pet the cat, walk the dog

As a seasoned torrenter myself, I don’t observe the ‘≥1 ratio’ rule, but instead delete torrents that have enough seeders and keep those which have just a few. This maximizes utility for those who might want the same torrents as I did.

Of course, this inevitably runs into lack of endless disk space rather than bandwidth. And if you seed something other than Linux, you might want to research the authorities’ attitude toward that in your area.

Torrents for the popular distros have lots of peers, so another seeder wouldn’t be adding much.

I avoid downloading isos via torrent, because when I tried, the client straight up froze for a while, dealing with over a thousand peers and sorting out connections.

Once again I’m glad that I just search trackers with the browser and download torrents with a torrents client, like a peasant.