Posts made by Pawpcorn

@pols1337:

…my ports were not being forwarded (even though in uTorrent, my connection settings: Enabled uPnP port mapping, Enabled NAT-PMP port mapping, and Added Windows Firewall exception.  I thought those would be enough).

YES that might have been enough, if your router had the "Enable uPnP" setting enabled… (as well as having the "Randomize port each start" option UNCHECKED in uTorrent, which I think you did, but just didn't mention above)

Still, all's well that ends well, and certainly, having the port set to OPEN, MANUALLY in your router, is always the best way; rock solid!  :cheesy2:

Take care and good luck!  :love:
Pawpcorn

Hi, as a staff member I'd LIKE to answer your questions…

BUT my concern is that some of our dialog will be private in nature, regarding your account.

Please write the helpdesk directly for assistance in this matter, to insure your account privacy.

Take care,
Pawpcorn
GTRU Staff

YUP, my thoughts exactly; sounds like your port forwarding is not set up properly.  

Here's a forum topic I wrote up on this issue…  https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=46634.0

BTW, from your profile your ratio is under minimum ratio:
Share ratio 0.760
Current minimum Ratio 0.800 (45 Days gracetime in case of your ratio falls below 0.8)
Amount to Seed 47.20 GB (The amount you have to seed to reach the current minimum Ratio)

I sent you 600 bonus points for your first upload, but that's only going to take care of 25% of your shortage, when you trade in for 10GB upload credit.

At the moment you are in the "Grace Period" countdown to losing your download rights again.

You have 40 days before the Grace Period expires, and you totally lose your download rights.

During the "Grace Period", (which is normally triggered right after your ratio drops below the minimum), you are able to download freeleech AND non-freeleech torrents, but you should be focusing on improving your ratio, only.

If your ratio continues to decline, then AFTER the Grace Period expires (and download privileges are removed,) downloading is ONLY permitted for freeleech torrents.

FreeLeech Torrents are explained in greater detail {click here}, and can help you restore your ratio, when members download what YOU are later seeding.

A search for FreeLeech Torrents is achieved with THIS search: {click here}

There are currently MANY FreeLeech torrents available.

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To assist you in maintaining a good ratio into the future, here's some advice that may help:

======Advice for Our Members; How To Maintain a Healthy Ratio======

You should check to see that you have port forwarding set up properly. Your computer is much more difficult to "see" (IE your downloads can be painfully slow, and members have a harder time uploading to, or downloading from your computer), if your torrent client port is NOT being forwarded.
Here is a MINI-TUTORIAL I wrote up on this topic, in the forum: https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=46634

A small donation can resolve your ratio problems quickly, while helping us cover the numerous expenses of continuing to host the GAYtorrent.ru site.

Upload your OWN torrent. It's easy to do, (just make sure it is not a duplicate) and then all that upload data credit is YOURS…at least until other seeders join in

DO NOT STOP your torrent nor torrent client, after uploading completes. KEEP IT RUNNING, so you can continue seeding to the next members who want this video, and help improve your ratio.

If you ever wish to earn upload credit for reseeding videos (where you already have the video on your hard drive), the illustrated procedure is here:  https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=6539.0

The best way to continue to earn upload credit is to seed EVERYTHING you download, forever. This means DO NOT STOP your torrent nor torrent client, after downloading completes. KEEP IT RUNNING, so it can seed to the next member who wants this video, and help improve your ratio. While continuing to seed, you'll be earning a bonus point every two hours you offer to seed, regardless of whether other members are downloading from you or not.

Keep a very close eye on your Ratio, since it will take considerably more time to UPLOAD than it did to download. I would suggest you activate certain columns in your torrent client, so as to keep a close eye on each torrent statistics, in the future. On most torrent programs, you can right-click in the column headings and choose additional columns to be able to view.

I personally recommend "Name", "Size", "Done", "Added on", "Status", "Completed", "Down Speed", "Up Speed", "Seeds", "Ratio", "Peers", "ETA", and Tracker" as essential information and sort-columns. On most torrent programs, you activate these headings by right-clicking on the headings, and selecting and de-selecting your headings, as needed. You can also re-size the headings, by clicking and holding down on the right side of the heading, and dragging it a little bit to the left. You can reposition the columns by clicking (on the column heading) and holding down the mouse button, dragging the column left or right, as desired.

Initially choose only new torrents to download that seem popular, to insure that you will have others downloading (from you, to raise your ratio) after you finish. Our site runs a bit different than other torrent sharing porn sites, because of the vast number of new torrents that get uploaded every day. This tends to make the "popularity" of new torrents be rather short-lived; thus you need to really choose VERY RECENT torrents to download, to share, when trying to repair your ratio.

Freeleech Torrents can be downloaded without affecting your ratio. Even with download rights taken away, you can download any freeleech torrent, as long as it stays freeleech: Torrents which are freeleech will give you whatever you upload added to your ratio… but the size of the movie wont be added to your download, which means that it will only be a positive effect on your ratio (or neutral, if you dont upload anything at all). Do note: if the freeleech timer runs out however, whatever's left on the torrent will be added to your ratio.

Here's the current list of freeleech torrents; They have NO negative effect on your ratio, as long as they remain free leech, however they do tend to have MANY seeders:
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/browse.php?showsearch=1&infl=1

After you download, in order to earn upload credit (sharing) you must keep the torrents running, keep your torrent client program running, and your computer turned on and connected to the internet, preferably ALL the time, if at all possible.

You can also perform many tasks here on the board in order to earn Bonus Points, which can be traded in for Upload credit to improve your ratio. If you click on your Ratio: ( https://www.gaytorrent.ru/rationator.php ) you will see many various ways to earn Bonus Points, besides getting a detailed explanation on how your Ratio is maintained.

Read the Rules ( https://www.gaytorrent.ru/rules.php ) , and read the FAQs ( https://www.gaytorrent.ru/faq.php )

Here's a guide for Starters: https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=707.0

Here's Suggestions to Newbies: Getting off on the right foot : https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=13101.0

If you have any specific questions not addressed above, you can always write the help desk.

Best regards,
Pawpcorn
GayTorrent.ru

Hi, ya'll!!!

I've just discovered what is, to me at least, a NEW video player, that has a TERRIFIC THUMBNAIL Generator included!!!

It's called "SMPlayer" and can be downloaded for free, from here:  http://www.smplayer.info/en/info

One thing I like about it (beyond the sheer simplicity of it) is the default INFORMATION headings it has, at the picture top!!!

First, you open the video, with SMPlayer.

The thumbnail generator is {somewhat hidden} in the "Video" menu, at the very bottom.

It has all the essential settings you'll need, number of columns, number of rows, maximum width of the generated picture, and how many seconds to skip at the beginning of the video… You can experiment with these, as I did, in the example below, to be able to capture the video TITLE, or STUDIO, if you wish.

After you make the settings as you want, and click OK, the thumbnail picture is generated... and then opened.

Note that you should double-click on the new (picture) window's top, in order to be able to see the entire picture, INCLUDING THE SAVE BUTTON on the bottom of the window frame.  You'll need to specify WHERE exactly to save the picture, after clicking "Save"

Here's an example of a thumbnail picture I just generated... using the settings of 4 columns, 8 rows, picture width 1024... use the slidebar at the forum image bottom, if needed, to show all four columns, in this forum display {limitation}, or full screen, as:
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/bitbucket/%5BLadyboy-Ladyboy%5D%20Sarina%20(16th%20January%202015)%20720p_preview1024.jpg
Enjoy!
Pawpcorn, GTRU Staff

@leeniedo:

Thanks Pawpcorn.

I was hoping you were the "King" of figuring out this issue I guess I will have to try with one of your subjects instead.  :hug:

Hi, leeniedo,

It's likely that I'll be the one to help you out in the helpdesk.

To explain my recommendation, it's likely that there may be some information, in the back-and-forth PM communications that follow the initial helpdesk query, that you'd wish to keep confidential… thus... the MAIN reason I'm recommending we move this to the private helpdesk, and away from the public forum.

Take care, and see you there!
Pawpcorn

Sounds like your torrent database got damaged in some way.

Please write the helpdesk so staff specializing in these areas can get an update of your status, get some additional information, then be able to give you advice / troubleshooting methods that may get you back up again.

Take care,
Pawpcorn
GTRU Staff

Right… there used to be two of us on the helpdesk with the tools to deal with members setting up duplicate accounts by cheating with the Affiliates Program... now there's pretty much just me (with the tools, manning the helpdesk), so I think best to write me directly, (rather than the helpdesk) when something looks fishy...

Thanks again,
Pawpcorn

YES, INDEED!!!!

Thanks for reminding me that you get notifications on the signups!!!  :cheesy2:

Please keep THIS link to sending PMs directly to me, as I'm geared up for having the tools to detect and handle cheater accounts:

https://www.gaytorrent.ru/sendmessage.php?receiver=135714  :cool2:

Thanks again,
Pawpcorn

Hi, twinkerzzz,

The affiliate links program is up and running, no problem there.

However, if people had tried to just visit the site (rather than use your affiliate link, for some reason) then tried to sign up, they would have found that we are NOT in Open Membership, IE people can NOT just visit the site, and sign up.

The method of joining via use of an affiliate link, and the method of just Signing Up (which is currently impossible) are TWO different things.

By the way, there are quite a number of people who have used your affiliate link to sign up for multiple accounts, thus cheating the site…

Perhaps you could add the strong suggestion that if people are going to use your affiliate link to sign up, ask them PLEASE ONLY OPEN ONE ACCOUNT.

Thank you,
Pawpcorn
GTRU Staff

Hi

Http link to that problem torrent, please?

Take care,
Pawpcorn
GTRU Staff

Hi, Sorry you're having problems with that Step 4, as many members do…

Here's a forum thread that may help you get your torrent seeding properly!

https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=51110.0

Take care, and good luck,
Pawpcorn
GTRU Staff

@wesleyrayne:

… just copy it into my download directory and re-download the torrent file and then that way re-seed it?

YUP! Assuming the file you have is an exact match for the dead torrent file, that is exactly the way to do it.

A forum topic on that very thing is here:  https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=6539.0

Take care,
Pawpcorn
GTRU Staff

Your downloading torrents STUCK on FINDING PEERS due to not being able to connect to our tracker can be one of three issues, or some combination of all:

1) SSL torrents
Why don't you try this: (this has fixed this problem for many members)

1. Delete the torrents that aren't working for you, then

2. Go to your profile page here: https://www.gaytorrent.ru/my.php

3. UNCHECK the "SSL Tracker [_]" (Uncheck to Turn off SSL Announce Urls) setting.

4. Scroll down and click on the "Submit Changes!" button

5. then re-download the torrents again, and see if they will download now.

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2) DNS
Some ISPs DNS servers seem to have some difficulty with resolving the IP address for our tracker. We are not aware of the exact cause of why this is, but only that there seems to be a number of users who experience this issue.

As a way of getting around this, I would suggest that you manually add two lines to your computer's hosts file so that it can resolve both the HTTP and HTTPS trackers for you. The lines you need to add are as follows:

77.247.179.58 tracker.gaytorrent.ru
77.247.179.58 tracker.gaytorrent.tw

Once you have added the above two lines to your hosts file, you should be able to connect to the tracker again, without needing to use your ISP's DNS servers to resolve the IP address for you. If you are unsure of how to modify your computer's hosts file, I would encourage you to check out this comprehensive guide, which should walk you through the process of adding these lines to your computer's hosts file.

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3) Port Forwarding: this is explained here:
https://community.gaytorrent.ru/topic/29909/port-forwarding-mini-tutorial-updated-11-13-2017

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4) IF THE ABOVE ADVICE DOES NOT RESOLVE YOUR PROBLEM, please write the helpdesk, after following the NEXT advice packet:

I would suggest you activate certain columns in your torrent client**, so as to be able to understand what's actually going on with your torrents, in the future. On most torrent programs, you can right-click in the column headings and choose additional columns to be able to view.

I personally recommend "Name", "Size", "Done", "Added on", "Status", "Completed", "Down Speed", "Up Speed", "Seeds", "Ratio", "Peers", "ETA", and Tracker" as essential information and sort-columns. On most torrent programs, you activate these headings by right-clicking on the headings, and selecting and de-selecting your headings, as needed. You can also re-size the headings, by clicking and holding down on the right side of the heading, and dragging it a little bit to the left. You can reposition the columns by clicking (on the column heading) and holding down the mouse button, dragging the column left or right, as desired.

The HelpDesk always needs the following information of the specifics at your end, to give a definitive description as to what's going on, such as the exact error message you received, and at what stage of the attempted downloading process you received it.

If your torrent client program just doesn't seem to want to download the torrent, let's get the information from there. Here's how:

In your torrent client program, click once on the torrent in question, to highlight it, then halfway down the screen, click on the ""Trackers" tab; in Transmission, you have to right click the torrent, then click "Properties", then go to the "Trackers" tab.

The information you read below, there, as illustrated in this screen shot from my computer, below, will give us some clue as to what's going on at your end:
…and will better explain what's going on with that specific torrent.

In the future, if you include this exact information in your helpdesk requests concerning torrent connectivity, it will be a big assist to our helpdesk staff.

Please follow the above instructions, and write us back with the information that is shown there, FOURTH line being the important line to quote, in detail, (or send a screen capture).

You can send us graphic images by

1. save your screen shot using Alt-Print Screen, then opening your favorite graphics program (even paint will work) and edit, paste as new image, then save the screenshot image using a file name with NO spaces.
2. use our bit-bucket software here: https://www.gaytorrent.ru/bitbucket.php to upload the image, then get a "http;\…... " address for that image, and include it in your help desk request.

Best regards,
Pawpcorn
GayTorrent.ru

The "First Time Uploader Program is a TERRIFIC way to earn 600 BONUS POINTS for your very first upload (within the past YEAR), which can be traded in for 10GB UPLOAD CREDIT!!!  :cheers:

Please visit the FTUP main page, here!!!:  https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=20636.0

The "First Time Uploader Program is a TERRIFIC way to earn 600 BONUS POINTS for your very first upload (within the past YEAR), which can be traded in for 10GB UPLOAD CREDIT!!!  :cheers:

Please visit the FTUP main page, here!!!:  https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=20636.0

The "First Time Uploader Program is a TERRIFIC way to earn 600 BONUS POINTS for your very first upload (within the past YEAR), which can be traded in for 10GB UPLOAD CREDIT!!!  :cheers:

Please visit the FTUP main page, here!!!:  https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=20636.0