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Originally Posted by Shaggy
True, but what about people who do participate in the discussions, but would like a more convenient way of accessing the collection? I fail to see how that would violate any of the goals?
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It wouldn't. (At least, not as far as I can figure it out.) The question is whether putting up torrents would discourage new participation more than the value of convenience to regular participants.
Those are awfully disparate things to try to compare & measure against each other.
FWIW, I don't like it either. I'd love to see (1) much better search ability for ebooks and (2) bundled sets--if not torrents of "all MR ebooks," sets like "westerns" or "gothic horror" or "creative commons sci-fi".
I think some of the reasons for not doing these are technical. I don't think anyone thinks the current search engine is the best possible one (although it might be "best possible in this forum structure," and not worth changing because of that).
It'd be interesting to try putting together themed sets, even if just as link collections in the Recommendations forum, and see if that drives up participation or feedback.