Concerning the new Buy/Sell posting format

[titus]

Hello

Brad thanks and have been watching it. I welcome the feedback but am on the road so can't reply properly at length (am on an iPhone). So keep commenting civil, just drop the can't edit feature as that was done much earlier on for a separate reason. Also keep in mind the following with the comments and discussions:
1) Prefix isn't setup to curb fragging. It provides a means for me to generate some stats of the top members who initiates what categories of Buy / Sell threads. And who are the ones abusing the site to do basement businesses. It serves as a guiding metric only for further follow up.
2) Canreef don't kneel in front of sponsors but does have to appreciate their contribution and watch out for their associated concerns. We don't mind losing sponsors if it conflicts with keeping the site opened for discussions and so far I haven't seen how we have come to become that way. Maybe we should start a separate thread to collect evidence of this later so we can see what we can do to avoid this.
3) I too hate the length and wordiness of the current format. But acronyms are confusing to me as well. So anyone who can suggests shorter phrases that carries the same meaning I can change to that also.
4) Didn't know it'd cause an issue to New Posts since last visit feature so I'll investigate a bit on that separately.

Titus

[MKLKT]

Maybe set it so that those wordy categories are picked while making the thread so it's logged for your stat taking but make it show as FS, LF, etc on the thread titles with no link? Short and sweet and makes sure you don't forget it in title.

Or single words like sale, buy, group, need?

[jorjef]

Just a few thoughts. The site has made the change, the reasons aren't for me to worry about first because I rarely sell anything and two because it's beyond my control. If I was to list something for sale it looks like all I would have to do is add a couple of clicks to either choose a prefix or not to, big deal. Second, and it took me awhile to see what others were seeing and complaining about. If you want, click on "portal" rather than "new posts" by doing so the prefixs aren't shown in the title line of the post. The threads all list in the exact same order minus the prefix and the forumn that the thread is posted in, both useless information for me so I'm no worse off. I have never used the "new posts" tab and have always used "portal" both take you to the same location one just without the extra info that does seem rather annoying but can be avoided

[Seriak]

I don't think it is so much that they are wordy, but more confusing.

So if I am selling hardware, I am assuming it becomes one off. If I am selling coral frags, it could be one off or recurrent. But what time frame do I use. Let's say it was 1 month, 3 months, or even 6 months since my last frag sale. At what interval is it recurrent instead of one off. I don't think the one off of excess goods prefix is really useful.

Also, are you going to be moderating people and their use of the prefixes? What if someone always uses A rather than B as a prefix even though B might have been the better choice. I think this will give you more head aches then it's going to relieve and still not clear up the problem of appeasing the vendors by trying to weed out chop shops and small business from members who are just trying to subsidize this expensive hobby.

Either way, I still like the idea of implemementing a member contribution tool. You just have to make it clear that the contribution is a donation and does not give you any say in the operation of the site.

[jorjef]

Originally Posted by Seriak

I don't think it is so much that they are wordy, but more confusing.

So if I am selling hardware, I am assuming it becomes one off. If I am selling coral frags, it could be one off or recurrent. But what time frame do I use. Let's say it was 1 month, 3 months, or even 6 months since my last frag sale. At what interval is it recurrent instead of one off. I don't think the one off of excess goods prefix is really useful.

Can't a person just pick "no prefix" and not worry about it?.....nope I guess not, just tried.. lol.. Personally I wouldn't worry about time lines. If they think you are abusing the privilege of selling they will let you know.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Seriak

Also, are you going to be moderating people and their use of the prefixes?

Uh, nope, not me I'm not sure I'd know what to moderate.

I do, however, like the Portal option, all the ugly goes away -lol