Is everything alright with TorrentLeech?

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hammuraby_1

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The strangest thing just happened. As I was logging in, it said "This account has been disabled", which is bollocks since I've been with TL since they began and my ratio is comfortably over 1.0.

Now I try to login again but the site gives me a HTTP error. Is something wrong with the site (any TL user can try for me?) or am I facing some incorrect trial for my inexistent faults?

If it is the case that the site has indeed decided to blockade my access, where could I speak with a member of the staff to ask about such a wild action.

Any help is hugely appreciated.
 
Some fun with Wikipedia and tabbed browsers. :happy:

I happened to notice it in Opera's cookie manager after logging in to one of my TL banned accounts. After deleting it, I'd no longer get that fake HTTP 403 error.
 
Cabalo said:
Assuming you didn't cheat, your client may not have sent the completed flag to the tracker. (correct me if I'm wrong, but if you finish the torrent within the 30 minutes until the first announce is made, and no flag is sent, the DL stats aren't recorded?)
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That means they wouldn't have reported his upload either correct?

I just don't see how you could get banned for that. It looks like you did nothing, maybe downloaded the torrent and had second thoughts and deleted it.
I don't think were getting the full story.
 
Tv Controls you said:
That means they wouldn't have reported his upload either correct?

I just don't see how you could get banned for that. It looks like you did nothing, maybe downloaded the torrent and had second thoughts and deleted it.
I don't think were getting the full story.
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Yes, I forgot about that. You're absolutely right.
If the account indeed got banned for that reason, nothing takes the blame away from the OP who "forgot" to report to the staff he had this issue with the stats updating. They allow you to consult your snatchlist... I know I check mine.
Oh, I forgot, it must be the tracker's fault if they are having issues, the user takes no blame for not helping them and reporting the situation.

I guess it was pretty convenient to help buffering his account. :rolleyes:
 
My account works fine. What you're getting isn't an HTTP error, TL sets a cookie ("banned"="1") after you log in to a disabled account, which prevents you from using the site as long as it's there.

I'd advice you clear your cookies and go to their support IRC channel to see what happened. Server is irc.torrentleech.org, port 7011.
 
They accuse me of cheating. Apparently many of my downloads in my snatchlist have "0 MB downloaded" next to them.

I thought something about hit'n'running would pop up, that I do confess to having done with TL, since they didn't care.

But cheating? Never. I don't know what that is.
 
The Flying Cow said:
They accuse me of cheating. Apparently many of my downloads in my snatchlist have "0 MB downloaded" next to them.

I thought something about hit'n'running would pop up, that I do confess to having done with TL, since they didn't care.

But cheating? Never. I don't know what that is.
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Talk to the guy above he'll fill you in :whistling :lol:
 
What can I do?

TL was my only source. FTWR is finished but it was never a big resource to begin with (was more about getting rare things through requests and whatnot) ScT is gone, I've got nothing.

I don't know that I can ever return to TL. The funniest thing is, I didn't even do anything for this. Absolutely nothing.
 
On cabalo's note I agree you should have sent in a report saying your stats aren't updating correctly, or asked if it looked suspicious to you.
I can see letting 1 torrent slide and saying w.e it might be a glitch in the system it will update in a little and forgetting. But you claim to have had multiple torrents do this.
You know even posting in the forums, to see if other people are having similar experiences or if your just a n00b and its freeleech or something.

Question I came up with while pondering this topic:

how can they distinguish between cross seeding and cheating then?
When you cross seed you have 0 mb down, but x amount up.
 
The Flying Cow said:
They accuse me of cheating. Apparently many of my downloads in my snatchlist have "0 MB downloaded" next to them.

I thought something about hit'n'running would pop up, that I do confess to having done with TL, since they didn't care.

But cheating? Never. I don't know what that is.
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Never really looked into cheating on torrents myself as I believe it's stupid (no offense anon-sbi). It just totally defeats the whole purpose of torrenting... Sharing files with others.
Its a community effort

Anyway by cheating they mean obtaining a ratio by any illegitimate means. Ex. Sending fake upload info to the tracker to make it look like you uploaded more than you really did.

If your innocent go on and tell them that you are willing to prove it by any means necessary. See where that takes you, as long as the what.cd staff isn't on the irc you should be fine ;)

On second read of your postings:
The only way you could have 0 mb down on a torrent is if you cross seed it from another site, canceled the download, or the tracker didn't record it right (very unlikely).

or you cheated lol....
 
It says "#tl-help :Sorry, only Opers may create channels."

It turns out the channel's name is #tlhelp.

Skiz should add it to the thread with the channels and users of the trackers here at FST.

Cheers guys.
 
Tv Controls you said:
Question I came up with while pondering this topic:

how can they distinguish between cross seeding and cheating then?
When you cross seed you have 0 mb down, but x amount up.
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I don't know. It seems like a stupid reason to ban someone for in the first place, as I have cross seeded files at TL before with no issue.

That's why I agree with you; I feel like we aren't getting the whole story here.
 
lol just tell them you were cross seeding, my whole snatchlist at tl is like a butload of torrents that consists primarily of hit and runs and massive crossseeding. I rarely download a torrent and then seed it, its so much easier buffering by downloading from scc and then seeding it the moment its released on tl.

That isnt the real reason, theres something they arent telling you...
 
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