how great is slsk?

looking for ananda shankar stuff, i found a guy on slsk with the username

'pants, meet shit'

ok. so, does anyone else have a serious problem with these shitfucks with no shares? seriously, every time i'm on, i end up banning like, five of these shits. what is it? ummm, all that i'm sharing is the entire sarah records discography. maybe that's it. i hate most twee fuckers.

i dont really have a problem myself. i just sort of took it in my stride and then, somehow, it all seemed ok

Give me tempramental SLSK users who ban bad-sharers any day over the torrent nazis with their cult of ratio.

haha. i'm both.
sometimes on soulseek, i like to ban those shits when they get 90% of a track.

because, i am sad.

andi, what is username, i want 2 ban u

The cult of ratio pisses me off, but damn O1nk is fast as hell because of it

it's really not a lot to ask to just keep it over 1.00.

andi, i have shared files, but you can ban me if you want.

it's kinda hard for *everyone* to be over 1.0, though.

'pants, meet shit'

daughters song title

it's kinda hard for *everyone* to be over 1.0, though.

-- toby, Sunday, May 20, 2007 7:48 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

well, no, i wouldn't say that. i'll agree that #it and o!nk are too strict, though. there's a tracker i like strictly devoted to indie pop that's way more flexible. just make and effort. there really is no reason to be under 0.90, though.

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oh wait, i also share the entire ron johnson records discography, too.

it's really not a lot to ask to just keep it over 1.00.

Yeah, it kinda is, because the torrent sharing algorithm/ratio system is entirely fucked-up. You can upload a new torrent for a recording that's never been on the network and it may -- depending on rules that I can't say I quite grasp -- be downloaded from you exactly once even though you continue to seed, while other folks seed it and have far higher download counts on that particular recording.

The easiest way to get and keep a high ratio is to seed a bunch of popular crap. That's fine for busy worker bees, but with SLSK, you're judged not just by quantity, but the overall quality of yr shares, which encourages folks to share more esoteric than popular stuff. Which is what I'm after, anyways.

i dont ban people with no shares, i just remove them from the queue. ssx ftw

also, more often than not, its just a network fuckup, and these people are actually sharing stuff. try browsing them!

oh, good thread. i once had an excellent chat with a grime fan guy in polish about grzegorz rasiak, who is something of a comedy figure at home it seems, despite him having what i thought was quite a good scoring record. his nickname's drzewo, which means wood. then we talked about other up n coming polish prospects.

i've had a brazilian and a loads of jamaican folk too, who are generally quite curt.

don't really need slsk for anything these days tho.

oh yea that whole rasiak thing, hes a laughing stock there isnt he?

v much a peter crouchian relationship i gather.

'why we call rasiak wood'

(funnily enough it's just his best moments from the last time poland played england)

I've been invited to those torrent sites and honestly, I don't know how anyone musters the time or patience for them. I'll wait the extra four days for stuff to leak on slsk and bypass the gestapo entirely, thanks.

also, to offer the other perspective to counter Rock Hardy's - I get banned a lot because my hard drive is pretty much at death's door, and I keep getting error messages that I have less that 200mb free space so I have to always go back and delete shit.

I think banning is the adult version of being a tattletale. Petty dorks being vindictive toward other petty dorks.

On slsk I've found people (who I know are sharing stuff) but it says they have 0 files. And it turns out it's because they're on a mac.

x-post haha ask him for proof.

hm. if someone has no share on slsk, i'll more often than not check their info and their share, just to be sure. but, alas, these people are always little shits. . . i guess i'll make sure to check every time now, if you guys say so. and, why the hell should i waste my bandwidth on someone with nothing to offer me? especially when i'm not even sharing anything they couldn't easily find from someone else. i keep to slots open and a good up-speed. if you're not sharing you can fuck right off.

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on bit torrent: download sparingly. don't download something you know you can get off of slsk or some place else later. just try to give back what you take. and, like i said, i can agree that some sites are a little too strict about their trackers. just take the time to figure out what you're doing though, and quit being babies about this. it could be worth it.

I guess I'll consider it, but only as a personal favor to you, andi.

jump on torrents that you know are going to be popular. jump on them right away, and keep seeding.

the record labels have started flooding soulseek with fake-shares recently. make a search for swizz beats's "it's me bitches" and you'll see what i mean. loads of users with similar sounding names (ciara5, digit56, mrgoogle8) share it but when you try downloading from them it says "awaiting user". fyi this only happens with searches on recent rap singles. i guess their trick is for all of their fake-shares to have real fast access-times/ping-times so that they end up in/clog up the search results before the "legit" shares show up. i kid you not.

That's been happening for about 3 years now. Not a recent development at all!

aha. it's pretty effective actually. though it's more of a nuisance than an actual roadblock.

Yeah it's usually fairly obvious which are the fakes, as you say the usernames always have the same format - a name and a number, and they usually have the same album multiple times with slightly different names to catch variations in spelling.

I've given up on slsk. o1nk works super fast for me, and my ratio's not a problem at all, I can't see why anyone would moan about it.

the ratio thing is lame, particularly on 01nk, since I dl mosly obscure or older stuff, which no-one ever wants to download, apparently. My ratios are crap even though I've been seeding dozens of things for a few weeks.

slsk: I've gotten banned recently for having "not interesting enough shares". uh, ok. the other really irritating thing about slsk: if you have your shares on a drive that you turn off at any point while slsk is running, it deletes your share preference w/out telling you. at some point I got banned repeatedly and didn't know why, and it turns out I had nothing shared. annoying. further, the interface for selecting shared folders is clunky (this is a windows OS limitation though). I don't want to recursively share my entire library, just certain things.

It's not a windows OS limitation, iirc you used to be select individual folders to share. I suspect (on no grounds whatsoever) that it was rewritten to encourage whole library sharing.

ssX is about a gazillion times better than the awful Windows client.

yeah. ssX.

does everyone use O1nk nowaways? i lost my account and never went back. is their site still atrocious?

d/l a track by a composer.

Talked about it a bit on a thread.

Turns out I d/l it off him!

audio galaxy r.i.p.

Audiogalaxy was the best, yea.

is nicotine still the best mac client for slsk?

ssx

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