Posts made by ben351500

You say you spent a month texting him and telling him of your feelings. You don't say if he replied to any of your messages. If someone I wasn't interested in did that to me, I would think he was a stalker. Perhaps he reported you and that's why you were placed in an institution? In many countries this sort of thing happens.

The flag on your profile says Barbados, so I assume you are from there. Right now, same-sex is illegal in Barbados, and the culture not very understanding. So it sounds like you got away relatively easily - it could have been much worse. And it's good he is open-minded enough to be your friend.

It's fine to be his friend, but don't expect much of anything else. It's too bad you're in love with him, as it will only end in disappointment for you. If he is OK with hearing about how you feel, tell him, but realize that if he ever turns against you, he could cause a lot of problems. I would recommend telling him once, and leaving it at that; nothing is more annoying than hearing that sort of thing over and over again. You don't want him to feel you are pressuring him, especially since you are older than he. Be very careful and discreet.

I would never tell anyone to deny who they are, but I would advise you, if you are in Barbados, to be very careful. Take this from someone who has lived for many years in several countries where homosexuality is illegal and culturally taboo, and has seen some pretty bad things happen to people.

However, if you are, say, a Barbadian (is that the proper word?) living in the West, like the UK or Canada, I would tell you to go for it, but advise you not to make yourself a pest.

Good luck.

Hi everyone.  This morning I was searching for: my family doesn't know. A copy had been uploaded about 7 minutes prior, and i wanted to see if there were other sizes available. The phrase "my family doesn't know" is from the name/title of the upload, not file name or description.

I opened a second tab to search by Size and when I put in the title there was no result, although I was looking at the prior upload on my first tab.

However, when I repeated this but used quotes, I got results.

Obviously the difference was the use of quotation marks. So my question is: what do the quotes do differently in the context of Searching? Or to rephrase, What is the prupose of quotes and does it necessarily yield more results than earching without them?

Many thanks from a non-techie.

You're right; this is a big problem. However, I also notice that folks will still download these torrents, thus rewarding the crappy download. It would be nice if all downloaders decided to boycott such uploads; that would discourage the practice. However, such a level of organization is impossible to achieve. I personally don't download crappy torrents, but I'm just one guy.

Bottom line: Downloaders have a huge resposibility in rewarding this behavior. It wouldn't happen if downloaders demanded that uploaders stick to the standards.

South Asian guys! India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan.

Do mean litterally in the steamroom or the dry heat room? Wouldn't that be physically dangerous after a while?

As a fantasy it sound - gulp - incredibly hot.

@Eridanos:

@raphjd:

Of course, people are attracted to their "own kind".

I would never be with a person who hates dogs, for example.

I could never be with someone like Nathan Lane's character in Bird Cage.   Likewise, I couldn't be with a leather head or a 90s bar queen (you know the outfit).

This is a really good point.  Attraction has a physical and a mental component.  If we say "to our/their own kind" we are implying many things here, not just physical attraction.

I have felt physically attracted to guys of age groups, racial groups and body types different from my own.  But normally is their attitudes and interests which seal the deal…or break it.

Now...the look-alike boyfriends...that's really scary as it makes me think of overly narcissistic and overly dependent persons or that our beauty fashions have become homogenized, and mass produced and distributed.

The above is very true, I think. But it also depends on what kind of attraction you're taliking about. There's a mighty big difference between the guys I only want to fuck, and those I want to have a romantic relationship with. The number of guys I find physically attractive is very wide indeed, whereas they guys I fall in (real) love with is much smaller. This is where the mental component mentioned above kicks in, and is more important than the physical aspects. Let's face it: looks come and go. The inside traits last a lot longer, for good or ill.

On a strictly physical level, I would say many guys are attracted to opposites just as much as similarities. It seems that we are fascinated by what we are not. Personally I have a thing for hairy chests, but I myself have none. I'm also very white skinned, but I find darker complections - ranging from olive to French Roast coffee - really grab my attention. On the other hand, if a hot blond-haired blue-eyed guy wanted to fool around I would be into it. Lastly, I also find that my  taste in guys has evolved and expanded as I've gotten older, meaning that types I wuldn't have especially paid much attention to as a young guy now get a rise out of me.

All this means is that people are complicated, and simple dichotomies (or non-dichotomies?) in taste don't fit comfortably in real life.

So the other day my keyboard went bananas; I ended up having a new key pad installed, so all is now OK.

During that time, when I tried to login, typing my username was difficult, as the slash (/) key kept repeating despite my now touching it. So now when I try to put in my username, a list of possible usernames drops down, with such as "b////////////////////en35//1//////…" - you get the idea.

Is there a way to get rid of all these? I mean, I know it's not that important, but I do tend to like things neat and tidy.

Thanks guys.

OK cool. I'd always wondered what was a-goin' on. Thanks for the replies.

@MrMazda:

Usually, this means that the tracker has errored out for some reason. Usually this is due to an unregistered torrent, which can happen for one of a few reasons. The easiest way to see if this is the case is to click the torrent in uTorrent, then click the "Trackers" tab. If you see "Unregistered Torrent" beside the tracker URL, then you may as well remove it, because the torrent has been removed from the site.

Is this permanent? I've had experiences where a majority of my uTorrent list has the red arrows, but the next time I check (a few hours or a day later) most of them have reverted back to the blue up arrow. Given how long it can sometimes take to seed (I still have stuff I downloaded in 2016) I'm loathe to delete a torrent that could eventually upload further, especially if there are only a few of us with it.

@flozen:

I welcome input if I'm wrong, but in defense of some (clearly, not all) of the struggling Uploaders, it's quite possible they live in a country where Internet provider speeds are slow, or somewhere that charges a lot of money for what we, in more developed markets, consider standard service.

Thanks for mentioning this. I live in Sri Lanka, and despite having the best high-speed service available here, the entire system often slows down dramatically or stops completely for periods of time ranging from minutes to hours every day. There's nothing to be done about it, but it does affect my ability to both upload and download in a timely way. Part of the price you pay for living in paradise.

Got it. Thanksmucho!

Here's something I hadn't noticed before. Today someone posted a couple of torrents that contain two files; both files have been previously uploaded, but the thing is that both files are of the same film/scene (not two different scenes, which are a collection and therefore not duplicates). It seems to me to be a gray area; not strictly duplication, but not really a collection either. What do folks think - are these collections or duplicatets? I give the two files below:

https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=74748574188b07031c723d1e2447d4a87cbe37d0cd05a5bd

and

https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=56ba96ba30e600651c723d1e2447d4a81d2927918e43726d

Thank you. I'm sorry to be so persistant. And thank you too for your patience with me. You guys do a lot of good work - as volunteers - on this site, and I for one appreciate it very much.

Thank you, but that doesn't answer the question as to what the rule on this is. I would like to know so that I don't go reporting files as dupe when they are not - it wastes everyone's time, and I'm sure y'all would like to get fewer false resports.

I thought your answer was about same file, but collected together with other files.

My question is about the same file, but with a set of pics along with it. One pic included in the torrent, or 100 pics; is it a duplicate if the video is that same?

I aplogize for being obtuse, but I can't seem to get a simple yes or no answer, and I see what I think is contradictory information in the forums, etc.

@kayalaan: Aha! Now I understand! The Xpirement was a kinda/sorta red herring, in that there is no video file. Thanks mucho for explaining.

So my question from Jan 7 still stands - whether a new upload of the same file but with pictures (zipped or not) is a duplicate (with the poivisio that it isn't grouped together with other files of course).

Now I'm super confused. Kalayaan,  in your reply above today, you seem to indicate that if the entire collection of video, pics, etc is +/- 10% the upload is not a dupliacte, even if the video file is the same (I don't know how to use the quote function - sorry).

"The thing is, when you extract the .rar file (we allowed that for images, magazines and cartoons except for videos), the file size of that torrent is still the same, so it's more than 10% difference, i.e. not a dupe"

But in another thread titles "Bundling" yesterday you wrote:

"I've discussed this with one of our global mod and the answer is Yes, the pictures in the file is irrelevant.
We based our dupe on the file size (exact size or <10%difference) and file format."

If I'm understand both posts correctly, there's a contradiction here.

Help!  I'm blond and from Los Anegels! I need things explained super simple and clear!  ;D

I'm a touch confused. I seem to recall from an earlier post that merely adding pictures along with a previosuly-uploaded video does NOT make it a new upload. In other words, adding pictures makes no difference. The +/- 10% rule applies to the video file, not the collection of files as a whole.

Or at least that's what I understood from the Forum previously. Have I been wrong all this time?

What is the official rule here? Could a GTRU staff member please clarify?

Thanks.

You can move your cursor over the torrent name to see how many pics have already been uploaded. But I think the only way to really know if a torrent needs pics is to open the torrent page and see how many pics there are. If there is space for more, you will see an underlined request saying "Add Screenshots and Covers." If you don't see this, you can't add anything more.

The new note on the front page after login mentions massive amounts of scraping. What is that, and what are it's affects?