Hello,

so I noticed that if you want to get into a tracker you have to prove that you can keep a ratio of 1:1 or more. Usually by taking screenshots of your profile page on other trackers.

Leaving aside that screenshots can be easily faked by just editing the html code in the browser development tools, I find this requirement ridiculous.

On most private trackers keeping a ratio above 0.5 is extremely hard because everyone is a seeder nowadays and nobody leeches!
For example, I have a torrent downloaded over a year ago on TT and it's barely at 0.7 ratio, and my PC is on almost 24/24. Unless you download torrents immediately after they are posted, it's almost impossible to get a 1:1 ratio on them. And sitting on the computer all the time and pressing F5 every 10 seconds is not really an option.

Tracker owners apparently understood this issue. This is why they dropped the minimum ratio to 0.15 - 0.5. Well, at least some of them, like Waffles and TranceTraffic. But those who hand out invites have not, and still ask proofs of unrealistic ratio.

What are your opinions on this?
I think tracker owners should not punish people for inviting bad leeches. Perhaps some of them don't, but they should make this statement clear somewhere on the site. Banning the leech and the inviter loosing his invite is enough. By also punishing the inviter they encourage this stupid ratio proof thing.

PS: I'm not in the position of having low ratios anywhere, mainly because I'm "privileged" to live in a country with very fast Internet and because I afford to keep the computer on all the time. But not everyone can