Originally posted by: funboy42
Originally posted by: DerekWilson
Originally posted by: funboy42
Gee, I tinks I brought that up in the vote that it would happen
And of course blain you would like it, your like the rent a cop at the mall of forum rules department.
Makes you job easier, but were going to lose sales, and members because of this. Have the long huge page of sales was the main and only reason I stuck around here so long. It made this place a place to go for this was the only place I could find on the internet that had everything in one spot, and had pages upon pages of stuff that is curent.
Go to any other forum, 99% of the other ones have 1 page or 2 of current, today, and yesterday, and thats it. That kind of movement in the fs section means, that kind of current throughout the entire forums as well as website, not to mention ad money coming. The fs part starts to die down, so will this place, mark my words. I already hate having to click on 2 things, and any other forum that is split like that is dead, like a ghost town. 1 or 2 new threads a month if they are lucky. This place kicked ass, stuff cheap, and always sold stuff right away when you post it up, provided you stuck up a good price, even then you didnt have to wait long for it to sell. It always eventually would.
OH and this is coming from a member who's post count for about 5 of the 6 years I been here came from nothing but the fs/ft section.
our goal is partially to split current traffic in efficient ways to handle our upcoming effort to help the forums grow.
you're right, traffic is what makes fs/t work. what if you had double the traffic in fs/t without the buy threads? or the same kind of traffic in WTB that was in fs/t? thats our goal, and we are going to try to get there as fast a possible.
but we need some room to grow and procedures in place first.
I can understand that, but from my point of view, and from a sales, and buying perspective, because they were together I had more sales, and bought more because I or someone had stumbled into my thread, or I into theirs, because it was all in one spot, and ended up buying, or selling something because I would never of thought if it had it not been in the one place. Because it is split, most people are narrow minded, me included, and there are a lot of times going through looking for something to buy, I have stumbled onto someones fs /ft thread on something I had collecting dust downstairs, I wouldnt of thought of looking for
Now that they are split up I am sure there are going to be countless, "damn I would never thought of that" loss of sales, for people may not be in the "mood" to be buy anything, and just stay in the sell area, missing out on something someone in the wants, or trade section has that they just didnt know it yet.
That is what makes it great about not splitting up the threads. Most who only do a little of this, and a little of that want it split up because they may only trade or buy 1-2 things every 6 months to a year, and dont want to be bothered with having to search, they are to high on the horse to be bothered with that, or lazy. But for the hard core traders, ones that go through it every day 5-20 times a day depend on those "Damn I wouldnt of thought of that" sales and buys, it its the bees knees that it is all in one place.
I can tell you this right now, and check my post count. Since this forum went all funky, split up everything, not only in the fs/ft but in everything else, I havent been around in the last 4 days, its to weired out, and too much a hassle for me to be clicking everywhere and keep up on where I been, and so forth. Doubt I be seeing my 10,000th post anytime soon anymore. I hate this, and I hate the hardforums because thats where all the trolls hang out, Im in frekin limbo right now and have no clue where to go, because this place has become just like every other place, and about to die down very quickly, which means, Im screwed with no where really to go for my fix.
I say screw the ones who bitch and moan because they can find something once or twice every 6 months, do it for the hardcore thats been here for years, mostly in that section buying and selling, and use it for what its there for, they dont like it, there is a ton of other ghost towns they can go visit thats really easy to navigate through one page of sales that havent moved in 6 months or so. It was working just fine in here, PLEASE bring it/me back!
And email me when you do, Im over in a rc forum, trying to make a home and its just not feeling right to me. This was my home and I feel as though my parent just kicked me out of it.
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