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

[rockaa]

If you look closely into the trader section, the thing that makes it worst is the lvl'ing that has been done to the trackers. We all know is against rules of any tracker to trade invites and mostly giving away in public too.
However, giving the traders recognition of which invites are worth what and how cool they are through there invites, is just silly and it cant be explain by any argument imo.

You can see that mostly of the threads done now, is to get higher level trackers, none is because they need the tracker or have something to participate with.
Foremore is making people become collectors, which is worse. They only trade to make their portfolio of invite bigger and higher!

[Gheyness]

Keep the invite section so I can be ub3r cool and scam people with promises of ScT!!

[sportyloves]

I forgot,,,I voted get rid of it.

@stoi, you're getting upset mate, we've talk about this before,,,you made your points, good point at that, don't let them wear you down....

[redMonster]

edited. delete this.

[CaptanAmerica]

im not a trader. but wait, i would think that im not a trader cuz ive not ever trade... lemme think moar abt it. mb i just ddnt trade cuz noone offered to me good deal. demonoid for ftn for example, lol

so im not a trader but im not against trading, i rly dont see any bad in it. many members think that trader is equal to a scammer/cheater, but what trackers are looking for? good mambers i think. so what would be better for trackers: to take some new users even tho trading and then ban 90% of em and stay with small but good part of it, or just ban hole countries and dont care about new members at all? if they really looking for that they are speaking, then i suppose that trading shd not be a big problem for em

more then that, im not a special i guess, but those 90% of ppl that i know in bt world that traded ever are nuff smart and very clever. also those 90% of em are seem like targets to be banned for tracker kings. i think everyone has his own point of view and from that point everyone can be right. from a part we all r right

for the last, does this poll change smth? if no, then dont read my post, ull waste ur time, but if u did i dont care

voted for no

[Cabalo]

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.

[Albo Da Kid]

^Boom..Headshot. There you go. How can you get rid of the main attractor when it can hurt your budget, userbase and forums activity?! Great point.

Now I want to see what the staffers have to say about this.

[cinephilia]

Yes please get rid of it.

[Albo Da Kid]

because you're peoples only hope for getting into BCG without users having that opportunity they will go through great lengths to get an account. Trust me people will do anything

Killercam did I show you that pic when I made that guy take a pic infront of a pink mirror with a note on his hand asking for a Bcg invite ?? lol i hope I still have that pics in my laptop.

It really is funny though how far some will go for an invite.

[ghurka]

Get rid of the trading and it can only be a win-win situation....for FST and the trackers. A lot of the traders here really don't contribute anything meaningful to the site so I can't see why we need them.

Can't see this happening though unless most of the staff suddenly have a change of heart.