 am
[Expanding, by request, upon points originally made here: http://suprbayoubiexnmp.onion/Thread-Sho...#pid177240]
Some torrents remain seeded for years. Some don't. There are things you can do that will make it (or less) likely that your torrents will be seeded by other people.
80% of the torrents I have uploaded since 2010 are still able to be downloaded in spite of (and in no small part because of) the fact that I only seed approximately 120%
I mean that literally, and in total. I seed little more than 1.2 times the size of the files and then stop, and they are still able to be downloaded years later with no further input from me whatsoever. I don't even look at them (other than now, when I've just checked to find out how many of them are still live). No constant nursing, no money for a seedbox, just care in their creation and a little understanding of psychology.
I'm too lazy to write a full tutorial but basically the keys to creation are:
1. create torrents that aren't already available--the 7th (or 17th, or 107th) version of something won't survive. The 1st version very often will, even if it is copied and expecially if it isn't.
2. create torrents that "hang together". A torrent of (trying to put this in Daz terms so excuse me if it's a little clumsy) all outfits for a given female body will be more attractive and more likely to be seeded than one containing two outfits for one body, one model of a dog, and a random star trek bridge background.
3. create torrents that are able to be used "in the box". ie. nothing that has to be extracted or is likely to be renamed, so that people can download your torrent and seed it while they are using it. If you archive anything, for example, it has to be unzipped or unrar'd before people can use it and as soon as they've done that they no longer need the file they downloaded--so they delete it and cannot seed. Same goes for any of the pointless "downloaded from" type files people include in torrents--they're deleted (or deselected before they're even download) and consequently the downloader cannot seed the torrent. [In fact it is worse than that--even if they continue uploading after they have completed downloading, they appear to be downloading, making the swarm look unhealthy even when it is actually in good health.]
The key psychological insights are:
1. people are more likely to support a torrent they've had trouble downloading than one which downloads in a flash. Why bother seeding something someoene else is already seeding? So when you stop seeding as soon as you possibly can you transfer the burden of supporting it to the community, which is where it belongs.
2. you are less likely to burn out when you don't feel like you've been raped. After you have uploaded, and seeded 120% or so (ALWAYS use initial/super seeding and stop your torrent as soon as the first person reaches 100%), don't even look at your torrent for at least a week. If it's unseeded at that point, you won't mind seeding another 5% or so to revive it. [Before again, stopping ASAP, and then ignoring it for a month.]
3. you needn't worry about people being left hanging for a while. They're not paying for instant service, and (if you're paid attention to rule #1 about creation) they're not going to dump your torrent for another as you're the one and only source. They will wait. And waiting will teach them a lesson about value which they will not learn if you spoon feed them.
Feel free to ask questions and I'll [probably] reply.
Some torrents remain seeded for years. Some don't. There are things you can do that will make it (or less) likely that your torrents will be seeded by other people.
80% of the torrents I have uploaded since 2010 are still able to be downloaded in spite of (and in no small part because of) the fact that I only seed approximately 120%
I mean that literally, and in total. I seed little more than 1.2 times the size of the files and then stop, and they are still able to be downloaded years later with no further input from me whatsoever. I don't even look at them (other than now, when I've just checked to find out how many of them are still live). No constant nursing, no money for a seedbox, just care in their creation and a little understanding of psychology.
I'm too lazy to write a full tutorial but basically the keys to creation are:
1. create torrents that aren't already available--the 7th (or 17th, or 107th) version of something won't survive. The 1st version very often will, even if it is copied and expecially if it isn't.
2. create torrents that "hang together". A torrent of (trying to put this in Daz terms so excuse me if it's a little clumsy) all outfits for a given female body will be more attractive and more likely to be seeded than one containing two outfits for one body, one model of a dog, and a random star trek bridge background.
3. create torrents that are able to be used "in the box". ie. nothing that has to be extracted or is likely to be renamed, so that people can download your torrent and seed it while they are using it. If you archive anything, for example, it has to be unzipped or unrar'd before people can use it and as soon as they've done that they no longer need the file they downloaded--so they delete it and cannot seed. Same goes for any of the pointless "downloaded from" type files people include in torrents--they're deleted (or deselected before they're even download) and consequently the downloader cannot seed the torrent. [In fact it is worse than that--even if they continue uploading after they have completed downloading, they appear to be downloading, making the swarm look unhealthy even when it is actually in good health.]
The key psychological insights are:
1. people are more likely to support a torrent they've had trouble downloading than one which downloads in a flash. Why bother seeding something someoene else is already seeding? So when you stop seeding as soon as you possibly can you transfer the burden of supporting it to the community, which is where it belongs.
2. you are less likely to burn out when you don't feel like you've been raped. After you have uploaded, and seeded 120% or so (ALWAYS use initial/super seeding and stop your torrent as soon as the first person reaches 100%), don't even look at your torrent for at least a week. If it's unseeded at that point, you won't mind seeding another 5% or so to revive it. [Before again, stopping ASAP, and then ignoring it for a month.]
3. you needn't worry about people being left hanging for a while. They're not paying for instant service, and (if you're paid attention to rule #1 about creation) they're not going to dump your torrent for another as you're the one and only source. They will wait. And waiting will teach them a lesson about value which they will not learn if you spoon feed them.
Feel free to ask questions and I'll [probably] reply.