This is the way

Meanwhile me who just never deletes anything:

Nice iso collection
- Clearly a distro-hopper, my hero.
Thank you for your service.

Some people including OP are completely missing the point of torrenting, which is to share, not leech. If everyone removed their torrents like the OP, everything would quickly become unavailable and die.

IMO a better strategy is to just limit your global upload speed. Then at least you're still making everything healthy and available, even if its distributed slowly.
- If everyone torrented like OP, then no torrent would ever become unavailable and die.
  
  Since they keep seeding until 2 users have the torrent.
- Noobie question: Is keeping my PC running to seed torrents taxing on the HDD or would it shorten its lifespan?
Thanks for your service.

if you snatch a popular torrent that is fine but with dying torrents that is quite harmful

Agree. I dont delete anything unless the quality is shit
I'm considering getting a seedbox because with my current storage setup, and my unwillingness to keep the vpn up all the time 2.0 is the best I can do.
- This was annoying me too, and I solved it by spinning out a VM that exists just to run qbittorrent and the vpn connection.
Dumb question, why?
- Because 200% should be your minimum, not your max. 🤌🏼
- If there's no one left to seed, the torrent dies. Seeding back at least 200% ensures the torrent stays healthy.
- It will lead to the torrent dying if everyone stops seeding
- If there are less than 5 seeds, then I keep seeding indefinitely. Above that, I'll consider deleting it to free up space once I'm done with the media.
  
  Unless it's from a private tracker, in which case I'll just seed everything forever to get the sweet bonus points.

Why limit seeding unless you’re on a metered connection?

Because I have limited space.
- Seeding doesn't take up more space, unless you were planning to delete the thing, which doesn't make much sense.
- Seeding doesn’t take up space, as long as it’s on your disk you should seed it.

Noob. I once accidentally seeded to a ratio of 435 and blew 2TB of data 🥴

Why delete the torrent? The point of torrenting is to use the file.

Lots of people don't have the storage space to keep every piece of media that they download. Once it's been watched or listened to, it's deleted.

Depending on the torrent, it's faster to consume it than to seed it.
I use the *arrs to make a well named hard link to the file in my media library right after the download completes. Then they can be removed from the torrent client after appropriate seeding time/ratio.
Because deleting the torrent doesn't delete the file?
- But if you are keeping the file anyways why not seed it?
What should i keep the iso i had to extract the setup files from around?
- To help others download the file. Its the point of torrenting, to share.
No point in keeping the torrent if I no longer have the file. Unless it's something I know I will re-watch/use multiple times, I delete the file after I've used it.

I don't understand why everyone's looking down on OP for giving twice as much as they take.

I’ve made it my mission to use as much data as possible since my ISP forced me to pay more when they implemented some arbitrary data cap. Gots keep seeding until I run out of space to store content!

Yep, I set 2 for public trackers. I'm not very good at holding onto stuff for long periods of time, but I just got my first seedbox on Saturday so that may change. I am also kicking myself for not getting a seedbox years ago, it's so good... and holy hell the speeds are amazing.

my ratio limit is 250... just because at that point i want to seed something else that is in queue.

but i have upload capped at 30mbps, this way i do ~1TB upload per day.

i can't leave it uncapped or my ips will come knock on my door. but that's on me for torrenting from a public ipv4 without any vpn

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