Originally Posted by
anon
I wonder why I keep on hearing that, when actually a seedbox can get you a large buffer in both What and Waffles when used correctly.
I can sympathize with "why don't all trackers go ratio-free", but that scheme has its disadvantages as well. For example, if you're allowed to stop and delete the torrent with no consequences after seeding it for X hours, what do you think many people will do after those pass? Do you think that if you were able to do that on What.cd, the site would have ever reached 1000000 torrents?
Ratio-free is fine for sites that offer new content and don't desire long-term retention, but when you actually do, it isn't the way to go. Being a bitch to seed on will make people seed more of your torrents for a longer period of time, and maybe even upload their own material to increase their ratio, and that's how a tracker like the aforementioned music one thrives.