1/ Is there no good gay romance written by (straight) women?
Brokeback Mountain, The Front Runner, the Nightrunner series, and The Catchtrap come to mind as good gay romance stories written by women.
The Front Runner was not written by a straight woman.
But this is an issue.
If a few well connected seed boxes are providing the majority of bandwidth then the majority of users will not be able to maintain ratios.
I have to download a bunch of free leach that I don't even want to even try and keep my ratio up.
Even with over 200 torrents seeding (in the past) my upload was pathetic.
It would be cool if the entire site was made free leach for a few days, or everyone was given some extra gigs or points or the ratio requirements where lowered.
This is my main concern. Just trying to be fair to everyone. So what I do is throttle the upload speed for the torrent until there are several leechers connected and then I open up the speed. It's not a perfect solution but hopefully it helps spread the seeding ability to other users. The other thing I noticed is that they (I've noticed 3 or 4 different IPs) jump on the torrent before it is even visible. I have a feeling they are using a bot to make sure they are first.
I uploaded a torrent yesterday. When I performed the initial recheck to start seeding it showed 100% fine. But now it is only 99.8%. I assume some of the data was corrupted/changed somehow. What is the best way to fix this? I know that I will have to reupload the torrent file. Is there anyway to migrate the current leachers to the new torrent or will they have to do it manually? Is there anyway to notify them?
For gay mystery/detective/p.i. books you might consider Mark Richard Zubro, Joseph Hansen, Robert Innes, Gyles Brandreth, Frank W. Butterfield, Greg Herren, Richard Stevenson, R.D. Zimmerman, Dorien Grey, Josh Lanyon, Anthony Bidulka, Neil S. Plakcy, Lev Raphael, James Buchanan, Victor J. Banis, Orland Outland, Mark McNease, and Michael Nava. Duncan Andrews combines mystery and sci-fi in his books. Christopher Rice is a good author in the sci-fi/paranormal genre. One female writer that I felt was good in the gay detective genre is Charlie Cochrane.
I have uploaded several torrents today and have a user that is dominating my upload bandwidth. They are using a seedbox. Is there anyway to regulate a single users bandwidth in BitTorrent? In the hundreds of torrents I have uploaded I have never had this issue before. It keeps other leechers from connecting to me. I also have the user's IP address if that helps.
@Uwe:
Please give your opinions, especially uploader views are welcome.
As a former uploader, I think that it is crap. Those of us who worked hard to earn and keep our auto-approval status were just thrown under the bus. My opinion is that this was done primarily to build traffic back to the site after being closed for so long and because not enough moderators returned to help out.
The one thing that made this tracker stand out from the rest, was the strict approval process. It kept all of the junk out that clutters up other sites. I mean why not make it a public tracker; no need to keep it private and exclusive because its not anymore.
@Uwe:
That highlights as well that Freeleech points are more efficiently spend when used on well seed torrents, which download can be finished in short time.
So the most popular torrents become even more popular and the rest are left to languish?
With the changeover in the old Torrent Approval System to the new Auto Approval for all but brand new members this uploader has fallen thru the cracks and created a huge mess for our membership that are leechers on his uploads.
I think there are many more who have "fallen through the cracks." I was wondering why several uploaders were seeding several new uploads simultaneously rather than following the rules the rest of us had to in order to qualify for Auto Approval. I guess that designation has no meaning now.
The main reason I enjoyed this site and used it so much was because the content was controlled/moderated well. Now it has fallen to the same low standards as the other torrent sites.
@Uwe:
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If our last activity indicator shows 7 days or more of last activity, an original is deleted, else we try to revive it by promoting and re-seed request combination and wait a day if there is a response.
This is my point. I know for a fact that it was active on 2/19/2012 which was only 3 days before the torrent was deleted. I know this because I uploaded a new torrent that day and stopped all of my old ones. After I seeded the new one, I then restarted all of my old torrents to keep them active. This specific torrent had at least one other seeder at that time, so I stopped my seed, so that the other seeder(s) would receive the upload credit if anyone wanted the torrent.
Honestly, my biggest gripe is that the new uploader was aware of the other torrent, since he COPIED my description. I know this for a fact because I include information that most people do not and it also matches the format I use.
I guess from now on, I will just keep all of my old torrents seeding, even if others are seeding them as well, so that a moderator doesn't come along and delete them. Also, are you aware that re-seed requests are never sent to the original uploader?
Oh, and thanks, Uwe, for doing the research before you post. Other moderators would do well to follow your example.
It was my understanding that torrents have to be dead for 7 days before deletion. It was active as recent as 4 days ago. Also, it wasn't deleted when that user uploaded the new torrent because he copied the description from my torrent. He had a moderator delete my torrent so that he could upload his instead of having the torrent refreshed. Check the log.
And if it was not supposed to be a refreshed torrent, then why does it say "** added: 2010-04-03 **" in the description? In fact, if my original torrent had been deleted before this one was uploaded, how would they even know the date of the original torrent?