I was suffering the usual frustration of a new file download, where everyone with their clients set to enforce some ratio is refusing to work with me (because only had a few fragments to upload, and thus a terrible ratio), when it occurred to me that I had my own anti-leech setting on, when what I needed was to upload as much as possible, even to leeches, in order to get my ratio up.
So I turned off "drop leeches", figuring that then the client would upload a lot more and my ratio would improve.
It worked, but more than I expected: instantly I had far more downloads, I was receiving six times as much as before.
Anyone know why that'd happen? Do some clients detect the anti-leech setting, somehow, and refuse to download to me?
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I was suffering the usual frustration of a new file download, where everyone with their clients set to enforce some ratio is refusing to work with me (because only had a few fragments to upload, and thus a terrible ratio), when it occurred to me that I had my own anti-leech setting on, when what I needed was to upload as much as possible, even to leeches, in order to get my ratio up.
So I turned off "drop leeches", figuring that then the client would upload a lot more and my ratio would improve.
It worked, but more than I expected: instantly I had far more downloads, I was receiving six times as much as before.
Anyone know why that'd happen? Do some clients detect the anti-leech setting, somehow, and refuse to download to me?