WHY ISNT THIS PRIVATE
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@MrMazda what about the torrent page, don't you think the uploader's name should be hidden regardless of their privacy preferences?
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@ianfontinell As far as I am aware, the uploader of any torrent (regardless of their privacy settings) is only visible to staff. Regular users and public search indexes will only see "Anonymous"
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@MrMazda i ask because until just a few days ago, it was public, only users with "strong" privacy would appear as anonymous. So it is that the current labels still reflect this behavior:
I'd like to take the opportunity to ask about this one:
Why is everything limited to unreasonable numbers now?
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@ianfontinell Interesting... Let me hop onto my regular user account so I can test this theory to see what shows up from a regular user account.
EDIT: I just hopped onto my regular user account, and it doesn't seem to matter what the user's privacy settings are set to... If you only have a regular user account, you can only see the name of the uploader if you click the button to send the uploader a message. This will soon change. I'm not sure if we're going to remove the button, or change it so that the uploader is only revealed if they respond to the PM, but either way, it will be addressed.
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Another thing worth noting....
Functionally, there is NO difference between "Low" and "Strong" for your privacy settings. Regardless of your settings, you will be shown as "Anonymous" to other users on all torrents. The only thing that becomes visible to other users if they look at your profile on the "Normal" setting is your ratio information such as overall ratio, upload/download totals, and SBP information.
Regardless of what privacy setting you choose, your torrent history is NOT visible to anyone other than staff. The only real difference between "Low" or "Strong" and "Normal" aside from overall ratio and SBP information is that if you have it set to "Normal", other users can see the button to PM you, add you to friends, or add you to blocks.
EDIT: Just to give you a visual, with my account, I have my setting set on "Normal" so that other users can PM me directly if they need assistance. When on "Normal", this is what my profile will appear as for a regular user.
The only "damaging" (for lack of a better term) info that is shown to other users when on "Normal" mode is my ratio, as well as my upload/download totals. Under Canadian law though, this is hardly "damning" information, as this does not link to any specific torrent, so it cannot (at least in Canada) be used as evidence that any given torrent was downloaded and/or shared in full.
Just to further provide an example, even with my profile security set to "Normal", when viewed from a regular user account, my information does NOT appear anywhere for other users, even if I comment on my own torrents.
See... I show as "Anonymous", even though my security settings are set to "Normal".
And when I put a test comment on my torrent, it shows to a normal user like this...For the current moment, the only time my username on a torrent will appear to other users if if they use the button to send the uploader a PM, but as I said, that is soon going to change, I'm just not sure how.
So even with your profile set to "Normal", there is nothing (outside of the send uploader a PM button) that will show my username attached to any torrent I have uploaded, even with my security settings set to "Normal".
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@ianfontinell I too thought uploader names were being displayed when I first used the new format site. However, after a while I realised the only time a name was displayed was when I was looking at a torrent I'd uploaded myself. There it showed my username.
Maybe there was a short period where this wasn't the case, but I've just checked the latest top eight uploads, and they all show as "Anonymous". Admittedly this isn't a huge sample, but since noticing my name as the torrent uploader on one, I've been checking most of the torrents I've opened to view the detail albeit often 'unconsciously'.
So if it was a problem, it seems to have been a short lived one that has since been corrected.
Perhaps if others see their name and make the same assumption, a simple fix would be to display "You" as the uploader, rather than your username.
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@Kevin4fm No, they were in fact being displayed. The privacy options used to work exactly like their description suggests. I only brought it up in this conversation because I didn't notice it had changed. But I'm 200% sure it was showing uploader names, I'm glad it was revised.
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