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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: ThingsFound on June 20, 2011, 03:46 am

Title: Clean Up Digital Goods / Add "Invites" Section
Post by: ThingsFound on June 20, 2011, 03:46 am
I didn't exactly come here for the drugs.  I came here on a whim looking to sell some info and give a few lessons.  Turned out pretty well, and I am glad the D.G. section has taken off and expanded.

I am, however, more than a little annoyed at the amount of "<Torrent Site> INVITE!" posts that plague it.  Of the 35 postings on the first page, currently 12 are invites.  This is actually lower than usual.  The problem I have with invites is that everyone is selling them; they're like the dollar-store goods of this site.  I would suggest moving them to their own section, simply because the sheer volume of them drowns out other, more interesting offers.

Invites are not the only problem.  A lot of people apparently don't know the difference between "Digital goods", "Electronics", "Money", and "Services".  There is a ton of cross-posting, double-posting, and just plain stupid posting going on.  A hard drive is not a digital good; it is an electronic item.  A $25 Visa card is not a service; it belongs in Money.  I would offer to be a mod myself and clean them up, but I would find that somewhat unlikely to happen.  So a good alternative would be a flagging system, wherein certain posts, after being flagged a certain number of times, should be investigated and moved.

The problem with this last request is that it takes manpower to do well.  Simply having a post moved after so many flags would quickly lead to abuse as people massively flag competing posts to get them out of the way.  As I said before, I would be glad to do this but the issue of trust arises.

Questions?  Comments?  Concerns?  I know the non-drug aspect of the site is obviously less frequented, but there is a core group of us who are pretty happy to have it around.
Title: Re: Clean Up Digital Goods / Add "Invites" Section
Post by: Botulism on June 22, 2011, 08:20 am
Good idea, an invite section would be nice. Maybe an option to flag as miscategorized and SR himself could move it to the appropriate section. It would add a lot of work for him though so maybe he should go through the trouble of getting moderators to organize sections but make it so they don't have access to sensitive information or the ability to do anything else :P
Title: Re: Clean Up Digital Goods / Add "Invites" Section
Post by: Rook on June 24, 2011, 01:55 am
+1 to everything just mentioned