The torrent clearly has the "Add Screenshots and Covers" link displaying.

If I click that link I can choose pictures to upload, and when I click the Upload button, the pictures seem to upload (that's all pretty normal stuff.)  What's not normal is that when the upload is complete instead of displaying the torrent page with the new pictures (flagged as awaiting moderator approval), I get a message that says "You cannot edit this torrent.  You're either not logged in properly or you're not the rightful owner."

I only get this message on one torrent.  I can upload pictures to other torrents and have it work right.

Thoughts or suggestions?

Where I live apps like Grindr, Scruff, Adam4Adam, and who knows what all else are so ubiquitous that it would be odd to not run into people you know occasionally.  What I still find odd though is when I find a video that includes a performer I know in my day-to-day life in entirely non-sexual ways.  Regardless of how hot the action is, or what I think of their physical appearance, knowing someone personally makes it hard to really engage with their performance persona.  Bits of the guy's actual personality keep creeping in.

@CrusaderRab:

As for my tastes- hair is part of a man's identity.

Well, yes, but I honestly think that many men take it way too far.  In both directions.

I remember very distinctly a piece of commentary that went "It's just a beard, it's not a lifestyle".

That kind of sums it up for me, living in an area where beards and facial hair are close to a religion.  I absolutely do not have anything against facial hair, as long as it suites the man who is wearing it.  It's that point that I think got lost in both the facial and pubic hair discussions.

Both are personal grooming choices that should be made individual men based on what fits them best.  There isn't a right or a wrong, there is just what men do to look their best and feel their best.

@CrusaderRab:

Call this one big vote for HAIRY MEN.

I personally agree with this up to a point.  My preference is for men who have some fur on them, however I'm not looking for a gorilla or man who can't groom himself (and yes, that might include some minimal trimming.)  However, that's my opinion and my criteria.  I can't bring myself to insist that all men follow it for any reason.  There are plenty of guys out there, and I don't really want them all to be interchangeable.  Diversity is fun.

Similarly, I totally get that there are people who have fetishes for totally smooth guys and those who have fetishes for totally untrimmed guys.  But one is not more right than the other.  This is where I think Hollywood and mainstream media goes too far much of the time.  There just isn't one way "right" way to be masculine.  There is just the way that works for each individual guy out there.

Just for clarity, I've accepted that the "incident I'm about to describe" occurred and am taking the steps to fix it, but I'd really, really like to know what happened and why, so I don't have to this again (it's a pain in rear.)

So I had several partially downloaded torrents in uTorrent (3.4.9 build 43388).  These were things that were parts of largish collections where I already had most of the files or wasn't otherwise interested.  I'm aware of the risks associated with partial downloads with respect to not being a recognized seeder in the event of a ratio "issue" (something I thought would never happen), but preferred to be frugal of both my disk space, bandwidth, and ratio.  I was working towards something over 1.0 and concentrating alot of seeing freeleech.

Anyways, I went on vacation.  Before I left, I stopped all the torrents and closed uTorrent.  For a variety of reasons I don't leave uTorrent running unattended for long periods of time.

Fast forward to me coming back.  I get home, turn on the computer, hook to the VPN, and fire up uTorrent.  I just started all the torrents back up like I've done a bunch of times before.  They all seemed to start normally, and the ones that were partials seemed to be doing the usual "download a little bit" (for reasons I still can't fathom) and then realize that everything is downloaded that I want and switch over to seeding.  I watched several do that, but started to get really tired and went to bed, assuming the rest would follow suit.

Here is where it got odd.  Three of those partial torrents never "stopped" that downloading.  So uTorrent stat there for like 9 hours happily downloading away.  Something to the tune of 60 GB worth of data.  It didn't write any of it any watchable files on my computer, though there were very large .dat files in the download folders.  And of course all that meaningless download got reported back to the tracker, royally screwing my ratio.

As I said at the beginning, I've accepted it happened, and am working to repair the damage, but if anyone has any insights into what happened, or why, I'd really appreciate it.  I do not want to have to go through this again.

Also I should add that I couldn't seem to do anything with those .dat files.  Even if changed the priority of the "skipped" pieces to "Normal", uTorrent didn't cough up the data into a usable form.  In fact it just started trying to download the segments again….

As I said, thoughts or insights into what happened and how to prevent it would be greatly appreciated!

So I think this all sort of depends on your "viewing" habits and how much you actually have.

I learned a long time ago, that, for me, the worst thing in the world is knowing exactly what I want watch next, but then not being able to find the file.

I started off with alot of the suggestions in this thread:  folders that are named either by my personal rating (Hot, Good, OK, Meh, etc.) or by general theme (fucking, solo, oral, etc.).  File names always had as much info in them as I could legitimately cram in there as I then used the OS search alot to find things (if I felt I could remember some keywords I might have tagged files with.

That all worked very well, as long as my collection was relatively small.

A few things started to erode how well that worked:

• The size of my collection.  As it got bitter, the system became unwieldy (sometimes I just couldn't remember where something was from etc, as well as maintaining consistency so the whole thing worked as a whole.)

• When I started getting alot of complete movies as single files (these were hard to pigeon hole, and the file names sometimes got stupid long.)

• When I started wanting to do complex tagging, i.e., something was HOT and was also bareback.

I still sort of toughed it out, and then I got a smart TV and started learning the joys of porn on the big screen.  At first I was just "sneaker netting" it (putting stuff on USB drives and plugging it into the TV.)  Then I discovered DNLA and various forms of media servers.

All of a sudden I found answers to my issues with indexing, and I also had a ready built way to stream stuff to the TV through my network.

That I all said, I know the streaming thing may not be for everyone. It depends on your living situation, etc.  However, that doesn't preclude use of the same software in local mode (as in not streaming) to organize your collection.

The solution I ended up choosing a thing called PLEX.  It's free, it's pretty simple and it does more than I could ask.  What I don't know is if there is a way for you to set it so that the server is not discoverable (while it's on) by TV, devices that have PLEX clients installed, or even things like Windows that detects available sources of content on the local network.  I'm sure there must be a way to do that, but I don't know how to do it as I don't have to hide my server.

What PLEX gets me (besides the ability to stream to any of my devices) is:

• Unlimited Genre definitions

• The ability to put studios, directors, stars, and dates on each file

• The ability to filter any of the above data (so, lets say I wanted to see everything that has Joe Blow in it, or everything that I've tagged as HOT, etc.)  The filters are simple and intuitive (so when the smaller head is in charge, I can still find what want.)

• The ability to add notes and descriptions to each piece of content.  (Sometimes I remind myself where the "good" parts are, or maybe I add the associated studio description if I think it adds something.)

• The ability to add covers or other pictures to each file (you can't add alot, but some is certainly possible.)

Yes, it was a bit of work to set up, but once done, it's pretty easy to maintain.  I used another piece of shareware called MP3TAG to put the tags on the files that PLEX gets its information from.

Then all you do is put the file in a place that PLEX can find it (you define that location) and tell PLEX to update itself, and voila, your new file is now available anywhere you access PLEX.

It's just something to look into and evaluate for your own needs.  I would encourage you to look at the privacy aspect of this if it's important that you keep your collection under wraps, PLEX is designed to make the media content it houses available on your network and it would be terrible for someone who wasn't supposed to be in there to find it, or start asking questions.

I would also add, that while I have a PLEX "account" the only thing I use it for accessing their user forums.  I do not have my media server log in to it automatically, nor do I use it to share content with friends (which is something you could also do with PLEX.)