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

**soulreaper** · 02-25-2009, 06:11 PM

Looking at this from FST's point of view, if the trading section has been there for all these years there must be a good reason for it. It leads me to believe that FST majorly benefits from it. And if it does then I don't see why they should remove it, because the staff would do what's best for their site,just as torrent site owners do what's best for theirs.

It's important to recognise the fact that the torrent forums are only a part of FST which is a massive site in totality,quite possible the torrent sections generate a lot of traffic but it doesn't fully constitute this place.
I don't see why FST is obligated to follow tracker site rules and they really don't have to , I suspect it's out of sheer goodwill that they cooperate with certain tracker staff.
What I find puzzling is that a year or two ago trading wasn't considered bad at all,infact it was done very openly and even hailed as good.
Fast forward to right now ,its a cardinal sin to trade. There is such a paradigm shift with this whole anti-trading phenomenon being the new cool.

Let's consider this for instance:- FST somehow feels pressured by tracker admins or for the greater good of private trackers remove the trading section. Staff are merry,anti-traders are merry.

Next,the trackers staff somehow influence FST(or FST grows a conscience) to remove "public giveaways"(Remember public giveaways is frowned upon too and is against most private trackers rules) and so its removed.

Finally, tracker staff think that filling their site's invite requests at a public forum as big as this is somehow harmful to their site and that torrent tracker invites should only be "distributed" at torrent sites. So they pressure FST to ban that too. Now you have the entire invite section completely wiped out. I wonder how much FST would lose out of this,MASSIVE probably? A negative cascading effect of epic proportions?

And I haven't even started with the beaten-to-death argument of whether trading is bad or not..

**Irisheyes** · 02-25-2009, 06:15 PM

I voted yes to closing the trader forums and to the vtg

Stoi I back you up 100% I have never traded and yet I a years time I am on all the sites I need to be on. Its called investing time and getting to know folks a bit. (the old fashion way of things networking) No I am not on BCG because I don't do gaming I do do movies tv and programs/applications and music. Specifically Flac rips.

As for security trading can be one of the major hindrance to having a secure site. You can not 100% be sure of anyone who you give an invite to but in trading you can't be sure even 25% who you trade with is a good user and not a cheat.

**sportyloves** · 02-25-2009, 06:44 PM

In my opinion any one wanting to trade must have something to hide, like irisheyes said, I rather take my time, get the site staff to get to know me better before I even attempt to join it,,
And before any wise cracks, yeah I am well known, not with that nick, agree, but never the less. :-D

**ghurka** · 02-25-2009, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by soulreaper

What I find puzzling is that a year or two ago trading wasn't considered bad at all,infact it was done very openly and even hailed as good.

I don't think that is quite true. Trading has always been frowned upon although some trackers have turned a blind eye to invite trading. Account trading has always been frowned upon and two years ago was not so prevalent. Since then access to seedboxes has become easier enabling traders to buffer the accounts to trade them on.

Getting rid of just account trading would be a step in the right direction.

**CaliPirate** · 02-25-2009, 07:48 PM

I don't see a problem with it

**Mano** · 02-25-2009, 08:19 PM

keep it

**hoodeh** · 02-25-2009, 08:23 PM

If we get rid of the trading section, let me tell you trading will get WORSE.
Traders will always find places to trade, but without a trading section here, we won't be able to tell who's a trader and who isn't.
That means alot more traders will get invites from the Giveaway/Request section and go trade them in other forums.

To all the anti traders and people that voted yes, get this :
We need the trading section to know who not to trust!!

And like Cabalo said, there is no way it will be deleted since it attracts users and generates ad money for the site.
The trading section will stay, and that's a good thing.

H.