I honestly think that this is the best place for me to talk about this
All I ask you guys is to not be "politically correct" but to be honest with me. Fair? Are you ok with being honest with your answers and not try to look good? If you do not feel you can be honest with your answer, please try it at least.
I moved to a new specialized content tracker, and it is kind of small compared to the old one, so I found out that I have about 200GB of stuff that was never uploaded there.
I am in a bit of a dilemma at the moment, and I have some kind of a pull making me feel that I should start uploading what I have. Here is my thinking.
BENEFITS:
- I like feeling generous and giving. However, in my experience, it had bitten me in the ass a lot and I have regretted it when I just gave and then the people turned out to not be grateful and to not deserve it.
- It will increase the members leading to more uploads which will benefit me because I might find more gems. I am thinking that I might contribute to people finding what they want on the tracker, therefore relying on it, and in turn uploading to or seeding old content which benefits me as well.
- I might get a nice reputation on the tracker so that when someday I might request something maybe (although I am not sure about this) people will feel grateful about one or some of my uploads and put a little more effort into uploading what I need.
- More people means more monetary revenue to that tracker, which means it could survive longer.
- I might get nice comments which after a hard or stressful day could sheer me up.
- It will be a nice entertainment to check on my uploads, who is downloading, which country, what uploads of mine or popular and why? etc
- It is a perfect opportunity to cheat with ratiofaker
DRAWBACKS
- It will actually take time. I noticed that popular torrents have synopsises and some nice graphics and stuff, so it will at least take 15 minutes to upload. I know myself too so I will be kind of distracted and looking at the torrent stats until people start downloading, and I will keep on checking on the comments for at least 30 minutes, so it might be 45 minutes per torrent, which multiplied by many many torrents = 200GB turns out to be a lot of time wasted for something that wouldn't actually pay the bills.
- I might get really pissed off if someone makes a bad comment on one of my uploads. I noticed that the new tracker does not monitor comments, and I have seen some people acting like jerks in the comments of some torrents, which could offend me and make me regret my uploads.
- I noticed that there are maybe 6 or 7 heavy uploaders, and those people love to take requests and are very very helpful even though I did not uplod anything. I might just save my time, not uplod, and if I want something I just ask one of them. But at the same time, although I do not believe that most of what I have is new to them, they might find every now and then something interesting, or at least by helping have more content and drawing more people I would be giving back to those big uploaders by giving them more leechers and maybe some other big uploader with rare stuff might like the site and joing because of my uploads and others.
- My speed is not so fast, although these uploads are max around 100mb (I will not be going into making packs), the best time for me to upload will be when I am sleeping. I do not download at night, so uploading might make my computer and HD age faster and become slow.
- The stuff I have is not 0-day, just cool old stuff that simply does not exist on the tracker because the tracker is somewhat new. However, it is good enough for me to have kept it and not deleted it for this long.
- I already spend too much time just hanging around the internet, with uploading I might spend even more and work less, risking deadlines etc
What do you guys think about uploading in general and about my specific situation?
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