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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: Joey Terrifying on February 05, 2013, 09:28 pm

Title: Subcategorize weed listings
Post by: Joey Terrifying on February 05, 2013, 09:28 pm
I think it would be great if the weed listings were separated into categories for:  indica, sativa, hybrid, other (commercial, mid grade, etc.)

there are so many listings that its very annoying to thumb through them all when I know more specifically what i'm looking for
Title: Re: Subcategorize weed listings
Post by: EastCoastCollective on February 07, 2013, 09:44 pm
great idea   medicinal  mid grade  schwag   maybe 3 price groups?
Title: Re: Subcategorize weed listings
Post by: Fallkniven on February 08, 2013, 11:48 am
this is a good idea, i remember seeing a vendor page that had a great run-down of their weed types

A - Weed grown under the sun in the earth
AA - Weed grown under the sun in a greenhouse
AAA - Weed grown in potted soil under grow lamps
AAAA - Weed grown with hydroponic setup under grow lamps

or something like that, sorted by potency.
Title: Re: Subcategorize weed listings
Post by: AmnesiaBlackout on February 08, 2013, 06:31 pm
I'd really like this to be implemented, it'd make searching for new strains so much easier!
Title: Re: Subcategorize weed listings
Post by: EastCoastCollective on February 14, 2013, 01:55 pm
Three Grades have been the norm for weed forever.  Well at least dating back to late 60's   when the east coast stoner's  met the west coast stoner's at the original Woodstock. High Times has been using that system forever 
Title: Re: Subcategorize weed listings
Post by: TheEmeraldTriangle on February 16, 2013, 07:15 pm
this is a good idea, i remember seeing a vendor page that had a great run-down of their weed types

A - Weed grown under the sun in the earth
AA - Weed grown under the sun in a greenhouse
AAA - Weed grown in potted soil under grow lamps
AAAA - Weed grown with hydroponic setup under grow lamps

or something like that, sorted by potency.

hahah! Love this. When I brokered to clubs we used to play this game. There was no such thing as B, C, or D grade weed. Everything was an A. I have to disagree with those requesting this feature though. While in a perfect world it would be useful, such honesty cannot be expected from those who will deliberately list ditch weed as high quality weed (as they do now), and cannot be expected from those who have no idea how to grade weed to begin with -- or worse, who insist they do, when they do not. (And there's no small number of those around either!)

In the end such a system would probably simply infuriate buyers, some of whom themselves think they know more than they really do (or are trying to prove something). Further complicating matters is the fact that grading weed is, at best, a subjective business to begin with.

A grossly over simplified look at the daily broker drill inevitably went something like this:

* Take a sample bag of weed into a club and show it to the club's buyer. S/he says it's moldy (it's not).

* Take the same bag into the next club. Buyer says it's perfect, "top shelf" weed. (Yeah. Maybe.)

* Next club: Buyer says it was harvested to soon and is green. (Depends. Different harvest times bring out different qualities.)

* Next club: It was left on the vine too long and has lost some of it's potency. (Again, it depends. As THC content drops, CBD/CBN content rises.)

* Next club: It's over trimmed. (Some like it long.)

* Next club: It's under trimmed. (Some like it short.)

And so on, and so on, and so on, for every bag of weed shown. Every buyer is an "expert" who will happily lecture you on their vast pot knowledge. Too bad the lecture from "expert" buyer at the club down the street is a very different one from the lecture you just heard.

Personally, I think rather than a confusing grading system, what is needed is a listing system that allows one listing of weed, with its description and its status (stealth or no)  to handle all of it's subdivisions (8th, 1/4-oz, 1/2-oz and so on). That, in and of itself, would cut down the number of weed listings by a factor of 4 or more, and make it easier for buyers to find what they're looking for and so to choose the product they want, from the vendor they want to deal with.

Title: Re: Subcategorize weed listings
Post by: chaosmix on February 20, 2013, 01:19 am
while i dont think there should be separate pages for prices i do think there should be separate pages for different amounts. I like buying qps and hps but i dont like scrolling through a few pages to find them. i know i can just add the vendor to my favorites and checkl thier pages regularly but i think this would be great for cocaine and other drugs as well.
Title: Re: Subcategorize weed listings
Post by: LionwareTradingCo on March 02, 2013, 05:18 pm
I think Indica/Sativa/Hybrid/Haze is great.

Quality is based on perception.

For instance.

All hydro sucks so there's no way it could be AAAA :)
Title: Re: Subcategorize weed listings
Post by: maxhavelaar on March 30, 2013, 01:12 am
first some kind of distributed double testing of synthetic drugs is in order, because the claims are all over the place. I can back mine up with audio recordings of the lab, someone could call the lab from a new skype account running over a VPN in the Netherlands and verify the receptionist and hang up. It could be for another sample but it would be a way towards getting the practice of batch testing at places where that can be done by two different people. If their results lie apart, something is amiss, if they are equal or very near, its probably right.

SR could order samples randomly when vendors claim a purity level on basis of such double tested seals of approval by testing again and immediately bar the vendor if they are selling other stuff under some form of certification.