Posts made by cannonmc

:hiya: good to see you. Hope you can find some fun stuff in the Comics section

You make some good points

And sadly there is no way of knowing if the original poster is till around so you could be spending bonus points that nobody gets.

:hiya: Belem is at the mouth of the Amazon, isn't it

I get quite a few requests for reseeds via the automated messages. These contain the name of the person who requested the reseed.

I always check the torrent to see if it is being reseeded (on one recently I was the the only reseeder)

But what puzzles me is that I expect to see the name of the requester in the thanks column in which he at least says thanks to the OP (no donation of bonus points necessary). And in the majority of cases, not a word. Nor from the other people who jump on the bandwagon.

And rarely a comment in the comment box thanking the reseeder(s)

I've made this point on another site but…

If I post a torrent, that is my choice. If you download it then it is polite to say thank you but you didn't ask for the post.

If you ask someone to post a torrent or reseed a torrent, that is your request and if someone goes to the bother of using his time and bandwidth to help you, your conscience should tell you a 'thanks' is mandatory.

Rant over (for the moment)

@cannonmc:

I use the free version of Avast

I should add that after posting that, I updated the Avast program and I ended up with Chrome installed as my default browser. I didn't even have Chrome before. It also said it was making a restore point. It didn't.

I feel that there is something wrong with the antivirus. I have never had an mp4 (or any other video format) signalled as unsafe.

Have you tried playing without Norton running (disconnect from internet if you feel nervous).

I use the free version of Avast

My apologies, I didn't read the original message properly and didn't note he was talking about a reseed

It's sad when the brain starts to go…

Yes, the PM link on the First time page. I'm not sure how long it takes. Probably depends how much other stuff junior has to deal with

Patcub, are you sure you posted in the right forum. Requests should go  in the Request Forum but you need three posts in the forums before you can see that.

I certainly can't see a request there from you in the last few months

You probably do get what you paid for.

I installed a free VPN yesterday and it does exactly what I want - allows me access to sites like demonoid and torrentday which are blocked by my ISP (in UK) after a court order.

I wasn't looking for security

:hiya: - that means you're just reading the forums and posting comments  :laugh:

jack, when you download a torrent file you need to open it it in a torrent client such as uTorrent.

Then you can download the file that the torrent refers to.

uTorrent is reasonably easy to setup. Then you assciate torrent files with program Then when you click a torrent file, uTorrent will open and ask where you want to save the file. Then it will link up with copies of the file and save them to your hard disk.

None of the files on this site are the actual files.

:hiya: hope you have fun here. Plenty of people around if you need help

I use 3.0 - I stopped upgrading when people were reporting problems with later versions. I'm a great one for 'if it ain't broke….'

If things are going OK, did you claim your 600 bonus points (see banner on Search page)

Am I being stupid but the date of the original upload in your 'reported duplicate' is before the date of the upload for your 'original torrent'.

To my mind that would make the earlier one the original. Have I missed something?

I have a feeling that this is the problem. His version of uTorrent doesn't like the torrent as uploaded (and downloaded) so it will never be seeded and become visible

That's a leftover from years gone by.

You can now use live links because there is a redirection service in place

Yes, YOUR settings allow you to receive all PMs, but your security settings don't allow me to SEND one to you. If you don't know what I see when I click on your username, click on one of the staff members' .

I can't even add you to my friends' list so you would appear there.

A while back so I could add a moderator to my friends' list he had to show his profile, I had to add it then he had to go back to hiding his profile.

It can be quite frustrating at times. There is no direct way of sending a PM to anyone who has hidden their details (at least, I haven't found one since they removed the send message button)

Other sites allow you to send PMs to any other member. This site we don't even know who the members are!

I'm thinking there may be some confusion here. On another site there was a discussion about that error and I think it came down to the version of uTorrent. It didn't like torrent files made by other programs, from memory.

Has your torrent started seeding? You can tell if the torrent page here says visible.

I think the solution on the other site was for those with the wrong version of uTorrent to make their torrent files using MakeTorrent.

You would then have to use the manual upload but it is really quite easy if you follow the instructions.

PS Once you get your torrent going, don't forget to claim your 600 bonus points

:hiya: -there's lots of good stuff in the forums. Hope you enjoy it