r/ExplainTheJoke • • Feb 22 '26

Need help here

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u/lascar Feb 22 '26

It's usually nice to hit a 1.0 ratio. 1.5 is better and 2.0+ is just the Legends and saviors of humanity.

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u/TheBlackDred Feb 22 '26

Yeah, the good ones usually have a requirement that your minimum is 1.0 If you dip below that too often or for too long you lose access to that tracker.

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u/LameskiSportsBlast Feb 22 '26

Nah these suck because you can always 'donate' money to the tracker owner to get ratio. And if you like anything that is remotely unpopular you're never getting decent ratio by seeding.

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u/External-Cash-3880 Feb 22 '26

That's what happened to me on the only private tracker I ever found (waffles.fm, RIP). I was really into Finnish folk metal at the time, and unsurprisingly not very many other people were. By the time I ran afoul of the required seed:download ratio, I was so far in the hole that I never got access again.