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Maybe it's time to admit that i just own a hard drive full of very, very dead torrents (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 63 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Is there some metric that shows amount of time a seeder has had files available but not necessarily actively seeding?

Archivists like you should get accolades for keeping the more rarely sought after media. More so than we need yet another seed of Avengers.

Thank you for seeding them. Unless it's weird porn.

... it's weird porn, isn't it ...

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 months ago

I agree.

Ideally, there are two types of profiles:

Archivalists who have a lot of storage and need pretty good uptime, but no need for high bandwidth. They should be rewarded for archiving, because they don't really get a lot of upload credit.

Distributors who need low storage, high bandwidth, robust connections when online, but not necessarily high uptime. They just distribute the new and popular stuff.

I think the better private trackers recognize this and have systems in place to provide credit to people who seed rare torrents.

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