Catch 22 - Humongous Torrents

LordNemesis

The logic goes that, I assume, you do not mind huge torrents and obviously people are doing (exploiting?) this to repair their ratio. If it abides by the rules then it's OK. It's a leechers choice to choose whether to take it, right? Or maybe cherry pick some files...

example from today; 147GB!!!!:
https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=683235ba8833aca0d0ff201064bb4d73f78102d6c24b6b3f

I think this falls into a few problems:
1> IF the torrent is so big that nobody ever takes it all, how de we know if it violates rules?
2> The trend seems to be for OnlyFans rips; the file names are unintelligible and they are NEVER indexed/thumbnailed.
3> Ratios are there to promote sharing & propagation. This flies in the face of that; one need never upload a thing other than a behemoth torrent every few days. stick anything you like in there, nobody's ever going to review it.

Torrent size/file count limit? Thoughts/debate welcome...

eobox91103

@LordNemesis One big problem with huge torrents is that if they have content from a studio that is aggressive--and rapid--with takedown requests, it's possible that nobody will get even one completed file, even if s/he has only selected a few files from those available. The uploader thus gets seed credit, but downloaders can be left with nothing usable. I agree that some forced moderation here could be appropriate.

I share your dislike of unintelligible file names with no thumbnailing. This is inexcusable given the ease of solving this problem: I have a utility called "AMT Auto Movie Thumbnailer" (freeware available at https://funk.eu/amt/ ) that will make bulk thumbnail mosaics from a whole directory of videos--one can give it a whole folder of video files and it will produce a preview image for each one. These can be included in their own directory in a torrent so that downloaders can decide which--if any--video files they want to download.

lololulu19

@eobox91103 ... studio.. or 13 year old straight boy out to take down the gay site..

bi4smooth

@eobox91103 said in Catch 22 - Humongous Torrents:

@LordNemesis One big problem with huge torrents is that if they have content from a studio that is aggressive--and rapid--with takedown requests, it's possible that nobody will get even one completed file, even if s/he has only selected a few files from those available. The uploader thus gets seed credit, but downloaders can be left with nothing usable. I agree that some forced moderation here could be appropriate.

I share your dislike of unintelligible file names with no thumbnailing. This is inexcusable given the ease of solving this problem: I have a utility called "AMT Auto Movie Thumbnailer" (freeware available at https://funk.eu/amt/ ) that will make bulk thumbnail mosaics from a whole directory of videos--one can give it a whole folder of video files and it will produce a preview image for each one. These can be included in their own directory in a torrent so that downloaders can decide which--if any--video files they want to download.

So, for 1 there are 2 options in your torrent client that can help with HUGE torrents:

the ability to download only a few files... select a few, download them, then select more! (the selection is interactive - you can add/remove files from your selection at any time!)
most torrent clients have a switch to force (attempt) downloading in sequential order... even though this is a "violation" of the torrent concept, it's there (it's just changing which blocks you request when from "random" to "sequential"). There is no guarantee how this works on your client, and it's dependent on those "sequential" blocks actually being available.

Finally, as for the "random" filenames on OF content - blame OF for that, not gaytor.rent... that's the way they come from OF, and IMHO, I'd rather folks left the filenames alone so it's easier to find dupes!

I agree that a set of thumbnails might be nice - and, honestly, I seldom download OF content because most of it is shot on a phone and is less than a minute or 2 (or 5) in length... I wouldn't even keep videos of my own BF that were so short and worthless!