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It's only the best answer if the other party is bothering to seek the best answer in real time, and in ways that you can't predict. If your opponent is governed
by __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
It's only the best answer if the other party is bothering to seek the best answer in real time, and in ways that you can't predict. If your opponent is governed by some algorithm, which is the case for torrent clients, you may need to depart from tit for tat in order to break them out of a needlessly adversarial mode. Or, if you're feeling like the bad guy today, you might need to depart from tit for tat to put them in an irrationally cooperative mode.
- rakoo 2y agoIf a peer doesn't respond quickly enough they can be disconnected from and marked as bad. Even if they had good intentions their latency might be too high and it's good to disconnect from them. Check out this very nice link from a sibling comment: https://ncase.me/trust/ https://ncase.me/trust/. You'll see that an adversarial node either is too adversarial and will be cut off, or still gives just enough to not be cut off but if there are other, more cooperative nodes, they will be favored. Being adversarial doesn't work in the long run.