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Dustfeather

3:18pm Feb 26 2014 (last edited on 4:15pm Feb 26 2014)

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In light of a suggestion made recently by Fizzeh, I've been considering other ways to maybe improve the shoutbox advertisement system.

I wondered if maybe an entirely separate chat for ads would be a good idea. I've seen it on a couple other sites and it works pretty well. There would be a regular Chat, and then an Advertisement Chat on a separate tab. In the regular chat only conversation and general banter would be allowed, and the Advertisement Chat would have an automatic timer (like Fizzeh said) so that people can only post once every 30 minutes no matter how hard they try. ;)

This way, staff wouldn't have to keep track of times, they'd just have to remind a user to only advertise in the Advertisement Chat. The only thing that staff would need to do in terms of advertisements is make sure that users aren't using profanity in the Advertisement Chat or anything along those lines.

AND, bonus:

 Users who don't want to see advertisements at all won't have to.

 Users who are looking for specific things will be able to check the Advertisement Chat to see if anything they need is there instead of watching other users' conversation for ages.

Users looking to sell something will be able to post their ad and have it not get immediately swept away by conversation.

Everyone wins!


I'm sure there are flaws with this, but I like the idea. Thoughts, suggestions, critique?




(Link to Fizzeh's suggestion: http://www.rescreatu.com/forum/cat/feedback/suggestions/shoutbox-advertisements/~page/1/)
Hope it doesn't look like I'm sniping this idea, I just think we could work off of it! c:






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Mars

3:35pm Feb 26 2014 (last edited on 3:35pm Feb 26 2014)

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YES I LIKE THIS SUPPORT x30

You have no idea how many times my ads have just been whisked away by a busy SB and then I have to wait another half hour just to say anything about it again

please let this be a thing ;u;




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Peace

9:13pm Feb 26 2014

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I also support this but maybe instead of another chatbox maybe just have an advertisement page. Even with categories so you can find watch you want more efficiently than fishing through chat messages. Kind of like a newspaper or a magazine,you know?
Dustfeather

11:17pm Feb 26 2014

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I see where you're coming from but don't we already have the Sales and Trades / Want Ads forums for that? ;o





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Peace

8:24am Feb 27 2014

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Well, yes. Okay I see where you are coming from. so I guess I am ok with the chat box idea.
Llama

11:21am Mar 3 2014 (last edited on 11:21am Mar 3 2014)

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To me it would serve the same purpose as the sales ad trades forum. People only tend to look when they want something.  A lot of sb sales are impulsive, also can cause a gossip and people like to be able to haggle. People pass on information to others, people get curious and look at things others wouldnt normally look at by clicking links. To me I feel it would serve no purpose different to what we already have and would probably long term cause a reduction in sales for everyone. Also not all ads sweep by. Some linger for 20mins. Whats to stop 20million adverts being swept away at the same time? Just because you feel it is swept away, that doesnt mean that nobody saw it.  I see no benefit to it. It's really not hard to ignore adverts if they are that much of a bother to you.
Dustfeather

1:09pm Mar 4 2014

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Hmm.. that's true. It would limit the kind of advertisements as well. Things like "Does anyone here want a free Goiba? :)" wouldn't really work, since you could only reply once every 30 minutes.

Thanks for the input, I definitely see its faults now. ^^





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Everly

6:55pm Mar 4 2014

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I prefer Fizzeh's original suggestion, not another shoutbox. This is another thing to moderate (ie. trolls) and honestly, nobody's really going to be constantly checking. It's pretty much the sales and ads thread in chat box form. 

Having a built in timer is simple enough, no? I'd rather not complicate an easy solution. No support. 
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