Sorry to say, your sugguestion to indicate a time is not practicable with the current staffing.
It is a good proposal for a professional site which puts the necessary resources to assure a stable quality of service.
I repeat, you should never been given a time, which was the error leading you to create this topic.
… I really can't understand that you don't want to commit yourself. Then make the time long enough - 12 hrs - just a time the staff would say: Thats too long, thats not ok. But then users will have a guideline instead of hanging in the air and having to guess. ...
Because many times it just takes longer than we think ourselves it is OK. If we would give for example 48 hours to be on the secure side, it wouldn't help and just make new members afraid of uploading for the first time.
Personally I can not commit to fixed hours to work on torrent approval. If it gets there, I'll stop working on approval. (Remark: of the currently available torrents I've approved the third most). Perhaps it is where you want to push me.
Less I can commit on a duration. That will require a professional team (thus paid and no more a free place).
BTW: Qualified and motivated volunteers to the staff are welcome. There is an advertisement in the forum. It's old but still valid.
… What bad could happen if the rules would e a bit clearer??? ...
Members will claim: I've uploaded 10 clean torrents, you must give me Auto Approval privilege. Members will upload 10 small clips (lets say in the 100 MB range) from one studio and then claim the privilege. It is where it will bring us. However such a upload history does not allow to evaluate if a member has understood the upload rules and will follow them on it's own initiative once the privilege is granted. (this is a little caricature to make the point)
… seeding in the Profile page ...
Should better read : Shown as being seed in the list of uploaded torrents on your Profile page, respectively in the peer list on the torrent description page
… pictures not lost ...
Should better read: Double check the torrent description page if the given information is complete or if it could be improved. We got a site bug, which make pictures rarely randomly being lost, too. It seems to happen more likely when completing the torrent upload takes long.
Sorry, I tried to make a fast answer and was therefore brief.
No, we just can't give you how long it takes in average. The availability of moderators to work on torrent approval is to uncertain / random. Remember we do that in our free time and what time is free (If tomorrow the sun s shining, I'll go to the seaside, if not I may work on the site. Just an example). In addition new torrents drop in not regularly. Some times few, sometimes there are all the sudden many.
Basically you should never have been given a fixed time.
Regarding the number of clean uploads to get Auto Approval, 10 is an internal guideline given to moderators. However it is not a fixed rule. To give or not the Auto approval privilege, is up to the moderators appreciation of the members upload history. There are other factors which may count:
That is the reason why on purpose I was vague and not giving a number. Like the average approval time should not have been given.
It looks you haven't read the first page which shows up when one click "Upload" in the blue band
Upload - Read this careful! - ALL UPLOADERS MUST FOLLOW THESE UPLOADING RULES
Upload of Videos/Pictures with actors under 18 years is prohibited! Breaking this rule will cause immediate ban!
Upload of Videos/Pictures from the following Studios is prohibited! Breaking this rule will cause immediate ban!It is important to get your file(s) out as quickly as possible.
DO NOT UPLOAD IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY SEEDING/LEECHING SOMETHING ELSE SEED ONE TORRENT AT A TIME
If you wish to to do more than one at a time you need to consult a moderator about acceptable seeding practises for your connection speed. Please include your maximum Upload speed in your PM.You HAVE TO SEED YOUR TORRENT until at least 3 or 4 other people have the complete torrent.
Don't upload really small video clips (< 50 MB) Instead, upload a collection of 2 or 3 smaller clips or add a few photosets as a single torrent > 50MB. There is NO leeway in this rule, 50 MB or more, no 47 or 49.99999 MB videos
Exception: Member Category
You must do a torrent search first to ensure you are not uploading a duplicate. A different quality version or format of existing content is acceptable. A repost of content that has been deleted months ago is also acceptable.
Do not put personal descriptions in the title or file name like "HOT!", "MUST SEE!" or "BEST EVER!". Use the description to give your personal opinion on the content instead.
If you have any questions about uploading, make sure that you first read our Upload-Guide before asking a Moderator.
I have read an understand Use QuickTorrentMaker for easy uploading…
and the link to the "Upload Guide" which contains a gloden rules part:
How to make torrent-approval an easy task
Abbreviated upload rules at one glance
All our upload rules are valid. Just to remind you again, an abbreviated version of the upload rules follow:
Rule more Information
Do not upload forbidden (banned) content Forum
Upload one new torrent at a time Upload Rules #1
Do not upload any duplicates Upload rules #2
Watch the size of your upload Upload Rules #4
Add at least one picture of that movie and a description (something that earns the title of 'description') Upload guide #1.4
Bold items are links on these pages …
You may have seen that we are not so many moderators and we are not organized between pure forum moderators, torrent moderators, report moderators and helpdesk moderators. We are too few and even can't assure availability around the clock to have such split. Most moderators do multi task: forum, approval, reports, helpdesk.
So when for example I am working on torrent approval, and a Report drops in, I stop approving and look to the report and treat it if needed. Reports are meant to bring infractions to our Rules to the staff attention, some are crucial for the durability of this site.
Helpdesk requests and Reports generate a notification in all Moderators and Administrators message boxes, so that they can be treated by any Staff member being online to be fast on them. The disadvantage is, they are "spamming" our boxes, indeed.
With the times you give it took your approvals, you are rather lucky. It can unfortunately take longer. We don't like that, but the availability of moderators is too random.
The time it takes me to review a torrent is very variable from a few minutes to more than 30 minutes (badly identified files, suspect for duplicate or forbidden content …). Often when I start to work on approval there are more then 10 waiting. So I may even not treat all before needing to leave.
We treat all torrents pending for approval, first those seed, then those not seed. A PM to a moderator who works on approval will just make him slow down the approval. Even if you get an answer, it will most likely say be patient or give you the thing to improve, which you would have got anyway when it is yours being reviewed in the queue.
Uploaders can help more and speed up the approval, by checking themselves if everything is OK:
Just to give you an idea, more than 30% of the torrents I review are duplicate. Checking these is lost time and longer waiting for valid torrents.
In my eyes the moderator who indicated 1 hour as the span to consider a PM is not working much on torrent approval (but I may be wrong), because those who do know that unfortunately often there are longer waiting ones in the queue.
We like the uploader very much and try everything to keep approval time as short as possible, be assured of that.
An advise: Make a good row of clean uploads and you will get the Auto Approval privilege granted. You'll no longer need to wait for approval (but will have the full responsibility that ALL rules about uploading are respected)
Hallo Franz,
"Seeding" übersetzt sich direkt mit Sähen (die Saat auf einem Feld) aber das Bild passt nur beim ersten Hochladen der Dateien eines Torrents.
Für deinen Fall würde ich auf Deutsch "Verteilen", "Hochladen" oder "Bereitstellen" als Übersetzung nehmen. Oder auf Denglisch "Uploaden".
Das heisst dein Vuze versucht die Datei(en) die Du heruntergeladen hast wieder weiter zuverteilen. Da aber zur Zeit keiner da ist der diese saugen will ist die Rate null.
Lass alles so wie es ist. Du brauchst nichts weiter zu machen. Nur darauf warten das jemand die Datei haben will.
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Du solltest es mit dem Herunterladen eines anderen Torrents versuchen. Einen den du magst, der ganz neu ist und daher nur vom originalen Uploader verteilt wird (Seeder= 1) und noch viele nach Dir saugen werden.
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So rather than tell people that they can't/shouldn't beg, just say they if they want to request bonus points, then the “beggars’ bonus records is made transparent to all--so that the donor can see what the requesters behavior has been. Bonus point privacy is waived if you want to ask for them. This would differentiate the needy from the whore.
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That could be the answer, members will think twice before asking for seed bonus points IMHO
Basically the Staff agrees with you. See for example http://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=7208.msg34038#msg34038
Rather than creating another rule (we got already soooooo many), we tried by explaining and PM to regulate the way it is asked for seed bonus. I think that was rather success full, because it has calmed down.
Well ja32 is member since about a month and got about 60 seed bonus points. That indicates that he was seeding on average 4 hours a day. That is a reasonable effort.
When I look to Leatherbears's comment, he lust have seed not all and the wrong choice of torrents or used a torrent client with no good settings (e.g. Vuze/Azureus with out of the box settings).
On the otherhand, we can't gift him Seed Bonus Points, because there is no own upload made.
I think unless the uploader said something NOT to share at other places, it will be OK if you mention that you got it elsewhere and thank the uploader without to mention who it was.
That is a compromise between mention the uploader name (not all like that their nick is mentioned on the web) and not thanking at all.
Personally I a very happy if I see my encodings uploaded somewhere and it's mentioned by the poster that he got it somewere else. Like raphjd, I don't like my nick being mentioned.
Es gibt noch einen dritten sehr billigen Weg and Seed Bonus Punkte zu kommen:
Die Torrent-Beschreibungen mit zusätzlichen Bildern vervollständigen. Pro Bild das akzeptiert wird gibt es 5 Seed Bonus Punkte. Meiner Meinung nach sollten es nur einer sein … es sind zu einfach verdiente Punkte im vergleich zu den anderen.
Bonjour,
Vous pouvez recevoir des points bonus seulement si vous avez posté (uploadé) un torrent….
Mais si vous commencez de distribuer les torrents pour les quels vous avez complété le téléchargement en peu télécharger de vous et vous gagner aussi 0.5 points de bonus par heure, même si personne télécharge.
Une autre façon de gagner des points bonus est de uploader des images sur des description qui n'ont pas d'images. 5 points par image, donc 20 image seulement et vous avez 100 pour 1 GB d'upload. C'est une bonne affaire (trop facile de mon avis personel). J'ai vu plein des vieux description de BelAmi, qui manque des images.
Il vous reste autan de temps que vous avez besoin pour régler votre ratio de partage, vous n'êtes pas banni de sa cause.
Bien cordialement
Uwe
PS.: C'est la première fois que je voir sur GayTorrent.ru que quelqu'un mendie pour des points bonus sans même uploader
a) µTorrent got an option to associate it with .torrent files > check that
b) If you download the .torrent file to your PC, then open µTorrent and then drag and drop the .torrent file onto the µTorrenr window, it should work anyway
c) Windows got the Default Programs setting in the Start menu (or in the Control Pane), set there µTorrent to be the default for .torrent files
Try one of these options …
Die 9 Tage hast Du noch Download-Rechte wenn deine Teil-Ratio unter die mindest Ratio fällt. Danach kannst Du nur noch Hochladen bis die Ratio wieder stimmt.
Lies dazu mal über Rationator 2.2 hier im deutschen Forum
Keine Bange, solange Du dich in 180 Tagen wieder in GayTorrent.ru einklinkst, bleibt alles erhalten.
Da Du QTM benutzt und wenn Du bei der Installation von QTM richtig angegeben hast wo sich auf einem Computer die uTorrent.exe Datei befindet, solltest Du es eigentlich nicht nötig haben die .torrent Datei noch einmal herunterzuladen. Das macht QTM automatisch für Dich und es ist der eigentliche Vorteil von QTM.
Wie dem auch sei: "unregistered" Torrent erscheint immer mit unseren Tracker ein Torrent in der Warteschlange ist. Er muss entweder am Verteilen oder im Download sein.
Ändere die Priorität für den Torrent, eventuell benutze "Erzwinge Start"
(ich glaube allerdings das Du die Lösung schon selbst gefunden hast. Was war es denn?)
Désolé pour le délai de réponse. J'ai essayé de me renseigner des critères de rester Power User.
Le seule chose que je sais à ce moment, est qu'il n'y a pas de Power User avec un ratio de partage sous 0.95, c'est donc au moins une des critères.
Si je saura plus je vous informe.
That user class is not in use currently. It was create quite some time ago (much before I became Moderator) to give a kind of recognition to very good original torrent posters.
Then however the discussion got stuck and is still stuck on the objective criteria to promote a User or Power User to the Uploader class.
Very regrettable and perhaps (I hope) this topic revives that discussion and we get finally to a conclusion.
There is a topic called " … for Uploader class" ( ... stands for the members name, to keep his privacy), KinseyF, perhaps yo have access to it?
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