Successfully getting a torrent fired up on Mininova

Well, first of all, Mininova is huge and is running on an old programming. The numbers on the site are rarely correct and it takes a lot of activity on the torrent to actually reach those interesting seed numbers.

The torrent community is massive, and the amount of leechers (people who download and think "bah, someone else will have to see because I'm selfish) is waaay greater than good people, so the guys that download your torrent are very likely to not seed it after they've downloaded it.

If you've got x people downloading from you, then that's the real number. Mininova needs a serious touchup, because half the time it either shows more numbers or less. I don't know how they managed that, but if they're running the old pot I think they are, then the programme they're using must be looking for far too detailed descriptions on uploaders/downloaders.

Truth is, the only torrents that shoot high within a week are newly released games because that's the one reason that many people use torrent for.
If you want some activity on your torrent, see if you can have some friends download it and watch the tracker either screw up again or fix itself. I'm afraid it's very difficult to upload your stuff to mininova. I mean, especially since they almost got booted off the internet a couple of years ago.

Jam it back in, in the dark.