Posts made by bearbearbear

1. What bit torrent client are you presently using?  Transmission

2. What features does your current torrent have that you like?

In order:
It is open source software and is updated regularly if not frequently.  I strongly believe in open source software, co-ops, sharing resources, free, open access to information, etc.
It has a lot of features and is easy to use.  
It doesn't use a lot of GPU or memory and can handle thousands of files as easily as a few.  
It is native to Mac OS but is also available for many other platforms.

Full list of advantages is here:  https://transmissionbt.com/about/

3. What features does your current torrent not have that you wish it did?

I wish it automatically verified the data when a download is complete.  Supposedly that is not necessary but I frequently find that a tiny amount of a file is missing when verifying a completed download, so I have learned to always verify all downloads immediately.  This is especially important with files that won't work right if they aren't complete, such as some video formats (MP4, if I recall correctly), compressed files, music albums in a single FLAC file that I intend to separate into individual songs in lossy format, etc. I'm not sure what causes this problem or why it hasn't been fixed with the fairly regular updates.

It used to estimate the time remaining to complete a download but no longer does.  It only worked accurately with faster downloads and fast downloads are  now so fast that I guess it doesn't really matter any longer.

It used to bug me that the icon automatically gets a Santa cap during the holidays but there is a way to disable that.

4. What other torrent clients have you used in the past?  None.

5. How many torrents are you presently seeding with this client?  1,500+

I don't re-seed but simply seed everything I download until the torrent becomes inactive because it is removed from the site or until I no longer want to keep it.  If I no longer want to keep it, I make sure that there are several seeders before deleting it and will make it freeleech if there aren't approximately five or more seeders.

I keep active torrent files in a folder as a backup as they've come in handy when changing computers or hard drives or when there's a problem with the torrent software.  A few thousand torrent files shouldn't take up even 100 MB.

I do standardize the names of downloads I want to keep but only when they become inactive.

It's pretty easy to find what I want by sorting or searching even though all the downloads are in the same large folder on a hard drive so I don't find there is any need to put everything in folders.   I will sometimes keep collections in the same folder and I do use some tags to help with sorting.

In your situation, the basic process is:

Change the name of the downloaded file back to the exact original name.
Move the downloaded file back into the correct folder so your torrent software (client) can find it.
Download the torrent file.
Add the torrent file to your torrent software.

The torrent client should then automatically verify the file data and start seeding.

If the torrent client can't find the file, you may not have renamed it correctly or you may have to tell it where to find it.

@lololulu19:

When I search on:
Twink Obsession
I get no hits, but when I search on
"Twink Obsession"
I get this hit.. 
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=c5e10ca4aa227f61f6f43426e31267c067b2c9e0f10104d5

Why is that?
Perhaps quotes should AUTOMATICALLY be put around all search queries?

Works either way for me. . . .

@A7X:

I know how to seach torrents on gay-torrents.ru, but when i search for sketchy sex videos i got few results. But there was a way to seach the videos that I could find them, but i don't remember what i used to type on the seach bar to find.

Does anyone can help?

Sketchy sex videos must be taken down with DMCA requests fairly quickly after being uploaded because plenty of torrents are shown with a Google search but then they don't actually exist on the site.

So here's a little help:

Search for "SS" as an abbreviation for the studio name as well as for "sketchysex" as one word and "sketchy sex" as two words.

Also search in the torrent name and description both.  The broader your searches, the more results you'll get, and even if some are not exactly what you're looking for, you are less likely to miss the ones you are looking for.

1.  Sometimes there are problems connecting to seeds.  Today I got a request to reseed a torrent that I was already seeding and it appeared to have one other seeder as well for two seeders and one leecher total.  So I made the torrent freeleech for 24 hours to bring in enough other leechers so that at least someone can connect to a seeder so that the data will start flowing all around.  The more seeders and leechers, the better.  It's now at 3 seeders and 3 leechers just a half hour later.

If you are going to go to the trouble of actually downloading the torrent file and reseeding, give it a couple of weeks, especially if you can see that there is a leecher trying to download.  It may take other downloaders joining in to make the connections needed.  If a torrent is inactive and no data is being uploaded or downloaded, that shouldn't affect your ISP limits as they are most likely related to data rates and total volume rather than the actual raw number of torrents that are sitting in your torrent client inactive.

2.  If you have fewer resources than needed to meet demand then you must necessarily allocate those resources if you can't increase the available resources or lower demand.  You could use whatever criteria you like to decide when to reseed and I think any of the ones you suggested would be fine.

You might also look at how many other seeders there are 24 or 72 hours later when there is a reseed request and then decide.  Those requests seem to produce a slow response as many people only actively manage their torrents and check torrent websites on an occasional basis.  Sometimes I have tried to download a torrent with no seeders for months and then one day when I look at my torrent software, it's sitting there complete.  There are some seeders with a very high upload rate that apparently seed intermittently or seed so much that there is a queue.  So there may be a lot of seeders a few days later and your seed simply won't be needed.

My personal torrent ethics acknowledge that it is an "honor among thieves" or "pirates' agreement" situation as ssd points out above.  The primary rule I adhere to is that I always give more than I take.
Since I provide little new content, that means seeding what I've leeched.  All of the videos that I download are generally seeded as long as the torrent file itself can be downloaded.

However, if there are already a lot of seeders on something I've downloaded that I don't intend to keep indefinitely, I will delete that file after I'm through with it instead of seeding it as the need is greater elsewhere, on files without a lot of seeders.  Basically I try to sustain torrents for the long term and it's the ones of limited interest that most need seeders and that are most appreciated by those who download them.

@litres46:

Can I give files (via usb) I have previously downloaded to someone else so they can seed them and help improve their ratio? Do they need to re-download the .torrent file or will giving them my .torrent file work as long as it's from their IP address?

Give them the video files only and they can put them in their torrent download folder.  They have to download the .torrent file logged into their own account.  When they add them to the tracker it will read the file and seed if you have done it correctly.  I did this to help someone out and I have also done it myself with videos from other sites when I didn't want to keep seeding there and the same video was here.  I will tell you the person I helped by setting him up with an account and making it easy for him to get off to a good start with his ratio didn't really appreciate the trouble I went to.

Be careful NOT to share your .torrent files with your key and also make sure that person is not using the same IP address that you are using.

A few videos from a studio or featuring one model made available for free can serve as advertising and entice viewers to want more and some people will be willing to pay for watching them.  However, a large collection makes paying for videos from a studio or featuring that model unnecessary.  A collection is like giving the store away instead of free samples.  That's my best guess as to why that happens.

It may also be that they are only asking for newer videos to be taken down or perhaps a particular model asks for videos he or she is featured in to be taken down.  If a collection contains just one of those videos under scrutiny, the whole collection will be taken down.  The individual videos that are not taken down may be older or not feature that particular model.

@makigott:

DOwnloading this torrent file quite healthy as it's just uploaded
But sadly it's been sitting like this w/o any movements for 2days inside my torrent file
even though its on a priority download wahhh!

In your screenshot, it shows status as "bad ratio".  I have run into this same problem because I was trying to download too many files at the same time.  Maybe you have some large multi-file torrents that you are seeding but you only downloaded some of the files.  Maybe you have some torrents that that you are trying to download that don't have any seeders you can connect to and they have been sitting there trying to download for a long time.  Or maybe you have both.  My torrent software will show me "downloading" torrents only and that's an easy way to check for those.

Those count against the total number you are allowed to download at the same time.  (That's different from and much lower than your daily torrent download limit.)  Pause those torrents if you have several and see what happens.

@rewolve:

Can unprotected oral sex transmit HIV? Some sources say that it is not safe, and others say that the risk is only theoretical…

No reliable source says that unprotected oral sex is safe.  That was true even before HIV.  It is true even if you don't have any sores anywhere on your body.

Some of the diseases that are transmitted through unprotected oral sex are HIV, herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, HPV, and viral hepatitis.  HPV causes warts or cancer.

Oral herpes simplex (cold sores, fever blisters) and genital herpes simplex are very common;  the majority of people in the world have one or the other.  The virus can be transmitted even if there are no visible sores and can infect the lips, mouth, penis, anus, etc.

Oral transmission of HIV is low risk but it is not no risk.  It can happen even without visible sores or wounds.

If you are having any kind of unprotected sex, consider using PrEP.

http://www.whatisprep.org/

@zullu:

I have uploaded a torrent that was already downloaded a lot, but now I want to delete in fear of this copright bid, if I do that I lose the upload rate I already earned?

No, you don't lose the credit you already earned if you stop seeding or even if delete the torrent from your torrent software.

@AnythingOld:

And I really do hope that members are not blonde enough to give away points to people like these.

Using "blonde" to mean dumb or stupid is offensive.  You may not care about offending people but doing that unnecessarily encourages people to discount everything you write or say.  "Consider the source."

@dc2009:

"- Uploaders who incorrectly miscategorize the categories"

This one is getting a little annoying. Over 10 new torrests in the Straight older category uploaded today looks nothing like older.

I'm not disagreeing with you but just pointing out that "older" is subjective.  When you are 60, 40 is young.  When you are 20, 40 is old.  To a 16 year old, anyone over 21 or so is old.

@yepyep7891:

I have a couple of torrents in my torrent client having the seeding status, but all files show as 'dead' on gaytorrent, with only one exception a torrent I downloaded some minutes ago. Why is that? And the Last Seen Complete column doesn't look good as well. I am trying to seed files to help others but it's pretty useless now to keep them in my torrent client…

I have attached a screenshot...

The files aren't actually dead.  I checked six of them at random and they all had multiple seeders except that I couldn't find a torrent for "MasterJax" at all.  Either your torrent client isn't reporting correct information or else there was a problem with this site at that time.

@flozen:

bbb, i will gently differ on a point, and that is, for my referencing the content of videos, separate FTM and MTF categories seems very useful, as much as I understand there are infinite levels of gender fluidity and types of sexual activity that could be viewed by individuals as more meaningful as a primary descriptor.

It's not something that I had given any thought to other than sort of rolling my eyes mentally every time I see the "shemale" category.  I don't even watch any sort of trans porn on a regular basis.  The category is probably named the way it is because so much porn is labelled that way in the first place, although it seems "trans" or "transexual" is probably more common these days than "she-male" or "she male".

Luke Hudson videos are assigned the "shemale" category by site members.  He is FTM.  "She male" is a neutral term that includes FTM and MTF if you think about it, even though it is most often associated with MTF trans people.

It makes me wonder if no one in management cares, or if the website "module" even allows categories to be added, removed or renamed.

I think management is probably made up of unpaid volunteers and that they have more than enough to do just keeping the site up and running.  I would guess that changing anything is much more complicated, risky, and time-consuming than someone who hasn't done it (like myself) can imagine.  Something that works okay is probably not a priority even if it is not ideal.

I agree that "Shemale" is generally considered offensive and that "Trans" would be the appropriate category as it includes both transexual and transgender people and anything else between male and female.

It doesn't have anything to do with what sexual activities are involved, if any.  There are plenty of torrents of solo posing, for instance.  If the sexual activities were the determining factor, where would those go?  Sexuality is a spectrum, not discreet categories of straight, gay, etc.  Anal sex could be between any two people of any sex and/or gender if at least one of them has an anus. Same for oral sex.  It's the individuals having anal or oral sex that determines the category, not the orifice.

Trying to break it down further into categories even as simple as FTM and MTF probably wouldn't work very well.  Sex and gender are not so clearly defined these days, especially with DNA testing available.  There are people who are not strictly genetically male or female, there are people whose sex and/or gender appearance and/or identity are different from their DNA.  It's hard to sort out and categorize and there's really no need to.

Also, it would be a lot easier to just switch the category to Trans than to break Shemale down into more than one category and recategorize all the torrents.

@kcjaries78:

Any tips and tricks would be helpful.

I did the same thing you did once, uploaded a new torrent for a video that had a dead torrent.  Here's what you should do instead:

Just move the video file you have into your torrent download folder.  Then download the original but dead torrent file from here again and add it to your torrent software.  It should recognize and check the old file and then you can seed it so that it's not a dead file any longer.

When you used the search feature, you can specify active, dead only, or active and dead torrents.

You could even ask a mod if they would recycle the old torrent files to make it appear as a new torrent to attract downloaders since it would revive a long-dead torrent to fix.  The net effect would be the same as if you had uploaded a new torrent.

See "How to reseed?" in the FAQ here:
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/faq.php

@pols1337:

@bearbearbear:

Agreed, but in this case the member is deliberately lying and circumventing the rule against begging by posting the request in the comments and blowing off someone who pointed out that he's spreading misinformation.

Whoa …  Deliberate lying!  Circumventing the rules!  Spreading misinformation!  :crazy2: Did the user also steal candy from a baby and single-handedly pollute the ocean??   LOL  The intensity of rhetoric that you used is, like, totally disproportionate to the banality of this problem.  Maybe it's a slow week on GTRU so we're ratcheting up the forum drama, eh?  In which case, oh my god he made TRUMP WIN! 

Is there any rule that prohibits a user from requesting / asking / begging / beseeching / pleading / blackmailing for seedbonus points in the description, in the comments, in the file title, or literally anywhere on the torrent file?  I haven't seen one myself, so I look forward to clarification from a moderator.

If there is, then bring it up with the user and we can go on with our merry lives before - gasp - more misinformation is spread.  If there isn't, then this entire topic has been a thoroughly unnecessary and trivial complaint by zbret who got annoyed (which is honestly a personal problem
for zbret, not a problem for the community or for GTRU staff).

Drama?  Compare the tone of my single, descriptive sentence to the tone of your three paragraph response just above.  If this topic annoys you so much, don't read it, simple as that.

See Rule #11 here about pleading for points:

https://www.gaytorrent.ru/rules.php

Any information, e.g. the title, categories, pictures and description must correctly represent the content of the files shared with the torrent and avoid misleading members about the content. This applies as well to additions, votes or comments made by other members than the original uploader. In doubt, rather than providing wrong information, omit it.
At least one good quality picture is mandatory for the torrent presentation.
Torrents in the Themed Movie and TV / Episodes categories need to indicate the audio language(s) and, if present, the subtitle language(s), including if optional, forced or hardcoded in the video.
Descriptions in the title such as "Hot!", "Must See!", "Best Ever!", "New" or "Latest" are unacceptable. The comment area is the only appropriate place to give your personal opinion of the content or otherwise make personal requests. Include the release date, rather than "New", "Latest", etc. …
Do not plead for bonus seed points in the description area.
Remark: Please provide as much information as possible. For details read the Guidelines in the Upload-Guide..

BitComet torrent software creates those padding files in torrents with multiple files.  They are added so none of the multiple files share any of the torrent pieces. They are useful in some circumstances but create a lot of junk files and unnecessary bandwidth use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitComet#Padding_files

@pols1337:

3.  New members should be allowed more leeway.  They're literally new and inexperienced to the site.  The question shouldn't be "how do we ban / criticize every new member who doesn't know the rules?".  Instead, the question should be, "how do we present a smoother onboarding that clarifies and affirms our community guidelines".  For example …

Agreed, but in this case the member is deliberately lying and circumventing the rule against begging by posting the request in the comments and blowing off someone who pointed out that he's spreading misinformation.  It does not seem that his intentions are good or that he is an innocent new member trying to do the right thing.  The mods here do a great job of determining intent and not coming down harshly on people when it's unwarranted.

As an example, I got snagged one time for uploading a duplicate of a dead torrent.  I wasn't even a new member and I knew that there was a rule against duplicate torrents but because it was dead, I thought it would be okay to make the copy I finally found elsewhere available here.  I was trying to do the right thing, I was trying to be helpful, my intentions were good.  I was warned about it in a nice way and was told what to do next time there is a similar situation. Overall, it was a positive interaction.

On the other hand, you have people deliberately slightly altering a video by changing the name and then uploading it as a different torrent with a slightly different file size to circumvent the rules.  That rule had to be clarified to prevent it from happening.

Maybe begging for seed points on torrent pages should be outlawed completely, in the description OR in the comments.  Surely that was the intent when it was outlawed in the description but inevitably, someone found a loophole by posting it in the comments.

@pols1337:

I haven't tested this, but many search engines have an 'exclude' function:

-chaterbute

You'll need verification from a staff member to see if the GTRU search engine can process this query

For advanced search functions, just use Google and specify site:gaytorrent.ru as a search term.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en

Example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=solo+latin+-chaturbate+site%3Agaytorrent.ru

@pols1337:

The point still stands: this is a new user who actively contributed something first and did everything 'correct' in terms of posting a descriptive and valuable torrent.

Doing something good isn't a license for doing bad things.

@AnythingOld:

Bottom line, if users would actually bother to read the site rules/instructions, we wouldn't have these "misinterpretations." Everyone would be on the same page.

That is true but it never has happened and will never happen, here or anywhere else.  Even if everyone carefully read and understood and remembered all of the rules that apply to them, some people will choose not to follow them.

Besides, what he is doing is not against the site rules even if it is against their spirit and intention as he is begging for points in the comments, not in the video description.