How to improve retention on a tracker

[anon]

Implement bonus points. Make the system give you one point per seeding torrent per hour, or just one point per hour. If you're feeling tough, make that 0.1 points per hour for 0kB/s seeding, variable up to 1p/hour depending on the reported upload speed.

And here's the important part: give users absolutely no use for those bonus points. No trading for upload, invites, or a custom title, nothing. People will still struggle to see who gets the most points, keeping torrents well-seeded and speeds zippy in your tracker.

[shadowww]

Thats some neat psychology at work. Interesting.

"MY BIT-PEEN IS BIGGER THEN YOURS!" kind of stuff, eh? : )

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Last edited by anon; 24.09.06 at 14:49. wtf? o_O

[anon]

Thats some neat psychology at work. Interesting.

"MY BIT-PEEN IS BIGGER THEN YOURS!" kind of stuff, eh? : )

Yes, exactly what I meant. Human nature, I guess. And I'll admit that if I was on such a tracker, I'd still feel bad about having little bonus points.

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Last edited by anon; 24.09.06 at 14:49. wtf? o_O

Hah, you fell for it.

[C3PO]

Of coure, there are also trackers where u can change the points for invites - hd-torrents.org for example. The only way to get an invite is to change it for bonus points.

[anon]

Can't you donate to ascend in userclasses and get invites on HD-T?

[C3PO]

Once You Have Donated Your Account Will Be Upgraded To V.I.P
V.I.P access includes:

A star
Unlimited slots, doesn't matter what ratio you have
Immunity for Auto Disable (for a low ratio)
Immunity from Auto Warnings
Clear of all Warnings
Upload credit (1€ = 7GB, so 10€ you will get 70 GB upload)
You can make requests.
You can see tracker statistics.
You can see TOP 10 statistics.
Premium support from the Support team.

[anon]

Oh, no invites. But at least donating allows you to suck the tracker dry:

Unlimited slots, doesn't matter what ratio you have
Immunity for Auto Disable (for a low ratio)
Immunity from Auto Warnings

[C3PO]

Well...I think many trackers allow u that if u pay :) But the thing with the donations on HD-T is strange though, because it's a bulgarian tracker and the most bg trackers don't accept donations.

[shadowww]

Hm, only trackers I can remember now that I'm member of and that they utilize some sort of bonus points are: bitHQ with their "bitz" and THR (torrentHR, croatian no-ratio tracker) which has "karma". Both make use of their points in some way or other...

here is quick c/p for bitHQ bitz utilization if anyone interested:

Bitz can be earned through several ways and you will also be able to lose them through several other ways:

Bitz you can earn:

- For every 15 minutes seeding*: 0.05 Bitz
- For every uploaded MB: 0.70 Bitz
- Leaving a comment on a torrent: 0.50 Bitz
- For every forum post you make: 0.50 Bitz
- For every rating you give on a torrent: 5.00 Bitz (note: this goes only for torrent ratings, not movie ratings!)
- For every poll you participate in: 10.00 Bitz
- For writing a review: 150.00 Bitz
- For every uploaded torrent: 250.00 Bitz
- For filling a request: 250.00 Bitz
- Through interest in our bank**: XXX Bitz
- Winning the lottery***: XXX Bitz
- Becoming a vip****: XXX Bitz

Bitz you can lose:

- For every downloaded MB: -0.20 Bitz
- Buying lottery tickets: -100.00 Bitz
- When your requested torrent gets filled: -250.00 Bitz
- For every torrent you have uploaded and delete after uploading: -250.00 Bitz

* This will count for each seed seperately, with or without leechers.
** This depends on the amount of money deposited and the chosen interest rate.
*** This depends on the total people playing in the lottery.
**** See the donate page for more information.
***** Spamming in the forums or trying any other ways out to avoid the system (like rating all torrents) and to get more Bitz will be seen as cheating, this may result in a lifetime ban!

I'm currently in good standing with bitz, putting them in virtual bank every time I came across tracker so it multiplies after a while.
But since not using tracker quite much there is ppl with waaaaaay bigger pocket.


anon, good joke with sig and editing. I guess it was just late and I was too tired to see it through. :p