Who to PM for dead torrent takedown requests

[Aznstan]

Hi! It says in the upload guide found here (https://www.gaytor.rent/uploadguide.php?lan=1#500)
to PM a moderator if you find a dead torrent so that the process of waiting 3 days can start to see if the torrent will come back to life, and if not , it will be removed.

Which moderator am I supposed to be PM'ing these requests to? It has been a while since I uploaded a new torrent myself so I'm not sure who to contact.

Thanks!

[Kevin4fm]

@Aznstan Could you point me towards the number this is under in the guide? I couldn't find it when searching the page for the word "dead".

Also, taking down dead torrents has never been a major "thing" before. The presence of dead torrents can be very useful even when they're not seeded. I've used them countless times to find cover images, information on missing scenes from something I'm collecting, etc., so I'd personally consider their being taken down - at least as a blanket policy - to be a disservice rather than being helpful.

I've had one torrent I've uploaded subsequently removed as a duplicate, where the torrent it was deemed to be a duplicate of had been dead for at least a week before I uploaded mine. I assume that someone who saw mine decided to start seeding again and report mine as a duplicate.

I was advised by a moderator - in cases where I was replacing an existing unseeded torrent - to let them know beforehand, so it could either be marked as dead or, I guess, removed in that particular instance.

Should you feel it's necessary to flag one for taking down, though, I'd suggest contacting the Helpdesk rather than any one individual monitor. I suspect it's a shared InBox, that can be accessed and actioned by whoever happens to be covering things when it comes in.

[Aznstan]

@Kevin4fm I've attached a screenshot of the image mentioning dead torrents from the link I shared in my first post!

I guess the reason I would want to remove a dead torrent is:

a) I have the same torrent I'd like to post so it reaches the front page as to be visible again but I'd need to have the identical dead torrent removed first so it's not considered a duplicate.

b) it's one of my old torrents i've uploaded years ago and I'd like to just have it removed so I can re-post it with the same intention of it reaching the new torrents page again so it can reach more people.

If there is an easier way to get an old torrent of mine to reach more people that would be great! That's essentially what I'm just wanting to do since I feel like some of my old torrents I've shared aren't benefitting me in any way currently.

Again I'm new to uploading and sharing torrents on here so pardon me if I don't understand anything!!!

[Kevin4fm]

@Aznstan Ah OK. The word is in an image rather than being true "text", which explains why I couldn't find it using the search function. Thanks for clearing that up for me. The advice there is pretty much what a moderator told me for future torrents, and does make sense in that limited situation. Not at all the "nuke all dead torrents" suggestion that my mind immediately - and obviously incorrectly - jumped to!

Interesting conundrum! There is no way of 'bumping' an existing torrent, at least one I know of. The closest would be to freeleech it, but the cost in seed bonus points of doing that would very likely be more than any upload credit you gain. You could send it to the "Please freeleech this" address for nearly dead torrents, but a mod would see it's your own torrent and may not look at it as impartially as they usually do. Neither solution gets it onto the "new" list, but it would be at the top of the "Freeleech" one for a while and, being free, likely to get more takers.

Asking for it to be deleted so you can upload a seeded replacement is reasonable.... except I wonder if it might be considered a little questionable if you're both the original uploader, and the person who's going to upload the new one. The only scenario that springs to mind where that wouldn't be questioned would be if you said something like "I can no longer seed the original torrent as I've converted the file there from.avi to .mkv", or something along those lines.

If it was me, I'd just upload the new torrent. Yes, it may get deemed a duplicate if someone thinks "Oooh. I've got that from an old upload. I'll reseed it and report this new one as a duplicate". Someone else could do that, of course, but I'd wager the person most likely to by a long way is the original uploader... and as that's you, there's a fairly good chance that's not going to happen.

Having said all that, if you do decide it should be nuked, I'd go with my original suggestion of sending a message to the Helpdesk, rather than any one individual.

[ianfontinell]

@Aznstan i don't think there's any chance that you'll contact a moderator asking to delete a torrent only so you can upload it again.

If you have the files you can reseed it, then contact a mod and ask the torrent to be recycled so it goes back to the main page with a new date (without you having to upload a new torrent)

[MrMazda]

@Aznstan said:

Hi! It says in the upload guide found here (https://www.gaytor.rent/uploadguide.php?lan=1#500)
to PM a moderator if you find a dead torrent so that the process of waiting 3 days can start to see if the torrent will come back to life, and if not , it will be removed.

Which moderator am I supposed to be PM'ing these requests to? It has been a while since I uploaded a new torrent myself so I'm not sure who to contact.

Thanks!

You can always shoot me a PM about it, especially if you want to upload a new version of the torrent. Sometimes when a torrent is dead and a new one is uploaded, sometime after the new one is uploaded, the dead original will come back to life, thereby making the new upload a technical duplicate. If you ask a mod such as myself to remove the torrent first, then it ensures that the old torrent cannot make your upload efforts wasted for being a duplicate at a later point.

[MrMazda]

@ianfontinell said:

@Aznstan i don't think there's any chance that you'll contact a moderator asking to delete a torrent only so you can upload it again.

If you have the files you can reseed it, then contact a mod and ask the torrent to be recycled so it goes back to the main page with a new date (without you having to upload a new torrent)

We long ago abandoned the recycle option. The best thing we can do now is freeleech the torrent. I believe the decision to remove it was because it made some things very confusing for a lot of people, as the torrent would be tagged with a new date, but you'd have to read the first line to see when it was actually uploaded.

[Aznstan]

@MrMazda Ok thanks for all the advice guys! I'm still new to all this so I'll take a proper read at the replies to this thread!