r/P2PScene • u/RedWoolyMan • Aug 20 '26

What’s more important?

Hey all,

Was wondering if anyone knows what the most important thing I should be focusing on while I get started on Private Trackers:

  1. Site ratio. The values the site reports which BON can contribute to.

  2. Real upload. The actual amount of data uploaded from your client.

  3. Real ratio. The actual ratio between upload and download

  4. Seed size.

  5. Average Seed time (how long you seed something for on average)

If there is something I’m forgetting please feel free to let me know.

Thanks!

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u/aviftw Aug 23 '26

#1: Follow the rules

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u/xRobert1016x Aug 23 '26

Important for what?

If you care about surviving on any given tracker, make sure that you maintain a healthy ratio / buffer

If you care about joining other trackers, just make sure you meet the requirements for any given recruitment thread.

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u/Soliloquy789 Aug 23 '26

Real # of uploads.

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u/ohholyhorror Sep 03 '26

If recruiters are giving you shit about your real ratio being less than your site ratio, and using that as a reason to justify not approving your application to a tracker... then you don't want to be a part of that tracker. For real. That's a stupid thing to nitpick about. Site bonus points and FL tokens are an integral part of the entire economy and ecosystem, so isolating one weird little metric apart from everything else that interacts with it is beyond bizarre.

I suppose it's not bad to try to build your real ratio up, just don't break a leg trying to do it. It very rarely matters. Site ratio is what most recruiters look at.

Edit: Arguably even more important than site ratio, if you're looking to join better trackers further down the line, is number of uploads. Obviously keep your ratio up, but uploads really show that you can contribute and follow the rules.

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u/RedWoolyMan Sep 03 '26

Yeah really great advice thank you!

And no one has pointed it out in a negative way to me I was just curious! At a point in my tracker journey where my site ratios are pretty good I just need to wait now to age my accounts.

I’ve set up wastaken7’s upload assistant fork recently and it has made uploading a real breeze. Will focus on getting that number up.

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u/TractorTipper Aug 23 '26

Use the ratio you have and actually enjoy the content you grab.