Do you think FST should get rid of the Trading section?

[EL REY]

Like many, I could care less either way but............I say get rid of it

I once thought it wasn't that serious but changed my view on it after a few friends explain to me why its so bad & I'm in total agreement.

[cuck]

Yes please get rid of it.

[Swift]

I think in the first 2-3 days people will make trade request in this section or the giveaway section untill they finally realise that there's no hope and have to leave.

[snowprince]

Get rid of it. For a good helping community, trading is definitely not a good thing.

[xnugx]

Everybody cries about trading all day, it's the cause of the end of the world... Trading is like murder around here, might as well get rid of it. No point in keeping it. I guess as of now, it seems to me more like a measure of sifting out "bad" users from "good" ones.

[Albo Da Kid]

This thread is still alive??

If you happen to believe that there is a chance of the trading section being removed, take another look at this post. The best post in this whole thread...

whatever the outcome of this thread will be, nothing significant will change, so i won't go very deep in the discussion here, as it's mostly useless and a waste of time.

but i will go through a somewhat different approach on this one, why particularly here it is allowed.
Let's look at the forum's footer. wow... i've never noticed that before. what are those sites for ?

Talkgold - Sexy Pictures - Money E-Books - Web-Life Forum - Wallpapers for Zunes

hmmm, maybe this is a part of a group of forums, but weirdly i don't see at those forums references to FST.
hmmmm... lots of advertising at those places. i wonder if... no... it must be a coincidence that nearly all of those sites talk about money on the internet, etc etc... just take a deeper look, not a 2 minutes one.

in the last year or so, we've been through some changes, many might not have noticed. One of them is that now non-registered users can access all the board. especially that trading section that was forbidden back on my join date.
this generates a lot more hits, with external redirects for example, or banner impressions as the advertisers call it.

so, here comes the rhetorical question: if you owned a forum (don't mistake that with "administrate"), that you nearly never visit at all lately, therefore having mostly no concerns about its health, what would be the only thing you would want out of it?

and why would you bother if some of your users, and maybe some of your staffers, disagreed on a policy that mostly is all you care about your forum and its existance?

imo there's nothing else to see at this thread people. move along.
thanks to those who bothered to read this post amongst a thread like this.

[Bone.W.Machine]

Yes, please get rid of the trading section.
I've checked out a few threads in the trading section, and most of the posts the traders do are bumps and listing what they have and what they need.

I don't think the activity on filesharingtalk will drop that much if it was removed, all what would be gone is the endless bumping.
In fact I think this place will become even more active if it was removed.

It's a shame that loads of people avoid this place just because some trading is going on here in the bittorrent section.
I bet most members here has never checked out the other sections except for the bittorent one. I suggest everyone to check out the other ones too, and you will see that this place is quite a nice community.

[InVari]

Yes please get rid of it.

[Roooney]

Yes, get rid of it. Please. Or atleast try to close it down for a month or so, see what it will do to this forum.

[NA_Magus]

This thread is still alive??

If you happen to believe that there is a chance of the trading section being removed, take another look at this post. The best post in this whole thread...

whatever the outcome of this thread will be, nothing significant will change, so i won't go very deep in the discussion here, as it's mostly useless and a waste of time.

but i will go through a somewhat different approach on this one, why particularly here it is allowed.
Let's look at the forum's footer. wow... i've never noticed that before. what are those sites for ?

hmmm, maybe this is a part of a group of forums, but weirdly i don't see at those forums references to FST.
hmmmm... lots of advertising at those places. i wonder if... no... it must be a coincidence that nearly all of those sites talk about money on the internet, etc etc... just take a deeper look, not a 2 minutes one.

in the last year or so, we've been through some changes, many might not have noticed. One of them is that now non-registered users can access all the board. especially that trading section that was forbidden back on my join date.
this generates a lot more hits, with external redirects for example, or banner impressions as the advertisers call it.

so, here comes the rhetorical question: if you owned a forum (don't mistake that with "administrate"), that you nearly never visit at all lately, therefore having mostly no concerns about its health, what would be the only thing you would want out of it?

and why would you bother if some of your users, and maybe some of your staffers, disagreed on a policy that mostly is all you care about your forum and its existance?

imo there's nothing else to see at this thread people. move along.
thanks to those who bothered to read this post amongst a thread like this.

I happen to think that is completely irrelevant. You think traders come here for any other reason than to trade? Almost none of them have a significant post amount outside of the trading section. Besides, don't you think a chunk of these "users" are just alternate accounts after a trade gone wrong? They really don't represent a big portion of the users on the entire site.
Just a thought.