What is the point of Kazaa participation level?

[Jhill]

Does having a high participation level make you download faster or get more search results? What is the point of highing a high level?

 

[BeauJangles]

probably nothing except a reason for people to btch at you.

 

[PoPPeR]

u get to go in front of people with lower participation levels for queues.

 

[Yomicron]

KaZaA FAQ

 

[OulOat]

How do you rate the a file?

 

[amdskip]

You can rate files when you are viewing your downloaded files in kazaa

 

[Snapster]

Of course, it's all pointless with countless people sitting at 1000 participation .......

 

[kaiotes]

no longer its taking forever to get these files on kazaa
now i gotta share more ARGggg

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: Snapster
Of course, it's all pointless with countless people sitting at 1000 participation .......

Not really, that means those people actually share something and more is downloaded from them than they download. Not everyone can have more downloaded from them than they download themselves, so there will always be people with under 1k, who therefor get slower downloads. It may actually encourage the .01% who know what the participation level means to share something.

 

[boyRacer]

There's several participation hacks for Kazaa... that's why there's people running around with unusually high levels...

 

[bolido2000]

I have tried those hacks but when I upload stuff my download speed decreases significantly. So basically it defeats the purpose.

 

[cornbread]

I've earned a legit participation level of hrm its 247 this moment (Guru) since I got to reading up on the participation levels and what they do.. I have noticed that most files I try to get I seem to get faster than I did before when my level was 0..

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: bolido2000
I have tried those hacks but when I upload stuff my download speed decreases significantly. So basically it defeats the purpose.

Well that's usually the case for most people... when my bro has people uploading from him... our whole home network crawls... ...i think we need a better router or we need to upgrade our service.

 

[BeauJangles]

Mine's at 990 no cheating

 

[KingNothing]

Is there a Kazaa Lite for version 2.0 yet? If so, is it worth upgrading?

 

[KingNothing]

bump for an answer

 

[Yomicron]

Originally posted by: KingNothing
Is there a Kazaa Lite for version 2.0 yet? If so, is it worth upgrading?

KaZaA Lite v2.0

If you use < 2.0, you will always have a participation level of zero.

 

[ultimatebob]

Yes, there is a KazaaLite for version 2.0. It's not really worth upgrading, though, because there aren't very many few features that are all that useful.

Now, if they wanted to add a GOOD feature to Kazaa, they would give us a option to block users who aren't sharing any files. I'm sick of all these damn freeloaders who are sucking up my bandwidth, and slowing down my downloads.

 

[kuk]

Yes there is ...
Link

 

[Atrail]

There is a cheat out there. I keep myself on the guru level...

 

[Ladies Man]

mines at 1000.... my computer is online 24/7.... it's not hard to get

 

[Yomicron]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Yes, there is a KazaaLite for version 2.0. It's not really worth upgrading, though, because there aren't very many few features that are all that useful.

Now, if they wanted to add a GOOD feature to Kazaa, they would give us a option to block users who aren't sharing any files. I'm sick of all these damn freeloaders who are sucking up my bandwidth, and slowing down my downloads.

I agree that an anti leech feature is the best thing they could add. Until then there is KaZaA Kontrol, it blocks leaches, but only works on versions up to 1.72. I've never used it, and it looks like they might have started charging for it.

 

[KingNothing]

Okay, one question. On the Kazaa Lite download page, it says "Cheats won't work anymore in version 2.0.2" Are they talking about the cheat they link to that says it works for "version 2 only", the one that downloads your own files to raise your participation level? So if I want to use that I need to download Version 2.0.0?

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Hmm, my participation level is at Supreme Being (1000), and I'm downloading a file at a rocking 0.37kB/s, wonder what it would be with a participation level of 0!