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have you seen post a picture of yourself lately? it's so stupid. ugh
let me reiterate: it is fucking stupid that bounty added to a request is deducted from the user's uploaded amount. for example, you're of the elite class with 250gb uploaded and 100gb downloaded. you decide to donate 240gb to a request that you really want to see fulfilled. two weeks later, your account is disabled.
ref: larz and bluet got screwed
as i think you know, i tried to join the www.waffles.fm development team. i passed a couple of their tests that they give to potential developers. i hung around in their irc channel awaiting further instruction. after waiting for months, i finally gave up on it. evidently the lead dev was too busy to further instruct me.
perhaps it's poor form of me to complain about what.cd's software (gazelle) without offering a better alternative. i've looked for the gazelle source code, and as far as i know, it is only released to a select group of individuals. if i had it, i could easily submit a patch for this issue (which i would argue is a bug). but i doubt that the patch would be well-received.
nestor: your request is currently #7. if you add 1.12gb to it, it will become #6. do it! (or i'll do it once i can afford it.)
go go #6!
i just posted this:
new `spent` field for users instead of deducting tax & bounty from `upload` field
here's something that i recently experienced:
i had an uploaded amount of about 60gb and downloaded amount of about 15gb. i was a power user. i decided to help a friend out with his request, so i donated a bunch (about 40gb). suddenly i was no longer a power user.
i think that bounty and tax shouldn't be taken directly from the `upload` field. i think that, instead, there should be a field for each user called `spent`.
the idea is that:
(a) user classes are determined by the `upload` field.
(b) ratio requirements are calculated from [(upload - spent) / download].
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here's a hypothetical example for rebuttal:
suppose that you're of the elite class with 250gb uploaded and 95gb downloaded. you decide to donate 200gb to a request that you really want to see fulfilled. suddenly, you're no longer of the elite class.
( https://ssl.what.cd/forums.php?action=viewthr … adid=37324 )
https://ssl.what.cd/torrents.php?id=403282
but i guess he's more confused than me. :/
http://cloudfront.wingedleopard.net/lucas/tmp/wcd-uf-0.png
too big--it buss'd
99.9999% of the internet population is disappointing.
i got torrentmaster
whatcha mean? like ttf, the relative times have absolute titles.
perhaps it's poor form of me to complain about what.cd's software (gazelle) without offering a better alternative. i've looked for the gazelle source code, and as far as i know, it is only released to a select group of individuals. if i had it, i could easily submit a patch for this issue (which i would argue is a bug). but i doubt that the patch would be well-received.
if you haven't seen this before, the source is listed on their wiki now!
https://ssl.what.cd/wiki.php?action=article&name=Gazelle+Source+Code+-+Where+can+I+get+a+copy%3F
1. freely available music may now be uploaded
2. flac is the only lossless compression allowed (torrents without flac may have other lossless formats grandfathered)
3. aac and ogg rules have become more strict
4. power users must always have 5 uploads, elite 50, and torrentmasters 500
also, the bullying moderation team has changed.
https://ssl.what.cd/forums.php?action=viewthr … adid=45942
:whatlove:
shsh
What's happening?
Yesterday, we began experiencing unusually high load on our primary site server. While attempting to fix the problem, the database crashed. We have been in the process of recovery since last night, with all of our sysops and developers working on the problem. We are also in contact with our host, who is confident that there has been no data lost. Please bear with us.
Our chat is still running, and updates will be given there first. Feel free to join irc.what-network.net.
Thanks for your patience. We'll see you soon!
(from what.cd)
but i'll check out xld. :)
recently i started seeding all my stuff on my laptop again - after reorganizing it by tracker (yes!).
i finally uploaded some stuff too, hopefully i get some gigz for it!
i borrowed somebody's usenet account yesterday. i have only used usenet like twice and i kinda figured it out this time. i ran out of space on my laptop pretty quick. it's overwhelming how much data is on usenet, and how fast you can get it.
i gotta figure out what i'm going to do for the summer. it's too hot in my house already these days.
lastly i need to spend some time and find out how to point torrents on one tracker to files for another tracker on euterpe/rtorrent.
https://ssl.what.cd/torrents.php?id=30708& … tid=855139
"Uploaded by Tourag 2 weeks, 3 days ago"
the log score was at 95%, because the audio cache was not disabled. inasafeplace found the torrent, reported it to get the audio cache marked "okay" by a moderator, then grabbed the bounty.
i have contacted a moderator to confirm that the log score was changed recently. i have also unfilled the request.
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http://cloudfront.wingedleopard.net/lucas/img … -req-1.png
http://cloudfront.wingedleopard.net/lucas/img … -req-2.png
http://cloudfront.wingedleopard.net/lucas/img … -req-3.png
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ssl.what.cd uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate expired on 6/27/2009 12:29 AM.
not surprising.
https://ssl.what.cd/forums.php?action=viewthr … adid=53549
maybe next time they'll forget to renew their domain.
:-/
are they telling me to go away?
with their apparent user turnover... probably! it's hard to find a popular thread on the forums without at least a few posts from banned users