That's a good way to get yourself blocked by a no. of hosts. They'll think you're a fake file spammer.

Personally I leave my machine on for 3-5+ days at a time so with such long sessions I believe everyone has a decent chance to finish their files & besides, I'm never offline for long. So I set my LW for immediate shutdown. They can pick up any incomplete downlds a day or 2 later & complete them.

So I guess it depends upon your personal habits of how long you spend online.

As for Chat ... LW are aware of this issue & I suspect it will be fixed by the next release.

As for getting stuck with files at 50%, remember not everybody is online everyday. Some are weekenders, some a day or 2 every couple of weeks. And some are just difficult to reconnect to. With any luck there's others out there with the same files.