@zenomorphic said in Flag/penalty for garbage torrents:
@jsl76 I potentially like the idea of flagging for common issues. It is hard to be confident that someone is acting maliciously--so penalties seem questionable.
I would just hope that flagging goes better than categories or star ratings
I agree that there do seem to be more large torrents that seem like a mess, often where the same content gets repackaged over and over, possibly renamed or altered (not counting re-encoding to add value) enough to make duplicate-detection impossible.
I do not really care if the 3.3 TB torrent with nearly 4k files has any images posted (aside from compliance). I do care that it has some semblance of organization, a reasonable effort has been made to make file content identifiable and that if I test a number of files that I already have that I can at least partially confirm the claims of the poster.
I would much rather have mediainfo/jprobe output than a bunch of thumbnails.
The idea of probing the video contents seems like a good one - except it seems to me to maybe be founded in a false assumption: that the tracker ever has access to (or ever loads) the content of any of these torrents.
A torrent file itself is a list of checksums for blocks of files that the tracker never sees. The only information the tracker itself has are the checksums and unless you can somehow use those to determine media content, your idea - while laudable - is impossible.
