With how few topics show up on the first page, it would be ideal to limit the number of sales threads a person can have at any given time. I feel like three should give you some leeway with what you might want to trade. Currency, Wolves, and then Items, potentially?
Alternately, maybe we can have a dedicated item trade forum, and a dedicated wolf forum. This would make finding what you want a bit easier.
@Gaia I certainly don't mean a hard coded limit. That certainly would cause more issues, than it would solve.Apologies, I think I entirely misinterpreted the OP in that case! But it seems we are on the same page for sure. Having a rule or forum code of conduct about the usage of the forum, how many threads one should have, etc. I think would greatly benefit the website, as would just in general a bit of a glow up for the forums. The current UX design leaves some things to be desired for sure. Improving those (more threads on a page, improvements to the 'recent post' section, etc.) on top of some rule additions/clarifications would definitely help in making the forums more usable for players.
I do mean more like active threads and maybe encouraging people to reuse them, given we can now edit both titles and posts. If a person is advertising the same wolf over two threads, there should absolutely be something that can be done with one of them? I guess I might be asking for a clarification of rules regarding just having so many threads.
Alternately, I'd be okay with people in general having a lot of threads, if more topics were also just shown, or the forums were split into items, or wolves.
@Gaia CS hard codes a limit. Users are allowed 1 sales thread at a time because it. If you try to create another thread, it links you to your thread (you can have it deleted by mods to start over or I think it auto deletes after like a year of inactivity?)Not a big fan of a hard limit on how many threads one can have in that forum. How would that even work? Am I simply unable to create a new thread if I am at the limit of 3. Meaning I'll have to dig through the forum to find one of my older posts so that I can rename the thread and change the OP? (Also keep in mind that the forums on LW do not give a timestamp on when they were last edited. Often when I see a thread that already has multiple replies I skip it, because someone else probably already got to the deal before I did. Or I open the thread to see how old it is. If I then see it is already months old, I assume it was incorrectly necroed and exit it as well.) Or do I then have to delete my old thread to make a new one? Or is there some sort of time limit that, once a thread has passed a certain age, I am allowed a 4th thread?long story short, I don't think that incorporating such a hard coded limit is going to solve any issues.. Or at least, it will create more issues than it solves..That being said - although this is venturing into rule territory and not gameplay territory - I do think that there should be some sort of code of conduct when it comes to spamming the forums with multiple sales threads that could have very easily been incorporated into a single thread. But honestly, I think that is something the staff and mods should handle, and not something that should affect everyone else by hardcoding a limit into the forums.
Support of either a hard coded limit or just a rule.theres a few users who spam the same sales post in a new thread vs just replying and bumping their thread. Dividing Wolves/Items would help a lot I think
@Gaia chickensmoothie! But CS is an adopt site with I think over a million accounts (obviously not all active but easily 100k+ people who are active
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