Thanks guys for all your feedback. I understands that changes is painfull, especially because it is mainly Russian portal.

I may put some details why it was done that way.

First of all our previous reputation system was established 3 years ago, when size of this site was much smaller. By creating 20 released and accumulating "thanks" and "respects" you may easily reach top rating within weeks time. So we had to decrease that coefficients, add new names and re-do calculations.

The rating system doesn't work well for us. Many people just created new accounts and stop seeding. That one of the reasons creating delay before download by default. We are trying to avoid clones. The second reason for delay is that we are planning to put some commercial on that page in future.

By reading your feedback I see that it hard to avoid delay even if you are good user.

Previously if you seeding even if nobody downloading, you'll get some bonuses. Now this system was removed, but we are discussing how to include that in new rating system. Hopefully that will make life a bit easier.

Metal - is not extremely popular music, so if we just switch to freeleech mode most of released becomes dead. We are trying to force users to seed as much as possible for our all benefits.