It's unfortunately how it works. I have the same problem since years. Rarely do I get uploads for a few minutes, until that leecher has the missing chunk (or piece or whatever it's called) for his file, then I'm back to zero upload for weeks. I just leave my torrent software open for hours and try to get the laughable bonus points dripping in that way, then exchange them for traffic.

@MrMazda:

Print Screen works well also.

@coolukdude:

I have used the VLC snapshot facility but actually I prefer to use a thing called xScope on my Mac. With this I position a rectangle over the video window and do the grabs that way.

Sounds tedious. Doing screenshots with VLC or dedicated contact sheet software is way more comfortable.

Remember: we do allow the same movie in different formats. A duplicate must be same size and file type.

Then I see this and wonder if it's really worth keeping both versions:
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=63e16f79cb0789c1c97d5b59fd39e9e0320645aeb7a18cdf
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=d2c935e5840ff727832ac8becf1d0ae82760a817b22b3c0b

Nearly the same resolution, but one's probably higher picture quality.

There's a button to report duplicate torrents, but "Remember: we do allow the same movie in different formats. A duplicate must be same size and file type."

GTru sometimes has a bad quality copy of a movie and an even worse quality copy, or even a third one which only contains some split up scenes in multiple files. Especially and obviously with vintage movies, there's often just two grainy VHS copies with 352x240 pixels and different file sizes where I have no clue what the exact difference in quality is… It's 2018, we have broadband internet and I would like to see DVD quality to be the standard here (800MB-1GB). Other versions could be a DVD rip with full menu (4GB) or even a Bluray copy. It would be really helpful if users would try to find a better copy of their vintage movies and reupload them before they are completely forgotten and unavailable. Unfortunately, due to the ratio policy users often just upload anything they come across just to boost their ratio. I would love to see more quality.

Another thing is that I miss important file information in the descriptions. Yes there are screenshots and the file size, but I would like to know things like file format, running time, video dimensions before downloading. Especially when there are multiple versions of a movie.

@MrMazda:

Well… To be honest, I did a little more than just request a re-seed... I also put a freeleech on them and/or promoted them back to the top of the list because they were older torrents. This generally encourages users to download them. When I saw that part of your problem was that there were no leechers, I took it upon myself to give the torrents a bit of a booster to help fix that part of the equation for you.

This explains why today there's no activity going on anymore…

At least now I know that seeding on GTru actually works. But now what? One of the torrents I'm seeding currently shows three leechers here on the website. In Tixati, it shows me "two seeds are available". Yet still no one downloads from me. Is it indeed like vaylon wrote because there are seeders with faster connections available and we are being ignored? What's the point of seeding and a ratio system if we are not treated equally?

What a coincidence and very suspicious. Now that you asked for a re-seed, some guys happen to be downloading from me. There's nothing I changed on my side. It's not always a steady connection, but I get a few kilobytes of upload instead of just some bytes when I start up Tixati…

@MrMazda:

1. You are not seeding any torrents

I'm not seeding 24/7, but every other day for a few hours ::)

2. The torrents that are in your profile do not actively have any leechers.

See screenshot. I also saw that you requested some re-seeds from me and I put them on active. But don't expect me to be online all the time, especially as you're in a different timezone.

You want to make money with copyrighted content from someone else. Same reason I will never donate to GTru.

I tested the port with http://canyouseeme.org and it says it's open, but still no uploads in Tixati.

Guess what, the port forwarding is currently set to "TCP/UDP" (as opposed to TCP and UDP alone) and still doesn't work.