Posts made by eobox91103

@thangcuoi said in Copyright Enfringement - Information:

This is what I did, but it ended up getting my uploading privilege taken away for 90 days.
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Maybe it would be helpful if there's a list of (recent) uploads that resulted in upload ban so uploader know to avoid or do it at our risk. The lack of transparency over the issue will lead to discouraging uploaders from contributing to the site.

I didn't know that an uploading privilege could be taken away for copyright/DMCA reasons. I'm sorry this happened, and I hope that you will continue to share content on here. Many people, myself among them, appreciate your efforts.

As you say, it would be nice to know a bit more about these rules so that we uploaders could stay on the right side of them. That said, these topics are very sensitive and the site owners/administrators quite understandably don't want to discuss them very much.

(Given the title and content of this discussion thread, I'm assuming that the reason your torrents were removed was for copyright reasons. If the reason had to do with uploading something on the banned list at https://www.gaytor.rent/notallowed.php, that would be another matter.)

@lololulu19 said in Where to post Video Requests?:

What frustrates me is.. sometimes there is a video that I have previously downloaded, but lost, and can't remember the name of. I am certain that the video is already here, I just can't find it because I don't know the name of the actors or the title.

It sounds like your request here is to identify the video--title, models, etc., rather than to request a new torrent to be posted. You can make this kind of identity request in the "Who Is This/What Video Is This" category. It can be hard to identify a video from a verbal description without photos, but it sometimes works--and this practice is very much allowed.

Once the video is identified, though, it's not allowed to request that someone upload a new torrent to that effect. If it's already posted, you can search for it...and if it's dead (i.e., no seeders), you can do a re-seed request.

@semurg30 said

I don't understand the logic of not allowing requests.

The simplest answer here is that the site owner doesn't allow requests. We can speculate at to what his reasons are, and perhaps come close to the mark, but that ultimately doesn't matter.

@gaycatking The takedown process is somewhat mysterious, because the site owners/operators quite understandably prefer not to discuss it. My own view is that rather than being unhappy about torrents that go away, I prefer to be grateful for the torrents that remain.

I can see that torrent when I search for it.

I've noticed that when I upload a new torrent, it takes one or two tracker update cycles (about 30 minutes each) for everything to sort out. I'm often a bit puzzled or anxious before things settle, but if I give it time, it's fine.

It looks like almost 30 people have downloaded that material. Not everyone will officially say thank you, but you can be confident that they are happy to have the files.

Most likely the torrent was taken down in response to a legitimate DMCA request. This happens when a copyright owner requests that from the site operators. It's not some nefarious hacking. When that torrent is taken down, it's completely vaporised.

This topic is addressed often in this forum. It seems that fan sites are quite diligent with these requests. (I don't care for fan site material, so I haven't noticed this first hand.)

"Snit" might not be a highly precise term, so one could argue for or against its applicability here. (@flozen could well have used a different second consonant in that word, which, while more inflammatory, might also have been appropriate.)

But let's look at the specific flow of the thread. In the first post, the OP says, in essence, "Please help me find something. I looked in X [IAFD] and it wasn't there." (Bonus points are awarded for use of the term "please.")

The first response said, "Take a look in Y (adultdvdempire), it might be in there."

The OP responds, "As I already said, I looked in X, and it wasn't there." This post adds nothing to the thread, as its contents had indeed been "already said." It does not say, but perhaps implies, that the OP looked in Y and didn't find the desired thing there. If that were the case, a better response would have been, "Thank you; I looked there, and and I didn't find it there either." Another approach would have been to not respond at all.

While it's not required that people use common courtesy in this forum, it doesn't hurt. In fact, it might even help: Courteous responses can encourage other Gentle Members to respond to requests for information, whilst non-courteous ones can discourage that.

I don't expect anyone else to jump in with an answer the original question of this thread.

Take a look at https://www.adultdvdempire.com/1560696/bonfire-of-the-panties-porn-videos.html . That page identifies several cast members, one of whom might be the person you seek.

@bear1515 said in How often do you consume porn & do you think you're addicted?:

like most things [porn] can be addictive, and if you feel that you are neglecting important stuff to watch porn, or it's affecting you negatively, then there's a good chance you're addicted and you should work on reducing it.

An addiction to porn is not unlike addiction to alcohol or drugs. There's a useful self-assessment test at https://www.psycom.net/am-i-an-alcoholic-alcohol-use-disorder. This is targeted at alcohol addiction, but one can substitute "watching porn" for "drinking alcohol" and have a reasonably reliable test.

There isn't, though, a direct correlation between consuming a lot of porn (or alcohol) and being addicted to it. Someone could watch porn for several hours per day and not be addicted, and conversely someone could look at porn for a few minutes every few days and be addicted.

A friend of mine is a therapist specialising in addiction treatment. He has an even simpler self-assessment test than the one linked above: He asks clients who are questioning whether they're addicted to something to abstain from it completely for two weeks. If they can do this successfully, it's likely that they're not addicted. If such abstinence is a struggle, then it's possible/likely that they are addicted, and further assessment is indicated.

Nothing in this post should be construed as medical advice. Readers are urged to consult a licensed health professional for specific guidance.

It's probably an American production--the ceiling light fixtures are just like the ones in my California office.

The guy has a nice, natural bush. I, too, would like to see more of him

An example of many similar pictures in one torrent can be found at https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=c8a86c33aff75b3c889730199b0dd33d75125fa421852212 ..

I suppose it's better to have too many pictures than none at all, but after seeing a zillion frame grabs, I don't need to download the video.

Young Danes are sticking nicotine pouches up their asses and inside their foreskins in a trend that’s left health experts concerned and baffled, according to Danish national broadcaster DR.

Health experts from across Denmark, including the country’s National Health Institute, confirmed the trend to DR. Independently, Motherboard found multiple threads on Scandinavian forums where users discussed placing nicotine pouches on or up intimate body parts.

A student in Norway, who asked to remain anonymous, also told Motherboard about how he had experimented with placing snus inside his foreskin. “I was bored and about to take a snus and masturbate, and my curiosity got the better of me,” he said. “So I tucked it in ... I got a cold sensation from the menthol."

(Full story at https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dbv78/young-scandinavians-are-sticking-nicotine-pouches-up-their-asses )

I found this while helping a friend look for smoking cessation products. I'm not sure what to say, other than, "there are better things to put up your ass."

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.

@cinemacapman said in Re-uploading existing torrent instead of re-seeding existing one?:

You missed my point,

If your point had been clearer, I wouldn't have missed it.

Was your original question answered? If so, what is that answer?

@cinemacapman As I understand it, a new torrent is only a duplicate if there's an existing torrent "with at least one seeder." Duplicating a dead torrent with an identical new one is not a duplicate, if that terminology makes sense.

Uploading a new sort-of-duplicate-of-something's-that-dead has the advantage that it will show up at the top of the search listing, whereas resurrecting a dead torrent by re-seeding it will not. This will expose (!) the new torrent to users who have joined the site since the dead one was posted; such users might not have found the dead torrent otherwise.

I will occasionally upload a new torrent with older material if I think it's of significant value that might be overlooked by other people. I don't do this often, and again, only for something that I think would be of great value to people.

(Sometimes I also take older material and convert it from less popular formats like .flv or .rm, and/or join multiple smaller files into a single file. The torrents resulting from these things would not be considered duplicates even if the source torrents were still live.)

So, I don't think it's necessary to report a new torrent that replaces a dead one, even if the dead one is still in the system. A user could conceivably abuse this process* by uploading a bunch of new torrents, but if other users choose to download the material, perhaps it's a benefit rather than abuse.

• I tried hard to think of some quip connecting torrent abuse to self-abuse, but I couldn't. I need more coffee.

The site tries to keep users anonymous for everyone's protection. You could try adding a comment to a torrent you like to the effect of, "@uploader: I like your stuff. Please send me a PM with links to any other torrents you have uploaded."

@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.

Another thing that can help is to only download part of a new multi-file torrent: For example, if a torrent has multiple files and total size of 10 GB, I find that if I select only 5% of those files for downloading, I'll get them quickly and then seed them back to other users at a high speed.

Fan site torrents are especially good for this. There was one about a week ago where I did this, and my share ratio for that torrent alone is about 13 right now. I'll probably keep it for another week and then delete it.

The only downside to this approach is that this torrent will count against your allowable download slots even when you've downloaded everything you selected. I think that's a small price to pay for pumping up your ratio.

Good luck with this, and let us know how it turns out for you.

@ianfontinell said in Can Gaytorrent give me a list of torrents I've previously downloaded?:

It'll only show torrent's that you've downloaded fully.

Note that "downloaded fully" means that you have downloaded all of the files in the torrent. If you've selected some (but not all) of the files, it won't show up here (even though your torrent client shows the torrent as being finished). Also, the system will count this torrent as one you're still downloading.

My own preference as a downloader is to have DVD's as a VIDEO_TS folder with multiple files in it, rather than a single file .iso image. If there are individual files, I can download a sampling, and sometimes those files will be readable (if incomplete) when only 30% or so has been downloaded. This way I can preview bits of the DVD and decide if I want to download the whole thing. This isn't possible with a .iso image file.

@Rotron said in 1 Star Rating Troll:

downloaders know what they are downloading and they would only download ones that they want

Yes, that's the philosophy. I did a search for "boys love drama" and came up with 32 torrents that are probably yours--and a quick look at the page with some mental arithmetic shows that your torrents have been downloaded close to 500 times. This says a lot more about how much people appreciate your sharing than one angry troll.

That troll will be even angrier if he sees that all of those torrents now have an additional rating vote...for five stars. I wonder how that happened...

Please continue to share your material--many people appreciate it.