Interesting. I haven't used Redacted, but was an avid user of Oink's Pink Palace, the OG music tracker. Ratio requirements were to partially to encourage peopl

Interesting. I haven't used Redacted, but was an avid user of Oink's Pink Palace, the OG music tracker. Ratio requirements were to partially to encourage people to upload stuff. The site was defined by the number (and quality) of uploads it had. If you upload a 24-bit FLAC yourself, you are guaranteed at-least its file-size added to your ratio. Seed-boxes were pretty much accepted as a requirement if you didn't want to upload anything. i.e. each user was expected to contribute in some way. That said, things are probably different nowadays. In Oink's day everyone was on ADSL at home. Was paying €20 a month for a 100/100 OVH box; today I have 1000/100 at home and can instead spend that €20 on Spotify and Bandcamp.