The empty hover-popups from earlier today were a separate, short-lived hiccup right after the fix went out — reloading the page once (as frostycab found) clears it.

Have you tried closing it entirely and restarting it? Or clearing your browser's cache for this site?

This is even true after pictures have been added to the torrent AND have been approved. Once the pictures are approved, they should then show on the search pages, but they don't. That's why I used the ladybug button, as that is the best way for @Joker to be able to look at and work on the bugs.

OFTEN, the uploader has added pics AFTER the torrent listing was created - which requires Staff approval of the pics (so you can't see them, even though they're there).

When you submit a report, if the pics are there to approve, the Staffer can approve them... and if not, they can IM the uploader and ask them to fix it.

I won't go into more detail than that - so now you know what yo do!

WikiDude
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It also isn't being replaced with an "Image awaiting approval", so it still isn't possible to see whether that torrent doesn't have a pic full stop, or whether it does now have one that just hasn't been approved yet.

If the user fails to acknowledge the request for pictures in a short order, I will take further action. The first thing that I will do if a user ignores requests to correct the problem and upload proper pictures is delete the torrent if they have not done so in a reasonable amount of time. If the user is a repeat offender and/or has done this on multiple torrents, then I will issue a warning and/or revoke their upload rights.

Now... If a user DOES correct the issue, then I simply drop the report and move on, as they have corrected the issue. Before taking any kind of serious action against a user for doing something like not uploading pictures though, I will ALWAYS give them a fair chance to correct the problem. Rest assured though, if I get the report of torrent presentations that are lacking in one way or another, I WILL take action, so just because the pictures may not be corrected right away, or the torrent does not get removed right away, do not think that it won't be handled, because I absolutely WILL stay on top of it.

@ianfontinell said:

@Kevin4fm seriously, there's been a horde of uploads without any picture, can't really blame the uploaders tho, the site should prevent those uploads, it is supposed to but apparently there's a bug.

Now what truly boils my blood are those mfs who upload a series of torrents of the same buy one after another, with 1 file per torrent, instead of making a folder.

Thank God I'm not a mod because I would uphold their upload rights for that.

Not only that, the torrent files have jibberish names.

And to clear up the mystery: I checked the whole first page — every single one of those torrents has pictures. They're just sitting in the approval queue, mostly from newer uploaders. So no need for rude words, muttered or otherwise.

@briefsboy86 That's exactly your case — your pictures arrived fine and will show as soon as they're approved. Welcome aboard, and thanks for the upload.

@ianfontinell You were half right: the rule itself held on these, but one upload path really did accept submissions without a picture — that hole is closed now, on both the form and the server side.

See? The downside with doing difficult things so well and so quickly is that people like me start expecting the impossible too!

But given how amazingly quickly @Joker responds, and fixes, any reported bugs, I don't think members can reasonably hide behind that excuse, even if it's true. If a bug has hampered them, they should be reporting it not just ignoring it, so I feel fully justified in calling them rude names - at least in the privacy of my own home. Probably not acceptable to do that publicly here!

I have mixed views on "single file or folder". It certainly takes up less real estate to have multiple files and you can download everything in one go, but it's much harder to reseed at a later date, if you've only downloaded some of the files or have moved them around to match your own filing system - by studio, by performer, by category, by published date, etc.

Now what truly boils my blood are those mfs who upload a series of torrents of the same buy one after another, with 1 file per torrent, instead of making a folder.

Thank God I'm not a mod because I would uphold their upload rights for that.