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1. Yes most trackers have something on their website to let you know what your ratio is, what you're downloading and how long you've been seeding those files.
2. With the trackers I'm familiar with yes -- seeding for 9d 23h 59m and 59s is the same as seeding for 0s. You'll still get tagged with a HnR (Hit and Run)
3. You can shutdown as much as you like. But, again the trackers that I'm familiar with have a cap on the number of HnRs you can have on your account. So you might have action taken against you if you're seeding 5 different torrents and decide to shutdown.
4. Don't know.
5. The rest don't appear to be questions so not sure how to respond.

From your questions I doubt torrentleech is right for you, they can be quite particular and if you get banned they're not very forgiving.

As for the answers:

• It's visible in the list of your currently seeding torrents visible from your profile.

• yes

• they really don't care about your situation. But they don't consider a torrent abandoned by you until it hasn't been seeded by you for 24 hours, though they prefer if you can be online 24/7.

• they mean the actual torrent file, if that is shared then the whole point of private trackers fail. Big part why all private trackers use codes linked to your profile such that they can easily track if you violate the rule. Also needed to actually ban someone from downloading torrents you already have. As for how stuff ends up there it's generally someone sharing it directly from Usenet to the public trackers.

• 10 days seed time with max 23 hours "break". Last I checked.

• there are activity rules for new accounts. So make sure you download something at least monthly.

• a lot of options but mainly high quality stuff. Not everything is available in the below 2 GB for a movie range. And very little in the 700 mb for a movie range. Better use a public trackers for that.

Bonus. Keep in mind that even if you seed each torrent for 100+ days each you still need a positive ratio. And ratio is hard to build on Torrentleech since so many have blazing fast upload speeds. One "trick" I've done is download a popular release from a public tracker, delete the torrent, point the torrentleech torrent to the same directory and it will think you've already downloaded it giving you no download and going directly to seeding. Just be very sure to not "merge" the torrents because that will get you banned.

TL is pretty lenient. You're more likely to hit 10 days seeding than actually hitting a 1 ratio. In fact, unless you're seeding 24/7 you won't get a lot uploads. But that's normal. Your time spent seeding earns you points which you can use to give yourself more Downloads in GB or unlocking fun perks.

You can seed intermittently as well and even go days or weeks without having to seed. As long as you don't rack up a lot of hit and runs in one go and maintaining a good ratio you'll be fine. But definitely try to hit those seeding requirements.

They also give you a buffer so you'll start off with a healthy ratio. And they also offer a massive amount of Freeleech torrents which don't cut into your download ratio. So you can download those 'for free' and then seed those to earn uploads/points.

They have stats, how much you upload, download, how long etc. There are even achievements which earn you points too.

I would give them a go for sure. It's not as strict as you think and they have a wiki with a FAQ which should cover any questions you have.

Seems like you got some good answers here, but if you ever want to ask more or discuss further just wanted to add there is a tracker community here now,

!trackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com

You can read their rules ahead of time, they have a Wiki that's freely available without a login (just google for "torrentleech wiki"). The 10-day minimum duration doesn't have to be consecutive. For example, on TL it would take you 50 hit-and-run torrents that you stopped seeding for 5 days to get a warning that can potentially affect your acount. It's really not hard to steer clear of that.