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Hopefully it's cool to post this. I just spent about 20,000 seed points to make https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=7b28122cc4c9d769c91a397988232f5a716d2f5e422f6e15 freeleech for the next 24 hours.

I'm not the original uploader but had become the only seeder, and found it while looking for large torrents to clean up to reclaim some disk space. I wanted to try to build up some more seeders for this one. If you've got the disk space, maybe download it while it's freeleech and help keep it available as a seeder?

(While searching to try to see if it was OK to post stuff like this, I learned that apparently I could have just asked a mod to make it freeleech rather than spending most of my points. But I had a ton built up, so it's no problem. Just didn't want to spend all those points and have no one download the thing.)

Hello!

My account on the main site tells me I joined "287 weeks ago," so I'm not actually new. But after a long time away, I'm back, and want to get more involved!

The site is faster than I remember, and the forums look better than I remember. It's great to be back!

The big thing to check is to make sure the port your torrent client is listening on is accessible. If it's not, no one can reach you. It's a fairly common problem: you can open connections to others to download, but if the port isn't open to the Internet, no one can connect to you. (It's also really hard to help with because everyone's setup can vary so much based on what torrent client you're using, whether your computer has some built-in firewall getting in the way, and whether you have a router that can set up port-forwarding.)

It's also possible that nothing is wrong with your client. Freeleech torrents can sometimes be somewhat of a race. If you get in early, you upload tons. But if you're among the last to grab a freeleech torrent, there aren't others that will come along to download it, plus there's maybe 50 other seeders by that point, so those that do come after you will be downloading from all of them. Watching for new freeleech content can help a lot.

You also earn points if you leave stuff seeding even if no one downloads it, and over time those can be redeemed for upload credit.

Full disclosure -- some of us addicts to this have seedboxes: servers running 24/7 on a fast connection. I do it because it's a lot more convenient for me and my home connection has a terrible upload speed, and I like to think it makes things better for others overall because I can seed stuff for others 24/7 on an extremely fast connection. But ratio is somewhat competitive in a sense, and we can kind of tilt the playing field a little without meaning to.

I'd be deeply suspicious of a free VPN.

Fundamentally, a VPN is just tunneling your Internet traffic through someone else's computer. That gives an unscrupulous VPN operator a whole lot of opportunities -- spy on your traffic, inject ads or malware, etc.

Reputable VPN providers wouldn't do this, of course, because they'd be dragged over the coals and go out of business when it was discovered. But if someone's not charging for a VPN service, I'd question what their motives are. It's possible they're just a privacy advocate with pure motives, but it could also be a lot more sinister.

Thanks! This is fantastic.