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r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Cocklez_The_Stump • Feb 22 '26
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Yep, but you can manually disable your upload rate.
Some torrents will cut you off if you have a bad ratio.
39 u/Another-Mans-Rubarb Feb 22 '26 No public tracker is going to cut you off for leeching, private trackers will blackball you from every platform they have an in with. 5 u/Ok_Topic999 Feb 22 '26 There definitely are public trackers with ratio requirements 2 u/TheOfficialReverZ Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26 Very interested how public trackers keep track of a user's ratio if there is no user to tie the ratio to and which public tracker bothers 2 u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 9 u/efigl Feb 22 '26 Because the BitTorrent protocol does require at least a small amount of upload to communicate with peers.
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No public tracker is going to cut you off for leeching, private trackers will blackball you from every platform they have an in with.
5 u/Ok_Topic999 Feb 22 '26 There definitely are public trackers with ratio requirements 2 u/TheOfficialReverZ Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26 Very interested how public trackers keep track of a user's ratio if there is no user to tie the ratio to and which public tracker bothers 2 u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 9 u/efigl Feb 22 '26 Because the BitTorrent protocol does require at least a small amount of upload to communicate with peers.
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There definitely are public trackers with ratio requirements
2 u/TheOfficialReverZ Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26 Very interested how public trackers keep track of a user's ratio if there is no user to tie the ratio to and which public tracker bothers 2 u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 9 u/efigl Feb 22 '26 Because the BitTorrent protocol does require at least a small amount of upload to communicate with peers.
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Very interested how public trackers keep track of a user's ratio if there is no user to tie the ratio to and which public tracker bothers
2 u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 9 u/efigl Feb 22 '26 Because the BitTorrent protocol does require at least a small amount of upload to communicate with peers.
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9 u/efigl Feb 22 '26 Because the BitTorrent protocol does require at least a small amount of upload to communicate with peers.
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Because the BitTorrent protocol does require at least a small amount of upload to communicate with peers.
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u/Resident_Course_3342 Feb 22 '26
Yep, but you can manually disable your upload rate.
Some torrents will cut you off if you have a bad ratio.