IPTorrents：NEW Hit & Run System

Hello IPT members, We are proud to announce that, as of today, we have a new system for Hit and running. If you have any Hit and Runs, a text will appear next to your bonus points : " X Torrents Require Seeding " Here is how the system works : If ratio is lower than 1, the torrent will appear on that list. Once your ratio is higher than 1, the torrent will be removed from the list. If you downloaded 10% / 20% / etc. of a torrent that you are no longer leeching/seeding and your ratio is lower than 1, the torrent will appear on that list until you have a ratio higher than 1. For example, if you download only 1 movie out of a 100GB pack, you still have to seed that torrent to a 1.0 ratio. You don't have to upload 100GB on that torrent, just give back what you took from it. If you want to remove a HNR (Hit and Run), you can do that using the "100 bonus points" option from the HNR page. Important to know about our new system : All torrents from IPT are checked and added to the system. For example, if you download an OLD torrent and don't have a 1.0 ratio on it, it will be added to your HNR list. Even though there are no active users on that torrent for you to increase your ratio, you can continue seeding that torrent for a few days to get 100 bonus points and remove it from the list. 1. Users get 0.5 bonus points / hour. 0.5 * 1 torrent seeded for 24 hours = 12 bonus points / day. If you seed 10 torrents, for 24 hours, you get 100 bonus points / day. 2. Users who donated for a month of FreeLeech status will not see the " X Torrents Require Seeding " page. 3. Donors (VIP status) will not get any warnings from the HNR system, but they will be asked to seed back. 4. The list updates every 30 minutes. A special Thank you goes out to our VIP members who made this possible by donating and helping us upgrade our servers. Please leave your feedback in the forums : NEW Hit & Run System Regards Rok3r IPT SysOp

Ok, so here's how it works. Bonus points: You can get a maximum of 48 points / day. You get 0.2 points / hour if you seed only 1 torrent. 0.2 points * 24h of seeding = 48 points 0.2 points * 12h of seeding = 24 points. And so on. You need 50 bonus points to remove 1 HNR from the list. This will remain as it is, we will not decrease it, we will not increase it (at least not for another few months). HNR list: A torrent is added to this list once you have stopped seeding it in your client. If you stop seeding a torrent for a minute before you reach 1.0 ratio on it, it will count as a HNR. Don't PANIC! If you seed that torrent for 1 day, you can get it removed using 50 bonus points and still have 20 bonus points left. At the end of every month, the list will be reset to 0, what does that mean? It means that every hit and run you made during the previous month, will be removed from your record. If you have 10-20 HNR torrents in your list BUT you're still seeding them, the system WILL NOT give you any warnings or disable your account. They will just be removed from the list and at most you will get a PM saying you should be more careful what you download next month, meaning you shouldn't download too many torrents if you think you can't seed them properly. If you're still seeding a HNR torrent at the end of the month, download on that torrent will be reset to 0 and will not be considered a HNR anymore. If you have many HNR in your list and you're not seeding them either, staff can issue a 1 or 2 week warning and if it happens again one month after that, we can disable your account. So seed your torrents, even if you can't remove all your HNR warnings. Does the system check for old torrents / Freeleech torrents as well ? Yes, it does. Any torrent uploaded on IPT that's not properly seeded will be added to your list of HNR torrents. Why have a HNR system when we have a Ratio system: rok3r wrote: The ratio system has nothing to do with the HNR system. You can have a 100000 ratio and still have a bunch of HNRs, because we have a Freeleech system as well. The ratio system stops a few people, sure, once they get to 0.299 ratio or lower than that, their download rights are taken away automatically, but with the new HNR system, more people who don't seed their torrents will be caught and warned to start seeding. This will increase the number of seeders we have and also make downloading new stuff / old stuff easier and faster (just like it's supposed to work on a private tracker. Will a torrent I haven't finished downloading be added to the HNR list? Yes, but it will only be considered a HNR if you downloaded 50% or more of that torrent. If you only downloaded a few MB, let's say 50MB from a 1GB torrent, it will not be seen as a HNR by our staff members. What about people who made a donation, do they still get HNR torrents added to the list? If you choose the FreeLeech option, you won't see any hit and run warnings on your IPT page. As a VIP, you will see them, but you won't receive any warnings for them, they will only be there for staff to monitor and make sure you still share back what you take and don't hit and run on every single torrent you download. VIP members contribute to the site a lot by making donations, but they should still seed their torrents, if not to remove a HNR warning, at least because they're used to how file sharing works and they consider it a hobby (like I do). Can I shut down my computer during the night? rok3r wrote: I know some of you need to shut down the computer over night or due to some other reason, so I'd say 12 hours a day should be enough. If you have 10 torrents downloaded 100% and seeded for 12 hours, you get 24 points. By the end of the month, you should be able to remove 70% of HNRs or even all of them. Is my account in any danger now with the HNR system? No, as long as you seed your HNR torrents until the end of the month (not constantly, a few hours a day, as long as you can). If you don't seed your HNR torrents at the end of the month, you will receive a warning via PM to not do that again, the next month a warning from a staff (1 week / 2 week) and 3rd strike is disable. So as you can see, we are more than fair with this new system, you don't get banned the first time you are caught hit and running. You are given lots of chances to prove that you can be part of a private community (A safe community), and not a part of a public tracker which has fake releases / virused releases and last but not least, no security whatsoever. So please, before you tell us that you will leave IPT for public trackers (2-3 users did that already) think about what you're doing, listen to the facts and give this system a chance before you make a decision you might regret later when you can't find a movie you want to see so bad and no one can help you because no one takes requests seriously on public trackers. I will keep this thread closed for another 2-3 hours so that everyone can review this post and understand that we are doing this for IPT, to make it a better, safer place. As staff, we see things you can't see and we've noticed a decrease in seeders over the past few months and a new HNR system was necessary. Do not accuse us that we're trying to get people to donate by adding this new system, no, we're trying to get people to seed their downloads.. You really want to see how bad it was, check out this screenshot : http://lookpic.com/O/i2/1469/skusfcll.png Those are releases I upped and after 2 hours, that's how many hit and runners were on those torrents. There are your facts! Your move now. NEW UPDATE ADDED TO THE SYSTEM: We decreased the number of bonus points you need to use to remove a HNR from the list from 100 to 50. We won't decrease it more than that. We plan on adding 2 more features to the system. - Exchange GBs to remove a HNR warning. ( We are still debating on this one ) - Seeding time table. Last edited by rok3r at 2012-09-01 08:52:47