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Invictus
08-26-04, 12:30 AM
Mods, Everyone else:
Just read the new rules about the classifieds, thanks for the post Linds. I have a question though.... what happens if someone posts an ad on the 29th of the month? They only get 2 days, then they have to post again?
A suggestion I have is to delete ads daily or weekly... and manually delete anything that is a month old. So on the 7th of september, manually delete anything older than the 7th of August. That can save some people the hassle of having to re-type their ad.
Just a suggestion, feel free to call me names and throw stuff at me. :D
daver676
08-26-04, 01:00 AM
*throws monkey poo*
:monkey:
Invictus
08-26-04, 01:07 AM
Damn monkeys. :P
Scales Zoo
08-26-04, 01:13 AM
If you post animals at the end of the month, you can re-post them at the beginning of the next month, once the old add is wiped.
A lot of people might post at the beginning of the month, so you could wait till it slows, like post on the 7th day of each month. Its like a chess game.
There will only be a few pages of classifieds come the end of the month, so people will be able to see all the current classifieds.
The daily or weekly thing would be quite of hard to deal with for the mods, but in reality it would be ideal.
The monthly clearance thing was something I pushed for while I was a mod, and I'm glad to see it becoming implemented now.
Implementation for the nation!
Ryan
tHeGiNo
08-26-04, 02:15 AM
So if I post on the 30th, it will be deleted on the first? Isn't that kind of silly? Would it not be more functional to delete posts after they are a month old?
I think the ads should be deleted bi-weekly. The mods might not have to do it manually. There might be an option for deleting posts automatically if they were post for a certain period of time. But then again, there might not be one. :)
BoidKeeper
08-26-04, 04:52 AM
If we were to delete adds when they were a month old we would be deleting adds every day. That woud mean going through and checking the date on adds every day, no thanks.
Yes if you post on the 31 its gone the next day. So now that you know that you can do one of two things. Save you add as a word file and copy in again on the 1st or, don't post adds at the end of the month. The membership now knows how it is going to do so they can make an informed desicion on when to post.
Cheers,
Trevor
Rob McRobbie
08-26-04, 07:36 AM
I know of more than one occasion when I reposted an add after a couple weeks duration and this resulted in generating sales. I feel that allowing only one post for a specific animal per month is a little restrictive. But perhaps if people are not allowed to post every other day, then maybe our adds won't hit the bottom of the list so fast... Hmmm.. i might have just answered my own question..
Rob
bighillreptiles
08-26-04, 08:01 AM
I think that once a month is a little over kill but who am I ?every two weeks sounds more reasonable to me ,as of the end of the month there is going to be a traffic Jam on here trying to post your new add ,Paul
Sean Day
08-26-04, 08:44 AM
I think it is a great idea. I have posted many ads just to have them buried within a day.
Cruciform
08-26-04, 09:56 AM
That should trim the fat down.
Does vBulletin allow plugins? It may be possible that there's already one which would allow you to set expiration dates on threads within a given forum, so it would clean out posts automatically after a given time.
/me goes looking.
--edit--
Weird. They have the manual pruning option, but even with requests from users on their forum there doesn't seem to be any automated expiration system.
Tim_Cranwill
08-26-04, 10:04 AM
Why don't we just see how it goes fro a couple months before we dismiss the idea? :)
Tim always has to be the voice of reason...
Guys, the idea of a bi-weekly dump is being passed around to the mods right now.. So, don't rule it out.. :D
jjnnbns
08-26-04, 02:07 PM
Originally posted by Matt_K
a bi-weekly dump is being passed around to the mods right now.. :D
That's gotta stink ;)
Originally posted by jjnnbns
That's gotta stink ;)
LMFAO, maybe I SHOULD start reading my posts twice before I submit them.. ;)
CDN-Cresties
08-26-04, 02:22 PM
LMAO. That could possibly be the funniest thing I read on ssnakess. :D
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the server run on Linux? And since that's the case, couldn't you just setup a script on crontab to automatically check posts on a daily basis and delete them if they're a month old? I can't say I know much about vbulletin, but if it uses an actual database like MySQL running a command to delete posts more than a month old should be trivial. Even if it uses its own internal database system, a PERL script could parse the entries and do it with just a few lines of code.
BoidKeeper
08-26-04, 07:23 PM
I know of more than one occasion when I reposted an add after a couple weeks duration and this resulted in generating sales.
Then you were breaking the rules.lol You're not suposed to post the same animal more than once a month now already so why is this a big deal. We are not say that people have to post less often because like the rules say now you can only post an animal for sale once a month now. All we are saying is at the end of the month everything will be deleted. This way we can keep track of who is posting the same animal more than once a month. Remember is you change your price or sell some or all of the animals you have posted you can reply to your add to make those changes. Anything else has to be done through the edit function. If you reply to your add to do anything other than change price or say that some or all animals are sold you add gets taken down and you get a warning. If you post the same animal more than once your adds are taken down and you get a warning. No where else on the net is there free classifieds that are so lieniant. Some sites make you pay and are more restricted than ours. Break the rules there and you lose your money and right to post. Here all you get is a warning. It really doesn't get much better than this.
Cheers,
Trevor
CHRISANDBOIDS14
08-26-04, 07:48 PM
Originally posted by jjnnbns
That's gotta stink ;)
LMAO!!!!! I actually laughed out loud for 2 mins!!!! Haha.
Lol, you guys(mods) keep mentioning that we are not allowed to reply to our own posts but the last few times I have tried to reply to my own posts(for allowed reasons) I couldnt, so maybe you guys can but we cant and you have forgotten that?
C.
This is just something we are trying out for now, if it doesn't work out well then it will be altered accordingly.
Invictus,
As Cruciform mentioned, we have to manually delete all threads. The idea was passed around of deleting them after the 30 day mark, but as Trevor and Ryan mentioned, this would involve us having to do this every day.
Chris,
We haven't forgotten. A while ago Jeff set it that way on a trial basis and it just hasn't been changed back (yet).
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