Zazie

Downloading stuff (you're never going to watch/listen to) purely for tactical reasons in order to improve rations or get "bonus points" (like some people here recommend) doesn't primarily sound like giving back to the community to me, it sounds more like working the system.

Kind of, but you are also giving back to the community simply by seeding the torrents imo. 
 

Now, on the other hand people who only seed for some private tracker hidden from the outside world behind some kind of invitation only wall; that sounds a bit like some kind of collective hoarding to me and I don't really like it.

Except... that's not why it's private. It's private for security reasons, AFAIK, and also so that they can keep better tabs on their users, probably. It's not some elitist thing, pretty much every specialised tracker is private nowadays.
 

I have considered begging for invites to site X, in order to build enough reputation to be invited to Y, so that I may eventually join Z, but haven't done so partly because it seemed like too much work to make some kind of "file sharing career" and partly because I don't like the practice in principle.

...Dude you don't need to do that much to keep a decent JPS ratio. JPS also independent from trackers such as what.cd (which is probably what you're talking about, and I agree that they're ridiculous).
 

There are several reasons why torrents die faster than we'd like to on public trackers, one obviously being that most people don't bother about helping people they don't know, but another reason these days is undoubtly that too many potential seeders are busy with doing ratio building in closed private trackers.

Uh what? People don't seed on public trackers simply because nobody makes them and they don't get in trouble for not doing so.
 

I missed out on the open registration period on Jpopsuke, if not I'd being doing some ratio building too right now, even though I don't like it on principle. I prefer seeding stuff because I like to share, not because I must.

You make it sound like you have to do crazy maths or mind games to keep up your ratio. And I really don't see what the big deal about seeding things that you download. That's literally what you're complaining about. If you download something that you want to download, you seed it, you get bonus points and your ratio goes up if you exchange them. It's not rocket science, it's just you being lazy.
 

What we do know is that people usually start out as leechers and shutting out new people is not going to help any community in the long run.

JPS has ~161k users. They're only "shutting out" new people who blatantly break the rules/don't bother to read them.
 

I also hope it will have the same kind of gentle little "push in the back" ratio requirements that the H!O tracker did.

I read that as "I hope I won't have to do any work lol".

*Pops into the forums for the first time in years.*

So I really don't see the need for a new tracker when options are already out there. Anyone who complains about JPS being too strict clearly has no experience with trackers and just downloaded heaps from H!O without ever doing anything else. 

If someone was to start a new idol-exclusive tracker, they'd have to do it from scratch. The hardest part, to me, would be building up a user base. Yes, H!O users might flock to it, but several H!O users also have JPS accounts and are well-established there.

It's not that hard to maintain a ratio on JPS that's enough to keep you out of trouble. Just download a few freeleech torrents and keep your client open and you'll earn bonus points in no time. You don't need to be seeding to anyone, you just need the torrent 100% completed in your client.

Several people on JPS would be interested in idol stuff as well, so it'd make sense to just move uploads there. Sure, getting used to different methods of uploading/tagging takes a while, but it's not hard. Everything is very clearly outlined in the rules.

I, personally, would like people to upload the rarer/older idol releases they have to JPS since I'm very interested in all kinds of idol music. Older H!P stuff would be welcome too, although I'm much more familiar with that. 

TL;DR: JPS isn't strict so long as you're not an idiot who downloads 100GB and ends up on ratio watch because you're unable to seed.

EDIT: Also, in case people are worried because torrents actually get reported: usually it's simply because the artist name or the torrent name are incorrect, or somebody accidentally marked a single as an album. You only get in trouble if you upload incomplete torrents (ie, singles missing instrumentals) or transcodes.

Psst, it's desho, not deshou.

Does anyone happen to have (TV) Yuko Nakazawa - Geino kai Pride Battle Gachimacchi 20100103? It was on YouTube as well for ages, but it seems to have been deleted. I'd quite like to watch it again .

Thanks in advance.