Posts made by eobox91103

Another good way to improve ratio is to:
1)  Find a new torrent with many files that hasn't been fully seeded yet (i.e., shows only one seeder, but many leechers).  This will only happen when a torrent is very new.
2)  Download the torrent, but only select some of the files (like the smallest ones) to download–which means marking the other files "don't download" in your torrent client.
3)  Let this torrent seed for at least a few hours, preferably a few days.

This way you will get the file(s) you have selected fairly quickly, and then be a resource for the other leechers who are trying to get all of the files.  Your ratio on this torrent can easily get to 5:1 or even 10:1.  And, this "trick" doesn't damage the system or harm other users.

The only disadvantage here is that this torrent will show up as "seeding" in your torrents listing as long as you don't have all of the files.  Once you've reached a good ratio with it, or most other leechers have gone away, just delete the torrent, and keep the files if you wish.

Sur la page "Magazine Tetu 21 Issues", vous pouvez cliquer sur le bouton "Request Re-Seed", et il est possible qu'un autre membre ait les fichiers.

I think there's a difference between a "one-time bang" that involves two people sending pictures or videos to each other, and a longer-term exchange of texts and messages that has a semi-personal dimension.  Trading images is superficial and harmless.  Deceptively sharing feelings and emotions crosses a line.

That said, another consideration is how much time and effort one puts into this pastime.  If it's consuming several hours per day, it's probably not good for someone.

I used to use Craigslist a lot for hookups.  It was very "successful" but I haven't found a good replacement for it.

I have Grindr, but more for curiosity:  I work at a large university, and it's interesting to see who's online nearby–either staff or students.  It confirmed my often-faulty gaydar in a few cases and has led to some friendships.

@JohnAllenson:

But on the issue of HIV, we know it's been killing people for almost a century now.  That's too long ago for someone to have used recombinant DNA techniques to manufacture a virus.

Brother Allenson has this right.  That HIV originated in primates in Africa is established scientific fact.  Conspiracy theorists who claim otherwise need to go home and polish their tinfoil hats.

As to whether there was this nasty conspiracy to weaponize HIV against blacks and gay people…there is absolutely evidence of this, whereas the transmission vectors from monkey to African humans to Western humans are well-understood and are in line with, again, thoroughly established epidemiological data.  There was no conspiracy here.

The problem with conspiracy theories like "HIV is man-made" or "HIV doesn't cause AIDS--or even illness" is that there's no factual evidence to support them, while a boatload of evidence supports the true account.  People who invent off-base theories need to find data and conduct research to back up their theories, not just shout them over and over again.

@furfiend:

Make your intentions clear, be respectful, protect yourself, and don't overthink it.

This is the key:  Make sure both guys have the same understanding.  I've had a lot of "one time recreations," but a few of them have gone wrong when the other guy thought it would be the start of something ongoing.  I regret not having made things more understood.

Also, the administrators don't deserve a hissy fit.  When they promote (recycle) a torrent, they can't judge whether people will continue seeding that torrent.  The rules only guide the original uploader to keep seeding until three people have grabbed the file.

It would be polite for seeders (of any torrent, recycled or not) to keep seeding if they're the only one seeding and there are leechers waiting for the file.  That's probably too much to ask most users.

I'm not sure it matters whether they're fashionable.  By the time another guy sees your briefs, you're probably about to take them off  ;D

Free upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 is (supposedly) available, according to some websites.  I haven't tried it, but will in the next month or so.  I have two machines that were delivered with Windows 7, and I'd stick with that, except some software will only work on Windows 10.  I have another laptop with Windows 10 and I don't see much advantage to it.

I think Windows XP was the most user-friendly OS that Microsoft had, but they had to "improve" it.  Remember Windows Vista?

@adamshepardl:

Sorry I know that question is likely the dumbest people have read, but I'm a newbie here and I cannot find out how to view my own wishlist, I figure it's like a bookmark of my favourites?  But there's nothing about it in the FAQ..

Thanks

The only dumb question is the one that isn't asked.

Different people probably use the wishlist function in different ways.  You could use it to bookmark torrents that you want to download later…perhaps you can't download them right now because your ratio is too low.

I use it to mark the most recent torrents uploaded when I do a search.  That way, when I log in the next time to search through the torrents, I'll know how far back I need to look:  I can just scroll down the search results, and when I hit the torrents I "wishlisted" on my last search, I know I can stop looking.

To see your wishlist:  On the Search page, tick the box below the search field that says "On wishlist only."  Then click the big blue Search button, and your wishlist torrents will show up.  You might also want to select "Including dead" next to the search box--if a torrent you marked has no seeders, and is considered dead, it won't show up if you search when "active" is selected (which the default search setting).

I hope this makes sense.

@adamshepardl:

Do I require credit to upload new torrent files, and is that what this is used for?

When you get enough points from user thank-yous, or from keeping your torrents seeded over time, you can exchange those points for an increase in your upload data volume (shown at the top center of the webpage).  Clicking on the "Bonus" value in the upper right of your webpage will take you the exchanging web page.  You'll see that the more points you exchange, the more data volume you get…and the "volume per points" price gets better with higher numbers of points.

For example, right now you have about 300 points.  If you wait until that reaches 350, you can turn that in for 5 GB upload added to your totals.  That would bring your ratio up to 1.5.

You'll continue to earn seed bonus points if you keep active the torrents you've uploaded--even if nobody is downloading them.  You'll get a half a point per hour if you do this.  With your current total of 300 points, you'll reach 350 points in about four days.

Happy seeding (and you can take that any way you want  ;D )

@adamshepardl:

Is it supposed to be like that, or can I change it so that people can see my username so they can see I uploaded it in case they wanted to message me?

It's that way to protect you.  If someone wants to message you, they can put a comment on the torrent page, and you'll be notified.  You can either respond to them on the torrent page, or directly to their username by the private message feature in the upper right of the screen.

The torrent you linked to is a very welcome addition to the site–good pictures, good description, you followed the rules.  It would be nice if everyone did.  I'll put some seed bonus there as a welcome.

I remember a college professor of mine saying that you can't use logic in discussion with someone who doesn't use logic to form their own viewpoint.

If that's true (which I believe is the case), this thread has exhausted itself.  It's time to move along, folks…there's nothing to see here.

@ben351500:

I also notice that folks will still download these torrents, thus rewarding the crappy download. It would be nice if all downloaders decided to boycott such uploads; that would discourage the practice.

It baffles me that people will download a torrent that says only "hot sex" in a description, and has no pictures.  I would never do that.  I'm tempted to report that torrent as not following the rules, but if 10 suckers (!) have already downloaded it, my argument that "this crap violates the rules" seems to lose force.

It's a pity–and a fairly recent phenomenon.  I don't remember this being a problem a few years ago.  Perhaps memory has drawn its merciful veil.

@Gasparzinho:

It's a problem that happens almost every time that someone upload something like that. Instead of putting at least the name of the file like " me and Josh fucking in the morning " to help us who download the thing know what we are getting, no, they put like this : uwsy9768Kll.mp4 LIKE ???????? WTF this need to stop and they need to do it right. Some guys put the little description or just fuck01.mp4 which is ok because helps but literally post 25 GB of files , all desorganized and to us even download almost all just to find the real fuck parts is awful and really insulting. No everybody can donate and gain a lot of GB to download freely. I hope someone who works on this site or even the owner,put some rules and be more restricted about this. Thank you. If u agree with me, plus responded.

Unfortunately, there have been a lot of really crappy torrents uploaded recently–huge collections of undescribed files, mis-named files like mention, huge torrents that never seeded completely, and/or no descriptions or photographs of the content.

I used to think, "we should appreciate what uploaders do," but it seems this recent epidemic of garbage is driven by people wanting only to increase their upload traffic.  But flagrant violations of the rules should not be acceptable.  I don't think the moderators can spend their time on this problem, as I'm sure there's lots of other stuff to do.  Perhaps leaving comments on the torrent's page will get the uploader's attention.

@Pawpcorn:

@eobox91103:

I'm wondering what makes a torrent show up as new on the Search and Browse pages, but actually it's been here for a while and they're being re-announced with the recycling logo.

On RARE OCCASIONS (note that we really don't encourage this, but we DO make friendly exceptions), we may honor a request by a member made via PM (and rarer still, via the helpdesk, but we really hate getting asked to do this in the helpdesk, ok?) and will help a member out, when the situation is justified (by researching the torrent status / history) and promote a torrent when requested (and maybe add those two other actions mentioned above)

Sorry, this function is NOT available to members, LOL, and I'm thinking you might have been hoping it would be, based on your OP.

Thanks very much for your complete answer!  I wasn't looking to have this be a member-invoked function; I think this would lead to chaos with a flood of "promotions."  We already see some chaos with member-available photo posting.

I was just curious, as occasionally one of my own uploads will get promoted.  I'm always happy when this happens, because it means more people will be able to see my uploads, which are of course only the very finest material. 

I'm wondering what makes a torrent show up as new on the Search and Browse pages, but actually it's been here for a while and they're being re-announced with the recycling logo.  This is a handy feature to let users know of some "hidden gems" that might not otherwise be found.

I'm putting this in the Forum rather than asking the Help Desk because this topic might be of interest to others.  Or maybe not…your mileage may vary.

@pols1337:

How did this OP go from an article that factually identified the origins of HIV as chimpanzees in West AFrica to … "it's man-made"?

If you want to say crazy shit on forums, then at least pretend to cite an article that actually backs up your claims LOL.

Well put, but expecting someone prone to conspiracy theories to be rational is, um, optimistic at best.

Sometimes I'm only interested in a few of the files in a multi-file torrent.  Once I have those, I often keep the torrent active so I can seed other users–so my user profile will show me as leeching lots of torrents, even though I'm no longer leeching files, just seeding them.  Is there a down side to having my statistics look "bad" this way?  It seems to be working out fine.

On a related note (and maybe off-topic for this thread), my ratio is about 4.0, thanks to moving back to a city and having a high-speed connection.  Am I running up the score here and not letting other users with low ratios seed more volume?

@oof:

Subject pretty much does say everything, do I get seeder credit for seeding freeleech torrents? I have over ~3gb seeded and it still isn't reflected on my account even though the tracker is working and I can see the correct torrents actively being reported as seeding.

My understanding is that you do get credit for your seeding.  To get the most benefit from this, select freeleech torrents that have the most number of leechers on it ( https://www.gaytorrent.ru/browse.php?search=&incldead=0&inname=1&infn=1&infl=1&orderby=leeches&sort=desc ) –that way lots of people will be hungry for your seed (so to speak) and you should be on the way to ratio repair.

Once you have a good ratio and can download non-freeleech torrents, pick a brand new torrent that has many files in it.  Download just a few of those--maybe only 10% of the file size--and once you have those, you'll be seeding them very rapidly and raise your ratio quickly.