inactive

[mamaotis40]

please tell me what active and inactive mean, and why they keep changing. do i need to do something to be able to see downloads

[loki]

Active means downloading, uploading, or seeding (or any combination of these) Inactive means not downloading, uploading, or seeding.
They are changing active/inactive? I assume you have queuing enabled... this would cause them to change if you have it configured for less than how many "active" torrents you wish to have.