Hopefully it's cool to post this. I just spent about 20,000 seed points to make https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=7b28122cc4c9d769c91a397988232f5a716d2f5e422f6e15 freeleech for the next 24 hours.

I'm not the original uploader but had become the only seeder, and found it while looking for large torrents to clean up to reclaim some disk space. I wanted to try to build up some more seeders for this one. If you've got the disk space, maybe download it while it's freeleech and help keep it available as a seeder?

(While searching to try to see if it was OK to post stuff like this, I learned that apparently I could have just asked a mod to make it freeleech rather than spending most of my points. But I had a ton built up, so it's no problem. Just didn't want to spend all those points and have no one download the thing.)

Hello!

My account on the main site tells me I joined "287 weeks ago," so I'm not actually new. But after a long time away, I'm back, and want to get more involved!

The site is faster than I remember, and the forums look better than I remember. It's great to be back!

Even being a far-left liberal, I'm glad that this guy will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Assassination isn't how you do things in a democracy.

The big thing to check is to make sure the port your torrent client is listening on is accessible. If it's not, no one can reach you. It's a fairly common problem: you can open connections to others to download, but if the port isn't open to the Internet, no one can connect to you. (It's also really hard to help with because everyone's setup can vary so much based on what torrent client you're using, whether your computer has some built-in firewall getting in the way, and whether you have a router that can set up port-forwarding.)

It's also possible that nothing is wrong with your client. Freeleech torrents can sometimes be somewhat of a race. If you get in early, you upload tons. But if you're among the last to grab a freeleech torrent, there aren't others that will come along to download it, plus there's maybe 50 other seeders by that point, so those that do come after you will be downloading from all of them. Watching for new freeleech content can help a lot.

You also earn points if you leave stuff seeding even if no one downloads it, and over time those can be redeemed for upload credit.

Full disclosure -- some of us addicts to this have seedboxes: servers running 24/7 on a fast connection. I do it because it's a lot more convenient for me and my home connection has a terrible upload speed, and I like to think it makes things better for others overall because I can seed stuff for others 24/7 on an extremely fast connection. But ratio is somewhat competitive in a sense, and we can kind of tilt the playing field a little without meaning to.

@john32123666 said in Why do some torrent show seeders when they're not in the swarm?:

@blittle OK I did try to download and was connected and now disrtibutinng @ 1mbps happy now ...

Thanks! Now it's got tons of seeds.

So I think I understand it -- "1 seeder" means someone out there in the swarm has it and is talking to the tracker, but doesn't guarantee that they're actively sharing it with others right at the moment.

Thanks! This is fantastic.

I'd be deeply suspicious of a free VPN.

Fundamentally, a VPN is just tunneling your Internet traffic through someone else's computer. That gives an unscrupulous VPN operator a whole lot of opportunities -- spy on your traffic, inject ads or malware, etc.

Reputable VPN providers wouldn't do this, of course, because they'd be dragged over the coals and go out of business when it was discovered. But if someone's not charging for a VPN service, I'd question what their motives are. It's possible they're just a privacy advocate with pure motives, but it could also be a lot more sinister.

@MrMazda said in AT RISK torrent thread - "official":

This torrent is only about a day old, so it can't be put on freeleech. A torrent must be at least 7 days old before the system will allow a freeleech to be applied.

D'oh! I saw a comment on it asking for reseed and didn't even look at when it was uploaded. I should have been suspicious of how many leechers there are. Will keep this in mind going forward.

https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=a4c6aece1cb8d189c91a397988232f5a56d320586f5a5c01
2 seeders, 98 leechers.

Clearing up some room on my end so I can try to help seed this 230GB collection of vintage material.

@john32123666 said in Why do some torrent show seeders when they're not in the swarm?:

@blittle OK I did try to download and was connected and now disrtibutinng @ 1mbps happy now ...

Thanks! Now it's got tons of seeds.

So I think I understand it -- "1 seeder" means someone out there in the swarm has it and is talking to the tracker, but doesn't guarantee that they're actively sharing it with others right at the moment.

An example right now is https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=dfcbd18db1f251c6c91a397988232f5a84e668887fb786ec but I'm curious about the general idea, not just this one torrent.

The site shows 1 seeder and 32 leechers. I downloaded the .torrent to try to help seed it, but the swarm contains only leechers, and we're all at 0.00%. It seems like someone is reporting to the tracker that they're seeding, but not actually participating.

I see this happen on other sites sometimes too, so I don't think this is a site-specific issue. I'm just curious how things work. Will something eventually get marked as not having any seeders if they don't start responding, or is it just tied to what their torrent client reports?

Even being a far-left liberal, I'm glad that this guy will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Assassination isn't how you do things in a democracy.

@Rapsey-0 said in Who are the trolls?:

Given how many activists there are online pushing the notion that being gay has nothing to do with genitals (to accommodate those who identify as the opposite sex but haven't had surgery)

But trans folks aren't our enemies. There's enough hate aimed at LGBTQ folks without us needing to add more by trying to use trans folks as scapegoats or (checks notes) spurious DMCA reports.

@Rapsey-0 said in Who are the trolls?:

Their entire identity depends on it.

Maybe we hang out in different crowds, but none of the trans folks I know have ever advanced an argument like this? A person can identify as male regardless of their assigned genitals, but none has ever argued "videos of vaginal sex are gay porn!" to me or anyone I know.

@lololulu19 said in Who are the trolls?:

It occurs to me that some of the trolls making fake DMCA reports are the people who want to flood this site with STRAIGHT content.

If I were straight, I would not want to see a bunch of guys fucking each other like bunnies. But since I am gay, I am perplexed why straight people come to a gay site to begin with, and why they post straight porn.

Does it show somewhere who is reporting them, or are you just guessing? I have always assumed it was homophobes or something.

The straight porn doesn't make sense to me either, but I have to say -- if I was straight, I wouldn't be on a website called "Gay Torrent" to begin with.

Hopefully it's cool to post this. I just spent about 20,000 seed points to make https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=7b28122cc4c9d769c91a397988232f5a716d2f5e422f6e15 freeleech for the next 24 hours.

I'm not the original uploader but had become the only seeder, and found it while looking for large torrents to clean up to reclaim some disk space. I wanted to try to build up some more seeders for this one. If you've got the disk space, maybe download it while it's freeleech and help keep it available as a seeder?

(While searching to try to see if it was OK to post stuff like this, I learned that apparently I could have just asked a mod to make it freeleech rather than spending most of my points. But I had a ton built up, so it's no problem. Just didn't want to spend all those points and have no one download the thing.)

Thanks! This is fantastic.

Wasn't this reported in 2020? https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/politics/elections/police-investigating-after-muskegon-clerk-finds-irregularities-in-voter-registration-applications/69-569903d4-b0f0-43c4-acb5-ff96b7af9a9e

Evidence that the state successfully stopped fraud, reported it to the police, and issued a press release doesn't seem like the smoking gun TGP wants to make it out to be.