diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
index 3ba56f4..caa0fb4 100644
--- a/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ pub struct Config {
     #[arg(long, default_value_t = 60)]
     pub add_torrent_timeout: u64,
 
-    /// Ban time in seconds on torrent add failure
+    /// Ban time in seconds on torrent add failure (`add_torrent_timeout` is reached)
     #[arg(long, default_value_t = 3600)]
     pub add_torrent_ban: u64,
 
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ pub struct Config {
     #[arg(long, default_value_t = 3600)]
     pub resolve_torrent_ban: u64,
 
+    /// Ban time in seconds on torrent data download is longer than `add_torrent_timeout`
+    #[arg(long)]
+    pub slow_torrent_ban: Option<u64>,
+
     /// Crawl loop delay in seconds
     #[arg(long, default_value_t = 60)]
     pub sleep: u64,
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 9633596..1159d0c 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -198,12 +198,20 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
                             )
                             .await
                             {
-                                log::debug!(
-                                    "skip awaiting the completion of preload `{h}` data (`{e}`)"
-                                );
                                 session
                                     .delete(librqbit::api::TorrentIdOrHash::Id(id), false)
                                     .await?; // * do not collect billions of slow torrents in the session pool
+                                if let Some(slow_torrent_ban) = config.slow_torrent_ban {
+                                    let t = Local::now() + Duration::from_secs(slow_torrent_ban);
+                                    log::debug!(
+                                        "skip awaiting the completion of preload `{h}` data (`{e}`), ban until {t}."
+                                    );
+                                    assert!(ban.insert(i, t).is_none());
+                                } else {
+                                    log::debug!(
+                                        "skip awaiting the completion of preload `{h}` data (`{e}`)"
+                                    );
+                                }
                                 continue;
                             }
                             log::debug!("torrent `{h}` preload completed.");