Rant & Rave !!!
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Got something you want to get it of your chest - then here you go put it here in this topic….
**Got something to say about your ratio - put it here!Got something to say about something that happened on the way to work that pissed you off - put it here!
Got something nice to say about someone/something - put it here!**
I'll start the ball rolling - Having seeded a few Gay themed Movies here on this site, Not a lot of you guys take the time and leave a "thank-you" - I have heard things like "because I download your movie thats thanks enough"
Well I am telling you it's not….it doesn't take much time to press one extra button..... give the seeder(s) more respect..... you'll get more back in the end....
RB
BTW: Interesting to see which Rant or Rave we get more off.
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Man, I know what you mean…. :closedeyes:
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i'm right with you
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Also leaving a comment and rating a video/file is a good thing too. :whistle:
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Well, since the first few comments were about a rant. I'll give a rave.
Let us all give a round of applause to our Mods and Admin for their hard work keeping this site up.
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Sucking up works better irl. :yes:
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i want to rant..about waiting for a torrent to be approved by administration….
i see the reason why its needed..but....at a certain hour of the day...for me anyways anything after 12 mindnigth eastern time...it takes forever to get a torrent approved..so it sits there doing nothing...
which can be a bit annoying...so....suggestion...you must know the regular peeps that post here...why not let them slide without to need for approval...????
should they not be trusted by now???
i check to see if the torrent is here before i post it...to my knowledge i have not posted anything not allowed here...
at i will ASSume most of the regulars follow the rules..so why the wait..
i just posted a torrent at its been 30 minuts and counting..and still waiting..
but earlier i posted two and it only took 5 minutes...
the best time for me to up a torrent its after midnight...LOL...its one of the reason I've stopped posting so much...
ok i feel a little better...would feel even more..if this could be resolved...
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I understand the wait may take a while, but it is necessary to enforce our rules–regardless of being a "regular" or being a "newbie". In addition, the mods need to make sure you are only seeding the ONE torrent; you wouldn't want to get a 3-day download simply because the seeder is seeding other less-popular torrents, now would you? The moderators are not on 24/7 to approve a torrent; they do have lives outside of GT.ru and most live in different time zones. Hence, YOUR midnight is one mods 6am, etc. and, as a result, he will be sleeping, as I assume you do too. The approval process saves time on both our and the Mods' part: they can filter out poorly upped torrents so that you do not receive bad comments, or even worse a report or a warning--all of which will subsequently cause you to write several negative, unthoughtful PMs to our Mods.
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12am EST is 6am CET, which means most of the mods are most likely sleeping or on their way to bed.
3am… That would mean someone lives in the middle of the Atlantic, I somehow doubt that.
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Certain people have repeatedly shown that they know what they are doing and can be trusted. Sure, everyone can make the odd mistake now and again, but that's not going to crater the site.
I'm all for having a "white list" for trusted uploaders. The problem comes from the users who aren't white listed and they scream and moan that we hate and don't trust them. This could tear the site apart.
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Certain people have repeatedly shown that they know what they are doing and can be trusted. Sure, everyone can make the odd mistake now and again, but that's not going to crater the site.
I'm all for having a "white list" for trusted uploaders. The problem comes from the users who aren't white listed and they scream and moan that we hate and don't trust them. This could tear the site apart.
For sure. The "Whites" versus the "Non-Whites"–if it tore America apart in the 60's and prior, it will surely divide us.
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i understand the downtime for the mods that are sleeping…
and i don't think a white list will make a once in a while uploader than upset...I have permission to have 3 torrents active..am i going to get upset if anyone else have more than that..NO
should anyone feel left out cause they can only have one active torrent..no its based on speed..
so a white list will be based on how often someone post and how fast...
my up speed is pretty good...which means my vids can be shared quickly but if two or so hours go by and my torrent is just sitting there...its one less or more torrents i can't share...or won't because i see it as a waste of time...
not to sound like and ASS...LOL..but those who share the most or have the best seeding speed...are to me a very important bunch...and what makes torrents sites like this one work great...
I understand the reason for this...but if a user can be trusted...why not put them on such "white list"....the whole point of the site its to share...
i'm all for the "white list"....and trust has to be earned...those who may get upset which such list..need only to earn the trust...simple...
but its just my opinion....
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A white list sounds like a great idea. If someone like derektheking has consistantly made good uploads and is willing to use his super connection to upload more of course he should be trusted to continue doing so. Let's face it, regular inicial seeders are in the minority on this and every other torrent site. The little things can and do make a huge difference. The torrent approval rule was put in place to stop the overly eager uploader from posting without checking for duplicates or rules violations, not to frustrate the regular contributer into posting less.
Luckily I've not had to wait long for a torrent to be approved but with my 3megs up/10megs down connection I have to choke my downloads to a standstill to properly seed a new torrent. A long wait would make me think twice before upping the next one.
The admins on this site have got a lot of work. The few I know are great guys and I'd hate to see them getting ragged on for not being available 24/7.
No one could get angry about a white list if the prerequisites were clearly defined. For example, 30-50 good uploads and your white listed.
Would that be unfair or make this an even better site?
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I have to agree with Derek and Lucky.
I think something like a whitelist would work. Seeders that have in the past made good posts should be rewarded with something like this. 30+ sounds fair to me. My last torrent I uploaded sat for over 2 hours to have it verified, which was a waste of 2 hours of bandwith with nothing being taken.
I would have uploaded 30+ torrents since I joined this site and I dont think I have made a mistake and posted a dup….
Anyway it's food for thought.....
Bill
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FOOTNOTE:
Saturday 1 December 2007 I uploaded a Gay Themed Movie @ 8:57AM Local Time (Australia) EST. Server time was Friday 30 November 23:50:34. (time stamp on system gen msg advising me that I have to have the uploaded torrent verified.) There is sat for almost 5 hours until at server time Saturday 1 December 2007 04:44:19 I got the email saying it had been approved.
I understand about the time differences but during this download time of my PC not being able to upload anything else. I watched 3 or 4 Mod's come online and go offline without approving my upload. Beforehand I followed the rules to see if there was already a torrent of the same name. etc etc
This was a complete waste of a full mornings upload time - not good enough!
RB
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That sounds odd. Even though I'm house hunting and working crazy hours to finish up this years billings for work, I always check the pending torrent list.
I can't remember what I was doing at that time {probably in bed}, but if I was on and your torrent showed up as seeded properly, I would have approved it.
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From my point of view, the problem is that all the mods are from the US and Western Europe only where are limited in a few time zones and their working time is the others members' sleeping time. The number of members from Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America is blossoming, why don't we add some more mods from Asia (Australia, China,…), Latin America? We have a category named Latino here but only one staff member's from there. How unfair! No white list's needed if we have at least one mod online at anytime to approve torrents. I'm not saying that we need a mod for each time zone but once you're online, you stay there for at least 2 or 3 hours, that's enough. Of course, we must choose the mods carefully but as a matter of fact, we need more of them.
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I'll start the ball rolling - Having seeded a few Gay themed Movies here on this site, Not a lot of you guys take the time and leave a "thank-you" - I have heard things like "because I download your movie thats thanks enough"
Why not start showing who gets thanked most and who thanks most on the front page?
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From my point of view, the problem is that all the mods are from the US and Western Europe only where are limited in a few time zones and their working time is the others members' sleeping time. The number of members from Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America is blossoming, why don't we add some more mods from Asia (Australia, China,…), Latin America? ...
Ohh Thomas - you voice our team's deepest wishes!
Of course, we must choose the mods carefully but as a matter of fact, we need more of them.
If you could convince some of our users to apply for that job, we would be eternally thankful - but what more can we do than ask our users on the homepage, in variuos threads…?
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From my point of view, the problem is that all the mods are from the US and Western Europe only where are limited in a few time zones and their working time is the others members' sleeping time. The number of members from Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America is blossoming, why don't we add some more mods from Asia (Australia, China,…), Latin America? We have a category named Latino here but only one staff member's from there. How unfair! No white list's needed if we have at least one mod online at anytime to approve torrents. I'm not saying that we need a mod for each time zone but once you're online, you stay there for at least 2 or 3 hours, that's enough. Of course, we must choose the mods carefully but as a matter of fact, we need more of them.
You do know that Latin america is included in the US timezones?
There's a mod from "Latin America", more nitpicky from Brazil.
We also have a category called "shemale", but afaik we do lack shemales in the staff too. Sorry but your reasoning fails.
Out of the top 25 countries, only 5 were from asia (and/or in similar timezones), with around 4-4.5k users in total (most from Australia).
I don't agree that we need more mods. Maybe one from asia/australia. I stay around as long as there's something I can do, being "forced" to stay a set amount of hours is… eh... for lack of better word: bleh. Some of the mods do also have a pretty "flexible" sleeping pattern, so we might be awake when asia (or any other distant timezone is awake) and uploading torrents.
There's amazingly not 239428349024 torrents queued up and waiting for approval. At the time of writing only two are seeded, but the uploaders have other torrents active and there's 21 "invisible" aka unseeded torrents in the list.(The views in this post are my own and not necessary the views of the rest of the mods/staff.
