I read through some of the discussions on their forums. It seems to be clear that this a deluge specific thing and not soemthing due to libtorrent because several other clients (e.g., rtorrent) using libtorrent don't have this issue.
What sounds pretty reasonable to me was this post:
Deluge is a decision in my opinion, there shouldn't be any need to ban it. It basically is the seedbox client since it is an aggressive downloader (that's why it downloads more than it needs, it simultaneously downloads from multiple seeds/peers for the same piece so lots gets junked). I might as well just stop using my seedbox for auto (again, a personal decision to use, some may hate it but it is an effective way to build ratio). In rtorrent I rarely seed to 1, and in deluge I seed to 2-5 ratio on all V0. Just voicing my opinion that it shouldn't be banned.
But I don't have this much insight... I would be curious what some of the deluge devs have to say...
EDIT:
I just read these two posts of an admin on waffles:
For Deluge, it's a time sink for a different reason. A LOT of users are reporting incorrect download stats, and after checking a few random accounts, a significant portion are suffering the same problem. The ban on Deluge is only temporary until a fix is issued. We have staff on hand at both sites researching this, just like we helped the Transmission dev hunt down and destroy its incorrect stat reporting.
[...] so I'm going to create a bounty. First person to make a tool that converts Vuze's xml data, adds the torrents to µTorrent, and updates µTorrent's resume.dat with the location of the already downloaded data, and open sources it, shall receive a week of free leech to claim at will. [...] A conversion from Deluge is not necessary as its author is already working on a fix (newsflash!).
!?!?
Can anyone confirm this?
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