10 years ago I went to private trackers that had extensive collections, everything with dozens of seeds. And you coukd seed whatever you download and it just wouldn’t get downloaded. It would use up your hdd space on the seedbox whipe nobody could download them either as tgat would wreck their ratios and get tgem banned.
I was so disgusted I never even tried join otger private trackers, time wasters the lot of them.
Also I’ve seen some disgusting thieves SELL ratio fixing at outrageous prices.
Of course intellectual property is stupid garbage idea. But pirates selling shit is so much worse. Even worse than the continued demonic existance of Disney.
Another strategy was to downloaded whatever just got posted and seed that before there were too many seeds.
A kind of ratio pump and dump rugpull.
Such shitty behaviour enabled by the pretense that space and bandwidth are limited ressources and then waste both of them to create an invisible paywall.!
Oh well I had stuff like sonarr and radarr setup that I think takes care of that.
I thought this autodl-irssi was going to build ratio downloading stuff I don’t want, just to seed and auto-delete afterwards And do so in some kind of way that ensures it always upload more than the download cost to the ratio
If you have sonarr and radarr setup, then you would probably want to use autobrr instead of autodl-irssi since they work well together. They both watch the IRC announce channel from the tracker so the torrent is loaded within a few seconds of being uploaded. Sonarr and radarr on their own are too slow to get into the initial swarm.