To be honest, over the years, we`ve been through all of this.
We don`t need any more mods, because this section doesn`t need modding really.
And when the mods took a more active role, it made very little difference anyway. We`ve had just about everything go on in here over the years.
Group remixes, stickies of various types to encourage interaction, it`s all been here, and slowly died a death.
Ratings, yeuch, horrible, just turns it into a horrible top of the pops chart system, prone to abuse as well.
All this place needs is more activity, and more communication, and the problem there is that most of the people with good production knowledge to assist with critique have pretty much left the site or don`t have time, so there`s a lot of newer less experienced people here posting.
It`s these people who need to get together and help each other and communicate more with each other, just like we were all doing, about 4-5 years ago.
I think some of the problem is that the point of view of the whole techno section has become more narrow minded, as talk generally centres around the same sub genre of techno mostly, and this is reflected now in the reduction in diversity within this sub section.
The abandonment of the forum by a lot of people who used to post in the dark forum was the beginning of this.

I would say some kind of hosting area would be handy, to stop people having to use fileshare sites.
I have little time to contribute to this section now, and when I do go through, if the files aren`t hosted somewhere I can stream the audio from file, rather than go through the laborious process of dealing with horrors like sendspace, then I just don`t bother.