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

[1000possibleclaws]

@ Ghurka: It's a risk, and that should be taken as a given when someone [gives/trades] an [invite/account] to somebody else. At least they will be able to somewhat judge an individual by his post history here. The ideal thing to do would be to conduct exchanges or giveaways with trusted individuals to minimize your potential losses. If we get rid of the trade section here then traders would become anti-trade on this forum (there wouldn't be any beneficial alternative) and then they'd just trade what they get on another forum. This probably happens right now, but I imagine it would escalate if we got rid of trading here.


@ benchez: Integrity as in honesty, and integrity of user's character. I didn't mean their moral integrity on the views of trading; that's another story.

[chec]

for what this section.will you kick trade section, if antitraders win

I dont want answers from members from stuff i need

[ben99]

this poll is retarded.

As many other users have noted, the result of the poll won't change anything.

[1000possibleclaws]

this poll is retarded.

As many other users have noted, the result of the poll won't change anything.

It's not like the poll suggests anything should change anyways. It's not slanted too much either way. That being said, I wouldn't have expected it to be too slanted and it would take alot of leverage to get rid of an active part of the board.

[Bone.W.Machine]

this poll is retarded.

As many other users have noted, the result of the poll won't change anything.

A poll is just a poll, and this one is not retarded.

Detale created this poll to see what the members of filesharingtalk think about the trading section.
Not to decide whether to remove it or not regarding the poll results.
So no big deal really if this poll doesn't change a thing.

[puckface]

@ benchez: Integrity as in honesty, and integrity of user's character. I didn't mean their moral integrity on the views of trading; that's another story.

I believe he was trying to be witty about your misplacing the apostrophe in the word users. Useless post as always, I'm not surprised... back to the lounge please

Sorry if you consider this spam, I was just trying to straighten things out.

[Submission]

this poll is retarded.

As many other users have noted, the result of the poll won't change anything.

A poll is just a poll, and this one is not retarded.

Detale created this poll to see what the members of filesharingtalk think about the trading section.
Not to decide whether to remove it or not regarding the poll results.
So no big deal really if this poll doesn't change a thing.

No the poll was meant to influence the community not the admins. Give this place a false feeling of consensus.

The fact of the matter is the admins can simply look at the post count in the trade section if they want to know if its dying.

Unless of course they plan on just killing it regardless of its size which is just shooting themselves in the foot. This site became huge because of tracker trading.

[Tomtetrollet]

Well, if you're pleased with the sites you have then of course you would think that the trade section should go but if you're on some low level trackers then you're pretty much bound to trade if you want an invite, or beg, or chat in the forum and make some friends. But as we all know, bonding is hard, especially over the internet.

Trading isn't good for any tracker (as "potentially dangerous" people might get in) but since people rarely give away invites to higher level trackers (which are what we all strive towards) you are (yet again) pretty much bound to trade.

It's too bad that trading is the easiest option, but even if FST would close down the trade section it wouldn't be such a big deal for traders, they would simply find new forums that allows them to trade.

[1000possibleclaws]

@ benchez: Integrity as in honesty, and integrity of user's character. I didn't mean their moral integrity on the views of trading; that's another story.

I believe he was trying to be witty about your misplacing the apostrophe in the word users. Useless post as always, I'm not surprised... back to the lounge please

Sorry if you consider this spam, I was just trying to straighten things out.

i skim over stuff so fast i would never have caught that.

[Artemis]

A poll is just a poll, and this one is not retarded.

Detale created this poll to see what the members of filesharingtalk think about the trading section.
Not to decide whether to remove it or not regarding the poll results.
So no big deal really if this poll doesn't change a thing.

No the poll was meant to influence the community not the admins. Give this place a false feeling of consensus.

The fact of the matter is the admins can simply look at the post count in the trade section if they want to know if its dying.

Unless of course they plan on just killing it regardless of its size which is just shooting themselves in the foot. This site became huge because of tracker trading.

It is a fantasy that this forum became so huge because of the trading section. In the end from a business point of view it is the page impressions which are important because of the advertising, not who does what here while wearing a pink tutu in the moonlight, the management truly do not care.
You can try to justify trading all you want, the simple fact is that because of trading and the fact that trackers have a level or value attached to them they are being bartered as a commodity. Now with this trade there are also thieves (scammers) wanting to take a/cs because of the value of the tracker. This level also heightens peoples need to acquire to the point where we have invite sales and even bt invite/account auction sites.
Interestingly all the private trackers want is for members to find and invite other members they trust, but even this simple request is too much for some people.
Yet these same people say that they are to be trusted and that there isn't anything really wrong with trading, while there are people here that have 4-5 accounts on the same tracker simply for the buzz of beating the staff, and then there are those here with multiple a/c's to get what they can as fast as they can. There are so many reasons why trading is the thin end of the wedge, it brings about scamming and invite selling because of the value attributed to the trackers.
The same people always try and say that trading and the other scamming etc are separate issues, they are not, they are entwined.Some of the same people who trade are also scammers, even Albo Da Kid admitted proudly that he scammed his first private tracker account.
The question though is whether the trading section here should be removed, and this will make very little difference, the users who trade will simply go elsewhere, it is not like FST is any kind of moral leading light in the bt community. I am against trading, more for the stealing and lying and cheating that it brings with it and the fact that you quite often cannot trust the person you are talking to, simply because of the personal agenda's they have.
In a way it is the people who are satisfied with the tracker a/c's that they have or are there for the people in the community , who are the most trustworthy, simply because they usually have nothing to lie or steal or cheat about.