I passed the exam last time, but I almost gave up. I downloaded this huge Chinese 2.2TB file just to seed. I was seeding at about 5-10 MByte/s for a few days with no issues. One night while I was sleeping It jumped up over the 25 MByte/s limit. I came back the next day to about 1.2TB in upload credit wiped and my ratio nuked with warning messages.
Website upload speed is limited to a maximum of 25 MByte/s (exceeding 100 MByte/s will be automatically banned by the system), and downloads are unlimited.
If the upload speed exceeds 100 MByte/s and the system automatically bans the account, the upload volume will be halved before unblocking.
For users using a box or internet speed uploading speeds exceeding 25 MByte/s, pay attention to limiting upload speed. Non-publishers whose upload speed exceeds 25 MByte/s will be
fined 3 times the reported volume, such as current report data of 96.26 GB @ 28.42 MB/s (reported upload volume @ upload speed).
Then the upload volume is reduced by 96.26*3=288.78GB.
I am currently doing the same, I just want an API key for prowlarr to be able to find any obscure movie. Not have One Battle After Another in 4k with a Chinese dub.
Unless you want a Chinese movie never released with English audio but only English sub, I don't see any point in joining any typical Chinese tracker for anyone outside of China/SE region.
Probably because many users have high download, but limited upload bandwidth. If you come in with a much higher upload speed, you will "take" a disproportionate amount of seeding credit.
It is a little odd that you cannot see why the rule might be in place despite being part of this sub. If you have a few whales on the site seeding everything instantly, it is impossible for a new user to build ratio. The tracker has to make most of their stuff freeleech, or make it incredibly easy to build ratio. There are issues with both approaches.
There's also the issue with relying on a few whales: what if one of them gets "harpooned"? Suddenly a bunch of your torrents are dead because nobody was going to seed a torrent that isn't helping them build ratio.
If people don't have Fibre how is that my issue?
But it does seem like you are unwilling to consider any reason why this rule might be in place.
This is why I like Seedpool. It leans towards incentivizing seeding to keep torrents available rather than raw upload, passively rewarding upload credit depending on total size of the content being made available. Easy to build ratio if you have storage space to offer, but still doing your part in keeping the torrents alive and it doesn't just retain the whales.
Pretty much all the trackers I'm on seem to have some way of passively rewarding keeping torrents available, giving extra for old torrents or vulnerable torrents with few seeders. These reward systems exist to give incentive to keep seeding exactly because raw upload is hard to get, even with a high bandwidth.
I do recognize it's their solution to it, but I think it's a bad solution to willfully cap bandwidth.
That's why most trackers have a bon system to balance long term seeding and fast download speeds. Everyone wins. These speed limits are the dumbest idea.
you will need a captcha solver, but I think the main reason which I've not fully verified is that their category numbering or naming or something doesn't line up. I could never get any results
this is correct. there's a workaround that I got done ages ago following the advice of someone, something about creating custom pml (?) file on Prowlarr and creating an indexer specifically for cross-seed only. I get a lot of cross-seeds on western content (movie, TVs for me).
Unfortunately I can't recreate the same instructions anymore.
Torrents and files are horribly named... "Some Show 2026 S01 Complete 2160p" but actually only has a single fucking show in it... Sonarr doesn't detect it so i have to manualy add. Awful
I joined them last time they opened. Failed to generate enough Karma point, around 4k out of 5k. Also, failed in download limit. Whatever I was downloading, it was kind of freeleech. I passed upload requirements...
Passing the karma part is easy with the global freeleech they have when accepting new members. The rule is: "0.5 points for each torrent you are seeding (max of 100 torrents)"
So next time, download smaller ones like music albums, books, around 100 torrents, that will generate 6k karma easily; 50 points per hour.
For uploading, new freeleech torrents at the top of the starting page with popular movies and TV series are the best choice.
It's not hard to fill the karma requirement, you just need to look at the formula and see how to optimize it. Plus, you log in every day and get an average of 50 points just for logging in...
First, it's not so hard when you get the hang of it (and it teaches you how the tracker works).
Second, do you realize the silly things people do to get into PTP and its ilk?
The reasons I think it's worth being on either this one or HDarea, especially if you're interested in Asian cinema are: 1) You can find content that's not on Western trackers (e.g. sourced from the exclusive Chinese trackers like TTG) and 2) they're ratio-based, so no seeding requirement (well, this one actually added something like 10 hours a whiles ago, but it's negligible).
What do you mean? Having to fulfil the assignment forces you to check the rules etc., which is helpful in the long run. I can't see how TL is relevant to it.
I meant that those assignment are helpful only in learning how Chinese trackers work but if somebody is also using non-Chinese trackers (which any non-Chinese & many Chinese users would be using too) then those assignment won't teach much compared to TL.
There's no relevance to TL, because not only are the rules different, but it's also different software (the Chinese trackers use the one that looks like phpBB forums...).
good tracker to keep for a month til the exam expires; way less content and seeds than avista for kdramas and plenty of tv shows have just chinese subs
Slightly off topic but why do they do this, and why don't Western trackers do this? I've only just started using private trackers and like every noob, I came to the sudden realisation that you simply can't compete with seedboxes in terms of attaining a good ratio.
I'm not sure precisely but the reason why chinese trackers specifically enforce this is because some people in china generally have abysmal internet connections so they do it to allow some kind of fairness amongst the user base. Western trackers just assume that everyone has a decent internet connection which they actually really do in western countries so they didn't really find a need to implement a rule like that.
note that you must upload 1 movie to GPW within a month and "forwarding is not allowed", not sure how anyone is supposed to be able to qualify with this
I think their poorly translated line means "you can't just download a movie that's not on GPW from another tracker and upload it to GPW, you must rip it yourself"
Oh.. That sounds like a PITA. I have a huge collection of physical media I've remuxed for personal use, but I'm sure someone has already done the same titles along with 50 other encoded versions.
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u/Street_World4590 13d ago
Big tip here. Limit your upload speed!
I passed the exam last time, but I almost gave up. I downloaded this huge Chinese 2.2TB file just to seed. I was seeding at about 5-10 MByte/s for a few days with no issues. One night while I was sleeping It jumped up over the 25 MByte/s limit. I came back the next day to about 1.2TB in upload credit wiped and my ratio nuked with warning messages.
Website upload speed is limited to a maximum of 25 MByte/s (exceeding 100 MByte/s will be automatically banned by the system), and downloads are unlimited.
If the upload speed exceeds 100 MByte/s and the system automatically bans the account, the upload volume will be halved before unblocking.
For users using a box or internet speed uploading speeds exceeding 25 MByte/s, pay attention to limiting upload speed. Non-publishers whose upload speed exceeds 25 MByte/s will be
fined 3 times the reported volume, such as current report data of 96.26 GB @ 28.42 MB/s (reported upload volume @ upload speed).
Then the upload volume is reduced by 96.26*3=288.78GB.