@ianfontinell-0 said in naked advertisement spam in torrents: @spiffyweasel-0 it's definitely not endorsed but on the same not it's not against the rules so, in a sense you're right, everyone can create their own site and advertise it in torrent descriptions. if you have enough free time and money i suggest you try it so that we will know for real how effective this approach is, but i suspect that it's not great. another thing is, it'd be hard to check metrics to see who is visiting your links coming from GT because the site removes referers from the URLs, it will look like the person has typed the URL manually instead of clicking an ad. right, which is why i suspect this is not just some affiliate (since the referer stripping would prevent click tracking as you said) but the actual owner of that site who earns money by running ads on the site itself.

@bigdmck: Giving new meaning to the phrase "down under."

@frostycab your suggestion about giving feedback on user reports is excellent. you should probably create a separate discussion topic for it here so it gets more attention.

Yes, it's broken now

@ianfontinell-0 ah, thanks!

I just figured out the ID is only partially correct. The short guy is Jack Redshaw but the tall guy is Jack Sampson from their time on Morecambe FC.

You were spot on about the browse view: a torrent's uploader could show up in the hover info for regular members, which was never the intention . that's meant to be staff-only. One reassuring note: anyone on the strongest privacy setting was never affected, their name stayed hidden the whole time; the gap only showed names for the default setting that most accounts use. It's fixed now. regular members no longer see who uploaded a torrent anywhere in the listings (it's not in the page at all), while staff still can. The new site is a full ground-up rewrite, so the odd detail like this slips through,and reports like yours are exactly how we catch and fix them fast. Big thanks to everyone helping test the almost ready-dev site please keep the findings coming.