I think something more is going on here. There has been a huge increase in deletions and many of them have nothing to do with OF.
When this started, I thought it was just OF trying a porn guardian service. This happens sometimes. When everything from a particular site suddenly disappears, but then the takedowns stop a week or two later, that's a trial.
But for several weeks now, when I look at torrents that were downloaded 24 hrs ago on my seedbox, half or more are unregistered. Many are not from OF. Some are even from sites like Reddit that have no copyright on the material their members post.
I don't think the porn guardian services use Google. I think they get accounts on all the major sites, then either write automated routines to scan (inexpensive, prone to error) or hire humans (expensive, but almost impossible to fool with m15pe11ing.) As far as I can tell, in the past few weeks, misspelling and omission of anything resembling "OF" has not protected any torrent from deletion.
Consider the evidence:
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This site has been asking for new mods for several months now.
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Any clever, experienced porn guard employee could say all the right things to get elevated to moderator.
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This site probably doesn't keep audit logs of additions/deletions/modifications, for the same reason it doesn't comment on DMCA. What isn't documented can't be subpoened.
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Once they're a mod, they can delete anything they want, right away -- and these deletions are basically undetectable, assuming nobody but the original uploader receives notification.
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Now they can easily delete posts for all of their clients, not just OF.
I've also observed the uploads per hour rate cut to 50% to 25% of what we were seeing before this started. That's the real problem with constant deletions, uploaders get discouraged. Only a small percentage will re-post torrents, and even they will only re-post a few times before giving up. If someone spends an hour preparing an upload, and it's deleted in 15 minutes, they're very unlikely to try uploading here ever again.
@raphjd - would you please let the Site Owner know that there may be a fox in the henhouse? If I'm wrong about not keeping audit trails, unauthorized deletions will be easy to detect. If not, perhaps deletion logging could be enabled temporarily to track down the culprit... Thanks!
Based on the timing of deletions, I would guess it's someone in western Europe or eastern US. But it could be multiple porn guard employees sharing the same mod account.
Of course, I could be wrong about all of this. It's the conclusion I draw from the evidence I can see, but I only see a small part of the total.
