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Rob R



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 3:36 pm    Post subject: Trading Post Reply with quote
    

The trading post is now the first one I check however, I think as so much of the ethos of this site is on trading, that the 'Trading Post' should be upgraded to a section in the forum with further subdivisions (ie a section for running the trading post, as many of the topics have been on this theme recently, as well as sections for livestock, meat, gardening, etc.) as some items for sale can quickly get pushed down the list as they don't attract that many replies, whilst the advert value of them are still valid.

tahir



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 3:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Lets get a few more trades going on first

Rob R



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 3:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
Lets get a few more trades going on first


I just thought if it were more organised, perhaps it would attract more people to trade?

tahir



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 3:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Maybe. Lets see what the punters say...

jema
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 3:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Rob R wrote:
tahir wrote:
Lets get a few more trades going on first


I just thought if it were more organised, perhaps it would attract more people to trade?


I agree.

tahir



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I could definitely see the point in seperating non financial transactions from financial ones: Trading Post and Swap Shop

Rob R



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yes, and some separation of actual trading and talk about trading/the nature of the site.

jema
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
I could definitely see the point in seperating non financial transactions from financial ones: Trading Post and Swap Shop


I'd prefer to got the whole hog and sustainably craft out acommodation for all our services.

tahir



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Rob R wrote:
Yes, and some separation of actual trading and talk about trading/the nature of the site.


that's true

So maybe:

Trading Post
items for sale

Swap Shop
items for barter or free

Technical
Where to put your post, how it works etc.

Bugs



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The talk about the trading should probably be in guidelines announcements suggestions.

I'm up for a whole separate section for trading. We could start off as T says with swaps (wasn't it originally briefly called that?) and traders for money. Likely we would only need to further divide the traders bit. An interim solution might be a convention for labelling posts: (I sound like I have one of those charts you use in meetings) eg food or meat, crafts, services etc?

Rob R



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Sounds like a good start to me, we could see how that works.

tahir



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

jema wrote:
I'd prefer to got the whole hog and sustainably craft out acommodation for all our services.


Que?

jema
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

On the main site under traders we have 6 categories. 5 of which are actual trading categories.

So allowing from a swap categorie, we would need 6 forums to reflect that. It might be a larger number of forums, but I think it makes much more sense to complement the site structure logically.

Rob R



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

jema wrote:
but I think it makes much more sense to complement the site structure logically.


Very true- it may work both ways too- encouraging use of the main site as well as the forum if there is some continuity between the two.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bugs wrote:
The talk about the trading should probably be in guidelines announcements suggestions.


I put them in thre trading section to get people to talk about them. If they were in the guidles/announcment section I don't think we would have had as much feedback. It was also a good way to bring a little attention to this section, which seems to have worked.

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