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I'm having huge problems with my what.cd ratio. I find it so much easier to maintain it on karagarga (and my demonoid ratio is something like 2.9 :D). I'm wary to dl loads of stuff I really hate just to get people seeding from me, but I can never seem to find a torrent that consistently gets leechers. Fail. It's not disasterous yet, but it could get so soon. I don't want to be banned :(
 
Have something similar on demonoid. Seeding isnt a problem but cinemaggedon wont seed. Ive stopped downloading from there until i sort it out
 
Vintage Paw said:
I'm having huge problems with my what.cd ratio. I find it so much easier to maintain it on karagarga (and my demonoid ratio is something like 2.9 :D). I'm wary to dl loads of stuff I really hate just to get people seeding from me, but I can never seem to find a torrent that consistently gets leechers. Fail. It's not disasterous yet, but it could get so soon. I don't want to be banned :(
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What is amongst the most difficult sites to seed to - the only place I can think of that's worse is hdbits.

There's more depth on this topic on what's forums than I can give, but the executive summary is;

Seed forever - at least 3 months, 24/7
Make sure your upload speed isn't saturated by non-what.cd torrents
Upload new content, in every lawful format
Get on new torrents early (ideally with rss)
And if all else fails get a seedbox - someone's offering them at ~£10 a month on the forums
 
I'm looking for IT training/technical stuff. If any one has any invites for this kind of stuff it would be much appreciated.

Ta
 
Just an observation, apart from one poster on this thread (maybe a couple more) - the rest of the invites that I've doled out to urbanites have been absolutely woeful :D Accounts either cancelled due to inactivity or just rinsed out the initial download limit and then got kicked off with a ratio of 0.00. Tsk tsk, invites have been showered like confetti on you ungrateful wretches and that's why I don't bother to invite anyone any more.
 
ExtraRefined said:
They seem determined to kill their site - other trackers suffer from the power mad geek effect but BCG is the worst by miles;
  • Idiotic logon procedure that adds no security
  • Dozens of user classes
  • Loads of silly metrics to advance in said classes
  • Requirement that you seed everything for months
  • Stupid referral system where you risk being banned if your invitees break their Byzantine rules
  • Utterly pointless insistence on multi-rarred uploads
  • Unreliable custom codebase presumably written by 14 year olds
  • Critical features perpetualy "going to be ready next month"
  • Uploads restricted to "uploader" class, who must upload every day to keep status

Might just be excusable if it resulted in good torrents but it doesn't. Loads are un or poorly seeded, mainly because they've lost half their userbase. Rare stuff often isn't there at all. Tracker of last resort for me these days.

Sorry for the rant, to answer your question, invites are only being given out to uploaders as far as I can tell, so you're probably SOL
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That sounds like a nightmare.

You're probably better off just buying a game, as all the stress incurred from trying to fulfil their criteria will probably see itself manifested as a tremendous amount of money spent on drinks.
 
My what.cd ratio is 1.08. I've uploaded about 8gb
I've had the account for fucking ages and feel like I've downloaded a ton of stuff.
I can't see me ever getting to the 25gb required to get loads of invites.
I got one around christmas and gave it to a friend who understands the whole ratio thing. He's already uploaded way more than me :( He's a record whore though.
Drum and bass vinyl seems to go down really well on it.
 
1.08 is quite good. Mine is about 0.15. :hmm: but no warning yet and I'm constantly seeding - it's not my stuffing fault that nobody's downloading the stuff I'm seeding
 
I went through my already rather large music collection and upped anything that wasn't already there. My ratio has steadily been comming down since then.
I downloaded a Mogwai album that has been upped to a 12 ratio now.
I guess its about finding stuff that people are going to download.
Also get stuff that Pitchfork recommends as I think thats a pretty safe bet.
 
pinkychukkles said:
Are you seeding stuff you've downloaded or new torrents 'cos that's where it's at - creating new torrents and seeding those.
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Yeah - but they probably have a 'no uploading things which are already on there' rule. The library on What is so extensive I've finally found an album I've been looking for for about the last 10 years (Hair and Skin Trading Company - Over Valence) so there's no chance I've got anything which could be uploaded.
 
There's sometimes scope to upload different formats to ones already there. I periodically give my ratio a boost by uploading FLAC albums, these always seem popular on what.cd and they are large files.
 
If you're already power user you can use better.php to list all the flac torrents you've leeched which don't have v0, v2 & 320, then transcode to these.
 
If I keep on with these freeleech torrents, I should eventually have a ratio good enough to get invites. So post again in the year 2050 and I'll give you one :)

Right now, I'm just keeping my head above the water...
 
that freeleech phase was amazing on whatcd.

Got a very respectable ratio after two weeks of pretty much constant downloading/uploaading plus found some good tunes:cool:.

Computer needs a good sleep now.
 
kerb said:
that freeleech phase was amazing on whatcd.

Got a very respectable ratio after two weeks of pretty much constant downloading/uploaading plus found some good tunes:cool:.

Computer needs a good sleep now.
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I've got elite status there now, and a 3.1 ratio. Whored the fuck out of the freeleech, was uploading at 1Mbps most of last week.
 
I got a cinematik invite off a very kind person on here several months ago.
I had been petrified to use the fucker though. Big big files.
Finally took the plunge last week and put up a 14gb box set. Several people have jumped on it. I have a very good looking ratio now :D and don't feel so scared about it.
To sort the torrent out took me a whole day of tinkering though. The information they want is pretty exstensive.
I always miss the freeleech on what.cd too :(
Need to be a bit more on it.
 
If anyone has a spare Demomoid invite or any other torrent website going I would appreciate it if you could PM it to me :)
 
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