Why do Torrents disappear soon after they are listed?
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I've noticed this several times now and that is a torrent is posted (example: studs_robbie) and a half of dozen of us will start the download and we'll get to 25% and then it stopes. You go back to find the original listing, which couldn't be more than three/four days old, and the system reports nothing. I just removed three such torrents that have been sitting in my p2p app for over a week now. Each had started downloading and hours later the only seeder disappears.
If, for some reason, a torrent has to be removed it would be helpful if a moderator would leave the torrent in place but flag it and clearly note that the torrent has been removed. We don't need an explanation but at least we would know to remove it and to not count on it finishing the download.
Thanks.
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That can have to do with the duplicate report handling. Thanks for bringing up that issue, it allows to discuss with our members the process and alternatives. All of them having advantages and disadvantages.
Here the current standard process, for a simple (original not dead) duplicate report case:
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1/ A member reports a torrent as duplicate with a link to the original
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2/ A moderator evaluates the report
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a) If erroneous, the report is removed. End.
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b) If the report is confirmed:
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i) The duplicate is removed from the listing. It is kept tracked, to allow members to complete the download. Both seeders and leechers data upload/download amounts continue to be registered by the tracker.
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ii) The uploader is informed about the removal and ask to continue to seed by a system PM
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iii) Once there is no more leecher, the torrent is deleted ("unregistered torrent")End.
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In the past, when the torrent was de-listed in step 2b, the original uploader often stopped seeding. Therefore a few days ago it was added to the system to send the PM. Despite that PM, many uploader still stop seeding and aren't able to restart when we request them to do so. That can be one explanation for what you encounter.
The basic idea of continue to track, instead of immediate deleting, is that the downloaders get complete copies of the files, instead of having registered download for unusable files.
The alternative would be to immediately delete the duplicate.
Remark: At the beginning of last week (18th to 20ths of August), many new users signed up due to Gay-Torrents.net being down. Many of them did start to upload torrents (Rationator 3.0 has its intended effect to that respect) and there was a unusual flood of duplicates. That is now down to a normal level, searching for duplicate learning curves are mostly completed.
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I've been noticing this as well. I was thinking that it had more to do with the :police: and DMCA takedown requests, not as much as being a dupe.
Although the ones I have really noticed are probably because somebody upped a whole bunch of vids from a particular site, which while nice, I'm not about to download 16GB or whatever it is, especially when I've already downloaded a bunch, and it's easier to download singles, not whole collections. So while technically a dupe, I'd probably allow it.
I try to go for a 200% upload, although sometimes I find myself deleting the .torrents after they hit 100% or above, especially if they've been languishing for awhile, although if I'm the only one or two seeding, I try to keep those going as well.
Oh well. I'm not in TB range (yet), but with 6000 seed bonus, a 2.6+ ratio, I'm not going to worry about the discontinued torrents affecting my ratio.
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Yes, takedowns because of notices alleging a torrent infringes copyright can cause such issue, too.
There are other causes, for example the original uploader never seeds his torrent's file completely. Lately we have quite a number of such, too. Likely again due to many new members, not experienced uploading and needing help.
There are other reason and all of them add up.
We hope the currently ongoing recruitment of more staff for torrents and language boards will allow us to provide better help to uploaders, so less uploads won't complete.
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Very good explanation and thank you very much. There was always that nagging little question in the back of my mind if someone else was monitoring what I was doing (outside of GT.ru) and blocking or playing fast and loose with my downloads. Now I won't worry.
Thanks again.
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Yes, takedowns because of notices alleging a torrent infringes copyright can cause such issue, too.
There are other causes, for example the original uploader never seeds his torrent's file completely. Lately we have quite a number of such, too. Likely again due to many new members, not experienced uploading and needing help.
There are other reason and all of them add up.
We hope the currently ongoing recruitment of more staff for torrents and language boards will allow us to provide better help to uploaders, so less uploads won't complete.
One of the problems of Gaytorrent is that they obey DMCA's requests at the beck and call, just like Uploadable, which is probably not necessary. Other DLL such as Rapidgator, Uploaded, Bitshare, Nitrofare… take their time. So that Gaytorrent may appear not in the running for users who see that a video (From Randy Blue, e.g.) is not on GayTorrent (no more), but available at Gay69 or Pornogayphy.