Torrents

It is definitely easier to cross-seed at TL, but you can still do just fine if you pay attention early on before your ratio gets fucked. I grabbed the very first 1080p bluray rip of Into Darkness (11GB), and have seeded back 110GB. I probably could have done even more with the 720p version. I've done the same thing with multiple other torrents, although none as dramatic as that one. You just have to get an idea for when certain blockbuster movies are going to get ripped from bluray. TV shows are fairly difficult because a big episode like Breaking Bad is going to have thousands of seeders within the first 10 minutes, but a movie usually takes a few hours or more before it really gets rolling, and typically getting in sometime on the first day is at least guaranteed to get you to 1:1 (with a seedbox obviously), if not substantially better.

Getting the first decent cam version of something extremely popular is also pretty useful.

Still, cross-seeding is so retardedly easy that people should be doing it if they can't check the sites often enough.

Friday_sl said:

Does anyone know how to automatically download and seed on a seedbox? Through some RSS function?

I saw someone earlier saying they do that. I'd like to know how.

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Well, the torrent site has to have an RSS feed to start with, obviously. The only one I use is the one that BTN has, and you can configure it however you want pretty much from within BTN. Essentially there is a big list of shows you want it to notify you of, which you can add to or subtract from any time you want. You can also specify things like resolution (I use 720p there), file type (mkv for me), release type (scene), etc. On the page with all of those options is a link to your customized RSS feed. You copy that, then go to your seedbox and, assuming you are using rutorrent, go to the RSS manager and simply paste it into a new feed, tell it to auto-start downloads, tell it which directory to download to, customize if you want a particular ratio group or upload speed group assigned to it, etc. The only tricky part is the filter, which has some incredibly complicated (for me anyway) syntax, but all you need to know if you set up the feed properly is that the following code means "all, regardless of upper/lower case":
Now, other sites simply have an all-encompassing RSS feed where every single torrent that gets uploaded goes through the feed. Obviously you don't want every one of them auto-downloading, so that's where you have to figure out that fucking filter so it will only do the ones you want. Honestly, that's beyond me, but Google will help a lot. I do know that it is incredibly powerful and you can have it do most of the sorting I mentioned above, but I'll leave that to you because fortunately BTN does all that shit for me.

So, pretty much find out if they have a feed, then find out how much you can customize it from within the site itself, copy it into your seedbox, and then filter it further if needed. That's basically it, minus some details I mentioned above.

Out of curiosity I looked at the ratios of the people I sent invites to (on iptorrents) and half of them are less than 0.5. I've never received any word one way or the other that I should be concerned about their ratios. Should I be?