Suggestion for the for sale forums

[GMGQ]

Well if they have a bunch of stuff to sell, all we can ask for is for them to put something general like:

FS: Misc. equipment
FS: Lighting stuff
FS: plumbing stuff
etc

The idea is for them to put at least SOMETHING in the title, so that we get an idea of what they're selling -- without having to click it.

People only put "FOR SALE" because they want to generate interest for their post and make people click it out of curiosity. It's such an old school mentality.

And I think having an Asking Price should be manditory. I've seen many other message forums get fed up and make it part of the rules. The only reason why people sometimes dont do it, is because they're asking a high price, and they're afraid they'll get flamed for it. But then the moderators will just have to step in and tell the kiddies to keep their non-buying comments to themselves and let the seller sell.

Originally Posted by Delphinus

It's a good suggestion, I for one do agree with you, but wonder how best to write up a guideline for that sort of thing. For example, maybe someone has a whole bunch of items to sell, and to list it all in the title is hard, or can't be done due to the limit on number of characters in a title, or the person isn't all that computer-savvy and doesn't type quickly and so on,... etc.

On the other hand, it's not TOO hard to take a look in the thread to see if there's anything.

But in the end I think what I'll do here is modify the "guidlines" to include the suggestion to make the titles somewhat descriptive. I'll see what I can come up with.