Posted: 6/18/2007 6:50 AM
Post subject: Top Seeders
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timmah
Joined: 6/14/2007
Posts: 22
Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
What do you think about having a tally board of some top seeders? Not an overly important suggestion, but just like another decoration on the site that people might be interested in.
Posted: 6/18/2007 11:24 AM
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Tub
Joined: 6/25/2005
Posts: 1377
there's no way to automatically determine those values, because the tracker doesn't know who does the seeding. The tracker will just see an ip, but not the username.
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Posted: 6/18/2007 11:25 AM
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Soulrivers
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Joined: 12/27/2006
Posts: 532
Location: Göteborg, Sweden
There must be some way to determine it. How else would torrent sites figure out your dl/ul ratio?
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Posted: 6/18/2007 12:18 PM
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DeHackEd
Emulator Coder, Site Developer, Former player
Joined: 11/6/2004
Posts: 833
They've been programmed to do so since their creation. The TASvideos site was not. The default tracker really doesn't give two s**ts who you are, only if you're present. Oh, and there's no way to identify users except by IP address right now, so even if Bisqwit had copies of the logs (I wouldn't) it wouldn't do you much good.
Posted: 6/18/2007 1:56 PM
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Sir_VG
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Location: Floating Tower
Soulrivers wrote:
There must be some way to determine it. How else would torrent sites figure out your dl/ul ratio?
They determine it typically by sticking in an ID code at the end of the torrent. This is tied into your account, so they can match your torrent usage to your ratio.
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Posted: 6/19/2007 8:55 AM
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Warp
Banned User, Former player
Joined: 3/10/2004
Posts: 7698
Location: Finland
Some people might have privacy concerns about their downloading and uploading being monitored and logged permanently...
Posted: 6/19/2007 5:57 PM
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ZeXr0
Joined: 8/27/2006
Posts: 883
That could be an option. Like anonymous donator that don't want their name revealed.
Posted: 6/19/2007 5:59 PM
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DeHackEd
Emulator Coder, Site Developer, Former player
Joined: 11/6/2004
Posts: 833
Although there are a lot of people who do reseed frequently and maybe they deserve credit, the encoders/publishers have a lot of bias towards themselves since they get more than a full AVI credit for everything they've published. I don't seed a lot anymore, but I do publish movies, and often very big ones. :)
Posted: 6/19/2007 6:29 PM
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Tub
Joined: 6/25/2005
Posts: 1377
yeah, those selfish publishers, hogging all the encoding work just to boost their seeding stats.. I say that's cheating, and they don't deserve the least bit of credit for what they do. ;)
m00
Posted: 6/19/2007 6:46 PM
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Zurreco
Former player
Joined: 8/1/2004
Posts: 2687
Location: Seattle, WA
I used to seed a lot back when I had a really great connection. Nowadays, though, I only bother seeding new publications and things that people request in IRC.
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:49 PM
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SXL
Joined: 2/7/2005
Posts: 571
nice upload speed Zurreco, what kind of provider offers 5+mbits up ? .edu ?
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