To respond to a couple of the issues raised so far:
So, I commented on one or two sales threads (belonging to other avatars), and bid in another. Now I go to bump my one thread, and I am blocked. I would say this is a fail.
That's odd, Sledge.
Looking at your recent posts in the Trading section, I see only 1 bid about 12hrs ago, no bumps in any other Trading thread, and your last bump in your own selling thread was on 15Sept. You do have other posts in non-Trading threads though.
This may be the same issue as Neil Stockton raised:
I think it's bugged. I'm not able to post in the selling section, it says i've reached my max, but I haven't posted there yet today. Perhaps it's looking to see if your total post # anywhere is more than 2?
711 may have to adjust the settings he's put in place if it's currently including non-Trading posts in the count for the limit.
What this prevents is: me, and others like me from every posting helpful comments in trading threads, or making bids in the thread itself. Why waste my precious two posts on someone else's thread???
There's nothing to stop those who have their own Trading thread from sending a bid to another seller by PM. The seller can then acknowledge that bid in their daily thread-bump post.
...I think the main concern is not people bumping their threads more then once a day. I think the real issue is the fact that people make 10+ threads to blanket the new posts section with their sales.
See if you can get an auto thread merging tool to stop the massive wall of spam from a single person.
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From a mod's viewpoint, we get quite a lot of complaints about:
. people bumping their threads more than once a day, (rule 3.10)
. people having items on their Selling threads that are currently on auction, (rule 5.1)
. posts in Selling threads that are not on the list in rule 5.5,
. as well as the 'wall of posts' issue.
As I recall when JC was modding, he asked some of the regular forum traders to consolidate their multiferous different threads to minimize some of the effect of the final issue on other forum users, and this has mostly worked.
However, we get regular complaints about the level of 'bumpage' in consolidated sales threads, when the threadstarter makes several posts a day along the lines of 'item added to list', 'item sold', 'item price changed'.
Ideally, these sorts of posts should only be made once a day, with any changes during that day noted by editing that post.
As for Hardwrath's issue of keeping track of items in his threads, I've already suggested to him that this could be easily solved by using Notepad (or other text editor/spreadsheet) to keep track of his items, and copy/pasting only that portion of the file that should be shown on the forum.
Congratulations!
PCF just gained a few hundred "New" users.
We may have a short period of enforcing rule 1.2 (ie 'Single Account') while some try this out.
I don't think many really want their account temp-banned though.