Vanishing torrents ...
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leave the rest of what you posted and if you are worried about them due to copyright issues, write to helpdesk to remove the torrent [from the browse and tracker list] ...
also @ your own risk re-posting torrent that has been taken down recently will lead into account warning and your upload privileges will be affected ...
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@john32123666 Got that! You set me straight.
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@Rotron said in Vanishing torrents ...:
You set me straight.
Oh dear! Well, I'm tolerant of diversity, and I have many straight friends. I just hope that I don't get turned straight by the forum.
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@eobox91103 LOL You just made me laugh. I did not mean that "straight". I meant that he straightened me out with his advice. Hehe.
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Well I got another DMCA system notice on an upload I made yesterday but previous episodes stay unnoticed. There still is no clarification about this as I think a DMCA request should effect the whole title This has definitely discouraged me from uploading more in GayTor as this is so questionable and I have not been experiencing this somewhere else.
So for the meantime, I'm taking a vacation from sharing in the GayTor and and also hopefully this gets rid of that 1-star troller.
I will still be active here in the forum.
Maybe.
Question: Will my seed bonus count be wiped out if I request all my uploaded torrents to be deleted?
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@Rotron said in Vanishing torrents ...:
You raise several interesting points. I'd like to share my perspective on them, but please don't see this as a point-by-point rebuttal. If anything, it's an affirmation of what you're saying.There still is no clarification about this as I think a DMCA request should effect the whole title
The takedoown process can seem random if not chaotic, but I think the site removes all--and only--those torrents that are challenged. This can look weird: I posted a torrent for a full-length video in single-file-.mp4 format that was on the site for years, and than was taken down. Oddly, the same material, in native DVD format (a .VOB folder) remained on the site--and is still here. I suspect that the site got a takedown request for the single file torrent, but not for the DVD...and responded accordingly.
This has definitely discouraged me from uploading more in GayTor as this is so questionable and I have not been experiencing this somewhere else.
I know it's discouraging to have uploaded torrents removed. I take time and care to make my torrent descriptions thorough, with good pictures, thumbnail sheets., etc. (In the past week I had one taken down, but I take comfort in knowing that almost 2,000 other users got that material.) I can see that you care about sharing material, and I suspect that your torrents are well-constructed, and I've probably downloaded some of them. I hope you continue to share.
So for the meantime, I'm taking a vacation from sharing in the GayTor and and also hopefully this gets rid of that 1-star troller.
Vacations are good things--they tend to extinguish burnout, if you'll forgive the mixed metaphor. I would pay no attention to anonymous one-star ratings (or any other ratings). If someone has a worthwhile opinion about a torrent, they should have the balls to post a comment with their username attached.
I will still be active here in the forum. Maybe.
I hope so.
Question: Will my seed bonus count be wiped out if I request all my uploaded torrents to be deleted?
Someone from the site would need to answer this...but I don't think you'd lose it. But please don't ask your torrents to be deleted--again, I'm sure it's good stuff, and other users will enjoy having it. I, myself, may have had some enjoyable "private moments" with your torrents.
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@Rotron said in Vanishing torrents ...:
Question: Will my seed bonus count be wiped out if I request all my uploaded torrents to be deleted?
NO ... even if the torrent was remove or deleted ...
There's nothing to worry it's been credited aleady from your SBP [seedpoint bonus] account ...JUST A REMINDER :
As I've said leave the rest of what you posted and if you are worried about them due to copyright issues, write to helpdesk to remove the torrent [from the browse and tracker list] ...Take Care & Have A Great Day !!! ... [jhon] ... slightly_smiling_face:
[ΕΓΉΓ¦] : " Mahirap mag dunong dunongan, Kung wala kang kaalam alam " ...
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@eobox91103 I am so happy and really appreciate your reply.
Oh I love to share more of course. I do it to share and spread the love for boys to those who does not have access to them in their region or does not have the funds because they are still starting out with their young adult lives and someday they'll be paying subscribers like me. I make copies on my hard drive for my own collection of the ones I like so why not share?
As for the take down process, yes it's quite baffling to me but how or why only here? Where is the leak coming from? It makes me feel uncomfortable like someone is already looking over my shoulder as to what I am posting next.
I'm only active in 2 gay torrent sites. I guess you'd already know which is the other one as there has been so many here looking to get there. I've been a member there since 2004 and here since 2013. I also do get hundreds or even more than 2000 completed downloads per title there but there is already a lot of competition and there seems to be a race to who gets to upload first.
This has been my reason to get more active here. Why bother sticking myself in a tight place and compete with others to get something up to get most of the download credits. LOL, I find it so funny. They are also without their issues. 2 weeks worth of uploads wiped out. Including the credits earned! I didn't bother re-upping what was wiped, only for those requested in the forum. Speaking of forum, it's overwhelming there. And most notably, the search engine there is so confusing. Here in GayTor, you get a straight-forward search result. But what makes their site works is the transparency and their stern and detailed rules, ban list and guidelines etc.
So when I saw the difference of the categories I'm interested in here from there; I jumped in and decided to stop posting there and work on here. I may not get as many downloads compared to there but I'm satisfied and hoping that it will grow someday. Plus, I do get to upload some uncut titles here that does not get to be uploaded there. There are some people here who do appreciate it that I have been sharing what they like and they would either comment or send me a chat. Also, I'm one of the very few who uses the GayTor Upload Utility made by Vander. We get to chat using the chat utility here as I usually report if a problem arises in his updates and provide input and feature request. I think he prefers to use the chat function compared to forum posting.
You are right on the well-constructed part. It takes time and effort to do those. Even the screenshots, I don't use a utility for them. I manually scan the video for shots that may spark interest for would-be downloaders and save them one by one but I also use the screenshots for making videos and posting them on my Tumblr or Tik-Tok. I just find it fun getting subscribers daily or just by getting a like.
I am glad that you have enjoyed some of my uploads. They may not be my work but I am happy to have shared their work that made you happy.
So . . . . . we'll see.
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@john32123666 Yes, thank you for the answer and also grateful for you advise.
TC & Have A Great Day too!
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Hi. Update: New DMCA record: I received it within 3 minutes from upload. The torrent had a generic name, thumbnails created by me so I am tempted to think that we are taking about a user here who reports them. Anybody else experiencing similar issues ? I understand details cannot be shared but maybe if you noticed any patterns.
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@mihaig110 said in Vanishing torrents ...:
I am tempted to think that we are taking about a user here who reports them.
It does sound that way. Admins could probably look to see if the IP address from which the DMCA complaint was sent matches that of an active user (although they can't confirm doing this as such would be a confidential internal process).
If they find a match, perhaps some system glitch would occur that deletes that user's account. We all know that software can do weird things sometimes.
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If your torrent is report, please check to see if people are still downloading. Continue to seed please!!
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@dilemmax
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@dilemmax said in Vanishing torrents ...:
If your torrent is report [taken down], please check to see if people are still downloading. Continue to seed please!!
I would underscore this. Even if the tracker software doesn't give upload credit for this seeding, we've all had the frustration of not being able to complete a download because other seeders have evaporated. If you're connected to another peer when the torrent is deleted, the connection with that other user will stay active (at least that's been my experience).
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I had a bunch but I updated utorrent and it's cleared. Im bad at using this type of thing
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@eobox91103 Yikes. Apologies for not proofreading my last post. So it looks like we do have an "agent" that is actively looking for torrents to takedown. There was a torrent with a coded name that only lasted for two hours (so glad I caught it) before it was removed.
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@MrMazda I would agree that it is not possible to know that it was not due to a DMCA request.. except for the fact that I have been paying close attention to patterns, and tested it myself with a recent upload. There are instances in which a new torrent appears on the site, but is removed from the site within one hour of it being posted. It is not conceivable that someone uploaded a torrent, and within one hour, someone found that torrent, downloaded that torrent, reported that torrent, and got a moderator to review that torrent. So, there was no request made to begin with.. which means... ?
There IS one legitimate explanation. the moderator could have mistakenly thought that the newly posted torrent was a duplicate of files already on the site. But the problem with that is.. they were not duplicates, and the message sent said it was a DMCA request, and not because it was a duplicate. But.. again, it's impossible that the torrent was found, DMCA request was made and received and reviewed all within one hour.
Perhaps there needs to be a new section...we have ACTIVE, and DEAD.. we should have a DMCA section which lists the torrents which have been removed, and those links are not downloadable. That is what pornolab does (only they have very very VERY few torrents which are not downloadable). That way, people won't make the mistake of uploading the same DMCA violation files again - because they are listed in the DMCA section. Perhaps some unscrupulous users make massive posts - to get download credits, they report their own torrents to get them removed, and then they re-post the same files again to get more credit for them - over and over again.
One other problem could be that the torrents on this site and the comments of this forum can be viewed WITHOUT having a membership. One cannot download any torrents without a membership, nor can one REPLY to messages in this forum without a membership, but they ARE viewable without a membership - which I don't understand.
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@dilemmax the problem with that theory is... let's say there is a scene starring "Freddy Phuk" from "Bentkok Studios". Why is it that ONE scene of "Freddy Phuk" from Bentkok is removed, while several other scenes of Freddy Phuk from Bentkok remain on the site?
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@VGC I really don't think this site needs to advertise by having it listed on Google. Yet the contents of this site ARE found on Google searches.
This problem of "vanishing torrents" has come and gone many times over the past 20 years or so.. and right now it is becoming epidemic.
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@MrMazda I just remembered something. About a year ago, a moderator of this site posted some content of THEMSELVES that they made, and it got removed for being a DMCA violation! Obviously that was a mistake. I don't even recall which moderator it was.
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