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Everyone chillax a bit.

It looks like the backend is having some issues tonight. I'm sure it will all be back up and running within a few hours, if not sooner.

You can check your connection to the backend with this link: https://tracker.gaytorrent.ru/stmdd/ Once you get a good response from that you should find things start working again.

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God, I couldn't agree more!

There's a series of uploads on here titled <country> Twinks and Amateurs <month>" and it drives me up the wall. There are occasionally some OK files in them, but whoever is putting them together is padding them with several GBs of "Extras" which are normally just poor quality rips of full films already on the site.

It's not an isolated case either. I downloaded an OF rip that contained multiple duplicates and endless 3-second long clips of someone brushing their teeth.

I loved this site a few years ago, but the overall standard of uploads is becoming shocking. People reupload huge collections of files, perhaps adding a couple of pictures just to change the overall size of the download and it gets accepted. Proper titles, descriptions and pictures are a thing of the past, and the system actively encourage people to upload fake pics to other people's torrents with the promise of extra seedpoints.

There's good stuff here, and I don't have any intention of turning my back on the site, but I wish somebody could find a way of actively improving things, because I can guarantee I'll never donate while things remain the way they are.

frostycab

Jesus Christ!

How many times are you going to post about this crap. This is the third or fourth thread you've started to voice your resentment of being "lumped in" with trans people. Nobody is lumping you in with trans people. The trans people had a meeting and they don't want you. Get over your own bigotry and/or insecurities, live your own damn life and shut up about it because we don't care!!!

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@rashoo I think we might need just a little bit more information....

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It seems to have become very common these days to add lots of pics to upload listings that aren't actually from the upload itself. These are usually album/promo pics that show one or some of the performers posing for headshots or whatever. I'm not totally opposed to having clear shots of performers somewhere, but they're starting to get spammed in such a way as to make the site messy.

By way of example I present this set of upload from a 2-hour window earlier today:

10 uploads in 2 hours all using the same pictures over and over again. They have kindly added a thumbnail sheet for each one which I suppose might make them compliant with the rules, but I would argue that the overall presentation is misleading.

This is becoming more and more common it seems. Is there any point in reporting them all, and if so, how? Do we just report it as pic-spamming or what?

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@john32123666 When someone has read the rules and simply forgotten something I can forgive that. When someone hasn't read the rules thoroughly enough to know them properly, I can sort of forgive that. (There are quite a lot of them and it's not an easy read..)

But when someone clearly knows the rules and chooses to ignore them then they're just asking for it. Any torrent site is only as good as its uploads, and it seems to be worse now than it was a few years ago. People are getting lazy, and have no interest in quality uploads. They just want the ratio.

Let's hope that the mods have "explained" the rules to him.

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@lololulu19 said in Straight or Gay?:

who is exclusively a bottom for females pegging him

I genuinely can't believe I have to explain this, but what people do or don't do on camera for money does not necessarily reflect their personal preferences or sexual orientation.

From the sheer number of posts you've made along these lines I don't think it's unreasonable to suspect that you have may have fantasies that lean deep into "straight buy does gay stuff" territory. If so there's nothing wrong with that, but I don't think you really need us to validate that fantasy for you. Believe whatever you want to believe about porn actors, because at the end of the day all of it is really just fantasy. That's the whole point of it. I think you're overthinking it. Imagine someone is straight or gay if you like and just enjoy it for what it is, a performance.

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@lololulu19 said in DMCA strikes and the 90-day suspension:

Uploading porn does not violate copyright law since porn cannot be copyrighted because it is considered obscene.

Repeating this ad nauseum does little to change anyone's mind. As I've pointed out on several occasions in the past you seem to be under the impression that something you've read online somewhere applies globally. Even if porn couldn't be copyrighted wherever you are, that does not mean that anything in other parts of the world.

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Not here for a fight, but just want to point out that "this will happen eventually if we don't change by 2023" means something very different to "this will happen in 2023" Reading the post properly shows that she said we had 5 years to change course, not that we will all die in fire and brimstone in 5 years. The article even says "an article predicting humans would go extinct by 2023" which any rational person would realise is different to what she was saying. Lazy journalism trying to sensationalise something by misinterpreting it.

FWIW, I don't think anybody has any real clue as to when the planet will (or did) reach the tipping point.

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@lololulu19 said in DMCA strikes and the 90-day suspension:

To the people who actually believe that gay porn has legitimate copyrights, I suggest you leave this site..

Thank you. Your suggestion has been considered and thrown in the bin. The reciprocal of your idea also applies if you feel like taking that option.

@lololulu19 said in DMCA strikes and the 90-day suspension:

At the entrances to shops that sell porn, they have signs up saying that there is no admittance for anybody who is a member of law enforcement.

Gotta say, I've never seen that in the UK. Or Amsterdam. Or Prague. Or Spain. Or Germany. Guess they'd better all close up shop in case Buford T Justice happens to drive past while he's chasing The Bandit.

As has been said many times before, this site is not a democracy. The site owner gets to decide what happens on here. If they choose to comply with DMCA, most likely having sought legal guidance on the issue from a professional and not someone with a tinfoil hat on, then that is up to them.

We, the members, do not own the site. We are not responsible for it. The site goes to great lengths to protect its members' anonymity. The owners do not have that protection, so they can do what they like as far as I'm concerned.

As I said, even if there is some bizarre law or statute wherever you are, that has limitations. Porn can be and is copyrighted in many countries, and that copyright is applied to all signatories of the Berne Convention, including the US.

A (fairly long!) article on porn copyright on Lexology reads:

"Similarly, a French court[28] recently held[29] that copyright will not be denied to pornographic work only because of its genre and that the choices governing the design can be considered as original for copyright purposes. In the Australian case Venus Adult Shops,[30] dealing with copyright infringement of pornographic films, the Federal Court held that there is no statutory basis in the Copyright Act 1968 to refuse copyright on the grounds of content or offensive subject-matter of the work in question."

Regarding the UK it goes on to state:

"It is therefore reasserted that copyright law should acknowledge automatic and content-neutral creation of copyright for all works satisfying the legal requirements of copyrightability, including those at the verge of illegality (such as pornography), since the societal value judgments, including morality and public interest, are constantly developing in time and space; and that correspondingly, copyright should serve its "expressive value for society"[39] by promoting free expression or challenging these value judgments."

Now please do tell us all how your US-centric ideas trump the laws of other countries.

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@tiatbdna4 One thing I would say about that is that stopping them at 1.25 based on the ratio may not be the best practice, even if allowing for you secondary minimum time criteria.Depending on the torrent client being run on the SB it would be worth investigating if you add an "AND" condition to that and set it to check if there are no leechers. If there's still traffic then there's an argument for keeping the torrent active, at least within the scope of the initial purpose of the thread.

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Brother Crush - I Need a Ride to School (Zach Brenton and Michael DelRay)

"Dean is a studious kid who loves to learn, so when he runs the risk of not getting to class on time, he starts to get nervous. When he asks his stepbrother Ben to drive him to school, the older boy sees this as an opportunity to get something out of it — his dick sucked! To persuade his horny big stepbrother, Dean has to get on his knees and slide his stepbro’s fat dick between his lips."

https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=d2d9f6368a47741031aab4170a5875fb3a19e6db21b9223e

Zach is a hotty, but I prefer him in Brother Crush - Relaxing After Practice

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Somehow I managed to miss out half a bloody sentence in my reply, but you get the idea.

(Only just got out of bed)

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@eobox91103 Short answer is yes. If you're putting stuff in the seedbox (or your own client for that matter) and your intention is to keep the torrent alive rather then you would definitely want to exempt it form any auto-stop automation

I have a few on my home client that I've deleted from my personal library as I wasn't keen on them and just maintain a copy in my seeding folder. but some only show 1 (maybe 2) seeders. My ratio on a couple of them is around 2, so would have shut off with such a rule set in the client, but obviously it's better to keep them active. I check in on them once a week or so to see what state they're in, and if they get up to 10 or more seeds I'll consider dropping out.

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Needless to say (I hope!) you should avoid doing ANYTHING else with the drive until you've tried recovery. If you overwrite the deleted data again you just make it less likely that you can recover it.

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If I may suggest an alternative solution....

I was careless and rushed when cleaning up my system recently, and deleted the entire partition on one of my drives. Panic ensued as I obviously thought that was it since deleting a partition is usually more permanent than simply deleting the files. FEAR NOT! I looked around and found a little program called "Disk Drill" from Cleverfiles. Ran it and managed to recover virtually everything form the deleted partition.

Forget the free version as you can't really do anything with it, but I managed to find the full version on another torrent site and it worked like a charm. Have a hunt around and see if you can find a copy.

frostycab

Anyone looking for a ratio boost should go and read the whole of this thread: https://community.gaytorrent.ru/topic/67291/upload-ratio-help?page=1

I've given instructions there on how to use a seedbox to get a massive ratio boost, and some users in there have found some that cost as little as €6 per month. One user managed to upload roughly a whole TB in just 24 hours and completely fixed his ratio, with the rest of the month free to build up a healthy buffer.

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@wehadit-0 Have you tried clearing your cookies?

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@frostygrin said in upload ratio help:

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But I guess some people would just be OK being a CDN for other people with the seedbox, and then download what they want from their home PC.

That is precisely the advice I was referring to as it deals with the original point of the topic

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@frostygrin I'll be honest and admit that that particular scenario isn't one that I've had any experience with so can't really comment on. I don't think there is any limit on how many torrents you can seed though. What I would say is that my comment was regarding seedboxes specifically and using them to improve your ratio. With the impressive speed ot most SB services, both up and down, there is little argument for using them for partial downloads, at least as long as someone is following the advice I gave towards the start/middle of this thread and using their seedbox purely to improve ratio

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