@freddie7 said in search issues:

rafael alencar"

As has been noted in other threads: put multi-word searches in quotes...

not rafael alencar, but rather "rafael alencar"

@raphjd
Lots to unpack there: thoughts meander much?

In the early part of the pandemic, counting anyone who tested positive for the virus and subsequently died a victim of the disease was probably just a way to get around the fact that we knew SO LITTLE about it, and had little way of otherwise "filtering" results to get better data. Over time, all of that reporting will undoubtedly be revised for accuracy.

Forget the political leadership for a moment - the people who do the counting - who generate the reports - are usually career public health experts. In most cases, their only agenda is saving lives. (Fuckin weasly bastards!)

Now, what politicians do with that data is another thing... and in that, there is always politics. While I don't agree with any kind of playing with the numbers, I must say: I strongly prefer a politician fudging the numbers in an effort to save lives, over one fudging the numbers and sacrificing lives in the name of political expediency. Again: neither is good, but saving lives is still better than ignoring them.

I've already said - multiply now - that going back and re-examining our entire response - GLOBALLY - to the COVID-19 pandemic is definitely a wise thing to do... although, right now, I would personally rather that they keep focusing on getting through the pandemic... we can investigate early missteps once the threat has been reduced! Still, the only way we learn from our mistakes, is to discover them to begin with!

Finally: in the early days of COVID-19, we thought it was spread by contact - thus the suggestions you do things like wiping down your groceries before taking them into your house. Putting a sick patient you cannot help into a nursing home seemed, at the time, a humane way to let them die in peace, and in the presence of their families - while also freeing up badly needed space in the hospitals. The other patients in the nursing homes weren't exactly "visiting" the COVID-19 patients, and since there would be no cross-contact, it was thought to be a safe, humane way to treat the un-treatable.

It is important to put these things into the proper context: we had few treatments at the time that were effective once your disease got to a certain point... to put a fine point on it, yes: they were sent to the nursing homes to die!

And, as I've pointed out multiply already, we didn't know it was spread by aerosol. Thus, we didn't know we were exposing other nursing home patients to the disease... we thought the infection-control in the nursing homes would be adequate. (They were not)

It is also important to note that this practice wasn't wide-spread: it happened only in the hottest of the hot-spots... the biggest cities with the worst outbreaks. Hospital beds were desperately needed to treat the victims who were treatable and had some reasonable hope of survival.

It is not fair to judge their decisions or actions then based on what we know now! First, with the advanced therapeutics, immune-therapies, and other knowledge of how to treat COVID-19 (like putting patients on their stomachs!), there aren't many (any?) "un-treatable" patients any longer... while there is still a shortage of hospital beds, these patients have a decent chance to survive COVID-19 right up until the end, so there is no ethical rationale to send them elsewhere to die. Secondly, knowing now (what we didn't know then) - that COVID-19 is an aerosol disease - we would never put a dying patient anywhere that there wasn't a full quarantine in place.

While we (as a population) need to learn, and take heed, from the mistakes made in the early days of COVID-19 (and the US and UK are far from the only countries who struggled with their responses), care should be taken not to recriminate against people who were doing the best they could with little to no knowledge of what they were facing.

Simply put: we need to learn, but we do not need to blame.

Perhaps make a suggestion in the helpdesk?

But be specific... say:

• Why not create a reverse SBP program where you can purchase SBP with upload credits? Say, 10GB upload credit will buy you 500 SBP

NOTE: If you do that backwards, it takes 600 SBP to purchase back the 10GB upload - and that would prevent "churning" (going back and forth)...

Just an idea... from one massive seeder to another (even though I download a TON too! So, my ration isn't that high...)

@freddie7 said in Why is everything new being deleted from the "Fan Sites" category?:

@bi4smooth said in Why is everything new being deleted from the "Fan Sites" category?:

@freddie7 said in Why is everything new being deleted from the "Fan Sites" category?:

I'm not sure why you would think that's not their job... Just saying...

As I understand things, there are different staff members for different operational areas of the site.... with site operations being separate from torrent "moderation" being separate from forum "moderation" (this is what I have gathered from being on this site since the stone ages - like 2008 I think!)... I would be surprised if there weren't OTHER areas of the site I'm missing.

But if past experience is any measure, moderators (staff) DO NOT read every post in the forum! What's more, if a forum moderator read your complaint, who's to say s/he would know anything about what you're talking about?

Also, and I'll get off my high horse after this comment: what's to say YOU are due an explanation? Are your subscription fees ($0.00) any higher than anyone else's?

@teefup said in why can't i send messages?:

@bi4smooth can you check my account too? was trying to PM the people who liked the first set of these vids to let em know I had uploaded a second set.

I'm not a moderator or staff member... just an old-timer (been on this site since 2008) whose seen a LOT of changes over the years!

@urx585 said in torrent files that only load correctly in a few clients:

I work in the IT industry, so this is kind-of "up my alley".

2. I hadn't thought of it, but yes - a non-padded torrent WOULD appear significantly smaller... however, as I noted in my post above: those "padding" files are created as "sparse" files with all zero data. ACTUAL XFERED DATA is practically nil! Depending on the filesystem you download into, they may also store as practically zero-length files (in storage, not in the OS listing of the file size).
   #2 is unfortunately incorrect for most torrent clients and filesystems. When I download a 32MB file of all zero bytes from my seedbox, it takes exactly as long as downloading a 32MB file with non-zero bytes.

I wouldn't be so sure. Firstly, compression on networks isn't like compression on old-style modems: it's enabled , generally, by default.

Secondly, the way "sparse" files are designed to work is to be "invisible" to the end user. The OS reports the "size" of the file as the "advertised" size. There is another field that is illustrative in Windows: "size on disk".

That said, many NAS devices do not support "sparse files" and if your external drives are using an older FAT32 or older NTFS filesystem, they won't support sparse files at all. But that is not the fault of the torrent uploader.

Same for ratio: when I download a torrent with lots of padding in Tixati (my alternate client when rutorrent doesn't work) all of the padding bytes count against my ratio. Not that I care, I have a 2 petabyte buffer, but some people have to worry about their ratio.

Tixati is new to me... however, it tries to be ultra-lightweight, so I suspect the logic to process sparse files (or padding files) may be absent.

For instance, when I deleted the .pad directory for the ASG torrent, I got about 34 GB of disk space back. File with all zero bytes are only more efficient if you're using compression. If you're not using compression, then on the disk, and through the network, there is no difference between files with just zeroes and files with both ones and zeroes.

That may or may not be true - that depends on your OS and filesystem. (My Macs support sparse files, as does my Linux VM where I do most of my torrent traffic. My Windows desktop does not - at least not on the NAS device where I store my porn...

qbittorrent may never actually download the padding files at all. I believe the default behavior is to completely hide everything having to do with padding. That's why so many Uploaders don't know their torrent client is adding pad files, I usually have to ask them to click on [See full list] before they believe that such a thing exists. So if you're using qbittorrent, the pad files may indeed appear to take no time to download, because they're not being downloaded. However most torrent clients don't have this feature, so they treat the pad files just like any other pic or vid file.

Again, this isn't a qBitTorrent thing, it's a libtorrent thing. Deluge, qBitTorrent, and about a dozen smaller, less popular, torrent clients all use the same core library.

#3 I don't want to require anyone to do anything, but this error was introduced recently, and it would be very nice if we could "patch" it by removing whatever extension field or metadata that's causing this error in so many other torrent clients.

I will again use the analogy of web browsers. There are still some sites out there that require IE to operate properly (pity, now that IE is officially D-E-A-D... RIP). We've all adjusted to websites being a little different on different browsers, why is it so hard to apply this to torrents?

Having said that, I do agree that a recent update to libtorrent appears to have broken backward compatibility with some other torrent clients - and that definitely should be addressed. (And as you point out below, maybe it already has...). My point is that this isn't unprecedented territory in the history of the Internet - indeed, it's actually been commonplace!

I've read a lot of comments from frustrated users on the torrents with this error, and it appears most people only use one torrent client, so when they get an error, they think there's something wrong with the torrent file, they don't think there's something wrong with their torrrent client, and they don't try a different one.

Maybe they'll learn something here, as a result of our discussion.

BTW, it's possible this error was fixed by an even newer version of qbittorrent/libtorrent, because I've recently seen a few large torrents with lots of padding files that load correctly in rutorrent. So maybe the solution is to ask all the libtorrent users to do one more upgrade. I don't know for sure, because I can't figure out what's causing the error. However when I look at the headers in these .torrent files it seems like there's some entries I haven't seen before.

#4 I download a large number of multi-file torrents from other sites. You're right, no other site has anywhere near the content that we have here, but I get probably a third of my torrents from other sites, and many of them have those pesky .srt files and thumbnail pics etc. This particular error (fails to load in rutorrent, Transmission, and others) started a few months ago. On GT, I run into this error maybe once per day (I don't post every link here, and I didn't start this thread until recently.) On the other sites, I've never had this happen, not once. Just based on the numbers, I don't think it's coincidence.

Yes, Uploaders create the initial .torrent file, but this site's processing engine modifies them too. When I upload a new torrent, the .torrent file I download from the post-upload page is not the same as the .torrent file I initially created with my torrent client.

You confuse the .torrent encoding (the blocks and checksums) with the torrent metadata - which includes the tracker URLs... thoe tracker URLs are unique for a private tracker like ours - it's how the tracker knows you're you, and who to "apply" upload and download credits to... That's a FAR CRY from editing the contents of the torrent stream data itself!

Maybe the other sites are using some logic that strips non-standard extensions and metadata from .torrent file headers.

There are other sites that edit the metadata, but without the source data, it'd be a tall, TALL order to rebuild the stream cheksum data.... just saying...

Again, really appreciate you taking the time to discuss this. If there's a solution, it may apply more broadly, and shield us from the next bug that the programmers will inevitably introduce...

I am personally hopeful that libtorrent will see the error of their ways (wrt backward compatibility) and release a patch soon. In the meantime, just as our site is best viewed on Chrome, maybe some of these torrents are best managed by Deluge or qBitTorrent? Just an idea...

Peace be with you...

@erich214
Thank you for your comments.
At least so far in this forum, @raphjd appears to adhere to the "you're with me or you're against me" mentality. (I labeled this "bipolar", but he took to interpreting that solely as the mental disorder - even when I clarified it for him, so I'll try an different tack...).

Well to be clear: I am not with him, but neither am I against him.

I have said that we do need to look back, investigate, and learn what we did wrong in the early days of COVID spreading in our respective countries.

@raphjd seems to have already made up his mind based on conspiracy theories and partial (to be generous) data. I prefer to wait for some real data.

@averagedude

Welcome - and happy wanking!

@marshy said in Why is everything new being deleted from the "Fan Sites" category?:

I just received a Demand for Deletion of Infringing Domain from their lawyers because my domain has the word "fans" in it. They're definitely up to something. It's possible a lot of performers are complaining about piracy sites not removing their content and they want OF to do something about it.

So I am an IT consultant, not a lawyer - but I'll tell you this about your domain name: tell them to pound sand - the US laws do not apply to Internet Domain Names. If they want to PURCHASE it from you, that's all well and good - $250,000 and a lifetime "membership" to all OnlyFans content - current and future. Otherwise, kiss your royal ass!

They could, theoretically, sure in US courts for DAMAGES, but they would have to prove such. But there is no US Court (not even the US Supreme Court) that has jurisdiction over internet domain names.

I had a client who was sent a similar "demand" letter because their domain started with "it4" and the "demander" owned the domain it4.com... we told them "tough titties... US courts have no jurisdiction, and unless you can show actual harm, you got nothing... but we also offered to SELL them the domain name for $250,000 - which was declined.

@kekkaishi said in Advice for sucking cock and breathing:

I love to suck cock very much. In my head I tell to myself that I can suck for hours, but when start to suck a dick (regular size and above), I'm having difficulty breathing even though my nostrils are open.

It mainly happens when I deepthroat, I can deepthroat no problem, but even regular size dicks i'm having hard time breathing.

Depending on the dick size and how deep you go, I can suck a dick at most for 30 seconds without a break for air

I am aware that while I have a dick in my mouth, I try knowingly to breath through my nose, but it's not enough

I don't have this problem with small dicks though

any tips?

Understand the biology - and equally understand that porn is fantasy - when you see what looks like a guy staying all-the-way down on a 9-inch cock for long periods of time, it's not real - it's spliced together.

So, biologically speaking, the air pathway for your nose-breathing "meets" the air pathway for mouth breathing - pretty much right at the back of the mouth... See here

As you can see, the air pathways join pretty much right at the end/back of your mouth... so any cock you're taking beyond that point, you're taking into your throat - which is shared by both mouth-breathing and nose-breathing.

You could (purely theoretically) get a tracheostomy - a tube inserted into the base of your neck and into your breathing tube (your trachea - hence the name)... that would allow air to come in well below the end of all-but-the-largest dick! But, IMHO, that'd be a little extreme! LOL

No, the fact is, you have to pull off far enough to get air (through your nose OR mouth - try it with your mouth - the cool air rushing around his hot, wet cock can be quite exhilarating for him!) every few moments to catch your breath...

@bengalis said in Where to find uncensored Japanese porn?:

@eobox91103 said in Where to find uncensored Japanese porn?:

Semi-related question:  Why do so many Japanese films have guys (usually the tops) wearing sunglasses or weird goggles?  It's rather distracting from what might otherwise be a nice scene.

Probably to hide their identity

Please understand: in some of these SE Asian countries porn is illegal - and gay porn ESPECIALLY so - so,yes.... in most cases it is to protect their identity...
Mind you, in some instances it's a fetish thing too... but usually, IMHO, it's to protect the actors from legal problems in their countries....

@raphjd
So, you're saying that, if you happened to be insanely rich, you'd fly coach ... you AND your family... in the middle of a pandemic. If that's your claim, then I say: Prince Harry shows intelligence in his decision making in the real world that you fail to do in your imaginary one.

I'm sorry, the hypocrite is the Governor (I think it was a Governor) who told everyone to stay at home for the holidays, then flew off to his family's holiday gathering.

FWIW: If I recall rightly, it was a DEMOCRATIC Governor... he should have resigned. That was just a TOTAL abuse of power.

The AIDS activist marching for laws requiring safer sex practices whose Grindr profile says "bareback only" is hypocritical.

The minister preaching about the sins of homosexuality - while he's secretly flowing the alter-boys after church - is hypocritical.

The guy from the porn site requesting that people not upload videos from his site, while having a history of downloading multiple GB of porn videos himself (presumably from OTHER producers, naturally) - is hypocritical.

Rich people have the right to spend their money. That's not being hypocritical. Prince Harry didn't tell others not to travel, and he doesn't have the power to make rules against it.

Perfectly legitimate to complain that he's flying around with his family on the British tax-payers's dime... except that he isn't! He's given up the Royal allowance! He's just a rich snob! No power, no rules to set. Just a rich bloke that TONS of people care about because of the rest of his family (including his wife).

-- EDIT--
For those who don't want to follow the Twitter link: it's a posting about Prince Harry flying his family on a private plane and saying he did so to protect his family.

@beachbum99

Welcome - and just so you know, I'm in Fla - the LOW today was 66 F (that's 19 C)...

There's a REASON we're the world's #1 tourism destination!

@flozen said in Why is everything new being deleted from the "Fan Sites" category?:

I feel as if half of the posters (guess) are late for their Ivermectin boosters.

Conspiracy?

Are the takedowns the conspiracy? Or are the wild-ass guesses about the takedowns the conspiracy?

Only the Shadow knows!

I could as a teen - and it earned me about $5k in college tuition money (I did some porn)... I could get about half into my mouth comfortably - if I pushed hard, I could get to the root!

I could suck myself off back then - these days (maybe because of that) I'm VERY hard to get off orally.

I lost the ability to suck myself in my 30's....

@nikgl said in Seeding issues (((:

Ok, I created a torrent file, then uploaded and filled everything to the Upload page.
Then I re-download the recently uploaded torrent file and launch it to start seeding. But the torrent program (Folx) doesn't start checking the folder with files to start seeding.
What's the problem? Could you help me please??

So, there are 2 options:

1. The torrent client ALREADY HAS the torrent (some do that when they CREATE the torrent. Because it was already there, and because it's a "private" torrent, the trackers aren't "merged" so only the original (useless) one remains.
   TO FIX: Delete the torrent (being CAREFUL to NOT DELETE the DATA!) in your client, then re-download from the site

2. The torrent client does not see the files that makeup the torrent in your default download location... you need to tell the torrent client WHERE the file(s) already exist. Otherwise, it thinks this is a new download.
   TO FIX: Delete the torrent (being CAREFUL to NOT DELETE the DATA!) in your client, then re-download from the site - and point your client to the RIGHT location of where you file(s) actually exist!

@raphjd
If you think I've tried to insult you, you've taken my postings far too personally - and I apologize. I don't mean to insult anyone.... but I also don't think pointing out flaws in your arguments is insulting you! Especially since most of your arguments come from conservative radio & tv personalities.

Well, I assume that's there you get them. i could be wrong. Still:

• you reference them (conservative news outlets) - at times directly
• you are unable to defend (or go into any detail) on some of your arguments, presumably because you don't really understand where they come from - you're just parroting the talking-heads you listen to.

When I deride the anti-Romney talk-show-host because he's portraying guilt by association, I'm not attacking you personally, even though you did post the link yourself.
Likewise, when I deride your doing the same thing - attempting to link The Lincoln Project to a sex offender, in spite of the fact that they denounced him and his actions within 24-hours of being notified... again, a bold attempt at guilt by association
And I cried foul in both cases.

I have asked you repeatedly to identify this concept of "Due Process" that Betsy DeVos supposedly restored... to no avail.

The only real attempt to expel any member of Congress has come against the nutball Marjorie Taylor Greene - and its not for voting on or about the Electoral College - no, it's for actively calling for the assassination of elected, US, public officials.

Sure there have been motions - there are 1000's of idiotic motions made by the 535 members of Congress every year. Most get absolutely no traction. The above referenced nut-job congresswoman also filed a motion to impeach Joe Biden - before he even signed his first Executive Order!

You are perfectly correct in noting that there have been attempts to refute electoral college votes in the past - by Dems and Republicans alike. It's a part of the process. Truly NONE has ever come close to passing.

However, the whole idea is a mis-reading of the law and Constitution: the governing rules stem from the Civil War, when some states sent multiple slates of delegates to the Electoral College in an attempt to de-legitimize the election of Lincoln (or anyone else, for that matter). The intent of the rules was to give Congress the ability to deal with MULTIPLE slates of electors, not to just toss-out perfectly legitimate, approved delegates from States. We need to clarify this intention - and there's no time like the present!

@ricky

Congrats on the position! I'm sure you'll get more out of it than you put into it! That's always been my experience in volunteer positions

@massafera said in Why is everything new being deleted from the "Fan Sites" category?:

@bi4smooth

Lmao you really went off didn't you?

First of all, I'm not demanding anything. I'm not complaining about "the volume of content being uploaded by users". I'm very aware that this is illegal sharing and so are you and guess what, we are both still here. Actually, we are both still here since 2008. I've been contributing with a lot of content here and helping users with their requests since then without expectations.

As I said, if users were choosing to upload fewer files I wouldn't be complaining at all. This is not what this is about and we both know it, so don't try to make it sound like I'm complaining because there aren't 'enough' torrents being posted.

I'm just saying that me, as well as other users, would LIKE TO KNOW why every single file is being deleted, that's all. I was very polite both times I messaged the admins. The only one being agressive and with an attitude for no reason here is you. There's just no need for that.

Anyway, I won't message you anymore. This is not why I created this thread. I'm only going to say that in MY opinion I think it would be fair for the admins to let us know why this is happening. Specially to avoid waste of time to download and upload files that are ALL gonna be removed in a few hours. This is MY opinion. Feel free to not agree with me but don't tell me what I should or shouldn't say. If you can have your opinion on rhat matter, well... So can I.

My apologies if I "went off" on you - but it annoys me when people complain about things they're getting for free. If you honestly want the content that isn't here, pay for it! It's the "sense of entitlement" that riles me - and that comes from my job... sorry if it rubbed off here.

What I was trying to make clear is that the STAFF here aren't taking down videos because they don't like them, or the uploaders, or anything else - with the exception of uploaded content that is barred (like duplicates, and illegal stuff [pedo, snuff, etc. - read the rules yourself])... in fact, you likely can't see it, but there are categories for straight porn here, as well as (nasty to me) scat!

This place goes OUT OF THEIR WAY to allow almost
anything!

@raphjd - a site administrator - confirmed above that the suspicions aired here from the start were correct... the removals are because of DMCA takedown requests.

An argument could be made that, "hey, we know we're "stealing" content here, why not ignore the DMCA requests?" - But the site advertises that copyright holders can request, and they will comply, with valid DMCA takedown requests! They own the site, they make the rules!

Also, as has been pointed out already as well: while the current "fad" seems to be targeting the OF content, they are far from the only content pulled. I have uploaded probablty 2-3 TB of Helix and NextDoor content (my collections there are nearly complete), and another 4-5TB of Sean Cody and Corbin Fisher content (my collections there ARE complete) - and because I post in "collections", they usually get DMCA'd after a month or 2...

But, I get a notice in my mailbox that the content was removed for a DMCA complaint. Also, there's no penalty on here for losing an upload due to a DMCA complaint.

If you are an uploader of OF content and your posts are disappearing -- WITHOUT a note from the staff as to WHY it's gone, -- open a helpdesk ticket! 100% of my uploads that have been taken down in the past have been explained to me why they were removed.

IMHO, the ONLY people due an explanation for removed content are the uploaders themselves. (And in my experience, the staff has always done that for me.)

My most intense orgasms come when I've already cum inside my partner and we've flipped... I've got him inside of me... I can often time my SECOND orgasm with his... to he's pumping deep into me while I'm spewing all in between us!

That second shot is always more intense than the first!