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I feel like I've fallen down the rabbit hole here. This whole discussion is predicated on erroneous assumptions. Tracker rules vary of course, but in particular, the following is not an established fact. Nor is the hypothesis that this is a zero sum game.
Originally Posted by make_music
It is easy to think that your upload must come from someone else downloading your torrent. But that isn't necessarily so. And even if it was, the tracker member pool is open ended, not static. Members with poor ratios become inactive or disabled all the time and many trackers have an open ended influx of new users. Members may start with a "free" upload bonus, there may be freeleech, partial leech or neutral leech torrents, bonus points or other incentives and conditions that all impact ratio. And yes, there really are a lot of users with abysmal ratios.
So, without a careful study of the dynamics and statistics here, this isn't much more than a pub game, guessing how it all balances out. And in the end.. does it really affect most users that much? It's easy to achieve an abysmal ratio: typical result - being disabled. And a bit of work to keep a good ratio.. but I've yet to see the tracker where it can't be done. Even so called hard to seed trackers e.g. waffles, what, music-vid, pianosheets, et al. So.. my question would be: is anyone really trying to delineate a well thought out technical analysis here? Or is this just a good natured, make a guess at what is going on territory? Cause it seems like the latter and in that case.. I think that Leprechauns fiddle the numbers.
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