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by kevincox 857 days ago
From what I have seen about published seeding rules most trackers as switching to pretty reasonable rules. Typically the only major sin is not seeding for a minimum length of time (usually a few days). Then there are ratio rules but these are typically assisted by bonuses for long seeding even with no downloads and freeleach for new and popular torrents. There are still a few trackers where the site ratio stat is zero-sum but for the most part this isn't the case. As long as you do make content available you will not be punished.
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The challenge is twofold on “elite” private trackers:

1. Getting into the tracker requires ratio proof from other reputable trackers.

2. Freeleech becomes less common, which makes maintaining a >1.0 ratio difficult without a seedbox and IRC based tools (eg, autobrr).