Can't seem to reply in my own threads...

Originally Posted by DAND

But what benefit does a 4 year old ad really have? Especially when the OP hasn't posted or even logged in since the ad was posted? Other then the occasional person replying to the ad thinking they are getting a deal due to the price being lower since it was from 4 years ago?

I made a sale this year before my babies were even ready.... how did I do this when I wasn't even advertising. She found an old ad here on Fauna and contacted me about them and asked if I was gonna have more this year.

I am now a firm beliver of leaving old ads up.

It takes no more space to have an accompanying archives section that old posts can be sent to. Rules become that posting member must divert post to archive once sale has been made. Responsibility goes to member or they receive an infraction (similar method freecycle uses) Board retaisn knowledge of pricing and history, members gain a clean and up to date board that they know is watched by the seller and admin.


Once again, there is no difference between bumping an ad or deleteing it and reposting another. Very simple to cut and paste the info to a new post.

Originally Posted by DAND

But what benefit does a 4 year old ad really have? Especially when the OP hasn't posted or even logged in since the ad was posted? Other then the occasional person replying to the ad thinking they are getting a deal due to the price being lower since it was from 4 years ago?

What I do is lock the ads based on the date of the last reply (one year is the cut-off). I do this quarterly...I've already made two rounds maintaining the old ads and the next one is scheduled for December.

Currently, all ads in which the last reply was made in Aug 31st of 09 or earlier are locked. Yes, it'd be optimal to lock every ad that was posted over one year ago...however, the only way I'd be able to accomplish that is by checking every ad with more than one post, and doing this every 3 months. Maintaining the old ads already takes up a solid few days per sitting...so I won't be checking all the ads for when they were posted (again, I only focus on the last reply).

There are a few ancient ads still floating around. However, the number of such ads is negligible (On average I catch about 5-10 old bumped ad's per month which I then lock). So, no worries about the old ads, Sensei...we're on it.

Also, don't the old ads link up to the trader rating if the buyer adds the link when leaving feedback?

Originally Posted by suzuki4life

Once again, there is no difference between bumping an ad or deleteing it and reposting another. Very simple to cut and paste the info to a new post.

There is a big difference, in my mind.
I'm on my way out the door - I'll have to address this later .

OK, here's the latest on the changes made to addressing the bumping problem -> http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...d.php?t=208293

Originally Posted by polasian

What I do is lock the ads based on the date of the last reply (one year is the cut-off). I do this quarterly...I've already made two rounds maintaining the old ads and the next one is scheduled for December.

Currently, all ads in which the last reply was made in Aug 31st of 09 or earlier are locked. Yes, it'd be optimal to lock every ad that was posted over one year ago...however, the only way I'd be able to accomplish that is by checking every ad with more than one post, and doing this every 3 months. Maintaining the old ads already takes up a solid few days per sitting...so I won't be checking all the ads for when they were posted (again, I only focus on the last reply).

There are a few ancient ads still floating around. However, the number of such ads is negligible (On average I catch about 5-10 old bumped ad's per month which I then lock). So, no worries about the old ads, Sensei...we're on it.

Thanks for the update, Nicholas.

Instead of manually checking if an old post hasn't been active for some predefined time period, wouldn't it be prudent to write a script to automatically check the date of the last post of an ad and to determine is it older than x amount of days.

Need a system that favors fewer ads per user. If you need to advertise 10 snakes, it will be easier to advertise all of them in 1 ad rather 10 even though they may be extremely different projects. There will be some people who will be interested in several of those projects and would consider a group deal. This would be beneficial to both the seller and buyer as the seller gets to move more volume and buyer should theoretically get better deals by buying in mass.

Perhaps 1 ad per non-paying and paying users up to 3 ads per classified section.

I am sure this could work as I have seen plenty of responsible users of this site do this already and they just remove the snakes they have sold by editing their original post.
By doing this at least we get rid of 10 posts being bumped up at the same time by individuals.

Sorry if any of these ideas were already brought up in the thread.

After looking through posts in this thread:

Bumps per ad won't work in my opinion as you can have 20 ads. 3 bumps per day for 20 ads is still 20 ads to the front 3 times a day. Limited posts per day hurts people with large volume of reptiles as well, but could be argued a better implementation of the private messaging system is required to alleviate such bump abuse.

Single ad per user is a recurring idea but doesn't completely fix the issue of excessive ad bumping but does cut down the number of individuals who bump all their posts, and fewer pages to look at total if one wants to search manually through the threads.

Eliminating/archiving older posts to a different section cuts down on total number of posts for people to surf through.

A few question to the administrators: Who is abusing the bumping system? Is it the community as a whole or specific individuals?

Will the rules target the community or specific individuals/extreme cases?

How does this affect those that delete their ads and repost them to become shown on the Main page?