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[Aces170]

Ok, so this topic is done to death.

The mods/admins have the point when they say a mkt discussion should be clean, there are many members who are of the opinion that potential buyers should know about the caveats not expressed by the sellers etc. Both have a sound argument.

Can we have sorta linkback on all new threads created in market, for a discussion so in that the thread itself will remain clean, and any buyer can just post/check in the discussion, if required. The discussion linkback can be directed to auto generate a thread maybe in a sub-general category etc. Is this even possible ?hyeah:

 

[cranky]

I've been watching this one from the sidelines. Ultimately we have to let this thing operate on its own. I think the guidelines and rules posts, stickied on the top of the market section, is pretty good for both sellers and buyers - as long as someone does their own research, they will be fine. Even Googling an unfamiliar product and some time reading is good enough.

I don't think we can try and comment on sales that are seemingly not good deals. After all, we don't hang out here to just sell stuff, do we. We may have a peripheral audience that only uses the forums to dupe people or to lowball their way to an amazing deal. I don't think those are core forum users, and as the popularity of the market drops because of this reputation, our main forums will continue to draw core and discerning users and still have good discussions and recommendations.

In some ways, bad things are good. They will help kill the redundant bits - this is called evolution. If you don't like the deal, don't make an offer, let the buyers and sellers sort it out on their own. Some people will get duped, but they will learn. I don't know of anyone who has ever learnt anything by not making mistakes. Let it not be up to us to judge, and let those really curious/wary look after their interests and ask questions of the seller, and research threads and PM seemingly experienced members on the quality of the deal.

I get about 5 PMs a day (across all the forums, not just TE) on some piece of hardware or audio equipment, and I try and answer as many of those as possible. Those who can't be bothered to research, they probably deserve to get into a mess. I'm not for spoonfeeding or having a 'jury' to judge whether a deal is good or bad, whether I have an interest in the thread or not (buyer or seller).

If you ask me, I'm for clean threads - remember the market is open to public reading, and slugfests and witchhunts look terrible. I quit a forum because of uninterrupted threadcrapping on a FS thread I put up, because someone felt I was offering a bad deal, which in fact it was not. And the mods did not do anything to clean it up. I don't think very highly of myself, but I guess I could have contributed a little bit there over the two years I never logged in again.

 

[Aces170]

^^ Point noted, I feel the same way myself, any person with some common sense will research a bit. But its a human tendency for people to point at mistakes or intentional wrong doings.

The way I pointed above, will let the market thread remain clean, while discussions are on in another thread. Infact if you check most of the threads with loads of discussions, are cleaned up and a separate link given for discussions elsewhere, what I am saying is cant we automate that process. Ie just click on a discussion link inside a market thread, and a separate thread is auto generated in say a sub general section forum. These will non critical threads, so incase of lack of space they can be deleted by the admins later on.