Best posts made by eobox91103

@archiver55 To answer your topic question--no, there isn't a list of removed torrents that's available to users, according to what a moderator told me a few years ago.

As @john32123666 says, torrents can disappear if the copyright owner asks it to be taken down. Material from EnglishLads and OnlyFans is often removed. If the torrent is taken down but you're still connected to seeders and/or leechers, those connections will stay active and you can download/upload material from those other people. It will not, though, be counted by the tracker and figured into your ratio.

I can imagine its frustrating to have a torrent disappear when you're using it to boost your ratio. I suggest no using EnglishLads or OnlyFans for this purpose. The torrent you mentioned (Guys of London) sounds like it might have been a thinly masked bit from EnglishLads or its affiliated studios...and those folks watch this stuff carefully.

@ianfontinell I wouldn't presume to speak for our brother Al, but until then, here's a famous American dick:

@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."

@jokuihmemies I had the same problem. I followed the instructions above to re-install version 3.5.5, and now everything works fine.

I still have the file on a backup drive.  It's only 1 minute 28 seconds, 10MB file, not large enough to seed here.  It's small enough to be emailed, so if anyone's interested, send me a PM and I can email it to you.  I'll try to attach a screenshot to this posting.

There's probably somebody who thinks that all upscaling is bad--which isn't strictly the case. Using simple software to increase the resolution of a video file won't improve the quality, and just makes the file larger. Many people have done this, falsely claiming to have converted the file to HD.

On the other hand, there is some very sophisticated software that can make some improvement to the quality of a file when increasing the resolution. If the uploader has done this, they do indeed merit our thanks. While a 20-year-old file cannot be made to look like a current HD file, it can look a bit better.

I suspect that the one-star rater assumes that the uploader just increased the resolution without any quality improvement (which is the case with most upscales). Blowing up a file with no benefit deserves a low rating, but unless somebody has downloaded the material and compared it to a lower-resolution original, s/he's not going to know whether it's a "good" upscale or a "bad" one. It would be nice if the torrent page software only permitted rating by people who have completed a download of all the material, but that sounds like a massive software headache.

@flozen:

My grandfather didn't see that well, which explains why he fell into it.

When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather…not screaming in horror like the people riding in his car.

Most accidents happen in the home...so for heaven's sake, don't drive your car in the house.

My mechanic said I should use more lubrication, so I asked him to bend over the car so we could try it out.

@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.

By all means use the "request reseed" button,

but also download the torrent, where it will sit idle on your machine until someone reseeds it.

Will someone in fact reseed the torrent? That depends on how many people snatched the material, and how long ago it was active. In my experience, about one-third of such requests are fruitful, so it's worth a try. If you haven't had luck finding a seeder within a week, it's probably not going to happen and you can delete the torrent from your client.

@geobear40 said in Straight porn vs gay porn, your thoughts:

They are both overly scripted. First they do oral then this position than that position and finally the cum shot.

Amen to that...and in male-male porn, the first guy to suck is almost always the bottom. (It doesn't happen that way in my bedroom.)

@adonismix said in Straight porn vs gay porn, your thoughts:

I think it's either that, or an issue where the audience (primarily heterosexual and male) feels as if a more attractive man is some sort of competition.

I agree. Porn is a business, after all, and the customer base for male-female porn is overwhelmingly male...males who don't want to be threatened by guys with better bodies, bigger cocks, etc.

Conversely, many straight women like male-male porn: They're not as much interested in watching women, but they like watching guys...either solo or paired up.

@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.

...for free WiFi.

I imagine that other kinds of "connections" with him would also be pleasant.

@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.

@Estion uTorrent 3.6 is filled with bugs. My system "auto upgraded" and it was a mess, so I downloaded and re-installed uTorrent 3.5, turning "auto updates" off.

If you search the forum for the term uTorrent, you'll find a handy how-to guide for doing this, posted by @john32123666 . It works very well, keeps all your current torrents, etc.

Good luck!

@twinkerzzz said in Why are porn star ID request posts being deleted ?:

Do / should requests to ID a particular porn performer constitute an 'upload request' ? Surely an upload request is different to an ID request ?

Clearly an ID request is different from an upload request. If you want to find that information, a good resource is PornBaseCentral, at https://pbc.xxx/wiki/Main_Page . That said, I think people should use judgment in how they use the ID information they get--as much as we might enjoy a performer's on screen activity, we need to let their private lives remain private if that's their desire.

Also just out of interest why is the new rule concerning upload requests in existence ?

Nobody has answered this, but I think it's because the site wants to protect itself: The forums and the torrent pages are public--one doesn't need a username/password to read the material, only to post or download torrents. That means anyone can see this stuff, including copyright owners. If someone requests an upload of "Tasty Twinks from Transylvania"*, a copyright owner could see that his material is being requested and thus can watch for it and potentially take action if it shows up.

.* I'm using that film name as a placeholder, not as a covert request. I don't think that title exists. If it does, it's made by the same company as "Bushy Bears from Boston," "Hairy Hunks from Huntsville," :Filthy Fratboys from Florida," and, from their straight division, "Naughty Nurses of Nashville." You get the idea...

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.

We all know where the Big Apple is. But do we know where the Minneapolis?

One hundred years ago everyone owned a horse, and only the rich had cars. Today, everyone has a car, and only the rich own horses. The stables have turned.

Bread is like the sun: I rises in the yeast, and sets in the waist.

Will glass coffins be popular? Remains to be seen.

Orion’s belt is a big waist of space. (OK, that wasn’t so good…only gets three stars.)

We should legalise cannabis, and use the taxes on it to repair the roads. We could call this Operation Pothole.

February 22, 2022 (2/22/22, or 22.2.22) was on a Tuesday, so perhaps it should have been called 2’s day.

To the guy who stole my antidepressants: I hope you’re happy now.

I got the words “Jacuzzi” and “yakuza” confused. Now I’m in hot water with the Japanese mafia.

@gozerrrr Getting an invite requires a member of that site spend 350 bonus points (I have close to 40,000!) and give that site your email address; they send an invitation to you with a hyperlink that you use to sign up.

Two potential problems here:

1. This site (gt.ru) used to support private messages between members, so you didn't have to put your email address in a public forum. That functionality seems to have vanished with the recent software changes here.
2. I think there's a forum rule about not promoting other torrent sites--which makes sense, as this site needs advertising revenue to stay afloat, and if a user spends time on another site, that's not time spend here getting revenue.

I'm happy to help out, as long as the privacy and following-the-rule matters get worked out. Perhaps a Gentlemember of the Staff can chime in here with guidance.

@andergarcia said in EU begins legal action against Hungary over anti-LGBT law:

It may be a bit "radical", but countries like this shouldn't be members of the European Union... I don't have anything to do with governments like this one

https://www.euronews.com/2021/07/15/eu-begins-legal-action-against-hungary-over-anti-lgbt-law

Hungary has certainly disqualified itself from being a "civilised" nation. Orban's homophobia is just the tip of the iceberg of his horrible record.

Not surprisingly, some time back Trump praised Orban (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/13/trump-latest-viktor-orban-hungary-prime-minister-white-house), saying he was "highly respected all over Europe."

@pupkinvasya said in Official Social Media Accounts of Porn Personalities:

perhaps revealing the identity of the actor can harm him

I agree. In the US, with a name and approximate age, it's not hard to find where a person lives, works etc. I hope people who get this information are responsible with it. If models want to keep their porn life (present or past) in the closet, that's their right...although that can be hard to do.