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Buy more storage, but also... join private trackers when they open signups. You'd be amazing there.
Public tracker: You are the hero, getting a 30:1 upload ratio in a mere 30 days. "Wow, this shit is easy!"
Private tracker: "Please... can this torrent even reach 10% upload? It's been an ENTIRE YEAR! I have 500 torrents in the same state!"
Most private trackers have some sort of bonus point system now where you earn points per hour of seeding per torrent, regardless of how much data you actually upload. You can then use those points to buy upload credit and raise your ratio
They have to. It's a requirement, or everybody would quit in protest.
I never really understood private trackers TBH or rather the reason behind them. I like the idea of publicly sharing more anyway
There are some niche private trackers which have an active community that handle quality and requests. Also they don't let just anyone create a torrent, so you can have assurances that the files have been vetted to some extent and you're not going to download something unexpected.
The advantage of private trackers is that:
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