After rarbg went down, I got into a private torrent site. They expect everyone to maintain a certain ratio, which is reasonable, but there is actually no way to build ratio. The seed-to-download ratio is ridiculously high for all of the popular torrents, and new users aren’t allowed to post their own torrents. (As a sidebar, normies seem to run the Internet now, so all of the most recent torrent offerings are bad network TV shows, Marvel movies, or equally unwatchable fare).
When I was on Demonoid during its heyday ~20ish years ago, the standard way to build ratio was to offer something for download that nobody has, allowing your ratio to grow by uploading to the first few initial seeders.
This is not possible anymore, at least on this private site. Is this normal, or is this private torrent site just stupid?
The site I use has a bunch of torrents that are freeleech, that is they don’t count against your ratio. Usually they were what is used to build your ratio up. There was also a points system where you earned points simply by being an active seeder, whether or not you actively uploaded anything (it went by how long you were actively seeding). You could then redeem those points for data amounts to be added to your upload. So like even if no one was actively downloading you could accumulate points just by being an active seeder and redeem them.