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Don't Include Crap In Your Torrents!

Don't include crap in your torrents
Gentle users, a swift perusal of the forums will reveal that there've been problems reseeding films because of extraneous files in the torrents which potential reseeders no longer have. This is unfortunate and, more to the point. unnecessary. We therefore ask (nay, demand) that you leave the annoying shit out of your torrents.

What constitutes 'annoying shit', you may ask.

Well, to start with…
- screenshots. There's no need for them; that's what torrent descriptions are for
- 'downloaded from x' files. Fascinating though it is to know that a file came from demonoid or BigAssTorrents, no one really cares.
- thumbs.db. I don't know what it is, but you windows users seem fierce fond of it.

Extras, of course, are still more than welcome, as are proper NFOs. Trailers too, but slapping it on youtube and putting it into the torrent description might be a better way to go.

Now, I know what you're going to say. "With the image sites going down faster than a Thai hooker with pneumatic knees and a prehensile tongue, surely the screenshots are a good thing?" It's a valid point. However, consider this: if an image site goes down, it's easy to fix the description. Even if the uploader doesn't have the screenshots, anyone who's grabbed the movie can make new ones and post them in the appropriate thread. If a torrent only has a few snatches, we're relying on a small pool having the entire torrent contents in order to reseed. bittorrent doesn't divide its chunks by file; it does it by size. This means that if you're unable to reseed a text file or jpeg, you're almost certainly going to be unable to reseed the film to completion; you're going to be missing the first or last chunk once it's finished rehashing.

And on that point: are you really saving that much disk space/bandwidth by not downloading the trailers or the extras? All you're doing is making the file appear unnecessarily in other users' Seeds Wanted list, making it less likely that others will be believe a reseed is necessary when someone else genuinely wants a download. It also means that, should it be removed from your client, you'll be unable to reseed even the film for reasons mentioned above.

To encapsulate, then: don't include screenshots in your torrent. And please download the whole torrent if at all possible.