Changes to The Marketplace
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That’s not even close to your longest sentence, and you know it [emoji8].
I said this same thing in a PM to Dennis, but it bears mentioning in mixed company also:
I agree that it’s annoying cluttering the 3 year old “welcome” thread because folks are not even looking at the time stamps when they necrobump weird random shit.
BUT, I do think we are going to have to grin and bear a certain amount of people churning out posts just to rack up their 20. Posting “high life is my favorite beer” because they’ve only read the title of the beer thread but not read any of the contents, etc. That’s just going to be the name of the game if we require people to engage with the forum in order to be able to see the sales boards.
There’s always been some boring surface level engagement with our discussions—it’s a message board on the internet, after all. I often don’t have much to say beyond, “I like that!” or “that was fun!” with a surfeit of exclamation points, and truthfully at the beginning some of the old timers didn’t take to the limited amount I brought to the table. I grew on the place as it has grown on me, and I think this 20 posts thing is making the best of what we’ve got, but we have to allow folks to offer up what they are willing and not be judgy dicks about what they bring—even if it’s the bare minimum.
Was that enough run-on sentence word salad for ya?
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I agree as well @sabergirl. And I think that is what has been happening. The example given was quite an extreme one.
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As a newcomer - has this already been implemented? I can see the marketplace but I have less than 20 posts, I don't want to break any rules by posting before I'm technically allowed!
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As a newcomer - has this already been implemented? I can see the marketplace but I have less than 20 posts, I don't want to break any rules by posting before I'm technically allowed!
There’s a mechanism in place whereby people below a certain rank should not be able to post on the Buying and Selling, Stuff to Trade or Want to Buy boards.
Welcome btw [emoji4]
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Nice! Read only help addict like me.
Thank you IH people
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Sounds like a rap battle bout to drop!! Yo momma so faaat………!!
Am I am the ultimate
Never mind anything else
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How about 20 posts AND 1 month as a member. Maybe that would cut down on the necroposting [emoji6].
I rarely use the buy and sell boards so what goes on there doesn’t really affect me. But the spamming and necroposting in other threads does.
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How about 20 posts AND 1 month as a member. Maybe that would cut down on the necroposting [emoji6].
I rarely use the buy and sell boards so what goes on there doesn’t really affect me. But the spamming and necroposting in other threads does.
Not an option with the current software sadly. And I agree that the necro-posting is an unfortunate side effect of the policy. On balance it is the lesser of the evils.
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I have been reluctant to post this as I don't want it to come off as a complaint. It is an observation and wonder if others are noticing a similar experience.
First, I fully accept that the items I have on my sales thread may not be of interest to prospective buyers, may be priced wrong, or any other number of reasons. That said, in the past I have been able to sell items fairly quickly. Since the changes to the market place were implemented, I have received zero inquiry on some items that I recently put up for sale. I have also noticed bumping seems to be more frequent by other sellers which suggests to me their items for sale are sitting idle too.
Again, not a complaint, agree that some type of change was necessary, and I don't have a better solution to propose. Just curious if others have observed what I have noticed?
