@lololulu19 said in The way anal sex is shown in videos...:

porn videos ... almost NEVER show anybody making the slightest attempt to clean their ASS before [fucking]

Damn, I never noticed that. And now that you have me thinking about it, I've never seen porn models clipping their toenails, applying deodorant, or putting in their contact lenses.

Maybe porn really is fake. Shucks. I used to think it was so hot.

@F46660T It sounds like the moderators/help desk have been more than patient with you. They are very busy people, and don't have time to read long, run-on narratives asking for a favour that isn't accommodated by the site software.

I suggest that before posting on this (or any other topic), you might type out your message in a text editor, and clean up your writing to be shorter and focused on the points you want to make. You might consider using a structure like:

• This is what happened
• This is why I don't like it
• This is what I'd like to see done to "fix" this.

You'll get more attention, and possibly some action, if you do this.

Also, the bottom of your pasted in chat window says "WikiDude wrote:" and then nothing follows. If you got a response to your concern, it's not fair to omit it from your discussion.

Finally, I see that you've pasted that very long chat image to three different threads in the forum. That's probably not going to help, and it might hurt your "case" if people get pissed off.

(Ignoring the OP's covert request.)

Another good way to increase ratio is to download only a few files from a new, large torrent--maybe 10% or less of the content. Those will often download quickly, and then the tracker system will hook you up (!) with other users who are looking for that material. The results can be astounding: here's a snip from my uTorrent client showing five torrents that I've done this way:

Even if you have a ratio warning, grabbing 5% of a new fan site collection will pay off for you even if you don't want the content. For example, on that one at the bottom of the list I only selected 5% of the content, but uploaded nearly 66 times that content. If ratio were for sale, I'd be wealthy

I think this thread has run its course--the OP's question has been answered, and the topic has shifted to another fruitless rant about porn and copyrights. I suggest that the forum administrator lock the thread.

Move along, boys, there's nothing to see here....

The site tries to keep users anonymous for everyone's protection. You could try adding a comment to a torrent you like to the effect of, "@uploader: I like your stuff. Please send me a PM with links to any other torrents you have uploaded."

@jokuihmemies said in Czech Hunter actors:

is it part of the act "being straight"? also i hate it when the boys trying to cum and the filmer just stop filming...

I think that's it. Many of the guys that are "hunted" have done lots of other porn and are able to cum on demand. I'm sure some of them blow a load after the camera is off.

As an aside, a fairly comprehensive list of Czech Hunter actors by episode can be found at https://pbc.xxx/wiki/List_of_Czech_Hunter_actors .

@dretafari This question isn't likely to get an official answer: The owner(s)/operator(s) of the torrent site prefer to keep the inner workings confidential, for their protection and the protection of the site. This is quite understandable given the complexity of the legal issues involved.

I have a hunch, though, that there is some robust planning to keep things going in the event of unforeseen problems. Several years ago the site vanished completely, but was back within a few months.

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Orion’s belt is a big waist of space. (OK, that wasn’t so good…only gets three stars.)

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February 22, 2022 (2/22/22, or 22.2.22) was on a Tuesday, so perhaps it should have been called 2’s day.

To the guy who stole my antidepressants: I hope you’re happy now.

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@stophe In both the US and France, people cruise on the right. In the UK, Australia, and Japan, they cruise on the left.

@SimonHR2001 said in A question for longtime BelAmiOnline super-fans:

I was wondering: is there a list

You might try https://gayeroticvideoindex.com/company/304 , and then sort by release date. It only gives a year, and no "serial numbers," but maybe it's a start. I don't know how complete the list is, or whether it includes the "hidden" videos.

@john32123666 I'm confused--I see three messages from you, but nobody else. It's like one half of a conversation. Maybe I have somebody blocked that you're speaking with?

I'm interested in this topic because I've had a few torrents taken down due to DMCA requests, and the more I learn about this, the better a user I'll be.

Thank you in advance for this and your other helpful posts in the forum.

@ianfontinell-0 said in Why do some torrent show seeders when they're not in the swarm?:

If the tracker reports a seeder it means they are in the swarm, this doesn't necessarily mean that they are available to seed.

Perhaps you could clarify for me what a "swarm" is. I had been thinking that all seeders and leechers were on more or less equal footing, but it sounds like "swarms" are subsets of seeders and/or leechers, and if I'm not in an active swarm (that has material I want or can share), then I'm just idle until I get into the right swarm.

I'm somewhat IT-savvy (I'm the go-to resource in our office before we need to call a real expert), so feel free to give a more technical explanation.

Thanks in advance for this, and for the many helpful comments you have added to the forum.

The ever-perceptive @ianfontinell makes a great point that the site is understaffed, and sometimes smaller "infractions" to the rules can't always be addressed. The concept of a "common theme" is a matter of interpretation. While a collection that has "All of Dick Bigcock's videos" is clear, a collection entitled "My favorite gay porn" is not keeping with the rules.

There's also the rule about listing all of the files in the torrent. This is problematical given that there are lots of fan site uploads whose holding dozens of files with nonsense names like "q03495uehgj.jpg"--and conveying a list of such isn't very informative to a prospective downloader. The rule is also perhaps a bit redundant, because I find that mousing over the "number of files" entry will pop up a window showing all the file names.

It might be worth considering having a "best practices" list that aren't official rules, but that make torrent pages more useful to the prospective downloader. Examples might be:

• If there are many video files in a torrent, including a thumbnail page for each one as a .jpg is very helpful. This is not difficult to do using tools like "AutoMovieThumbnailer", where I can point the app to a folder of videos and it generates thumbnail sheets for each one.

• Including a sample video clip (1-2 minutes) of a video so the downloader can judge the quality of the video. There are some older/vintage videos that are much less than HD quality, and members might not want to download 1 GB if the file is not up to their quality standards. I use "Movavi Video Converter" to do this...and this app has a lot of other capabilities as well.

Perhaps a good but ill-defined standard would be the old Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." When posting a torrent, include as much information as you would like to see in a torrent that you download.

End of sermon. I apologise for the length of my post. I work in a field where something called a "brief" can be hundreds of pages long.

As a lad we always had non-fat milk, which I didn't mind. When I went to university, I got 2% and enjoyed it very much. Now I treat myself to full-fat milk, although I don't have much of it.

That said, there's another white liquid that I enjoy drinking even more, but I digress.

@justatest90-0 It didn't look "obviously" fake in the pics that Kalayaan the Great posted, but the reference you supply is indeed clear.

I hope that at least the bush is real...

@blablarg18 You're right, I forgot that one.

Back to the pyramid itself, I'm not sure how to interpret it: Are things better for us at the top of the pyramid? Or should we eat more of things at the top and less from the bottom. If so, I'm pleased to see broccoli and peas at the top, as they are favorites of mine.

Also, the image shows canned green bean and canned tuna. That implies at least some level of processing. It mystifies me. Fortunately my partner is a professional chef, and he worries about this stuff for me.

I always thought the major food groups were alcohol, chocolate, caffeine, and fat. I'll have to give this some study.

@ianfontinell-0 Thank you again for your explanation. I appreciate the thoroughness and time you invest in answering questions, not only on this topic but so many others. If there were an award for "Hero of the Forum," you would get it.

Back to this specific topic, and using more metaphorical and less numerical mind, it sounds like when someone downloads the 30 GB torrent spoken about above, at first the Windows OS "fences off" 30 GB of space for where the data will eventually go. Then, if one properly stops the torrent before downloading all the material, and the folder goes away, the "fencing" is removed, and the space previously reserved for the non-downloaded material is freed back up to the OS.

This topic also got me curious about the backup drives I use to store older material that I've downloaded, as well as some personal and business stuff. It seems that when I manually copy folders to those off-board drives, there's no wasted space. I tested one with "Disk Properties" and got the following:

It looks like there's only 0.1% of overhead here, which is certainly tolerable and not something I'm going to worry about.

@ianfontinell-0 Thank you for the information. I've been a Windows user for several years and I didn't know this.

Question: Sometimes I've deleted a torrent and its content (using uTorrent 3.5.5), without actually stopping the torrent, if I've looked at some of the content and don't want to download the rest. If the folder (given that it was a multi-file torrent) disappears, can I assume that the extra space has been freed up. If not, is there a way to recover this space?

Thank you again.