Shawn - Is it possible to further seperate Link Exchange from Link Sale. Both areas seem to be very healthy and for those of us only interested in one of those areas, it would make it a lot easier to browse. Cheers
This has to be the third time as of late..... that someone has commented on this. I agree...... the set up is confussing. People are always posting in the wrong sections. links, domains.... for sale...... exchanges ....... spammers. lol It also bugs me that people with red reps are allowed to post in the buy/sell/trade section.
My complaint today is that a new member posted "PM me please" to every single link exchange offer. It then makes it really difficult to scan for Links to Buy
I noticed that too.... They whole "Business" section could be organized a bit better. I bet when Shawn first set up that section he had no idea how crazy it would get.
Maybe just have the link exchange and purchase links as seperate sub forums? People with red reps can't post? Possible to either make people post all the details so people don't have to send PM's or lock the thread so that the person who posted is only allowed to post, least they can update it as and when needed? Just some suggestions. JP
Or add some extra forms to the threads starting in the B/S/T forum... So maybe you go to "Start new thread" and you are presented with.... A dropdown... What are you offering? >Site Sale >Link Sale >Link exchange >Post Exchange (Forum) Etc....... How much (If a sale) >Auction >Exchange (If Auction) >Bid Increments >BIN ETC ETC Post your Message Did that make sense?
That may be a good idea but would be extra non conventional work to implement, I think just having a few sub forums would be fine.
I guess my reasoning for the extra work is that the B/S/T forum is getting busier all the time... To me it would make sense to categorise it all like this to keep everything neat and tidy.
I like the fact you are looking ahead. If a link exchange category gets going it too will need to be split into categories: health sports internet arts ect. This would help with future growth.
You all made it so complicated that Shawn never responded. How about we lobby for splitting the subforums, then we can move on to a more complicated (and very good) system
yfs1, I completely agree. I posted this some time ago and it was never replied to. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=21728 I think it would be very helpful.
The primary reason it was split to begin with was to get all the link exchange threads out of the B/S/T forum. Another sub-forum would be fine, but definitely not going to start splitting it into categories (that could become infinite at some point and I'm not a big fan of link exchanges in general, so...). Right now though, I'm not particularly looking forward to going through the 1,000+ link exchange/sale threads to decide which thread goes where on a new split (it was enough of a headache for the first split). Any volunteers for that crappy job? hehe
I'll do it if you make the change to the buy and sell back end ie > the drop down menu stuff and an ebay type rep system
Got someone that offered to do it tonight... if they get bored with it, maybe someone else can do the rest or something.