"collection" spam
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i've noticed a significant uptick in new torrents that are just repackaged forms of previous torrents with a barely coherent theme with flimsy titles like "EU fan sites", "muscle fuck scenes", etc.
there don't seem to be any clear rules to prevent such "collections" from cluttering up the list of torrents, or the enforcement seems pretty lax.
if nothing is done to prevent this type of abuse, it will become harder and harder to find properly indexed content.
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perhaps these are just blatant attempts at baiting other users into downloading humungous torrents to boost their seeding ratios.
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I find it nice, especially when they're thoughtfully put together and complete. I don't think most people are trying to do it for nefarious purposes, but to help collectors out.
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But I agree that there are a lot of worthless collections too. I like some super niche stuff, but if you're going to add it to a collection, complete it and organize and don't just dump random stuffs.
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@zoji3k red the topic again and maybe you'll get what op means, the term collection is being used as a synonym for "dump", with dozens of files that are totally unrelated or simply share a category, like twinks, or bears.
One thing that all those torrents share in common is that the files are massive, it might not be a "nefarious" reason but it is pretty much clear that they're doing it for the traffic.
IMO it only clutters the site and, if anything, makes it harder to find legitimate collections. But no one's forced to download, and it's not against any rule so...
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@ianfontinell-0 Controversial opinion, because I know it could end up reducing the volume of content being added to the site, but I#d like to see people start losing their uploading rights (at least temporarily) for refusing to make any attempt to curate the collections/dumps/spam they add to the site.
It raises another question for me to. Is there any point in reporting them? Some of them clearly violate the rules on collections, but to expect the mods to download all of these large collections to check them when they're reported is a lot of work and data usage, and most of the time you won't know the outcome unless you specifically go back and check after a few days.
The subject raises another thought. I think we need more feedback from the mod team when we report something on the site. We already have this when we report a duplicate, and you get a nice little message to say thanks for reporting and giving you some points.
When we report rule violations though we generally get no feedback at all. |I'm not asking for the mods to write an essay, and all we really need is some checkbox response form like
"Thanks for reporting xxxxxxxx.torrent.
Your report has been upheld/denied.
Action taken: User banned/Upload rights taken for xx days/User warned/NFA" and perhaps a chance for the mod to add an explanatory note if they like.Feedback helps everyone. It helps users to better understand where the mods interpret the threshold to be, as opposed to rigid adherence to the rules, because some leeway is to be expected. We learn what is and isn't worth reporting, and that in turn helps the mods by filtering reports down to those that actually warrant checking. Uploaders are already anonymous, so there shouldn't be any problem with targeted campaigns against people.
The more we know the more we can help.
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@frostycab maybe we can use a carrot instead of a stick to solve the problem?
well-curated collections can get some special "featured" tag to indicate that they're worth downloading. that could make the site easier to navigate as well, by allowing users to search by the tag and bypass all the spam.
there's precedent for doing this in other open collaborative contexts. for instance, wikipedia.org as well as pbc.xxx have "featured articles", indicated by a star on the top right of the page.
in any case, we can talk all we want but real action will require site admin input. i had reached out to them earlier asking if they are open to accepting new code maintainers or contributors but never heard anything back. maybe it will take another upstart competitor to show up for gaytor.rent to finally up its game.
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@frostycab your suggestion about giving feedback on user reports is excellent. you should probably create a separate discussion topic for it here so it gets more attention.
