For The Mods!

[jasonlwrig]

^ Unless there are people that live in the location that could help be mods. For example I live in the southeast and I would help out by moderating the southeast classified forums. I would be willing to bet that people would quickly volunteer to help...

 

[ninjamini]

Originally Posted by ophiura
The only issue I see is that it basically increases the number of forums that the mods have to review and move threads around in

Otherwise it is a great idea.

I think there would be a lot of people to volunteer. Also its the same number of posts. The mods do not need to move a post from the SW to the SE. If the poster does not know his east from his west the mod should not care.
I love the idea. Lets do it.

 

[sea worthy]

I concure! lets ROCK!! :jumping: :joy:

 

[ppurcell]

I hate to be the only nay-sayer, but I don't see a great deal of value in splitting up regionally. First of all, dividing into 4 or 5 regions will still mean that the vast majority of the items for sale even within my region are potentially, or even likely, farther away than I am willing to drive. Conversely, if I am in a border state for a region, then I may find myself checking the other message boards for the states which are adjacent to mine, but which are not in my region.
Another byproduct is the probability of a potential buyer not seeing an item for sale which the seller is willing to ship, but the seller posted in their "regional" rather than "general" classified forum. Another phenomenon which seems to occur frequently is the seller which wants to avoid shipping and finds that they have to ship because they are unable to locate any local buyers.
At least one other board uses regional classifieds already, and frankly, I don't see that it is much of an improvement. If you want to see this setup in action; albeit, with a small fraction of the posts which occur on SFW, check out: *Link Removed*
On the other end of the spectrum is what ***** does. Where they have seperate forums for selling/trading, dry goods, livestock and want to buy. -- has many times the number of posts which SWF receives every day and overall, I would have to say that that style of categorization seems to work pretty well.
Sorry for referencing other boards, but if you want to make improvements, it might be helpful to at least look at what has already been done.
I like SWF and personally think that if it were to seperate WTB ads from WTS adds and encourage people to be clear regarding their location on their subject line, require posting of selling prices, prohibit non-fish related posts then the classifieds would provide a improved marketplace for hobbyists to exchange/reuse/recycle.
One huge improvement that could be made would be to implement feedback mechanism similar to the big auction web site. I have noticed several posts over the past few months about deals-gone-bad, it might help the membership to be able to see how individuals have conducted past business transactions before committing to a financial arrangement with someone they do not know personally. Edit: There is the seller feedback thread, but I never really noticed it before I composed this post.
Regards,
Phil

 

[hummel]

I agree with Phil. Just be clear about where you are located if you are not willing to ship. We don't get a large number of WTS items and is usually posed on the first paige usually for two days or more. We would have more subtitles on the WTS then there would be available items. Just my opinion. Although Want to Sell and Want to Trade would be a good idea.
Just my thoughts
Mark

 

[cynelson]

I think it's a great idea too. I haven't been on here for several months (Maybe a year) and this is the reason why. It's too bad nobody thought of this sooner! :cheer:

 

[ryan115]

What about there being an Icon that you can add along with the message to show your general area. We already have the ? and ! and the light bulb and smileys so what about a SW NW C NE SE?

Just an idea

 

[glibgoat]

I like the idea that when you place the title of your post, there are more perameters that must be answered..location..willing to ship. So your posts would come up like this
Clown Fish for sale-Philly-not willing to ship.
I don't think a post should be able to be sent until these three perameters are met.
Great original post. Lets start a revolution...lol