Also have a flag for the seller to click on when payment is received, letting the post be automatically moved into the cellar or .....somewhere. No reason to have dead ads in the active Marketplace listing. Except to make me unhappy about the great deal I missed.

I agree, it would be nice to have a little icon one can click when an item is sold.

It is inconvenient contacting a seller only to find out the pen(s) have already been sold several hours/days before. Perhaps if sellers have an easy feature like an easy click button they would update the post to record the sale instead of leaving us dissapointed buyers lamenting the deal we thought was ours!

You lose the ability to edit a post too quickly it seems.

Yup, you can only edit for so long.

That would be great but there isn't a way it seems to do that within the confines of time limits on editing on the board.

Kurt

I support the idea, either icon or just a plain edit SOLD, nice to have.

Well, if anybody can come up with a working solution, a simple one, which doesn't require the editing time board wide to be changed, the admins will happily implement it.

In the mean time, sellers could always post a message at the end of their topic that the item(s) are sold. Nobody stops them from doing that.

Warm regards, Wim

Why is the editing window so short on FPN?

Define short....

It is 24 hours currently. For editing typos etc. that is, IMO, long.

We have had several instances where people started editing their messages, essentially emptying them, which caused the flow of information to be disrupted, and on occasion, to a rather large degree. Peopel did this for a variety of reasons, BTW.

To stop this from happening, we have set the editing time limit to 24 hours, after a period of experimentation with anything from 1 hour to 1 week.

Unfortunately, the editing limit is only available as a system, or board wide limit. We are still looking at getting around this for the Classifieds and Market Watch, but we haven't found a working solution yet.

Warm regards, Wim

Second that!

Honestly, that would be good enough for me.

Wim,

Nobody stops them from doing that, but I would advise against the practice, and have been against it since the edit time restrictions were put in place. If the goal of "The Split" was to reduce the clutter in the Marketplace and allow new items more time in the spotlight/making reading easier, what could be worse than having sellers add a post to what would be, essentially, a dead thread, thereby moving it back up to the top of the list and crowding out new, "useful" threads?

I can see a circumstance in which this could be valuable, but I am not privy to all of the options of the Board software and don't know if it's possible:

Does the Board software allow for an option to add a post to a thread WITHOUT moving the thread to the head of the line? Maybe a little check box right under "Enable email notification of replies?" that says "Do not advance this thread in the Forum"?

Probably not possible- c'est la vie. In the mean time, adding posts to "dead threads" would increase clutter and decrease the effectiveness of the "The Split" (IMHO).

How's that working, BTW- are the are the sub-forums besides FS getting any eyeballs?

Andy

Here's a possibility: Whenever a pen is sold an email is sent to the admins who can open the thread, enter the SOLD, then close the thread. Quick, easy and the editing time doesn't have to be changed.

Kurt

Kurt,

That sounds awful (for the admins)- if FPN really is growing by these leaps and bounds, who would want to do all of those edits (unless you were being sarcastic, in which case that's pretty funny)?

Andy

Yes, from my quick analysis it looks like the posts in the sub-forums get more attention than they did prior to the split.

Warm regards, Wim

I have given up being sarcastic for lent.

The actual amount of work would depend on how many pens are sold in a day. If it is hundreds then it might be an issue but if it's a dozen or so and there are 6 of them it would be rather simple.

The easiest way to check it out would be to open this up for a week and see how difficult the editing process is. The edits don't have to be immediate so a group could be done a day so a 24 hr period would be in place.

Can't see how this would be so much extra work.


Kurt

In spite of the side effects, it seems that requiring sells to post "sold" may be the lesser evil. Anything that adds substially to the administrators workload is prob'ly not a good idea.

I would be nice to be able to add Sold into the header. I however like that the threads don't disappear all together so I can go back and see what the going price was for a certain pen on the marketplace in the past.

Actually the minor evil would be to just let the sellers do whatever they want

Kurt