  
| Author: | ghyde  | | Posted: | Nov 1, 2023 14:52 | | Subject: | Re: New policy on Forum sales posts | | Viewed: | 79 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
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| I've noticed that some sellers don't realize that they can reply to their
own Sales posts. Will you be checking on the filtering and reminding sellers
who repeat the same sale information in a different post? I don't feel that
would be worthy of a ban for 1 month, they're trying to get their sale to
reflect current discounts.
You may be doing more harm than good if you blanket ban every seller who wanted
to keep their sale announcement up to date.
I personally just skim the Sales category on the few times I am looking for a
bargain, which is relatively infrequent anyway. What brought on this change to
the rules?
I would only recommend you ban anyone clearly abusing the Sales topic and remind
them that they can use the Reply function on their forum posts to update their
Sales announcements.
I've seen very few new sellers who intentionally spam the Sales forum. Most
seem to just be trying to attract attention to their Sales announcement. If they
are a new user being lenient and monitoring them is advisable.
Cheers ...
ghyde
In Administrative, Admin_Russell writes:
| | Hello everyone,
We are implementing a change of policy in regard to Sales posts in the Forum.
As the number of sellers has grown and as our site becomes more and more of a
premium marketplace, there is more incentive to advertise in the Forum and this
has led to an overabundance of posts under the Sales topic.
To be sure, there are a few members who have abused the Sales post feature, running
what seem to be constant deep discounts on everything in their store or in certain
categories. Most members who post in Sales, however, are not currently abusing
the feature, but we want to reduce the overall prominence of Sales posts.
The policy has been changed from a maximum of one per day to a maximum of one
per month. Please see the screenshot below.
Sellers posting more frequently may incur a friendly flooding ban for one month.
These are non-cumulative bans and will not go on your record. Bans will be lifted
immediately if the member contacts us and lets us know they agree to the new
policy.
Only the initial post in a thread counts toward the total Sales posts. Replies
will not count unless it is obvious that someone is posting to circumvent the
new policy.
This policy will be in place for the next 6 months after which we will assess
the situation.
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A word about "good" sales posts
On the BrickLink platform, visual presentation is a big part of our success.
This is why nice images are so critical to the catalog. When we see the same
one-line-of-text Sales posts cut and pasted over and over, it doesn't really
engage buyers. In fact, you may turn people off with such posts, especially if
they are done with frequency.
We're thinking of running a little contest over the next 6 months to reward
the best and most creative sales posts. More details on that later.
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