Best posts made by eobox91103

@pmrrk I use uTorrent and I don't notice a problem here. I don't think I fiddled with any of the default options/preferences, so that's probably not an issue here.

I looked at the torrent you linked, and right now it has about 25 seeders and 2 leechers. As far as the tracker software is concerned, you're on equal footing with the 24 other seeders of this material even though you were the original uploader. New people grabbing the torrent will still get your material even if it isn't directly downloaded from you.

Even if you don't get lots of upload volume from the torrent, you can take satisfaction in knowing that there are 50+ other members who have downloaded your stuff. They might not post a thank-you, but they do appreciate it.

@tenty said in where are the straight dudes:

there is a studio called "Broke Straight Boys". I believe the guys were gay for pay and used to be quite believable that they were straight whilst being paid to have sex with another guy.

It seems that many of the models on the Broke Straight Boys website are indeed straight, although certainly not all of them. Several are listed at https://pbc.xxx/wiki/Category:Broke_Straight_Boys_models , and many of the pages for the models have a link to the the guy's "real life" Facebook page. They run the gamut: "Adam Baer's" FB page shows him as a gun-loving dumb redneck, suggesting that he's really straight, even though he sucks and/or gets fucked in all of his BSB scenes. Others, such as "Richie West," will definitely trigger one's gaydar. This should not be surprising--putting two genuinely straight models together for a first-time male-male encounter would make for a clumsy (and likely amusing) scene.

But let's remember that porn is fantasy. We watch it because we like seeing two bodies interact with each other. We don't have--or need--knowledge of a model's inner psychology.

@anythingold I agree with what you're saying. My posting was a bit tangled up because there are several issues going on here:

1. The OP said, "Despite what we've been told for the last 15 years, being obese is not healthy." I don't think that's been the message, but there has been a greater consciousness that overweight/obese people still deserve ordinary human respect, and media stereotypes that women should look anorexic are counter to that.
2. The article's purported link between being overweight and COVID death rates is not the result of a study--it's anecdotal at best, and skewed because of national policy phenomena.
3. The article is also sloppy in shifting terminology from the initial mention of "overweight" to "obese."

Bottom line: Yes, indeed it is complicated, but many people crave simple solutions to complicated problems. The best we can do is follow the current cutting-edge medical advice to protect our own health and the health of others. I've had my two Moderna jabs...and while I'd rather have other things stuck into my body, it's still a good feeling.

Let's go back to the original post of this thread and break out the three questions that were posed:

• What is the policy on this? (With "this" defined as posting a new torrent that is essentially identical to one already on the system, but dead.) The policy is that this is acceptable, and further discussion suggests that it can even have some advantages over re-seeding the dead torrent.

• Can such a "new" torrent be reported? It is not a violation of the site's rules. There is no need to report it. Subsequent discussion said that this "reporting" would not be "reporting a duplicate" but "pointing out to staff that the 'new' one was unnecessary." It's not clear what benefit accrues from doing this.

• How [would] such a "new" torrent be reported? Using the report link at the bottom of the torrent page, but since there's no violation here, there's not need to do this.

Subsequent posts added a new question:

• Why re-post identical files? (1) The new torrent will show at the top of the search page and be more obvious to other members, and this will happen automatically without having to involve site staff in recycling the torrent; (2) "Even if you have a file with the exact same size, that you can give the exact same name, if it doesn't have the same hash value as the original file it will not seed as the original file."

But, given that

Problem solved.

...perhaps we're done here.

@lmsuon said in where are the straight dudes:

Fantasy is exactly right. But it's hotter to know if they are straight. Another kind of fantasy.

I can resonate with some of that fantasy: When I was in high school, and convinced that I was the only guy who had "those feelings," I had major crushes on some classmates, who I presumed were straight. Only later did I find out that some of them were quite gay.

In real life, though, I've had "friendship with benefits" with a couple of guys who were essentially straight, but enjoyed the physical sensation of sex with another guy. (Details posted in another thread on here.) It was a novelty, but not really satisfying.

@raphjd said in Scotland officially bans free speech:

@bi4smooth
I didn't attack him for a different opinion, but for his useless claim ...

Thank you for admitting that you attack people, rather than address issues. That is the essence of the (useless and pitiful) ad hominem style that has no place in thoughtful discourse. It makes the Politics and Debate section almost useless.

@Fennekin said in Site changes 7 March 2022:

... So by removing that [request] section, you've essentially killed the forum.

@kalayaan said in Site changes 7 March 2022:

@Fennekin "Killed the forum" is a little bit stretched, don't you think?

Forum death started several months ago with the new software, making things clumsier, deleting topics, etc. Anyone keeping metrics would have seen a sharp drop in participation.

There are lots of forum topics that you can go to.

Yes, but fewer now than before the redesign...or if they're still live, it's very hard to find them. Many disciplines follow the maxim "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Software--and especially web--designers seem to take an opposite approach: Once they get something working, they redesign it.

@Rotron said in Vanishing torrents ...:
You raise several interesting points. I'd like to share my perspective on them, but please don't see this as a point-by-point rebuttal. If anything, it's an affirmation of what you're saying.

There still is no clarification about this as I think a DMCA request should effect the whole title

The takedoown process can seem random if not chaotic, but I think the site removes all--and only--those torrents that are challenged. This can look weird: I posted a torrent for a full-length video in single-file-.mp4 format that was on the site for years, and than was taken down. Oddly, the same material, in native DVD format (a .VOB folder) remained on the site--and is still here. I suspect that the site got a takedown request for the single file torrent, but not for the DVD...and responded accordingly.

This has definitely discouraged me from uploading more in GayTor as this is so questionable and I have not been experiencing this somewhere else.

I know it's discouraging to have uploaded torrents removed. I take time and care to make my torrent descriptions thorough, with good pictures, thumbnail sheets., etc. (In the past week I had one taken down, but I take comfort in knowing that almost 2,000 other users got that material.) I can see that you care about sharing material, and I suspect that your torrents are well-constructed, and I've probably downloaded some of them. I hope you continue to share.

So for the meantime, I'm taking a vacation from sharing in the GayTor and and also hopefully this gets rid of that 1-star troller.

Vacations are good things--they tend to extinguish burnout, if you'll forgive the mixed metaphor. I would pay no attention to anonymous one-star ratings (or any other ratings). If someone has a worthwhile opinion about a torrent, they should have the balls to post a comment with their username attached.

I will still be active here in the forum. Maybe.

I hope so.

Question: Will my seed bonus count be wiped out if I request all my uploaded torrents to be deleted?

Someone from the site would need to answer this...but I don't think you'd lose it. But please don't ask your torrents to be deleted--again, I'm sure it's good stuff, and other users will enjoy having it. I, myself, may have had some enjoyable "private moments" with your torrents.

@raphjd said in National Debt Exceeds $123 Trillion, or Nearly $800,000 per Taxpayer:

@eobox91103

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/true-national-debt-exceeds-123-trillion-or-nearly-800000-per-taxpayer_3782624.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_medium=email2&utm_campaign=mb-2021-04-20&mktids=264a2775d74370d0e4428c91d45154f2&est=sH5xqaqyzXsP75fzFLdPiH3MiIiI7jJb2Rdt1dHV1ite9viv2kEBLYW5IC8i

That's where I got my figure.

Being such a liberal, you clearly are ignoring the Dem controlled House.

Your beloved Dems thwarted Trump at every turn.

Three comments:
First, the "Epoch Times" is not reliable news. The article you cite states that they have inflated the real number, which they correctly cite as $28 trillion.

Second, spending bills in the US have to pass both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Republican-controlled Senate approved all of Mr Trump's extravagances.

Third, for the umpteenth time when you can't make a rational argument, you attack other posters. So I'll do the same: You are the problem. Your ignorance of facts is appalling. Your posts are worthless.

@lololulu19 said in Site duplicate rules as applied to AI enhancement:

I have mentioned dozens of times..

Yes, you certainly have. I'm curious why. Nothing's going to change.

@lololulu19 said in Why is porn blocked on the internet?:

Just because we don't LIKE something doesn't mean we have the right to eliminate it

WiFi in a public place is a service owned by that place (e.g., a restaurant). They're paying for it, and they "have the right" to make the rules.

If someone wants to make their own rules, they can use their own connection to the internet--such as through a mobile phone.

@hubrys All of us who are homeowners know the perils of "deferred maintenance." When bridges carrying national highways literally collapse and fall into a river ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge ), it suggests that there's a backlog of work that needs to be done. The last several US presidents have made note of this, but nothing's happened.

Playing "catch-up" is going to be expensive for Americans, but at least it's spread out over 15 years. This is a different approach from the stimulus program placed after the 2008 "Great Recession," which cost about $800bn but happened rather quickly. It did seem successful at providing employment and doing some infrastructure repair.

@frostycab said in Warning:

No warning that all your uploads were getting DMCA'd?

I've had a few torrents taken down for DMCA reasons, but I always get a polite note from the mods saying what's happened and that my identify is safe. After a while, I realised what studios were on this warpath, and I've avoided uploading from them since. I do grab their material if someone else posts it

I don't think it's anything sinister or complicated:

• Public spaces: McDickalds or Starfucks probably doesn't want somebody at one of their tables with an orgy on the screen.

• Bandwidth: Watching porn consumes a lot of bandwidth--it's a large percentage of internet traffic as it is.

"Public WiFi" is the private property of whoever is letting you use it, so they can make whatever rules they want.

(Pubic WiFi would be something entirely different.)

@raphjd And you refuse to admit that MoscowMitch and his Senate approved everything.

Every few months I think I'll try engaging in a "Politics and Debate" topic, thinking perhaps that you've grown up. But no, instead of facts you resort to calling names, which is the last refuge of cowards. Even my 12-year-old knows better.

Go play in your sandbox and pretend that you're superior to everyone else...even though we all know better.

@frostycab said in DMCA strikes and the 90-day suspension:

It's right below the link for the helpdesk in the support dropdown

Thanks; I see it now, but what an odd place to put it. I would have simply appended it to the "Rules" page. New users might not know what "DMCA" means, and could easily miss this stuff.

A good maxim for web content is "Don't just post something so that users can find it; post it so that users can't miss it."

@john32123666 Requests for a re-seed are permitted if one uses the "Request Re-Seed" button on the torrent page:

Those requests, and requests for a new upload, aren't permitted in the Forum.

@raphjd Jeez, you really need to get a clue.

OK: Democrats controlled the house from 2007 to 2011, and again from 2019 to the present. But your beloved Republicans controlled the House and the Senate from 2011 to 2019.

And Epoch News (and I use that last word with irony) is not absolved from quoting incorrect numbers just because they got them from another crapsheet. The "debt" reported by their source includes an estimate for payments due for Social Security and Medicare for many years into the future. They are not current "debts" of the US government. Perhaps checking the source was too much effort for you.

I'm not going to read any of your crap any more...it's like smearing feces in my eyes. You're lucky, I suppose, that you're a forum moderator...because if anyone else had that job, you'd be permanently banned from the site.

@tnar (and all others): If you click on a user's name, it will bring up their profile page. One can then click on the three vertical dots, and select "Ignore User," which I have done for a few users (including one beginning with "L") so that I don't have to read anything she/he/it posts. It's always the same thing, and I don't need to read it again.

As a related convenient feature of the forums, one can also block specific forum categories, which I have also done.

@krad3434 One way to help a ratio is to download a new torrent and then select only a few (maybe 10% by volume) of the files to actually be downloaded to your computer. (This is easy to do with uTorrent by unticking boxes; it's probably similar with other clients.)

This way you'll be among the first to get that material, and then be a "source" for other downloaders who are likely trying to grab all the files. It also increases the probability that you'll be left with something playable if the torrent is taken down quickly.

The only disadvantage to this strategy is that a torrent for which you haven't downloaded all the files will still take up one of your download slots, even if you have all the stuff that you selected. After the initial surge of people downloading from that torrent, you might want to delete it if you have a small number of allowable slots.