Posts made by blackdid

Hi all
We all know (or should know) that live links must not be used on GT, Tim's post explains it clearly here :
http://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=10948.msg47853#msg47853

Links should be indicated in the 2 following ways :
hxxp://tracker.sextorrents.ru
or

http://tracker.sextorrents.ru

(though http instead of hxxp would have been possible for that special url, as it's GT sister site)

Now what is bothering me is this : as you will see in the attached pic, my Opera Browser (used by mgr too) allows us to "Go to Web adress" directly from the Code Tag and it works !

I don't know if it's possible from other Browsers, but isn't it a problem for GT because the referrer will be sent if we select the url in the Code Tag, right click and "Go to web adress" directly from GT page ?

Or is it a known problem and url's in Code Tag are crypted in a special way ?
Only you Admins and Mods know
Hope it helps  

@Kinsey6:

Thank you, mgr, for a well-explained response.
I had only asked this once in private … now in public.  Your response is extremely thorough and I hope that each and every member gives respect to this arduous task.

Yes mgr, great respect to your arduous backup task (among other daily tasks)  :clap2:
In french we'd say "Chapeau bas"
In english I dont know how to translate it, maybe "Hats off" ? (like Led Zeppelin's song "Hats off to Roy Harper"…maybe)

@mgr:

As a first thing: thanks for your observance (although this topic is in fact not a forum bug but a bug in the site scripts ) But as well:

Hi mgr  
Thx for your explanation, these little bugs are not urgent to fix, Tom's health is THE priority.
I guessed it wasn't a Forum bug, that's why I PM raphjd and asked him before, where I had to post it.

This is what I asked raphjd :
…
"I would like to inform mgr about this annoying situation, but i'm not sure how to do it :

• Should i post a reply in your thread named "Please report any forum bugs and missing features here" (even if the bug doesn't concern the Forum ?)
• Or PM mgr directly ?
• Or maybe create a new topic somewhere  ?
  Before I do this, please tell me if there is a problem if I reply in your topic named "Please report any forum bugs and missing features here"

This is what raphjd answered me :
"There are 3 groups that can hide their profiles; staff, donors and power users.  If they are not part of what you are talking about, then make post in the forum bug thread."

That's why you see this question in the Forum's bug thread  
This brings a new question : should we create (or does it exist) a thread concerning non-Forum bugs ?

Hi all  
I'll relate a bug I discovered a few days ago (then Uwe confirmed me it was a bug), it has to be written here so Mgr & Tom can read this too :

I have a question concerning the "privacy settings" allowed only to "power users"
Could you please explain me what follows :

1. Mgr writes this :
   "The privacy setting is an option only for power users. To change your setting you have to become a power user"
   http://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=4839.0

2. FAQ say this :
   "This step [becoming a power user] is automated as well and even more easy if you have managed to reach the following three conditions:

• You have to be a member on our site for at least four weeks
• You must have an upload greater than 40 GB
• You must have reached a ratio of at least 1.05 (read better = greater)

3. User Alienx posted something a few days ago in the Forum, here :
   http://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=6325

In the left column of his post, under his name, there's written "Uploaded: 36.28 GB"

But his profile can't be seen : "alienx's security settings doesn't allow to show you the Profile!"
http://tracker.gaytorrent.ru/userdetails.php?id=299948

4. Same for other users, for instance JakeC here :
   http://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=12401  (Uploaded: 29.33 GB)
   http://tracker.gaytorrent.ru/userdetails.php?id=259170

5. raphjd writes : "There are 3 groups that can hide their profiles; staff, donors and power users."

Question : Why are those users profile hidden if they didn't upload 40Gb as stated in FAQ ?
Is it possible they are donors (but no star attached to their nicknames) or is it a bug that is too hard to repair ?

Uwe (hello !) answered me this : "[Alienx] account got effected by a bug, setting the account privacy already at creation to strong (he even can't change, because he isn't Power User)"

Will Tom and/or mgr be able to repair this bug ?
Sometimes we would like to know what a specific user has already uploaded, in case we find one of his upload is very interesting in the torrent Search window.

[off-topic]Hi Tim  
I'm sure we should continue this karaoke in PM so we don't bother them :sorry: raphjd
Bread and 10cc, great choices you have.
Just for my pleasure (and before audition became a more important health problem), I recorded 3 years ago at home a few karaokes, 11 exactly (you sure know the mp3+ CDG's files)
One of them being… Bread - Diary !
It's a wonderful song you sure know it, I found a link here :
hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24IfD-0VUu4

Shame on me, how could I miss that great song in 1978 (I was 27 then) Exile - Kiss you all over ?
Im gonna use the "Leatherbear's icon" when he asked a similar question after having missed the post where you were showing your face  :spank2:[/off-topic]

Thx Tim for your complementary try and mgr for your final explanations.

Off-Topic:
Great song with warm lyrics, thx Tim making me discover it, I love it :ajoy:

Apologizes in advance to raphjd for violating, "Please keep chat to a minimum so it's easier for Tom to see what needs to be fixed."  Using edit to keep new posts to a minimum in this chatty thread.

Feel free to delete all posts once resolved without a need to move our friendly exchange elsewhere.

[off-topic]
Blackdid,
A decade ago when I went to karaoke bars a lot more often – and had enough liquid encouragement –
Exile -- Kiss You All Over -- hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-sh8V9Pzok was my signature song (and is directly in my voice range)
My other two back-ups or encores were:
10cc – I'm Not In Love -- hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rgepWg4rzw
Bread -- The Guitar Man -- hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3YWVeT15qg
Get me drunk enough and I might even stretch myself further.  For instance...
Frank Sinatra -- Impossible Dream -- cannot find Sinatra version but words at hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gIztqPlJ3w
Tim
[/off-topic]

Great face and smile, you bearish cub  :cheesy2:
The goatee suits you really fine, much better than the full beard

lol i'm a real newbie.
Thank you all staff members for your clear explanations, you never let anyone down without answering.

Thank you raphjd 

Thx Brandon,
Always clear and concise answers  

Really, I find these studios behavior very strange : how is it possible "they don't allow you to host content from them(i.e. pictures)" but their videos can be shared ? I mean if they don't accept it for their pics, how can they accept it for their vids ?
I'm a Vulcan and I don't understand their logic  :blink:

Hi all  
Why is the Download buffer related to the Current minimum ratio, instead of being related to a Future minimum ratio ?
Here is a detailed example, all numbers in Gb :
Uploaded : 12
Downloaded : 3
Share Ratio : 4  (ul/dl)
Current minimum ratio : 0.250  (because dl between 2 and 5 as shown in new rationator version 2.2)
Download buffer : 45  i.e.  (12/0.250) -3

I don't like a lot this 45Gb number ("the amount you can download before reaching your current minimum ratio") because it implies a hidden upload you MUST do to be safe.
In fact, if you download 45Gb, this is how your profile will show :

Uploaded : 12
Downloaded : 48  (3+45)
Share Ratio : 0.250  (ul/dl)
Current minimum ratio : 0.400  (because dl between 25 and 50)
Amount to seed : 7.2  i.e.  (48*0.400)-12

Verification : if you upload 7.2Gb, added to your already ul 12, it equals 19.2 uploaded.
Divided by 48 downloaded = 0.400 (ok)

Back to the beginning, wouldn't it be much clearer for the user if the download buffer showed the following :
Uploaded : 12
Downloaded : 3
Share Ratio : 4  (ul/dl)
Current minimum ratio : 0.250  (because dl between 2 and 5)
Download buffer : 27  i.e.  (12/0.400)-3  ("amount you can download without having any ratio issue")

Verification : if you download 27Gb, added to your already dl 3, it equals 30Gb downloaded.
ul/dl = 12/30 = 0.400 (ok)

There's a big difference between the "45Gb" showing actually in the profile, compared to a clearer "27Gb" which would reflect a more accurate download buffer.
That's 18Gb difference (45-27) in the end

Hi Mod's 
Would it be possible to update the rules thread and include all the sites where "images from this studio are not allowed" ?
I found several torrents where this strange situation happens : torrents are accepted, but not images from the corresponding studio.
This includes : Jason Crew, All World Videos, Catalina, Bulldog etc…
And well, the poster probably didn't know that and prepared carefully, maybe 15 attached pics...which were all rejected (no, it never happened to me ! well...not yet lol)

Now maybe this list already exists and I didn't find it.
In that case, I apologize.

Thanks and have a great day 

@mgr:

If you can give me a real good reason to show AA-users in a different color…

Hi mgr  
lol no I can't, and as I already wrote in another topic : "In my opinion, users requests should never be the priority (except for a clear bug, not a user improvement request, and I write this even if I'm a user), compared to any staff request that could help them in their daily work (less time required to do this, or make this task easier etc…)"
So if the AA colored info is already accessible to Mod's and helps them, then it's ok with me.

But what I read and understand from all staff members (Uwe, Brandon, you mgr)  is the difficult and long task that Mod's have when they check for dups, and you just wrote it yourself : "...you'd be astonished (to avoid "scared") how many AA-uploaded torrents have mistakes (like duplicates)"

That's why (imho) Uwe's suggestion (and I made the same suggestion without knowing he already suggested that) should be a priority, i.e searching by file size to find dups more easily, as discussed in another topic : it would definitely help all Mod's to approve torrents faster, because it will take them less time to detect dups and reject the torrent.

Just for info, I keep in one txt file the names and sizes of the movies I get, it's definitely not the best way to retrieve any kind of info, but it helped me a lot to avoid dups :

• search if same name exist, if not :
• search if same size exists

And yes, many times the size is exactly the same, it's the same movie with another name (many uploaders change the file name for well known reasons)

You told us Tom was not here to help you right now (hi Tom !) , and you already added that suggestion to your do-list's . Well if one day you wake up and wonder : "ok, what what can I program today to help my Mod's ?", well…just remember blackdid's insistence (hey...careful with that axe !)  ;D

Mod's, I'm speaking on your behalf.
What a surrealistic situation...only found on GT  :laugh:

PS: mgr, Opera browser upgraded automatically for me yesterday (last release 10.61 as you can see here in the left column under my name) . But why didn't it upgrade automatically for you, as it shows 10.60 under your name in the middle of this page (your post being written a couple of hours ago) ?
Oh...you don't accept automatical Opera updates, something has to be done, Mod's help pleaseeee :thx:

@Uwe:

Moderators see Auto approval names in a different colour and "anonymous" uploader user names in a different shape.
mgr made us that already, but not to standard members.

:announce: I think mgr's way !

Well now I should ask it officially in the request thread : it would be great if this good functionality could be seen by standard members too.
Then, if a user waits for his approval during hours and notices meanwhile 10 new approvals…all in green "AA" color, he would know there's nobody working on torrent approval (more or less), this should soothe his pain...a little

Better than staying in his own depressed mood : "My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"  ;D

@Uwe:

…because of the Auto Approval privilege members' uploads which go directly to the list and don't queue for approval.

Thx Uwe for your explanations.
Wouldn't it be great to display a "green star" (it indicates "auto approval" in visible user's profiles) right to the uploader's name on each result line in the Search window, and this green star would appear even if a user profile is hidden ?

But as we already have yellow stars (donators) or red "A" (download disabled) right to some user's names, it would be too overcrowded there.

Hey, I got an idea : why not displaying the user's NAME in green (instead of white) if he's on "auto approval" ?
Well, don't know if this could be of any help for Mod's…except give more work to mgr  ;D

Have a great week-end all of you
(Brandon, i wrote it my way "week-end" ... private joke) 

Hi all,
Interesting topic, good questions and answers  
"269091" joined on July 30th and I joined next day, on July 31th so we're still newbies (until when lol)

But with Mod's and Admin's answers in Forum or PM, I guess most of the questions I had were solved.
Now concerning the torrent approval time, yes it varies a lot (especially if you upload during day time or night time, as I usually do).

Last example yesterday night : QTM 1.3 uploaded my torrent and redownloaded it automatically in Utorrent at exactly 23h24pm
And it has been approved at 5h18am this morning.
I felt it would take some time before approval (because of the hours display concerning the last approved torrents yesterday evening, as showed in the Search screen : 19h51 - 21h51 - 21h55… then nothing else was approved when I checked at 23h24, so maybe night mod was busy or resting at night time, and i respect that) . Next approved night torrents were done at 2h15, then 4h41 , finally a whole bunch (9 torrents) were approved during 4h59 and 5h25, including mine at 5h18 (time for torrent approval is no more an issue for me, because I knew my torrent was well prepared and mod may be busy. Also there are many other things you can do on the computer meanwhile...or even sleep lol)

On the other hand, during day time, it happened to me a torrent was approved after a few minutes only and that was great too. The things I always do now while waiting for approval are :

• Stop all other seedings (no more leeching these days, but if they were I'd stop all of them too, immediately)
• Verify images have been uploaded correctly (clic on the link in the automatical GT response : it happened to me, once, that an image was "lost" in GT, so I deleted the torrent before approval and resent it, that's so easy to do with QTM 1.3 , and all 12 images were showing that time)
• Verify Utorrent is seeding (the green arrow, not the red one !) and it shows me seeding at GT ("1" written in green in my GT uploading profile, and "0" in downloading) : all these steps are very simple to check.
• What is a bit more complicated is to check, before, if it's not a duplicate, and several queries have to be done in the Search window to check the best I can before creating the torrent (and Mod's sure have same problem to detect duplicates : it takes time, that's why the Search engine could be more helpful to all of us, as we already discussed here with Mod's and Admin's : http://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=1818.120 )
  Helping Mod's to search faster if a torrent is a duplicate or not will make this annoying task less...annoying  
  Also Uwe already confirmed me that the pending torrents were approved using a "FIFO" method (first in, first out)

Brandon, I thought same as you concerning something you wrote in this topic : "...then keep an eye on the new torrents.  If one becomes visible and available that was uploaded after your then by all means send us a PM to see what the hold up is..."

But aren't we both mistaken looking it that way ?
In my nightly example, you can see 2 torrents were approved at  2h15am - 4h41am, when I uploaded mine at 23h24pm
How can I know at what exact time those 2 torrents were uploaded by the users ?
I can't, because it isn't shown anywhere (only approval time is indicated in the search window results) and those users probably uploaded their torrents before I uploaded mine, i.e they both uploaded before 23h24 and their torrents were pending before I uploaded mine, do you see it that way too ?

The only place where is indicated the real uploading time is the "hidden" page indicated by the automatical GT response, the page where our torrent isn't yet public (waiting for approval), there we check if our images are all displayed and if comments are correct : only there it shows the exact upload date, but it's hidden to everybody else, and just after approval, the approval date replaces the real upload date...which will disappear forever.

Or not ?  

Test to see if image zooms when clicked on it, like it happens in some other messages on GT…
...Yes it worked  :cheers:
Those 2 pics for Michael & Brandon, maybe they'll like them...and why not other staff members and readers too

Incredible thread, thanks so much