1 Star Rating Troll

cinemacapman

One thing that I have observed is that the 1-Star Troll leaves drag shows alone. The troll skips them.

I forgot to mention...What do the drag shows have to do with this person's ratings on your uploads? Nothing, in fact. You make it sound as though that's some sort of selective discrimination. It's not. Again, that's just what he thinks of those particular type of "Boys Love" shows. It has nothing to do with any of the drag show uploads.

raphjd

@cinemacapman said in 1 Star Rating Troll:

I think you should stop referring to whoever this person is as a "troll".

Yet, you call things you don't agree with as "unfounded conspiracy theories".

That's quite hypocritical of you.

cinemacapman

@raphjd said in 1 Star Rating Troll:

Yet, you call things you don't agree with as "unfounded conspiracy theories".

That's quite hypocritical of you.

That's real brilliant and mature of you to hijack and misappropriate my comment from the Politics thread into this one where it has no relevance.

raphjd

@cinemacapman

You don't like getting busted with your own words, do you?

Rotron

@cinemacapman Hmmmm... this thread was already sleeping for the past 3 months as everything that has been discussed before were all okay for us and we all nodded in agreement on what is and should nots including those discussed of the same matter on other threads.

Well... until you came that is replying on this thread seemingly looking for an argument which everyone here did not. I have known you for the past months since I've been active here and you're pretty okay to me. BUT this totally changed my perspective of you, but of course you are going to counter that with "you are entitled to your own opinion". As others here may know, I do not participate in such things as beefing with other members. As a viewer of arguments, yes I enjoy that but participating in one... I'd rather invest my time on something else.

As per your sentences, it sounded like you have an affinity to this person that you are so against to call a "troll" which everyone knows is one of the site's problems as users are able to rate an upload without the member even downloading the torrent first which should not be.

I was really thinking of replying with just that emoticon but it's rather unintelligible so I wrote what's on my mind for your sake.

eobox91103

I think this thread has run its course. I think we've all concluded that:

Some person or people rather indiscriminately puts/put one-star ratings on some torrents.
Those ratings do not seem to bear any correlation to the quality of said torrent.
Those ratings could be seen as insulting to the uploader, but regardless of the rater's intention, the efforts of uploaders are to be appreciated.
The overall star rating system is of questionable value.

Rotron 0

@cinemacapman You ones again have confronted me about this and I am putting this here just in case you have completely forgotten. Gosh! Why do I even bother with these characters. This is seriously making me think of moving to another tracker to use for my secondary releases.

cinemacapman says:
Why are you being overly critical about the person leaving 1 star ratings? Did it ever occur to you that this person may simply not think much of these "Boys Love" web series, and that it is simply his opinion which has nothing to do with "hatred", "a blackened heart", "hate", or "discrimination"? You're slapping a "troll" label on this person who is simply giving his or her personal opinion on these web episodes. They're entitled to whatever their opinion is.

I said:
This is not the first time I've had this conversation with you. I would say the same thing to you why you are overtly in defense of such a person plaguing the website. Also how come you are aware that it is just this person's opinion? Are you saying you are familiar with this person? This is quite suspicious. I am sounding the alarm on this one.

Labelling more than 20 torrent posts straight with 1-star requires a lot of effort. Hence, it is something that definitely can not be considered an opinion without hatred. Also, the Star Rating feature is not used for opinions because one has to download the file first before one could rate it in regards to its content (obviously broken and this is why this feature is being used this way in which this troll is rating post after post without even downloading them). If one has a negative opinion about a torrent or what is obviously here a specific category involving multiple listings, that person will simply not bother to download it nor even rate it. That person will just ignore it just like any other porn that a person is not interested in.

This has been discussed in the forums on several occasions and we had a unanimous opinion about this. Unfortunately, this can not be attended to at the moment as per the admins.

I simply answered a member's question which is not intended for you. I will give you the same answer as the one I gave you in the forums several months ago. I am not here to argue with anyone especially the likes of you. Comments are moderated and I already had conversations with mods and admins and other members who are aware of this problem.

You however, have definitely raised some suspicions. :hmmm:

You keep attacking me in the comments.
On another note, here is another of my replies to you that you may have simply ignored because you keep telling me what to do!

I could do that. I would love to do that. The thing is, by the time the series gets completed members would already have found a way to get it somewhere else. Which I say is not good for Gaytor as a site. As you may have already known from the forums, this is not the only tracker I provide my uploads. This is just the secondary site wherein I upload my torrents here a few days after from the primary. Now, there is a reason for that. I already experimented the other way around but releases gets leaked between sites by others one way or another. I do not of course have any control over that. They are free to do so. That's how things work in torrent sites. so from time to time as long as I have the time I upload titles here and there at the same time. I sometimes also provide exclusive titles here. Also, I do coordinate uploads with other members too.

I only get an average of 15 or so downloads per torrent for new releases here and that can take a week to reach that number but on the primary site, an upload would reach 200 to 300 already within a day. 500 to 800 or so as it matures in a month. The demand for BL is big, you just don't see it here. It may be because of what happened before when GayTor lose a large number of users from a certain geographical area. My uploads for Western titles here do get quite popular but they are few. Asian countries seem to be releasing more gay-centered titles more than Western nations does. I really do hope that they catch up. Also, as we've all know about Western gay / LGBTQ titles, they tend to be more on the serious side and a lot ends with bad or unwanted endings. Gay life should not be. Gay life should be happy. That's what we are, against all the odds we encounter in our lives.

Also, if you notice -- a lot of uploads in this section are not even gay-centered / centric. The ones that shows naked / nude men only -- nothing about them is gay and they certainly do not belong to the rules but we do not report them because there are some of us who wants to see them, hence there is a demand so they stay. I have taken a look at past years upload trend and statistics for this category by it self and there would be days and weeks that there wouldn't even be any uploads at all, even when the dead torrents radio button has been ticked.

Losing the opportunity to upload an up-to-date episodic series is a lost for the site, members will certainly look somewhere else just to get what they want and I certainly would like to say that GayTor get to gain more members and this is one of the reasons why I do this here or else I wouldn't care to bother due to the low download counts I get here.

Don't worry, cinemacapman. This message is not just towards you but in general for those who may thought of the same way or another. I do took note of a member even complaining that they are having a hard time looking for titles they want due to the large number of uploads they do not like and they even requested that BLs should have it own category listing. I would say that my releases here are 100% compliant of laid rules and categorizing BLs as a separate type would be discriminative or communistic in nature or is that member implying that uploads be categorized by country or continent? :closedeyes:

@cinemacapman If you think I am lying, here's a preview for you.

This is just infuriating. Can someone please do something about this person?

eobox91103

@Rotron-0 said in 1 Star Rating Troll:

Can someone please do something about this person?

If you click on his name, and then the three dots in the upper right for a pull-down menu, you get a magical option:

This doesn't stop feces from being posted, but at least you won't need to smell them.

Rotron 0

@eobox91103 Thank you! I just did that. Though I think that option is only here for the forum and won't stop him from bothering me in the comments section of my uploads.

I appreciate your help. Thanks a lot. I'm not pretty much active here anymore as my forum profile is still broken. Hence, credits would only go to a temporary one.

john32123666

and won't stop him from bothering me in the comments section of my uploads.

If a user e.g. ... [troll] commented an offensive comment :
Inflammatory comments or disruptive behavior [from the rules] ...
You can report from the staff or helpdesk from any rules violation ...

eobox91103

@Rotron-0 said in 1 Star Rating Troll:

I'm not pretty much active here anymore as my forum profile is still broken. Hence, credits would only go to a temporary one.

I remember reading about the Rotron/Rotron-0 thing...quite mysterious. But I hope you continue to add value to the Forum, even if you don't get "credit" for it (and I don't know if the system is still wired up that way). I'm sure that I speak for many when I say that your insight and politeness is very much appreciated.

Rotron 0

@john32123666 Right! I should do that ha. I guess I'm just too good-natured. I'll take that into consideration. Thank you for pointing out to me.

Rotron 0

@eobox91103 Yah, I've seen others too who had the same issue. I guess those may have not been resolved yet. Maybe I should be ha. I would like to very much. I'll think about it. Even on the torrent page I think I've been uploading ones every two weeks now. Maybe ones I feel better about things here.

Thank you. Inputs like yours really makes me feel good about the people here. I guess that's what's still keeping me here.

john32123666

@ this moment this 1 star troll is targetting str8 content and commenting non-sense w/o any reason ...

Hopefully this person will stop doing this and should get banned ...

eobox91103

@john32123666 Oh dear...I thought he had stopped his petty crusade. I have the "straight" category turned off so I haven't been seeing his latest droppings.

A few times when I've been waiting for a print job to finish, I've searched out likely targets for the one star troll and given them a five star rating. That way when the jerk sees one of them, and wants to piss on it, all he can do is drop a "five" to a "three." The poor thing must feel so frustrated.

frostycab

@john32123666 said in 1 Star Rating Troll:

@ this moment this 1 star troll is targetting str8 content and commenting non-sense w/o any reason ...

Hmm, a troll who hates seeing women on the site who also talks utter nonsense? Hang on a minute! I seem to remember there's someone matching that description who's quite active in the forums. If only I could remember their name.... LMAO

raphjd

@eobox91103 said in 1 Star Rating Troll:

@Rotron-0 said in 1 Star Rating Troll:

I'm not pretty much active here anymore as my forum profile is still broken. Hence, credits would only go to a temporary one.

I remember reading about the Rotron/Rotron-0 thing...quite mysterious.

It's a database error.

As such, @Joker needs to fix it.

I don't know if the specific cause was found, but it has something to do with when we switched to the new forum software.