[Review] The Pirate Society
Hey folks. I thought that I might post my very first review of a site. TPS is not a torrent tracker per se but a discussion board much like sb-i. Though I feel that TPS is quite unique in a couple of features that I am quite impressed by.
The site is an invite only bit-torrent related discussion board. Before I begin presenting TPS, there are a couple of disclaimers that I would like to 1st take care of.
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(1) If a user from TPS in an official capacity from there reads this review and demands that I remove my review because of some privacy concern. Sorry, but it isn't going to happen. People have the right to information.
(2) Besides, I have the right to freedom of expression. Even on the Internet. I am exercising my right and liberty to freely express my self by giving this review. I am mentioning this b/c I know 1st hand that historically tracker staff come here demanding removal of the offending review. I find such a demand quite absurd actually. Besides, I am shedding your review in a positive light. :smile:
This is going to be a bit of a lengthy review because (1) in it you might find some expression of personal opinion and (2) because there's a lot of pictures here showing the inside of the forum. I figured you folks that are not there might like to know a bit more of what's what and where it all is. You'll have to also excuse my sense of privacy throughout the pics given here. Some things throughout the board such as current, new members, personal profile, etc are blurred or blanked out. I like my privacy and it's no-one's business from TPS who presented this review. :smile:
Enjoy.
Also, I had a bit of a problem uploading images to my albums. For some reason I couldn't get them to be uploaded to a particular album in my profile. Might be b/c of some browser setting. I'll get around to fixing it later. Nevertheless....
Here is the Home page of the board. You'll see that there's some similarity to what we here on sb-i have on the Home page as well. Articles.
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Some more pics.
Board stats shown in pic.
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They also have a Radio section on the board. This is the place where board DJs give notice of their platforms, times, and other radio related events. Cool stuff, I think and as I briefly mentioned above, another of the unique ways that TPS keeps it's userbase active and interested.
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You will see that they have a contest section inside the board. Trackers have such things too as you might be aware. I still think such things are a neat and unique way for sites to garner activity from it's userbase. IMO, such activities keep people active and interested in discussion boards. TPS is no exception. According to my own personal experience, userbase is quite active on TPS.
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TPS also has groups for users to join. The function of these should be obvious. To show that you are a member of some group that doesn't really do much other than to just show that there are groups on TPS. Functionality on TPS for groups, in my mind don't do much. Regardless, the number of existing groups is pretty small as you can see.
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Here is the Help section.
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The events section as well as a closer look at the events section in the 2nd pic below this 1st one
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As we explore further throughout TPS, you'll see a community rep section as part of the board. I really like such ideas as these give platforms to ask, comment, and discuss what-ever is on a user's mind.
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This next section below is where community reps recruit TPS members.
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Another screen shot of the same.
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This is the iSpy for TPS.
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The drop down menu of the user profile. I like drop down menus as these do make navigation a bit more convenient for the user.
Again, excuse my sense of privacy.
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And finally, we log out of the board....,
Hope you enjoyed this. :smile: