Hi Mgr
I would like to discuss a couple of points :
@mgr:
As much as I like guides with pictures: those guides (for example creating a torrent) are rather problematic: I can't create such a pictured guide for Vuze because I use uTorrent myself (and installed Azureus (now Vuze) only once because I had to reformat my hard drive to remove all remnants of Azureus after un-installing the software ) - and another question has to be answered too: for which clients have we to write such guides?
Maybe I will sound too radical with what follows, but GT being now the best gay torrent side in the world, all his users are glad to be members of the site and will do all they can to stay here, so if a LITTLE effort is asked to a few members (explanations later), they should contribute…or find another gay torrent site as great as GT (believe me, they won't find it and they'll all do the effort)
So if Tom and you created a tool (QTM 1.3) that works perfectly with uTorrent, all users on PC under Windows (and you have this info for each user, their OS) must run the couple uTorrent/QTM, avoiding the daily same questions./answers ("why my torrent didn't seed ?" => "don't forget you have to re-download the torrent !" etc…)
And if a torrent you receive isn't created with QTM, well you could simply decline it and ask the user to install QTM / utorrent, because QTM seems to work only with utorrent, if i read Tom here : "uTorrent is the only supported client at the moment - more clients will be added soon" :
http://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=2643.0
Now I see Uwe and MrMazda just answered while I am typing this, and of course, there's a problem with other OS / machines
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Utorrent website shows they have "versions for Mac and Linux", so utorrent should be the only client that all users should use in GT, whatever is their OS/ machine, especially all of you, Admins and Mods are specialized in uTorrent : that would simplify a lot your daily job concerning the client questions.
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QTM works under Windows, but I'm not sure there is a Mac version or not : until there is one, Mac users will of course have to upload manually (they can't use QTM)
My point is : though it seems "shocking" to force all users to install the same client (utorrent) and use QTM, I find myself "shocking" that a program like QTM isn't used by 100% of your users (if their machine/OS allow it) because it's so simple, reliable, and it's coupled with utorrent : so if you want to simplify the Admins / Mods daily job, use only 1 client (utorrent) associated to your internal program 'QTM)
Dont forget this : you're no more a starting web site who needs to attract more and more users, you became the 1st gay torrent site and it's not too much asking to your users to all use the same client (especially when 75% of them are already using it), this will decrease the number of daily questions you receive (helpdesk) concerning client problems. Of course, you couldn't have had the same approach a few years ago, when you started the site (or if you were no more a free site)
Just a word concerning the number of utorrent users already existing in the site : in the attached pic, you'll see 75% of users under utorrent (this pic wasn't created at all for this purpose a couple of days ago…hey my name is yellowed in the pic, isn't it great ?)
@mgr:
The number of users who have a look at our offered help files is more than discouraging! (Take as an example the pictured guide how to search for duplicate torrents before uploading only 39 out of currently 268 members with auto approval privilege really read that guide :cry2: )
Well maybe if this commandment ("3. Thou shou not upload duplicate files") was written on the main page we're talking about, it would be have been read much more often than 39 times
I never find this page easy ("how to search for duplicate torrents before uploading") but I won't enter in this discussion now. What suprises me are those "dead torrents" we have to search in.
Imho a dead torrent is a dead torrent, it's buried and that's all, it should stay in its grave, not be accessible to anyone, wouldn't it have been much easier for everybody in the site ?
You search for an active torrent and you don't find it ?
So upload it !
Why this complication of entering into dead torrents, waiting xx days, writing here and there, giving more and more work to Mods to control this situation when PM them concerning a dead torrent ?
It's dead ? Bye bye then and let the user upload a new torrent.
Well I hope I'm not too "rude" but now you know it's just my warm way of writing, I just would like to understand why you didn't bury the dead torrents, so it would have been easier for users to search into active torrents only, and it would give less work to the staff, ignoring totally this dead torrent (false) problem.
In fact, it's same in our daily lives : when we're used to do something for years, then comes a newbie (like me, though i'm here for 3 months already, i'm still a newbie) who asks : "why are you doing it that way ? Wouldn't be easier for all of us to do it in a simpler way" ?
As usual, I just wrote a book
Big Hugs