Posts made by eobox91103

@MrMazda Thanks for the tip. I did notice that some other things were slowing down. I'll throttle uTorrent accordingly.

@john32123666 : Thanks for the response. I gather the graphics you posted are from your own client. The only difference I see is that you have two boxes enabling DHT ticked, whereas I don't. I thought I saw some posts on here that DHT was a "bad thing," but I can easily change this.

@MrMazda : I see that several of my older "nobody's leeching" torrents have been freeleeched (I wonder who did that? ) and my client & modem are now maxed out seeding them. (Several are now fully seeded with a dozen or more other seeders, so I've paused those in order to put maximum bandwidth on a few of the very large torrents.)

So it seems that my settings and such are OK, and it was simply a matter of having no leechers on many of my torrents. There's some older stuff that I've kept live because I think it's of value and I wanted it to be available to people. I'm not concerned about ratio (I'm doing OK with that); I just wanted to be a good sharer.

My nephew visited recently, and offered to "tune up" my uTorrent client by tweaking some of the preferences. Everything still works, but it seems that I'm not uploading as much as I used to, and I wonder if maybe something went wrong. Here's are a couple of preference screens that he fiddled with:

Do these settings look right? I consider myself computer-literate, but the subtleties of torrent software often escape me. If it matters, the internet connection at this house seems pretty good, 500 Mb/sec down, 25 Mb/sec up.

Thanks!

I think there are two topics going on here: (1) I think the OP was asking about thumbnail files that would be part of of the torrent itself, and (2) others were addressing thumbnail files that would be part of the description on the torrent page.

Both approaches are useful, depending on the circumstances: If the torrent has only a few videos (four or less, maybe), then having thumbnail files posted as part of the torrent page is a good idea, along with some large single photos.

For torrents with a lot of video files, I like to see a separate folder of thumbnails in the torrent itself; then I can download only the thumbs and then decide which video files to download.

Whether a thumbnail file is part of the torrent page or downloadable from the torrent, advice from members above should be heeded:

• Set the thumbnail generator to make each thumb a good size--150 pixels high at a minimum.

• Don't have the video sampled too often--once every two minutes will give a sense of what's going on.

@ColinTNM said in Foreskin:

mutilating babies and leaving them scarred for life for absolutely no good reason at all is barbaric cruelty.

I agree that performing this operation on infants (which is inherently without their consent) is wrong. While the term "mutilation" is technically applicable, I think we need to be affirming of circumcised men even if we disagree with the circumcision itself. Both of my partners were circumcised, and that did not make them lesser as people. They--and whoever they were with--still had very satisfying sexual experiences.

I support efforts to end infant circumcision, but I don't want circumcised guys to have a "foresken dysmorphia" and feel that they are lesser as a result. What's done is done, and they can still have a great sex life.

I know this topic comes up frequently, but the technology horizon moves quickly and there might be things out there now that didn't exist a few months ago. The purpose of this post is to get input/comments from other users on VPN's they use/used to use, and what they like/didn't like.

Here are the things I think I'd like in a VPN:

• Anonymity on torrent sites

• Anonymity in searching the dark web. (Note: I do not currently access the dark web, but I'm curious.)

• Not too much of a hit on upload/download speed. Both of my homes have fast (5700Mb down, 30 Mb up) so losing a bit of that won't hurt.

• Reasonable price--doesn't have to be dirt cheap, but shouldn't be exorbitant.

• Ability to toggle off. I might not fully understand this, but if I'm using a VPN in Germany, shopping for cars on Ford.com will recognise my location and redirect me to the Ford.de site. If I can easily shut off the VPN, I'll be back to the Canadian or US site, depending on where I am.

FYI, I'll be using this primarily from Canada (Alberta) and the US (California), although I travel all over the world.

Thanks for any insights you may have.

@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

@mwesb1978-0 There's another application called "Auto Movie Thumbnailer" ( https://funk.eu/amt/ ) that lets you put a whole folder of many videos and then in makes a folder with .jpg thumbnails for each video. This can be really handy if you have a lot of videos in the torrent and want to give a thumbnail image for each one. (I wish more users did this.)

Thanks for your desire to have these thumbnails, regardless of what software you end up using. I know other users will appreciate your efforts.

I've used this process myself for a hundred or more uploads.

Note that the "Trackers" window will show http://gaytor.rent:------- to reflect the new site domain.

Be sure to follow all of @john32123666's other recommendations, like unchecking "start seeding" which seems to be a default. Leaving that one checked can cause issues.

I know I join with other members in looking forward to the material you share on here.

@ianfontinell You are to be congratulated for having two testes...just like most other guys here.

@tnar I think we have to distinguish two cases:

• Somebody uploads a new torrent, and somebody else "jumps on" this torrent, depriving the uploader of some upload credit. This is impolite. I think the is the situation that the OP is referring to.

• The torrent is old, and bears the "recycle" logo. If there's only one person seeding it, they're probably not the original seeder. In that case, "jumping on" helps the user community by getting the material out faster.

@john32123666 said in RARBG operation ended ...:

Hello guys,
We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site.

Jesus, John, you almost gave me a heart attack when I thought you were referring to this site!

There is a message here, though, that sites like this do cost money to operate. Gentle users might consider some additional contributions.

@lololulu19 said in The way anal sex is shown in videos...:

porn videos ... almost NEVER show anybody making the slightest attempt to clean their ASS before [fucking]

Damn, I never noticed that. And now that you have me thinking about it, I've never seen porn models clipping their toenails, applying deodorant, or putting in their contact lenses.

Maybe porn really is fake. Shucks. I used to think it was so hot.

@john32123666 Thanks for the tip. The window showed that it had been many months since I had done that, so things should be cleaner how.

@AmsBoy91-0 said in Odd error message from uTorrent:

there must be something wrong with his 'temp' folder

This was a good catch...because even though uTorrent doesn't put anything in there, I still had >300MB of stuff in there--all less than a week old. I ran CCleaner and got rid of most of those files. Maybe this will solve the problem. Thank you!

I'm using uTorrent 3.5.5 under Windows 10/64, and recently I've been getting a pop-under error message saying,

Sometimes I'll click "OK" to get rid of it, but then it comes back after a while.

It doesn't get in the way, and it doesn't seem to affect how my uTorrent client works. I've looked up that .tmp filename, and it doesn't show up on any malware or virus sites. So, this is probably a non-issue, and I'm not going to bother the help desk on this. But this only started happening recently, and I'm wondering if this might be the tip of a nastier iceberg. Have any other Gentle Members noticed this "feature?"

BTW, I have auto-updates turned off in uTorrent. I spend a week in Version 3.6 hell, and I don't wish to go near that place ever again.

Very nice! Although I think the sexiest part of a guy's body is his face, and I can't see that...but I understand your need for privacy. I'm sure it's quite nice. Thank you for posting.

Ook ben ik een geholpen Nederlander: Mijn opa is geboren in Terneuzen (Zeeland), en mijn oma in Utrecht.

he has been sleeping with this guy, stroked his cock many times

I wonder if he's ever sucked "that guy's" cock, or fucked "that guy's" ass?

(Hint for the slow kids: Check out this link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror )

(Ignoring the OP's covert request.)

Another good way to increase ratio is to download only a few files from a new, large torrent--maybe 10% or less of the content. Those will often download quickly, and then the tracker system will hook you up (!) with other users who are looking for that material. The results can be astounding: here's a snip from my uTorrent client showing five torrents that I've done this way:

Even if you have a ratio warning, grabbing 5% of a new fan site collection will pay off for you even if you don't want the content. For example, on that one at the bottom of the list I only selected 5% of the content, but uploaded nearly 66 times that content. If ratio were for sale, I'd be wealthy