I have spent perhaps an hour altogether in the torrent section, and when I do take a peek, I usually withdraw in bafflement.
I would be very much in favor of doing something (anything) to lessen the workload on the team members whose time is consumed so completely by the piddling concerns over invites, stolen/misused accounts, and various scams...we cater to almost everyone here, and I wouldn't want to infringe on the activities of those who participate constructively in the torrent section, but it seems to me that an offer of enduring quality over rampant quantity by way of membership would indicate the desired route.
There are some genuine misunderstandings between members in that section which warrant the attention of the mods who attend, but the torrent section also attracts an element that can only be described as riff-raff.
Again, not being well-versed in torrent activity, I can only say there would be a definite benefit to raising the bar of entry so as to discourage those who will not conduct themselves seriously.
This would have the added feature of assuaging my considerable guilt over not being of more use to my fellow mods.
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
Sorry I didn't mean to imply there was no moderation, I should've phrased it better. Good moderation should be invisible anyway, but whatever is being done now, the point is it's not enough. That's not a criticism of you or the other mods, you've clearly got your hands full and are probably doing more than a moderator should have to. The combination of sheer volume and poor quality posts is the problem, and you've got to meet that with more mods.
No I'm completely green here, signed up the first day I found FST. But having run a forum in the past I've had to deal with these problems before. The only judgment I've made is that there is a big problem in BitTorrent, and that is clear as day even after half an hour of browsing, never mind a month. I don't claim to know how to solve the ultimate problem of attracting the right people to FST, that's up to the staff here who I'm sure have a lot of experience with the dynamics of this particular board.Not to come off the wrong way, but you're making a lot of judgments for someone who has just joined the forum. May I assume you're an old member under a new name, or just another JP ID?
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