I don’t know MAM, but I always assume these rules exist to stop abuse or a headache rather than some kind of elitism.

Multiple accounts with the same ip? You get into ban evasion and the argument of “ThAt’s NoT mE, tHaTs XYZ” if you just ban them all.

I’ve read reasons about the client thing, but I don’t remember any, and the mobile thing, probably just stops an argument about “I’m trying, my phone just keeps killing it”. Could it be simpler? Of course, but if you deal with people all the time sometimes it’s just easier to make a rule and be done with it.

I’m not on that specific tracker but some of the others have similar sort of rules

They have something about changing IPs, it seems you can’t change IPs too often and you can’t have multiple accounts in the same IP. Why?

That’s generally for detecting ban evasion / duplicate accounts. But I think with most private trackers you’d just need to let staff know if you’re in a shared IP situation.

They absolutely not allow mobile client, which means, you need to let your PC on all the time, sum this up with the fact that they require 72h seed within the next 30 days, this is a t least 2.5h of seed daily and if you miss one day for any reason it’d be even more for the next days. But my question is about the mobile, why the hell can’t I use my phone to seed? I talked to a mod and they argue mobile isn’t reliable due to battery optimization and it might kill the client. What does this even mean?

The mod is sort of right about that one. Most mobile users aren’t even connectable (port forwarded) so that’s problem number 1. And problem 2, yes Android does pause apps for battery optimization - but technically you can configure your Android to not do that for specific apps, not sure if it works for all phones but in mine I just bring up the App Info, go to App Battery Usage, and make sure to enable “Allow Background Usage”… most people wouldn’t really want to do that and run down their phone battery constantly but I guess it’s an option. Maybe bring that up as a tracker suggestion/rule change though it does seem easier just to tell members not to use mobile clients.

Why the torrent clients are so limited even the version you can use? What it has to do with anything at all? Again, is not seeding just enough?

Maybe specific to that tracker, not sure. But usually torrent client lists exist because the tracker staff tested those clients against the private tracker software to verify that stats are being tracked correctly. And sometimes they do ban clients due to being buggy, being used for ratio cheating, that sort of thing.

MAM is unusual, but not really for any of the reasons you mentioned. Every private tracker I know of only allows a narrow list of desktop clients.

The expectation on private trackers is that you’re seeding 24/7 or as close to that as possible. Not that you just seed when your laptop lid happens to be open. If you want a cheap low-power seeding setup, get a Raspberry Pi or some other single-board computer and connect it to an external hard drive. Seeding from a smartphone, especially one you actually use day-to-day, is just not going to work and battery optimizations are only one reason why.

I’m not in MAM but the others I’m in have much stricter seeding requirements (like 4 days of seeding in 2 weeks). Like others have said, these rules are there to keep people from creating headaches for the volunteer staff as well as ensuring that you’re contributing something too. These sites have a fixed number of users and if everyone else is constantly offline or doing hit and runs, the whole thing falls apart.

If you’re not setup to where you have a server running 24/7 or can’t get a seedbox, you might use public sources. Since it sounds like you’ll primarily be using a phone you probably don’t even need high bitrate 4K Remux files with 7.1 audio like you’d get on private trackers. Places like TPB and 1337x have most everything popular. For music, SoulSeek is a great option and doesn’t have rules like this.

These are standard rules for private trackers, they are essentially little kingdoms that compete who has the most insanely idiotic requirements. Any sane person should avoid them at any cost, they are antithetical to what sharing actually should be.

Fr, several years ago, when I got into torrentleech, they absolutely required a modern version of uTorrent, and outright said use of qBittorrent would lead to a ban. Assuming it was a scam by someone who had money to gain from forcing adware like uTorrent on people, I asked about it on Reddit, and no, apparently they were a well-respected tracker at the time. Not to mention the fact that their actual, official guide for getting your ratio up was basically “Go out and harm public trackers.”

Don’t bother arguing with the mods. The restrictions are not ideological, they’re technical. They would’ve been fixed a long time ago if they knew how. They won’t admit that tho. They’re stack is quite outdated.

Edit: I have a couple of old android devices lying around and all of them seed with libretorrent with no problem to other sites along with my pc. But don’t expect all sites to allow it. Most unit3d trackers. They don’t care as long as you’re seeding and not violating any rules. But I don’t know any other book tracker.

MAM is great though, compared to a lot of other private trackers, it’s easy to maintain a good ratio and the community is super nice and helpful

Well, sounds like I will continue not looking into using private trackers. Fuck that noise.

I hate to tell ya, but out of all the private trackers I know, MAM is the most lax when it comes to rules and expectations

this is a “you” problem, not a platform one.

not a single rule there exists that’s not rooted in technological limitations and choices.

no, it’s not about “just seeding back”, it’s also about protecting the community from people - frankly - like you who don’t bother to look into CSVs or platform limitations.

What you call “freedom” is a claim to do whatever you want no matter the impact on others.

the shout box on MAM would have helped you with setting up or any questions you might have.

but I don’t see any questions, just complaints qjd entitlement with question marks at the end.

Try out milkie.cc

I do not believe there are any rules, and no seeding requirements.

DM me for an invite!

The IP rule is mildly frustrating, but as far as I have experienced the other rules are pretty standard for private trackers. The no mobile seeding thing is something I’ve never considered, though, so that may or may not be an issue elsewhere.

This post is very validating as I have struggled for over a year to get MAM set up and working with a VPN according to all their specific rules and I finally gave up.

I got a seedbox going with fixed IP etc etc etc and it STILL doesn’t work because even though the qBittorrent IP matches, it’s using a proxy and I would need to route the entire container through the same VPN.

I really wish there was another place that had the variety of audiobooks without the headache.