Suggestion: Bring Back The Comments on TPB?

[andromakennethamblesorten]

I think the admin shoud beabule to put a ole system in. 1-10 and have a few check options like errors, malware, missing and TY..

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OK nvm I see this post
https://pirates-forum.org/Thread-Suggest...TPB?page=2

[Early_Riser]

Yes Winston, I agree with all the other users. Comments have been turned off for over 4 years now. PLEASE BRING BACK COMMENTS, PLEASE. After 4 years of inactivity on this still live thread, I'm hoping that my new reply here will encourage many thousands of users to also reply here.

[sharingiscaring2023]

I am personally against. If comments are not back up there is a reason, and I suppose the reason is to keep the website as simple as possible to avoid intervention, which is both a security risk and a precious resources since mods already have to deal with a lot of legitimate reports.

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Heya

I Really Liked the comments on TPB And i wonder why they are gone since i think they showed
if there are any problems with the torrent and if it's a good or "bad" (in the health sense) torrent 

In My Personal opinion you should bring back the comments on TPB

Winston (the TPB Admin) disabled the ability to post comments when he revamped the site into a more simple, less resource hungry one. The crew have been mythering him to death ever since to enable it again.

For crew, being able to leave comments is an integral part of modding the site. When an uploader breaks the rules, whether unknowingly or deliberately, we usually leave a comment on their latest torrent explaining what they've done wrong and warning them not to do it again. If we find a problem with someone's account, we'll lock it, then post a comment along the lines of 'there is an issue with your account, please post in Account Issues on the forum.' Alas, we can no longer do this and it's beyond frustrating.

From a users point of view, being able to thank an uploader is part of the TPB experience. How many of us have downloaded a really great, often rare, torrent and then thanked the uploader for sharing it with everyone else? I'd wager squillions of tpb users have done this, and it's really nice to be able to thank someone for taking the time and trouble to share something with the rest of the world. Requests and reseed requests are another part of commenting, and it's great when uploaders reply to them and fulfil requests. Commenting on the health of a torrent is important too, and allows users to give feedback on any technical glitches that the uploader may not be aware of. EG 'you forgot to include the subs' or 'episode 6 cuts off suddenly and has the last 10 mins missing.'

The downsides to commenting are of course, as Rodders mentioned, trolls, as well as spam comments. Troll commentators are usually very dimwitted and will use several different accounts to target uploaders they don't like/are jealous of, but crew can easily spot them and will ban all of their accounts. Crew advice on this matter has always been to ignore the trolls, report them, and let us investigate.

We're going to keep mythering Winston to bring back commenting, but for all the silence we're met with on the issue, you'd think we were asking him to recite War & Peace in Klingon while spinning upside down on his head and juggling 7 scalding hot roasted monkey peenors. 

You make good points, one about moderation I was not aware of. But Winston is right. Security and simplicity takes priority.

[dueda]

Who will do, from where will the money come, and how to manage all that?

Some clients had comments and even instant messaging, so you could see who was sharing a file with/to/from you and send them text; a great traffic buster and troll/pervert/thief/hacker tool.
It demands due diligence, they may contain debatable opinions, myths, mistakes, bad links, references to registry and other stuff that need to be checked. The world is big and there aren't mods enough.
Facebook has a myriad algorithms to deal with it or just flag something for human inspection, torrents don't.
Although distributed computing and AI could help, it is an overhead and a liability; people use the Facebook client app but most of the work is done by gigantic servers around the globe.