DH2
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| posted on 23/11/11 at 11:31 AM |
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Allow editing in For Sale & Wanted sections?
Hi Admins/The Boss.
I was wondering if would be possible / make sense to remove the edit time limit in the For Sale and Wanted sections?
Reason being, that often people won't read an entire thread where multiple items are for sale, and thus it gets a bit messy about which bits
have been sold etc.
Example can be found in my recent thread here.
I wanted to create a single thread where I can add items, rather than having multiple threads, but it gets a bit messy and confusing.
Dave
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ChrisW
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| posted on 23/11/11 at 11:49 AM |
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That's a good idea, and one I'm happy to implement if people are generally in agreement.
The reason for the time limit on editing was to stop the 'throwing toys out of the pram' actions. There was a trend of people losing an
arguement, saying they were going to quit the forum, etc, etc, then deleting all their posts, which often made the thread said posts were in difficult
or impossible to understand.
By locking down the window in which a post can be editted or deleted I stopped this behaviour.
However, does it really matter that much with for sale/wanted/bargains elsewhere? I should really write something to prune old threads from those
three forums anyway, as who goes back to read old adverts? (Or perhaps you do?)
So, over to the masses.... what do people think of the idea?
Chris
My gaff my rules
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Agriv8
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| posted on 23/11/11 at 12:11 PM |
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makes logical sense to me!
Taller than your average Guy !
Management is like a tree of monkeys. - Those at the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. BUT Those at the bottom look up and see a
tree full of a*seholes .............
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D Beddows
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| posted on 23/11/11 at 12:33 PM |
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Can't see that being any problem in those forums - just as long as the others are left as they are to avoid any future CalvinX type
muppetry/vandalism
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mookaloid
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| posted on 23/11/11 at 12:41 PM |
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Makes sense to me - in fact other forums I frequent have a 30 day auto deletion on 'for sale' posts - this might be a bit harsh but maybe
a 60 day auto deletion might not be a bad thing?
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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ChrisW
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| posted on 23/11/11 at 12:43 PM |
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On the auto delete, I chose to keep old posts as sometimes it's a good reference to know what parts have sold for in the past. I see advantages
to getting rid of them too, though!
Chris
My gaff my rules
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mads
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| posted on 23/11/11 at 01:26 PM |
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Definitely agree with removing the timelimit.
Also, I would prefer that old posts are kept, as Chris said it is sometimes worth going back to see what parts and at what price parts were sold at.
Also, some members may search old for sale ads and contact a seller if they notice it did not sell and the seller may still have the part - I have had
this happen to me.
[Edited on 23/11/11 by mads]
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scootz
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| posted on 23/11/11 at 01:51 PM |
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Sounds good to me! 
It's Evolution Baby!
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mookaloid
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| posted on 23/11/11 at 02:22 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ChrisW
On the auto delete, I chose to keep old posts as sometimes it's a good reference to know what parts have sold for in the past. I see advantages
to getting rid of them too, though!
Chris
Yes a bit of a double edged sword that one 
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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big_wasa
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| posted on 23/11/11 at 03:56 PM |
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A few times ive gone back to a sale post to find what I paid, when and from who. Some times five years or more ago
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