Preface:
First off, I'm going to state that we are going to Test out a Change in the way the Sunday/Wednesday threads are presented. This Test will start the next time one of these threads get stickied (so next Sunday) We are going to run the tested rule changes for 1-2 weeks and see how it goes. If the results are positive (which is what we are hoping for) They will become permanent. This is a PSA of sorts to let everyone know (aka mods being transparent about rule changes) Below I will discuss what is changing, why we are changing, and what we hope this will fix.
We will also be accepting any questions or other suggestions from the community to further improve the sub in any way :) So if you have an idea, lets hear'em.
The change:
We are going to be changing the format on the SYS/Sunday and WTB/Wednesday threads to contest mode.
Why?:
Over the past few months we have been seeing various vendors abuse vote manipluation in these threads in order to "boost" their own ads as well as to lower their competitions ads. We changed the way the threads were sorted by to "old" in an effort to combat this issue but it has come to our attention that this is no longer efficient enough in giving everyone equal opportunity to advertise their wares.
The Pros:
NO MORE VOTE MANIPULATION! YAY!
It will look less messy! YAY!
The Con:
Personally I dont even really consider this a con(depends how you use these threads) This will simply make using ctrl+f to find what you want perhaps slightly slower or faster depending how many categories you're trying to search. Pretty much you'll need to expand all of the categories now before using ctrl+f to find what you are looking for. This is only a slight con because if you're only looking for a certain vendor ad about MDMA. You just expand the MDMA category and then ctrl+f their name.
In some cases this means the change will be faster for some users and perhaps "slightly" slower for other users. We feel that having to click a few times more is well worth the extra work because it will remove vote manipulation and look less messy overall :)
Example:
I'm unsure if you will be able to see it but here is a "test" example of the new layout.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/3b0e8o/sell_your_shit_sunday/
Conclusion:
Below feel free to comment on whether or not you agree or disagree with this change; feel free to post any other ideas for improving the sub you may have or any other general questions. As always we will do our best to answer you as best we can :)
--The Mod team
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Formatting and Spelling is hard sometimes.
Sounds like it could be a good idea. For me personally I like the sound of it because certain categories get real cluttered.
As a non weed smoker it's mildly annoying having to scroll past all those vendors. And don't get me started on the vendors posting their pgp key.