Posts made by krad3434

Yeah we're more or less at critical mass, some things are being deleted that aren't even OF related lol. If there goal is to report so much people upload less, its probably working.

@urx585 said in Why is everything new being deleted from the "Fan Sites" category?:

@raphjd - If I have a tab open for a torrent that's been marked as a duplicate, and I refresh that tab, I see "Access Denied" and the page title looks like "DUPLICATE https://gaytorrent..." (the word duplicate followed by a link to the original upload.)

If I have a tab open for a rule-breaking torrent that is in Themed Movies, but isn't gay themed, and I refresh that tab, I'll see "Access Denied" and the page title will say something like "NOT THEMED". Similar for "collections" that are determined to have no common theme.

These torrents aren't deleted, they're restricted so that no ordinary user can see them in the search results or download them.

This is different. These torrents are being deleted. If I refresh the tab, I'll see "No torrent with ID."

There were always lots of takedowns on this site, and as others have pointed out, if this site didn't comply with DMCA it would have been sued out of existence many years ago, just like TBP.

What's different in the last few weeks is the speed and quantity of takedowns. Even the most rapid deletions used to take at least a few hours, and torrents often lasted for a day or two before disappearing. Now it happens very quickly, often in less than 30 minutes, and the number of torrents that are being deleted is much, much greater, covering a much wider range of material.

I tested this again this morning by looking through torrents posted during the night, opening them in tabs, then waiting a few hours and refreshing the tabs. At least two dozen of them were deleted, and some of them had nothing to do with OF. Some included amateur vids that have never been deleted before, i.e. part 2 of a Voyeur compilation from a site that doesn't exist any more and never had any copyrights over its user-contributed contents to begin with. None of them were duplicates or against the rules.

I understand that OF is on a takedown binge and it might last for a very long time; they have plenty of money to pay for takedown services. They've become the dominant source for porn, and prior to the last few weeks, more than 50% of the new content posted to GTRU was from OF. Why so many other torrents are also disappearing quickly is much more of a mystery to me.

In any case, the OF takedowns are having the desired effect. There is already much less content from OF being posted, and as more and more users see their uploads deleted in 30 minutes or less, they'll give up and go elsewhere. Of course, if "elsewhere" gets too popular, OF will go after it too, and the users there will go through this same frustrating experience.

It's funny Ive had tabs open to check torrents out later and have noticed the same thing you did with the tabs reporting "dupes" vs not.
To top it off, like most if not all content in the Fansite category is doomed. Like no other section of the site I think has 1 hour old torrents then 2 weeks old on the same page. There are currently TWO torrents in that category from last week lol.

It's fine if it can't be addressed directly, I'll just say it's weird that a gay sites getting this much direct heat. Even weirder I've recently seen some of the torrents that were posted here and deleted in hours pop up on another site and not only last longer, but get reposted here because the original was deleted so fast.

It sucks, but I guess the site just got too large.

I'm thankful to the people who do share, but I imagine if what they share keeps getting deleted before anyone else can download it they'll probably stop.

RFC is another studio that more or less just has vanished off the site slowly.

The fansite category is basically just a giant target, name obfuscation does work, the main issue being I've even seen that get taken down. It'd be nice if most stayed up for at least 24 hours. Making it hidden by default would likely at least slightly slow down some files from getting removed but who knows.

Some of the torrents have both given me people to sub to as well as save me from wasting cash on mostly solos and 20 second poorly angled iphone videos that OF gives me no way to dispute charges on.

I'm thankful, but just like the jff and of boom changed things a lot it's clear something else is gonna give soon too.

Im starting to think it may be time to get rid of fansites as a category and for people not to label torrents with anything besides the name of the stars for fansites. It's getting awful.

@2econdspark Thanks I've noticed the deletions too. It really sucks that there is such an aggressive takedown of these here. Studio uploads even stay up for longer.

I hope if one account is issuing this many dmcas they get banned. I've even seen some torrents get 1 star ratings pretty much as they have been uploaded.

Would love the same. I feel like it was on here too.

Splitting is just more convenient. To be honest 10 gigs is a lot too. If its a site rip fine but 10 gigs has to be A LOT of good content.

I'm not too sure I'm turned on by a particular race.
I kinda hate the idea that some people would decide an entire race is unattractive because of what they've seen.