Posts made by Hier0nymous

This problem is ongoing. I have had contact with staff, who say it is all sorted, everything just needs restarting I have done that multiple times. I use libtorrent, and the error message in the torrent client is [Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates]. No connection to any torrents here for 4 days...

It is not just Feral Hosting. I am not with them, but same problem. No connection (just on this tracker) for 36 hours or so, now.

Hopefully staff are looking into a work-around.

To be told that we just need to change VPN or IP is not so realistic, seedboxes don't usually use a VPN (a lot of VPNs have trouble dealing with that amount of traffic) - in short, the IP comes with the seedbox.

Looks like the anti-DDoS thing has also blocked members who have done nothing wrong from connecting to the tracker. I have not been able to download or seed anything all day…

I wasn't searching using those words, but my searches today are just fine.

I thought I'd seen a dupe, but I can't now remember what I was searching for!

I've never seen it happen before, but it is happening to me now, too.

Some VPN providers do not like torrent traffic, and they might kick you out.

If you want to try a VPN that has good reputation, and has servers you can use for torrents, try Astrill. You can get a free trial.

@Popper:

It is possible to upload torrents for other trackers on Gay-Torrents.net, but these are rather the exception.

Indeed. But that is a privilege now accorded to a very few trusted members only. Personally, I find open/public tracker sites so insecure and dangerous, I will never download torrents using public trackers, wherever they are posted.

As a clarification, GT.net and GT.ru are both private trackers, regulated by the passkey system. GT.net differs from GT.ru in that membership at GT.net is open (in that anyone can join), whereas at GT.ru. GTN and GT.org, membership is by invitation except for periods of open registration. Nevertheless, at each of these sites, you have to be a member to access the torrents.

Open/public trackers do not use the passkey system, you do not need to be a member to access their torrents. This distinction between public/private may seem unimportant, but it is important in regulating who has access to what the members provide.

Back to the question, the trackers operate differently. What is also important is how many members each site has, how many are seeding torrents in question, and how many are leeching. One way of increasing an uploader's stats is simple - his torrent needs more leechers. Many people are members at all four sites I have mentioned, and, apart from differences in banned content lists, people often have access to the same torrent at any of the four sites. So, many people will download from the site they prefer, where there is a choice.

I think the real question at Frat X is this: would you pay $40 per month subscription, for 2 new clips a month, that you can only stream and not save to your hard disk?

You can decide if that is good value…

On Flava, I have it on good authority that they do actually watermark their clips, so they can identify precisely which of their members share their stuff to the world. Assuming, of course that their members don't use fake email addresses, VPNs, and that they do use anonymous pre-pay credit cards. How they actually embed the codes, I have no idea. But it is expensive for companies to do this.

I can finish off the mystery of this thread.

Yes, that torrent was posted at GT.net. We have since confirmed that the person who uploaded is one of the chief honchos at the company that owns Frat X. He crudely doctored his company's own video, perhaps to fake some sophisticated tracking system that does not in reality exist, and posted the clip himself with fake warnings at tube/file hosting and various (not just GT.net) torrent sites.

So, no member at Frat X has been caught out with this. This torrent was entirely fake. It seems to be a warning to their own members not to capture these clips and post them. Let's see how successful that is in reality.

Just in case this helps anyone, the setup here at this site may be very different. But at another site,we have found that sometimes when you add a torrent to utorrent 3.3, utorrent strips most of the torrent announce, including the passkey, as it loads into the client. The proper announce with passkey is present in the downloaded .torrent file, utorrent corrupts it as you add it.

The only way to get round this is either to downgrade to a lower version of utorrent, or edit the passkey and announce in each torrent. Adding the right passkey and announce will enable the torrent to start where this is the problem.

utorrent 3.3 is not much good, in my opinion…

@Dax:

This is caused by residual seeding. Really low speeds something like zero point something kbps. It's not actual seeding.

Well, at GT.net when the tracker goes down, the numbers go to 0, even if the torrents are still actually connected and seeding/leeching. No doubt, a subtlety in the way the two sites collect and record stats.

The seeding/leeching will not contribute to stats if you stop/restart the torrents while the tracker is down, but the stats ought to pick up fine if you leave the torrents as they are, once the tracker is online again and reporting picks up. People should just leave the torrents - stopping or restarting while the tracker is down may cause misreporting problems in our clients when the tracker comes back online again.

It is odd, however, that on the main torrent page the torrents still seem to have numbers next to seeders and leechers. Normally when the tracker is down, those numbers would go to 0 while that is the case?

The tracker does appear to be down. I am sure that staff are trying to sort this. All my GTRU torrents are red, too. Perhaps this is just a seedbox problem?

All those are unacceptably named in my opinion (apart from the first). And the lack of description will not help people using GT.ru's excellent search.

For instance - how do you know if titles are banned or not of they are not named?

It annoys me at other places, and staff have every right to correct studio names and titles. The problem is that people don't always know where they get a clip from, what studio it is, and if they have poor English (which we cannot blame them for), they won't know what to say.

Some people, it has to be said, just do not care what they are posting. But a rule will be hard to enforce.

Is GTRU still running tracker.gtru.net:2710?

I just swapped one of my torrents with (what I thought was the old temporary tracker announce) tracker.gtru.net:2710 and it went red when I restarted it. When I put back tracker.gaytorrent.ru:2710 and restarted it, it was just fine.

I didn't think we were having a war, I thought it was a discussion!

I doubt people are uploading duplicates on purpose, but that does not make it any less annoying. Most people, once they are told how to check, learn quickly. It is a good thing that people check first before they upload anything.

This site has one of the best torrent searches going, it is very easy to search to see if a torrent is already seeded. Everyone with auto-approval checks before they upload. Everyone with auto-approval takes care to avoid duplicates, but there was always the problem that people without auto-approval would post a torrent first, and because it had not yet been approved by staff, other people would not yet know it had already been posted. This could lead to arguments!

Auto-approval is very good for those people who have it (and I do), but for those who do not have that status, uploading could be very frustrating, and it could easily put people off even trying.

The problem with dupes here is that this site is a very big site, moderators cannot store in their heads what has been posted already, so they have to spend some time checking. It is only fair that members who notice things can help and report the odd torrent. For smaller trackers, this is not the same type of problem.

Perhaps people who correctly report a duplicate torrent could get some bonus points (I'm not saying this for me, I don't need any more). But then people would report any old torrent, and that could also waste staff time…

@cannonmc:

Why are duplicates a problem? 

It pisses off the person who uploaded the torrent in the first place - he might not bother again.
It pisses off people who have downloaded a torrent, are seeding it, and find no-one wants it because someone else has just uploaded the same torrent and they are all now leeching off that one.
It clutters up the boards with the same torrent.

Some torrent indexes allow people to post any old thing any number of times. I have seen the same torrent posted several times a day. Is that really what people want here?

Not me - I'm all for getting rid of the dupes.

I can see why GT.ru is deciding to introduce a form of freeleech. This is, of course, a feature at other private trackers.

I can see that it is altruistic for people with plenty of bonus points to make a torrent featured for a while.

What I cannot see is why go to various calculations to make a torrent featured. I mean, surely the important thing is the duration of the featuring, not the size of the torrent. I featured a very large torrent (not mine) for 6 hours, and it cost over 1,000 points - I did so, but this is too large an amount to be sustainable. A large torrent needs longer featuring, so really, it needed more featuring for the same points.

Why don't you just offer featuring regardless of size? Then you can have a table showing how long x points will feature a torrent for.

Of course, if this is to take off, then people will feature every torrent, and you will no longer need ratio, and no longer punish people who do not (or even cannot) seed much.

Gt.ru is the same as other trackers - you have plenty of seeders. What you need is more downloaders, one day you will work out that enforced ratio is a hindrance, not a benefit, especially for downloaders.

I welcome the addition of some bi and straight sections. This post here says it all for me:

@cornflkgam:

I'm very excited about adding the str8 porn sections.  I don't care for pussy in the least bit, but there are lots of str8 porn male performers that are so much hotter than gay ones.  I often feel gay porn actors fall into one of three categories: 1) twinky boys, 2) jocks with lean ripped bodies, or 3) hairy bears.  And in the first 2 categories, they're "cute".  I like str8 porn actors because there are men there that are handsome, that are a little rugged, and they're in their 30's or 40's.  You see some of them in gay porn, but not as many as str8 porn.  So for that, I love watching str8 porn sometimes and I'm glad we'll see some here!

I have never understood why some gay men are so offended by what other men do sexually - so long as men are showing us what they can do with their cocks, it is all good! If they want to fuck pussy as well as, or instead of, men, that is cool by me. I have a particular interest in seeing some of the men we know in gay porn showing another side of their interests. The guys at Next Door Studios seem to have worked it out, as well as Jake Cruise's studios, where the SG4GE brand often shows familiar gay performers in an alternative habitat.

It is easy to avoid looking at the bi and straight sections. Staff have explained how. If you don't want to look at it, it is easy to do exactly that!

This is a good move for this site  :cool2: