I'd consider him more qualified to help new players than many of the imms.

Which is what this system is designed to do.

Its designed to invalidate all this hard work done by explorers in finding useful and cool items, and make it available to the general playerbase, so that those lazy new players who haven't spent thousands of hours exploring the game can get cool stuff too.

I completely understand why you don't like this idea, though, and why you don't want torak to run it - after all, both immortals and veteran players alike have made it very clear that they'd like to preserve their OOC advantages that they worked hard to gain.

It is clear that the idea of helping new players find gear, quests, and preps in a way that doesn't require them to invest dozens of characters and thousands of hours exploring is contrary to the very spirit of carrion fields.

All sarcasm and vitriol aside, it completely boggles me that the single most important newbie resource on CF is an outdated wiki of OOC information compiled by an illegal permagroup. Torak offers a legitimate, friendly way to aggregate information, one that has the potential to be far superior than any tool we have now. And you're nitpicking him because of his past history? Jesus.

Edit: I don't know him OOC, I have a vague idea what his past offenses were, and I don't even remember the last character of his I played with (before my current, my last character was maybe three or four years ago). But damn, this is silly.