Why put a limit? Just infinite forever unless you have a cap in your connection.

Generally 2.0 is considered the respectful default option, if you're just using public trackers with no ratio requirements.

Personally, I look at the torrent's overall health.

If it's a super active torrent with hundreds of seeders I'll set it to 1.5 or even 1.0 and auto remove when done to save resources on my homelab server. Sometimes with high seeder counts it can take ages to even hit 1.0. They all get automatically moved to a completed folder when done so I can pick through them and categorize them.

If its a less active torrent I'll choose 2.0 or 3.0.

If it's a super rare torrent with less than three seeders, which there's sure a lot of, I'll set it to infinite to keep it alive. I've gotten some smaller torrents up to a 30+ share ratio.

No reason to remove until deleting the files

Seed as long as you can. If needed, remove files based on what has the most other seeders. Keep torrents alive, forever. ♥

just seed bro, seed until the hard drive catches fire

Sharing is caring. Infinite, long term seed is the only way.

There's no reason to limit it. If you have a cap on traffic, it's better to monitor the volume of traffic cut it off when you are close to the traffic limit. Because the ratio on each torrent correlates only loosely with how much traffic each ends up consuming.

This is especially true on private trackers because you want your ratio to be as high as possible. Especially if you are downloading rare torrents, it might be hard to have enough leeches to even get to 1.0 ratio. So you can make up for that by also downloading more common torrents and allowing them to seed into the 1000.0s.

My personal goal is 5.0 for everything. I have the luxury of some spare hard drive space and I like the buffer it gives on trackers in case I need to get something big.

I go for 3.0, it seems fair to me. 5.0 for files harder to come by.

Really depends on you. I personally set them to infinite. Only got a couple beyond 4.0.

Since I have sonarr/radarr set up I just have it set to 1.00 for releases (since they’ll have a good amount of seeds I don’t feel the need to stay too long and can leave some ratio for newer accounts) to save space but for smaller things like books and such I leave it as infinite, rare stuff or just high demand 5.00-10.00.