Os pongo el enlace a un artículo de un pavo que comenta la razón por la que no son buena cosa los ratios en los trackers, y propone alguna arternativa (que todavía no sé cuál es porque no la he terminado de leer).
http://thoughtyard.com/twiki/bin/view/M ... WithRatios
He llegado al artículo a través de un mensaje de elguaxo en Allzine (que a su vez lo traía de FileHeaven).
La verdad es que ya estoy empezando a estancarme en KG, no vendría mal que se pensasen el tema este, o por lo menos que bajasen una décima de punto los ratios actuales permitidos. A ver qué se dice en el foro.
Un saludo.
Edito para citar los puntos que me parecen más interesante:
Each byte the leecher downloads raises the ratio of the user he downloads from by one byte. That enables that user to "spend" that byte downloading from someone else, who in turn can do the same. Thus, leeched bytes become a form a currency. The total added currency on the server is given by:
AddedCurrency=Mi=N+1(di–ui)
where users N+1..M represent those leechers which are no longer active on the server, for whatever reason. "Leechers" always have a download byte count greater than their upload byte count, and so always produce currency.
The irony of a "good user" is that good users try to over-seed. It's not unusual to hear of someone with a ratio much greater than 1. What's not so obvious is that over-seeders are generating upload credits for themselves that they don't intend to use and usually end up hording this "upload currency" making it unavailable for use by others. (i.e., the total is always positive.)
RemovedCurrency=Li=M+1(di–ui)
where users M+1..L represent those generous seeders (hoarders) who do not intend to use their credit for whatever reason, even if they are still active. "Over generous seeders" always have an upload byte count greater than their download byte count, and so always remove currency.
A much better system would be to give credit for making upload bandwidth available, even if it isn't used. For example, you might offer 1KB of upload credit for every second a user makes 5KB/s of upload bandwidth available. Unfortunately, no clients reliably report the true available upload bandwidth, so this would require a lot of programming to work right.
Another system would be to reward users every hour with a fixed number of KB for each torrent they seed, up to a set maximum. Under this system you don't worry about what a user's upload bandwidth is, but instead simply reward them for seeding torrents. This isn't quite as good, but can be implemented today.
A practical "compromise" alternative would be to combine ratios with rewards based upon the above systems. This has already been implemented in the form of "bonus points" at HDBits.org.
You can have "free leech" days where leeching does not affect your net download count. (Of course, this promotes leeching.)
You can create "byte currency" by selling it for cash. (This also promotes leeching, but at least you get paid!)
Finally, one very reasonable method is to be very strict about who can join and do away with ratios all together.