I hope so too muggsy, we create these features for the good of our viewers so if people don´t want to use them then some kind of feedback about what you do want would be nice.
We are always open to suggestions but we can only have so many ideas ourselves. This is your site people and it grows into what you make it, never forget that!
One good thing I saw on one of the torrent sites.. was a shout box on the front page.. .which enabled people to post stuff there.. I notice a lot of people idling on the main page.. maybe that could be handy...