Thread: Do you cross seed?

I know for a few sites, like TL, cross seeding is recommended. I don't like cross seeding because I feel like if I have to find and download content from one site (Ex: IPT) and then seed it back to the other site (Ex: TL), what's the point of even being a member of the other site? Everyone knows that you can find just about everything on other sites so why bother cross seeding? There's a few situations where cross seeding would be appropriate, like if you're a member of a relatively new site with few torrents but they have a great community, you would probably want to help out and upload some good torrents. What are your thoughts on cross seeding? I'm just curious.

I cross seed just about everything I download. If I have upload rights on a site and they don't have something I downloaded, I will make a torrent. Just because site X has it today doesn't mean that site Y won't be useful in the future. Might as well build a buffer. I don't see anything wrong with it. I'm just throwing my bandwidth into the torrent's pool. Win-win for everyone.

I usually download my stuff from IPT and then cross-seed to TL and SCC.
Sure you can ask me why I'm member of TL and SCC in the first place - answer would be that both SCC and TL time to time just have stuff, that's not available on IPT. SCC for instance has the best pretimes ever, plus it gives you great reputation having a good ratio on those "hard to seed" trackers. And just in case one of those trackers gets taken down, you always have a place to go :)

Same with what.cd & waffles, I think cross seeding there is crucial for a good ratio - I cross seed all of the stuff I download at waffles to what and viceversa. This way I can download like double the amount since I use both trackers for downloading, and for each download I get upload credit on both sites.

Cross seeding is a good way for those who dont own a seedbox to keep a good ratio in multiple trackers. The best way to cross-seed is having a ratioless tracker with great pré-times (GFT, F*N), you dont have to worry about the ratio so you can download almost anything and just seed the torrent for 1/2 days. Also those sites having great pré-times means they will have the torrents first, so probably when the torrent you want to cross seed is available on the second tracker you have already downloaded it from the 1st, so you can start seeding on the 2nd tracker almost imediately.
This is how i keep a good ratio on TT. :)

No I don't cross seed, mainly because I still can't work out how to do it! My problem is I figure my home connection running uTorrent has a very slow upload and so it would take to long to upload anything, and my seedbox is running Deluge and nobody seems to have knowledge of how to cross seed with Deluge whilst not taking risks that I'll get banned for cheating on a tracker when it goes wrong!
I did try to figure it out again the other day but realised its just easier to seed normally with my seedbox as its pretty quick.
If I could figue out how to do it I probably would try it out to see if its quicker than what I do now to build ratios.

Yes, I do but only for popular movies and games. I also cross seed big files such as packs. Cross seeding is a great way to save my seedbox HDD space. I don't do it for ratio but I like sharing. Especially when I see the torrent has slow speed. Another thing I do is uploading torrents to other trackers. This is easier done for internal releases and some times scene releases.

If you have slow upload and want to have a good ratio try partial leeching.

Yes, I do. I cross seed everything I can. If I have u/l prvilieges somewhere I'll create torrents for even the most obsure of material if it's allowed on the tracker. I've always been surprised at the popularity of some of my torrents on certain trackers.

Mainly I cross seed becuase that's how bt works; if stuff wasn't shared with me I wouldn't have anything so I figured the least I can do is give back.

if you have slow speed no seedbox then cross seeding is only way who save you without Cross seeding you don't survive on hard to seed tracker like TL SCC and about me i like cross seeding i use all of my trackers it's depend on my mood that which tracker i want to use and after decision and downloading torrent i start cross seeding it to other trackers even with IPT,GFT and PTN

I cross seed for bonus points, help improve my ratio. I don't see the harm in cross seeding.