Does going No-Ratio really help peer activity?
I was just wondering, does going no ratio really work, not just in theory? Almost every site that I’ve seen that went no ratio seems to have been LOSING peers. Just look at SceneRace or the site Scene”live” (not the original ScL). They have both reverted back to ratio systems after “excessive hit’n’runs”. Wait a second – weren’t minimum seed times introduced to DECREASE hit’n’runs? On GFT, another popular tracker, although I have to agree that they have some great pretimes, and that the speeds on their 0day torrents definitely can max out connections with the numerous seedboxes on the site, even the staff have admitted that the tracker is more 0day oriented – and isn’t as effective in archives or older content. PTM seems to have done something right – they have a decent amount of peers – but is it really a lot compared to how many total users they have? And even if it is – it isn’t technically “no ratio” as you can seed to .6/.75 (forgot which one) and then just leave the torrent. This
