Best posts made by eobox91103

@bi4smooth I very much like your chronological staging of these events. If one takes my view that one lies if and only if one "knows" that what is being said is false (which is not the only way of defining lying), then indeed it would seem that Mr Trump would not have been lying on November 3 or 10, as there was still some (shrinking) ambiguity about the actual election result. By late November, it would be difficult for a rational person to not believe that Mr Biden had won, so assertions by Mr Trump of victory at that point are close to being lies.

But applying the analysis here needs to assume that Mr Trump is being rational. It's possible that he actually believes, even today, that we won the election, even though state and federal government processes have declared and finalised otherwise. If he does actually believe the (irrational and untrue) proposition that he won the election, then by my narrow definition of lying, it wouldn't be a lie for him to say "I won the election." But if he were to say, "I know that I won the election," then that would be a lie, because to "know" that he won means he has justification for believing that--and clearly there is none. Perhaps I'm stretching the analytical framework beyond where it works. It's not easy to apply rational categories to someone as "unique" as Mr Trump.

@frostycab said in Do we get seed points by posting in this forum?:

Just thought I'd bump this as it's been well over a year now and the information on seed points still hasn't been updated.

A rule cleanup would seem to be in order. There's also rule 9.2, which states,

• The description [page of a torrent] must contain a list of all video files or titles including, by at least copy/paste the torrent’s file list.

Almost nobody does this, and it would be very clumsy for posts from fan sites with 100+ files.

@frostycab said in Idea to greatly eliminate incomplete uploads / seeding problems - FEEDBACK PLEASE!:

torrent sites are only able to operate based on the fact that they don't host any copyrighted material.

This is absolutely on target.

Case closed.

@chanelkokoro Yes, it's the "family values" party that worships a Dear Leader who pays hush money to prostitutes and brags about grabbing women by the pussy.

It's also the "pro-life" party that favours capital punishment.

I, too, find all of this rather odd.

@gabisev Waiting is about the best we can do. If nothing happens in a week or so, you might try it again, and then abandon the cause. Users who have (or have deleted) the material don't want a "please re-seed" note every hour for a month. (OK, that's a little bit of an exaggeration.)

Also, I think you meant to say "zero seeders for a long time." It's seeders who have the material, and you'd like there to be several of them so you can get the material. (This has something to to with "swarms" that I don't fully understand, but that can be the topic of another thread.)

@Rotron said in Vanishing torrents ...:

Back out?

I can't speak for brother @blablarg18 , but I think that with nearly 200 posts in this thread, we've beaten this to death. Unless we can profile and defeat an Evil Troll who is causing problems, we will probably just have to accept torrents going up, and torrents coming down. Keeping them up will take more than Viagra.

@chanelkokoro said in Party of family values part 1 :

@eobox91103 omg That's such a great point. I'm a nurse, I'm positive they wipe down the injection site first.

The only problem is that we keep killing innocent people on death row. And I'd rather get rid of the death penalty entirely than risk even 1 innocent person dying because of it.

Yes, that's the problem. Whether needle or noose, there's no "undo" button after the fact.

@Rotron said in My uploads keep getting taken down:

Did he get banned for uploading another DMCA'd title? Will that get you banned in the forum too?

(1) One data point: I've had several torrents taken down for copyright reasons, sometimes a couple of them in a single month, and I'm still here.

(2) I could understand that somebody could be banned if they keep reuploading something that gets taken down.

(3) I can understand the site needing to have a rule saying, "Please don't share copyrighted material."

(4) I can very much understand the site not wanting so say, "we have rule (3) above, but we don't enforce it."

@calatar You're quite right, although I enjoyed the exchange with Bi4Smooth--that's the kind of discussion that shows the potential benefit of a forum like this. It's unfortunate that good discussions get poisoned by a childish brat.

@MrMazda At the risk of being off-topic (and therefore interesting): How does one insert a YouTube object into chat like you did in your post?

@raphjd I am not quitting the forums, I'm only quitting making responses to you. This post is an exception. I enjoy thoughtful engagement with forum participants.

It is ironic (and that's a polite word) that you are a "forum administrator," when you frequently engage in venomous and childish name-calling. That would not be permitted in most forums, and even goes against the rules of this site. It's amusing (again, another polite word) that you violate the very rules that you have posted.

You're not fooling anybody. People who read your postings have this all figured out. If grownups are having a discussion on here that you don't understand, perhaps you should stand down.

@MrMazda said in user title:

Auto upload is something we used to have ... eventually, we got so big that we couldn't keep up with the rate at which people were uploading torrents, so we had to auto approve everyone.

Thanks for the information. I remember getting a PM quite a while ago saying that I had reached auto-approval status, and it felt good

Having auto-approve for everyone does explain why some torrents show up described only as "Hot Sex" with no pictures. In the past, those might not have received moderator approval. I'm sure those were tough calls--after all, we want people to share their material, and disapproving a torrent probably needed to convey "it's not that we want to disapprove--we want you to improve."

@chanelkokoro I appreciate your careful response to my post. I think we probably agree on a lot more things than we disagree on, but it's the differences that make for good discussion. It's nice to have that discussion by addressing issues rather than by calling names. There are people on here who need to learn that.

And you're right, I don't live in the US (although I'm there right now). I do spend a lot of time there (here) and thus try to be informed on US issues, but I'd probably dig into them more deeply if I were a full-time resident.

@john32123666 referred to @lololulu19 in user title:

Why someone keep complaining about Take Down issues ...

Because someone wants attention

Are you not aware of legal issues/action

No, he's not.

@raphjd said in Scotland officially bans free speech:

@eobox91103

You probably don't realize it, but it makes you look like a hypocrite when you attack me for something, while blatantly ignoring the same thing from someone to who I was replying.

I made no such attack. My whole point is that attacking others is inappropriate for useful discussion. I try not to use the word "you" in a reply unless it's clearly complimentary.

I once heard a proverb that, "If you throw a stone into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one that you hit." It is good to think on that...but as staunch dog lover, I'm a bit uncomfortable with the proverb.

your disc players, tv's, and sometimes also your media players on your computer all can do the same thing

Exactly--and a TV or computer monitor does this very accurately, because it knows the target resolution of the display screen. There's no need to upscale a lower-resolution video and make a new file from it, which is going to be considerably larger that the original.

The exception would be if someone is using some AI software that actually sharpens things up using a complex algorithm that analyses each frame and then produces a clearer result. Some uploaders here have tried to do this (with mixed results), and this can be an improvement. But simply stretching each frame and quadrupling file size offers no benefit.

I'll break my rule for a moment:

@raphjd said in BootieJizz is a fraud:

@eobox91103

BTW, I love that you are keeping up your childish "I'm not talking to you" so you post to others so you can reply to me.

Such profound narcissism! I was replying to the ridiculous fiction that was ignoring facts. Notice that there is another participant in this thread. It is not all about you.

You are so mature.

Good call.

I would make two observations here:

• In a forum thread, posts should be about the topic at hand, not the other posters. There is a pattern, though, of people replying to others with insults and other derogatory comments. If I were writing forum software, I would prevent the word "you" from being used. Casting insults at others instead of discussion is childish.
• The item just above might be a moot, though, as right now the forum is pretty much useless. The clumsy user interface and the chronic log-in problems have reduced traffic to porn requests and conspiracy theorists seeking an echo chamber, with poisonous posts sent to anyone who disagrees with the Dear Leader or his minions. One would think that a Forum Administrator would notice this--and perhaps care about it.

@flozen said in Paying for porn scams and other internet scams:

I'm so glad you uncovered that scam before you put big money down on that unicorn.

Especially since the critter will be immediately seized by the Department for Management and Control of Animals (DMCA).

@jsl76 You're quite right about Putin's agenda being carried out here. He's a very clever dictator, in that he's able to get lots of people to promote his cause without them knowing that they're doing it.

Putin knows from personal experience that governments (such as the Soviets) collapse from within rather than from outside pressure. His support of Trump in 2016 enhanced discord in the States, as well as a weakening of NATO. Not surprisingly, he also supported Brexit (to weaken the EU) and Scottish independence (perceived as weakening the UK). After the Brexit referendum, he called on PM Theresa May to rapidly implement Brexit because "it was the will of the people." Putin's support of popular preference (i.e., democracy) was, needless to say, quite out of character for him.

@john32123666 Oh dear...I thought he had stopped his petty crusade. I have the "straight" category turned off so I haven't been seeing his latest droppings.

A few times when I've been waiting for a print job to finish, I've searched out likely targets for the one star troll and given them a five star rating. That way when the jerk sees one of them, and wants to piss on it, all he can do is drop a "five" to a "three." The poor thing must feel so frustrated.