Posts made by Popper

Besides the upload amount and the time being member, Power User status requires a share ratio of 1.05 .
It is taken away if the share ratio drops down to 0.95 .

It does not require a share ratio of 1.5 or even 2.0+ …

Up- and download on a tracker globally are balanced at 1.0 (in theory), on our tracker there is more upload, because of the exchanged Seed Bonus Points.

Clearly if a member is "just" downloading torrent's files and then seeding them back, it will be difficult to get a share ratio over 1.0 , original torrent posters have always an advantage regarding share ratio.

@aiweelie:

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I believe this discussion is important because it could lead to something beyond racial categories or something better than ~Caucasians that means people who have traditionally associated those living in the Western part of the Northern Hemisphere.
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I support fully the above statement, that was the only thing intended by me.

You are missing:

a) If someone jumps-on during the initial upload, the original uploader will seed only a part of the full file, the other seeder the other part
b) Once a complete copy is out, the torrent "turns" within a few minutes and most of the leecher will become seeder, nothing to upload any more
c) The torrent protocol advantage fast uploader over proportional. A high speed uploader (for example fibre optics, some cable) jumping-on early is a disaster for the original uploader if he needs it to improve his upload, because he will make the majority of the initial upload.
d) This is as well linked to the high minimum ratio requirements here, many members have difficulties to keep them, though seeding hundreds of hours. Uploading new torrents which increase the library to all members benefits is a good way out (if nobody jumps on early).

You are "Full Member" of the Forum with 3 stars,
See the topic starting message > http://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=9773.msg36669#msg36669

Our Forum is a site embedded into the main site, the "User" status is referring to the main site, which status is torrent activity driven. You may become "Power User", who got a few advantages, or if you volunteer and are accepted moderator (no additional advantages, only more work, no salary)

@aiweelie:

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This has been my critique of your motivation all along. If you object to ~Caucasians and don't not object to the use of  other racial tags like ~blacks or ~Asians I believe your argument is flawed.

That is simply NOT what I ever expressed here.

An SRT file is a simple .TXT file, renamed, containing the subtitles to display in a very simple format:

Subtitle number
    Start time –> End time
    Text of subtitle (one or more lines)
    Blank line

Example:

1
00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,400
Uwe is a stupid guy

2
00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,000
No, I am not

It is the most used format for sub-titles, certainly because of it's simplicity making it accessible to everybody.
Usually the file name needs to be the same than of the movie file

moviename.avi
moviename.srt
moviename.eng.srt
moviename.fra.avi

The MKV container allows to integrate SRT subtitles (and other), then using UTF-8 character coding

@aiweelie:

If you want a tag for ~white then advocate for it and stop trying to argue with me about what you want to be called. It's never been about YOU. It's about the casts of the videos and works I/We upload. To not have adequate tags for the specific ETHNICITY of whites/Caucasians whether they resided in Europe or abroad was a glaring omission. I merely pointed out that omission and suggested a correction.

I didn't advocate for ~whites, because I am not sure if it is appropriate than ~caucasians. You ignore totally that since my first answer I've said that I agree with you that there should be a tag for what you name ~caucasians

@aiweelie:

It's your faulty racial rhetoric entrapped you. And if you truly feel that way this discussion can serve no further purpose.  If you don't like racial/ethnicity tags then don't use them. Or use the tags you prefer. I know I'm NOT using these tags the manner in which White supremacists of the past used them. The negative socio-political overtones you're attempting infer only applies to use of ~Caucasian while attempting to ignore they ALSO existed for ~blacks, ~latinos and ~Asians too is what completely boggles my mind. I'm puzzled why you're even engaging in such a NO WIN argument.

Well your rhetoric entraps you as well

@aiweelie:

It seem to me like you only care about racial tags when they can be applied to YOU.

That is what you get from here, because indeed I feel directly involved as being part of group called ~caucasians by you ( a term I personally don't like). Hoping to stop it being added right away and have some larger membership expressing what they think about ~caucasians tag or another possible tags for that lack. Unfortunately there is no other participation than you and me.

In general, I think new tags shouldn't been added just because there is a single request for it, there should be a reflection about what is the best general term, avoiding micro tags, to much overlapping etc… For example ~Timberlands isn't a good tag IMHO, because it uses a brand. Shall we promote a brand? But then what is the right generic term for such boots? "Work boots? no idea ...

However what you can't see, is for example a recent internal staff discussion about a new category, where from the start of my participation I've expressed my bad feeling about this type of tags (and then participated what could be the right )
Now I think we should start an internal discussion about another new category

It is YOU who pushed me to categorize myself as "European" or "White" and it appears to be a trap. Usually I don't use a race attribute for myself, but a nationality attribute "European" and the nation of which I hold a passport.

My objection is only against "Caucasian", I can life with "White" or even "Pink" if people want to give such attributes to me.

I've as well already expressed earlier that I don't feel comfortable with any race categorisation, that it is slippery ground, politically incorrect and that there should be a tag for "white", too as to treat all equal. You try to push me into a corner I don't want to be.

BTW: Why are you using "race" tags in your uploads? Nobody is forcing you to use them

@aiweelie:

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Unlike Negroid and Mongoloid terms Europeans chose to denote themselves as Caucasians  According to the Wikipedia entry you cited, a German anthropologist coined the term in the 1800 to define ethnicity of Europeans.
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That is a term of long gone times, the article starts saying "… has been used..." it does not say ."...is used..." If I understood right rather meant as categorization of pre-historic men kinds and a theory about our origin? I don't think that that scientist denoted himself as Caucasian.

@Englishlad5:

Guys, never uploaded a film onto Gaytorrent but want to. How do you do it please?

There are different ways to upload a torrent and share the movies. It will depend mainly on the torrent client programme used.

We have some guides with pictures in the Support forum Guides & HowTos section as well as an old upload guide which is accessible via the page which shows up when you click "Upload" in the blue band.

There is quite some reading (certainly re-reading), so don't try it in a rush, do the first time on a day where plenty of time is available. Count for some hours for the first, later 30 minutes will do.

At other occasions I've already mentioned my bad feeling about these racial categories and tags. As you saw, I agree with you that there should be as well tags for "people like me" with a rather light skin tone (if you like, close to a modern house pig skin).

You are as well right in pointing out that "European" isn't the right term either, because it got as well a geographical / political dimension and all people born and/or grown up in Europe are Europeans. Remembers as well my doubt expressed of the ~euros tag meaning.
Any person born in France is usually French and distinguishing by race terms is politically incorrect here. Nevertheless there is fro example a Gay Tea Dance called "Blanc Black Beur" (White , Black and Butter", where Beur is what are called born French with roots from North Africa). That tea dance is 90% Beur and organized by them.

However in my eyes the "Caucasian" term falls in the same category as the by you mentioned "Negroid" and "Mongoloid" terms, though certainly less pejorative.

The question for me is not if, but what is / are the right term(s) to use for the type of people you call Caucasian. Sorry the best I could find is "White".

This "race" based categorisations / tagging is really slippery ground. I feel not comfortable with it, but understand that it is meant as a help for members having a preference for a certain type of guys.

@aiweelie:

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~Caucasian -- This ethnicity/race is missing. Diversity works both ways.  :hug2:

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Though I agree with aiweelie that it works both ways, the term  ~caucasian seems not to be approbate.
See for example the wikipedia article about it hxxp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race

I would never call my self to be Caucasian, which IMHO is a pejorative term. I would call me European for which we have already the tag ~euros (if I understood correctly for what that tag shall be used, some more fefinitions to the tags would be good)

Remains to find a tag for White Americans (and Australians)

@MrMazda:

Ah. That explains the ~bd tag, but what about one for ~beta as in Sony Beta… The competitor to VHS?

You didn't hoover over the VHSrip tag in the tags table, di you?

~VHSrip tag description given : Conversion based on any analogue video tape source (VHS, S-VHS, Beta, Video2000, Hi8 …)

@MrMazda:

I just had two thoughts. We have a tag for VHS, but what about something like ~beta (the competitor to VHS) and ~blu-ray ?

Please hoover over the "VHSrip" in the Quality table, you'll see it says that it is used for analogue tape sources.
We got the category tag ~bd, which if you hoover over will say "blu-ray disc"

Yesterday I faced as well two periods with GayTorrent.ru not reachable, so that will have nothing to do with your issue.
There is some maintenance ongoing AFAIK.

We know that you didn't do anything on intention :hug:

Well, I think the issue is that there is zero download and the ratio calculation which would be a division by zero) doesn't work. He got no share ratio …

Then our downloading rules say the following:

Torrent Limits: Downloading of more than one torrent at a time is limited by the following parameters:

Total uploaded amount is < 5 GB and your ratio is:
< 0.750 = 3 torrents
< 1.000 = 4 torrents

1.000 = 5 torrents

Which means he should be able to download 5 torrents having uploaded 4.71 GB and downloaded nothing, but since his share ratio does not exist the limit is wrongly given.

The 10 allowed torrents in the Profile are the number of active torrents, uploading and downloading, while uploading  new own torrent's file. At other times that limit is not valid, as well the downloading limit remains in force if lower.

Basically members without download, but upload are a rare race.

Sorry, two objections:

a) any re-encoding will reduce the picture and sound quality. Better for AVI is to use VirtualDub with the stream copy option to cut off a few frames (though I don't even like that crunching)

b) it is not a question of hash, jump-oners can just take the torrent from here, deselect the files they don't got and point the download to the file the movie file they've got. If it had been re-named, it doesn't matter. In addition, as they got only let's say 98.7% of all the torrent's files, they will show up as leecher (though seeding only) and be more difficult to identify as early jump -oners. Even if that process may not be mastered, they might just download the additional pictures (1.3% in my example) to seed the rest.

Another thought: Jumping on is only possible to files which have been shared elsewhere already. uploading torrents for own genuine movie versions makes jumping on impossible.

I've given as well a PM, but since he isn't online, it may not help. At least he will hopefully understand why the early jump-on can be not desired for the future.

(NB.: Edited the user ID out of the claim)

This may sound strange, but I remind every upload to read the small disclaimer on our home page and the full version it links to.

We don't know which kind of agreement the torrent uploader got with studios in the list #2, what our Administrators know is that these studios don't agree that GayTorrent.ru is hosting pictures for which these studios hold the copyright. This is my understanding.

@blackdid:

Hi Uwe  
Mmm…this is something I never thought about : his pics helping you to identify the movie and approve his torrent. ...

Me neither before having had asked a similar question when I wasn't Moderator yet  

@blackdid:

… But well, in case his pic(s) were enclosed in his torrent instead of being in the description page, it would mean you'd have to download them (all or partially, this shouldn't take too much time) instead of accessing them directly from the description page ( also, he should be seeding for you to download them ;D ) ...

No that will make torrent approval much more inconvenient and longer as it is already. (You will have seen the rightful complaints about the long time it takes). Currently the viewing, deleting and adding of pictures and all other approval tasks are done by the web browser. If the picture is part of the torrent, we need to jongle with a torrent client and will depend on the seeder to upload the right shunk of the torrent. With uploaders not being connectible, that can be a long lasting to impossible task.

Lastly, another rule, making upload even more complicated as it is already. …

Note, that is my own personal opinion, other Staff members may think differently. I understand as well your thought, I was wondering myself about it, as said above, when not being yet a moderator.