Your point is well taken. I think you can file it in the same category of 'rants' of which I have posted for people asking others to spend money and download content and then upload here for them.
And WOW! You are sitting on 31,000+ seed points after being here a decade? Crazy!
I hate to say this, but it's a bit true:
Ratio is going to be positively impacted MOST by downloading torrents, using these tips:
1. Get ahead of the curve; try to download a torrent that has just been uploaded on the site. The newest torrents uploaded will have the fewest number of downloads; so if you get in there early enough, you'll reap the benefits of everyone else who downloads the torrent AFTER you have. BUT - you have to keep that torrent running so that it is available for those who grab the torrent after you've downloaded it. Even during the download process you'll be seeding what you currently have. So get the newest torrents possible. You can sort both Search and Browse views from the website (I think Browse is automatically set to show the latest/newest uploaded torrent in the top upper left corner).
2. If you are serious about improving your ratio, then there are times you have to download content that you may personally not care for but is quite popular with other people. Keep that in mind. To that end, scan the uploaded torrents and look for the number of users who have either already downloaded it or are in proces of downloading it. With a bit of experience you'll win begin noting what content is most popular and you can anticipate what members will be downloading the most. NEWLY RELEASED content is the most accessed, always. Content that has been around on the internet for 3 or 4 years, and uploaded as being new here on the site (which happens a lot - in my 10+ years being here, I've seen a lot of reposts of the same content, over and over again, so try to avoid this older content IF you are gunning to increase your ratio.
3. Spend some money, get a subscription to one of the site which has the content you like, and rip and upload a few torrents yourself. If you apply Tip #2 from above, and know the most desirable content, then get that. Otherwise, try to ride the wave of new content coming onto the site, especially new content that is actually new to the world. A great site to monitor new content being released by the studios is: https://www.gayeroticvideoindex.com/Â Gay Erotic Video Index. Once you click "I Agree" you'll land on a page that has pictures with all new content being released from the major studios.
4. Nothing is free. You have to get smart and savvy with ratio and realize just downloading something you like or that caught your eye does not mean diddly when it comes to how that same file / size of file will affect your ratio (both down and back up).
5. There are no bad questions. Ask away, it's a learning process and no one started on this site as an expert on the sites ratio system. We've all been there.  
We all needed some help somewhere along the way.
Good luck! Hope these help.
PS - you can check out my profile and see just how much download/uploading of traffic over 10 years looks like  My ISP loves me!, my wallet … not so much. haha
Cheers!
I never formally heard back if this issue had been addressed or not. But I will add to the discussion the following information: during yesterday and last's night extended outage of service and connectivity, I was able to quickly determine which torrents in question. While all of my torrents were in forced-seeding status, those which have active torrents here on the tracker showed a status of Unable To Connect. About 60 torrents did not show this status, so I isolated them. After the tracker's service and connectivity were restored this morning, I was able to confirm these torrents are the ones that are no longer registered with the site - although they still have active torrent pages on the site FYI for anyone who may have a similar issue and are looking for a way to quickly isolate the torrents in question within the collection: wait for a service outage and then look.
Thanks for any effort behind the scenes in cleaning up the torrents in question.
About 5 years ago, I was introduced to a small hand-held massage vibrator by someone I was hooking up with. The unit is a little larger than the size of a revolver fitting into your hand and has a few different cup attachments that can be used to massage different parts of the body. It has a couple of speed settings that increase the intensity of the massage. He placed it on my dick and I immediately felt the most amazing sensations my foreskin has ever experienced, better than any blow job I've had. He let me borrow it for a few weeks until I decided to purchase my own. I was hooked. Just stroking alone was not good enough any longer - the hand-held unit introduced an entirely new world of self-pleasure that I had experienced to date.
Not realizing it at the time, I already owned a much larger Better Image hand-held massager, though the unit is significantly larger and heavier, it has two round solid bulbs that vibrate, it has several speeds and even a heat-feature. So I gave it a try one day and I was done for. I just lay on the bed, put that thing in my lap, crank it up and am in immediate heaven. Toss in a bottle of poppers, stream some porn on the TV through Plex with remote -control, and I can edge for a long time. It's heaven. You know they say no one can pleasure you like you can pleasure yourself?
Though I'm having the most amazing orgasms ever; there is one down-side: almost no one can give me a blowjob that is good enough to get me to cum. It's almost as if the nerves of my foreskin require the level of intensity the vibrator delivers - and no human can suck as well. I don't have a problem with topping though, I just have to fuck harder and longer (which bottoms don't seem to mind, haha). So the downside is loss of sensitivity. I've tried various guys who have tried various techniques - and I usually end up breaking their jaws by skull fucking them.
No, I won't stop using the hand-helds, that's like asking me to give up orgasms all together. lol
Was curious if others out there have similar experiences and would care to share them?
Quick question for the site developer(s)/admins:
I know that we can apply filters for the "Browse Default Categories", from our profiles, which are applied to the "Search" view (brose.php) here on the site, but it does not seem to equally apply to the "Browse" view (picbrowse.php). Is there a reason why it does not?
Thanks!
41 years ago today, homophobe Anita Bryant got pied on live TV by a gay activist.
OOOPS. Â It was 41 years from 2 days ago, but still.
It was such a joy to watch. I was 14 then - and had just realized what was what. Did not understand the full implications of what it meant at that time, but came to appreciate them as I grew older.
Trying to get a sense of what everyone is presently using as of Fall, 2019, for their bit torrent client.
Please answers these 5 brief questions:
1. What bit torrent client are you presently using?
2. What features does your current torrent have that you like?
3. What features does your current torrent not have that you wish it did?
4. What other torrent clients have you used in the past?
5. How many torrents are you presently seeding with this client?
Thanks!
in2unow
I'm curious as to how others are adapting to downloading and managing content on their PCs and storage devices.
Here is a survey to collect information to help myself and others as to the current practices commonly used by our community. If you are interested in responding, please try to answer the following questions, in order:
Thank you for participating in this survey. The results are all informal and will not be used in any context beyond for the reading and information for our members in their efforts to develop better practices for torrenting on our tracker.
In2uNow
Hopefully one of you is a top, the other a bottom (or at least versatile) and you can pound it out that way.
I've had some questionable guys before now but I'm not sure the few standards i do have will stretch this far. Sorry raphjd buddy, seems our budding romance is a non-starter
Considering you've been a member for 5 years; Downloaded under 2 gigs, uploaded under 60 MEGABYTES …. yet you place all this energy into a forum debate .... some might suggest you just shoot blanks anyway. lol. What gives with the lack of participation in torrenting for 5 years? You just like keeping an eye on things?
Hopefully one of you is a top, the other a bottom (or at least versatile) and you can pound it out that way.
I'm scratching my head at this, though I'm not from the UK (American here), I can't help but wonder why the site's #1 Forum Policeman (and a good one at that) decides to launch a volley of wild political firestorm into the forums (gay forums at that)? I would imagine it is worse than the equivalent of liberals vs conservatives in the United States; those who love everything Donald Trump does and stands for vs. those of us who think he is someone's puppet and the worse thing that has ever been voted president by the electorate of our country.
Nationalism has no place in the global community any longer. My country is not better than yours - and your country is not better than mine. Unless your country is of those who stone and kill gay people - then your country is a pathetic piece of shit.
If these were my forums, I would have politics formally removed and banned. But apparently, the founders wanted GayTorrent to be an all-inclusive community of everything that is gay - including UK's politics.
The staff need members o help us find this stuff, so we can sort it out.
What the OP is talking about is a clear violation of the rule Flozen posted and should be reported via the REPORT button on the torrent page.
I can't tell you how much I hate users who do that! Member download torrents based on what we think is in there! If the uploader also downloads torrents (safe to assume), I know they've must have felt frustration at least a couple of times when people upload content that doesn't represent the torent description/photos! Then why do it to other people? That's why I don't own a tracker, I'd delete all those MF…....
-AOS
I'm going to poke a little fun at you. Over the past few weeks you've expressed many reasons why you are no longer involved with running a tracker (in posted responses to other posts). Unless there is one more, say for instance you can no longer get laid because you run a tracker, I think we know now that you no longer run a tracker, for said variety of reasons. But if you do have more, you may want to write a post and list all of them in one place, at one time. Based upon what you've described, I know I will NEVER be running a tracker. Aside from that, I do enjoy reading your responses to people, you clearly have a lot of knowledge, experience, and appreciate being a member of this community - and what you write and share does add value to it.
LOLOLOL Shit! If it came down to running a tracker, and getting laid, the tracker can kiss my ass! Getting laid would be 100% priority!!! Â :bananadope: But seriously, I only mention that because it is massively hard work, unless you have friends/sizable staff that is committed. And the average person doesn't appreciate that.
I do thank you for reading my responses. To be honest, sometimes I think I'm on my computers too damn much, which may explain why I have a deeper understanding of certain things more than the average person. I think that's the trade off when you're a full blown pirate. LOLOL
-AOS
You're a full blown pirate, you say? You know what they say about pirates, either they are up atop the crow's nest or down on deck scrubbing. So what kind of pirate are you: the "Well, Shiver Me Timbers" type, or the "Well, blow me down!" type?