[showtaper]

Originally Posted by mordred

I'm completely new at using bittorrent clients so probably there's a simple explanation for this.

I downloaded a show and all went perfectly fine. Afterwards I figured I would seed the same show for other downloaders, the torrent automatically went into seeding mode so I thought everything was OK. But it's not uploading. I've tried stopping and restarting it and all, but it's not helping. 0.0 kbps - that's all I'm getting. The files I downloaded are still in the same folder and I haven't touched them.

What do I have to do to avoid getting the worst share ratio in the history of this community?

One hint: Don't jump on torrents that are at the "end" of their run.

Example: 3 seeders/0 leechers/275 snatched.

If you just joined, this torrent is guaranteed to start you on the path to
ratio hell, as there is no one to share with, and none likely to join. Even
if you do, and one other person joins later, the best you will likely do is
share about 25% or less.

This is common amongst newbies as they rush to grab everything thing
before it disappears.......