50 posts to post in the 4sale sections
 

I'm seeing more and more spam and fradulent ads in the for sale sections - most by ppl with single digit post numbers or just 0s.

Suggestions:
1. Can't start for sale threads unless you have 50 posts (number and method used on evom.net) - sounds fair .. should be pretty easy to code that
2. Enforce including price and pictures for items advertised by closing non-compliant threads within 24 hours. I'm sure we have a 4sale mod that can do this if not we can appoint one.

This should help buyers and sellers as well. Well advertised goods get the interested buyer not the poaching bored net browser - eliminate bs replies from ppl that won't buy anyways. Filtered buyers are going to be more likely suportive of our community and advertise quality usuful products.

Thx for reading this.

Or we could just seperate the wtb's and the fs's... the mods don't like that idea though.

me neither .. cause then i have to view two seperate forums .. sorry for not being very supportive

i spent some time on protege5.com and the pics (with hand written user name) and prices were great

actually number 3 suggestion should be

3. make location a required field - what a bunch of bs when ppl post local for sale ads but have no location or you see a price of 900 but it turnes out its can$ ... even besides the 4sale purposes .. sometimes when blokes from Australia tell their tails its so out of context untill you figure out whats what

thats not true. i gave you a way that currrently works. in order to completly seperate them i /we would have to do more work than i hav etime for.

but i have a way that will make it easier on everyone. problem is it needs an upgrade and then some coding. thats gonna take a while. unless you are a software engineer?

as for the bogus or suspicious for sales- click the exclamation point which is the report button. one of the mods will intervene. but putting a post limit on it does inconvenience legitimate people. just this past week there was a guy who hadnt posted before who sold anumber of items . some local and some he shipped. no worries form anyone. i know the scams are annoying- jus treport them so we can take care of them

i also cant stand that people dont put where they are located. be it for sale or if they post having aproblem. knowing where they are can be a big difference

haha i tried those links and they didn't work and then I completely forgot to go back and check them.