How can everyone on a private tracker maintain seed ratios above 1? Is it mathematically impossible? (lemmy.ml)

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I know that private trackers require users to maintain a good seed ratio. How exactly does that work out mathematically? If a bunch of users have seed ratios above 1, does that mean that there are some users who will forever be below 1, and thus end up getting kicked out, thus resulting in the private tracker just... shrinking over time?

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[-] Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah same.

NAS is running with everything I downloaded, seeding 24/7. I started back up about a year ago and my ratio passed 10 before Christmas. I did not download a single thing I didn't want, but I try to stick to movies big enough to be freelech and downloaded seasons instead of single episodes, again as they are freeleech.

Fun fact for those strugling: my top 10 ratio seeds are all freelech and has netted a total of 2,6 TB. Not a single one of those files are newer than 3 years old.

It's hard in the beginning, but stick to freeleech and keep building ratio, and before you know it you won't have to think about it anymore.