GeForces Tracker - GFT

**VAMPIRE** · 23.01.14, 09:40

Open signups guys because they are low in donations ahahah

**Jordan** · 25.01.14, 01:44

Originally Posted by vvtwx

gft is overrated anyways

Well the seed back requirement is nothing compared to what other trackers expect. Its 48 hours and includes leech time. Sometimes it takes me more than 48 hours to download some large game and till that time the seeding requirement is over.

**anon** · 25.01.14, 03:52

Originally Posted by Jordan

Well the seed back requirement is nothing compared to what other trackers expect. Its 48 hours and includes leech time.

This is an interesting mechanic I hadn't seen before. Can you elaborate on it works?

**maniak** · 26.01.14, 04:36

Open signups guys because they are low in donations ahahah

lol those guy are desesperated

**koel** · 26.01.14, 16:26

They have many bots dropping all sorts of scene shit .
As a 0day tracker it is the best cause it covers almost all scene(they don't keep it long time but that's not the point of a 0day tracker , that's the focus of a general tracker or aggregator ) unlike scc + the rest , scum 0day trackers.
It is a decent tracker & those who can't see that don't have a clue about private trackers .

**Jordan** · 27.01.14, 03:51

Originally Posted by anon

This is an interesting mechanic I hadn't seen before. Can you elaborate on it works?

Well the moment you start leeching, the clock starts ticking. The requirement for every torrent is 48 hours and strangely this includes leech time. So if you take more than 48 hours to download the torrent (some large game for example), you can stop the torrent as soon as you finish since the 48 hours required time is over.

**anon** · 27.01.14, 05:22

Originally Posted by Jordan

So if you take more than 48 hours to download the torrent (some large game for example), you can stop the torrent as soon as you finish since the 48 hours required time is over.

This was what I was afraid of. For an average torrent this system is okay since most people won't spend much time downloading. But it does not encourage retention for older torrents where there might be but a single seeder and spending so much time to get the files is a very real possibility.

Maybe taking hours off the required seeding time in proportion to how much you uploaded before completing the transfer, or increasing the time requirement by taking age and amount of seeders in consideration would be better options. Although prior to the current open signups, most if not all who got invited to GFT were familiar with BitTorrent etiquette and probably seeded way more than 48 hours anyway, simply because it's the right thing to do.

**CoreCore** · 27.01.14, 16:20

Yea, blackcats has it where you need to seed for so long (or you get a bad no no on that torrent file you DL lol) and you get bonus points just to staying seeding even if their is no one DL off that link.

**Jordan** · 28.01.14, 01:04

Originally Posted by anon

This was what I was afraid of. For an average torrent this system is okay since most people won't spend much time downloading. But it does not encourage retention for older torrents where there might be but a single seeder and spending so much time to get the files is a very real possibility.

Maybe taking hours off the required seeding time in proportion to how much you uploaded before completing the transfer, or increasing the time requirement by taking age and amount of seeders in consideration would be better options. Although prior to the current open signups, most if not all who got invited to GFT were familiar with BitTorrent etiquette and probably seeded way more than 48 hours anyway, simply because it's the right thing to do.

Agree but when a person wants to seed, he seeds. You will find numerous seeds on TPB torrents too where there is really no pre defined requirement. I am seeding around 20 torrents on GFT, and I am the only seed on around 8 of them. Although nobody has snatched them from a long time, I keep them seeding because there is a page where they say:

On the following torrents you are the LAST seeder:
If you delete it, the torrent will die
PLEASE share it for as long as you can

I like methods used by trackers like BTN for keeping old torrents alive. Here the longer you seed, the more points you accumulate. So if I am seeding a torrent for 6 months, I get seed points multiplied by 6.

**anon** · 28.01.14, 02:48

On the following torrents you are the LAST seeder:
If you delete it, the torrent will die
PLEASE share it for as long as you can

This is a good feature. Sometimes merely suggesting people that they could do this or that easy thing to help the site really goes a long way.

**Jordan** · 28.01.14, 04:50

Originally Posted by anon

This is a good feature. Sometimes merely suggesting people that they could do this or that easy thing to help the site really goes a long way.

Ya it works for me. This is one of the motivations to keep the torrent seeding forever.

**DriftKing** · 28.01.14, 17:38

In matter of long time seeding, I found BTN has found good solution. Get more BP as long you seed and get next userclass with this bp. I think all ratiofree tracker has Bonus point system for encourage seeding time. That's why GFT has lost most of seeder after 48 hours as FTN do. no seeder in older torrents. Tehconnection has also found good way to encourage seeding time. They count torrent size + Seed time with average calculation and you promote to next user class. but at last as I said GFT still is good for fresh scene torrents as it's a ratio free.

I found nowadays 2 tracker is a headache in term of seeding. 1'st BCG - I downloaded a scene release game and than booh.......seeded..seeded...seeded... I think it's take atleast month to get back my badge of honour. and second is IPT...seed 2 week ? really...it's a pain or give your upload credit back

funny...and their seedpoint is increasing like tortoise way

**shadowww** · 28.01.14, 22:07

I find BCG as pretty easy to meet seed requirements, but then I have torrent client running whenever is my PC on. Doesn't matter that I still have crappy upload, seedtime increases easily. If you don't feel so, get your scene releases from somewhere else, popular ones get uploaded everywhere.

Originally Posted by koel

They have many bots dropping all sorts of scene shit .

Do you mean that as a bad thing? Not sure how to interpret that 'shit' in your quote...
I had feeling that for something to be scene release has to pass certain quality requirements. Or would get nuked. But maybe I'm wrong. I Guess there are always young scene release groups looking to prove themselves on the scene, and they are not yet 'top tier' class... Maybe you are referring to them?