First a request to our Mods; please moderate this thread heavily. Posts that to not adhere to the following restrictions please remove, or I will 'flag' them and ask them to be removed from this thread.
Hi All,
We have had several discussions since the Swap and Shop (SNS) sub-forum was closed; regrettably mostly lamenting its closure. That is not this thread, this thread is about making our current For Sale / Trade (FST) sub-forum better and why.
Please offer your ideas as to what would make the current FST better and why. (I don't want comments like "make it like SNS" or "bring back Powerseller"; I will flag those posts and request the Mods remove them.)
Two ideas that have been presented by others that that hopefully could be incorporated into our existing FST guidelines are:
1) Allow comments in an FST thread without creating a 'bump' - it would allow comments and feedback that are visible to all but would not move the thread back to the top of the list/page/sub-forum.
2) Allow the OP to do a very limited number of 'bumps', maybe one every few days or just once a week. I just visited the FST sub-forum and the oldest thread on the first page goes back to 9/10 and on the third page goes back to 9/6 (a week ago). It is obvious that allowing once a day bumps was very excessive; threads could move off of the 1st page in a matter of hours but it seems that 'no bumps' has made the FST sub-forum seem lifeless. There is probably some number between daily and never that would be optimum and trial and error might be the best way to determine it.
What are your thoughts on improving the existing FST sub-forum without causing increased moderation effort or manpower and keeping the amount of hassles our Mods have to deal with to a minimum?
Hi All,
We have had several discussions since the Swap and Shop (SNS) sub-forum was closed; regrettably mostly lamenting its closure. That is not this thread, this thread is about making our current For Sale / Trade (FST) sub-forum better and why.
Please offer your ideas as to what would make the current FST better and why. (I don't want comments like "make it like SNS" or "bring back Powerseller"; I will flag those posts and request the Mods remove them.)
Two ideas that have been presented by others that that hopefully could be incorporated into our existing FST guidelines are:
1) Allow comments in an FST thread without creating a 'bump' - it would allow comments and feedback that are visible to all but would not move the thread back to the top of the list/page/sub-forum.
2) Allow the OP to do a very limited number of 'bumps', maybe one every few days or just once a week. I just visited the FST sub-forum and the oldest thread on the first page goes back to 9/10 and on the third page goes back to 9/6 (a week ago). It is obvious that allowing once a day bumps was very excessive; threads could move off of the 1st page in a matter of hours but it seems that 'no bumps' has made the FST sub-forum seem lifeless. There is probably some number between daily and never that would be optimum and trial and error might be the best way to determine it.
What are your thoughts on improving the existing FST sub-forum without causing increased moderation effort or manpower and keeping the amount of hassles our Mods have to deal with to a minimum?