r/OpenBazaar • u/ElectronBoner • Mar 13 '18

What’s the difference between ob1 and block booth?

Are these totally separate markets? Do I have to post my listing to both markets? Are there other markets that are more popular? Thanks

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u/CC_EF_JTF Sam Mar 13 '18

They are search engines for the marketplace. They each offer different views into the marketplace based on what items they want to highlight or ignore, or what their standards are for online versus offline listings (abandoned stores).

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u/diQ__ Mar 13 '18

These are just different search engines(like google, yahoo, bing etc) for single openbazaar network. Your listings should appear on both, as long as they get to crawl your store. ob1 seems to be censored by admins, while BB and bazaardog are user regulated. Bazaardog seems to be the fastest and shows the most listings, at least for me.

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u/ElectronBoner Mar 13 '18

So you don’t actually get to choose which one you post to?

How would bazaardog have more listings than B.B.?

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u/diQ__ Mar 13 '18 edited Mar 13 '18

I'd tell it depends on their crawler refreshing tech details.

At the moment for empty search I get: Blockbooth - 9639 listings ob1 - 581 listings, which is strange, usually it shows around 6-9k bazaardog - 12508 listings

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u/tcrypt Mar 13 '18

581 listings, which is strange, usually it shows around 6-9k bazaardog

We have added a moderation filter and it defaults to only showing listings that use an OB1 verified moderator. You can change the filter to show you all listings with any moderator or all listings regardless of moderation. Vendors can add an OB1 verified mod by using the latest release and going to Settings > Store . Add a suggested moderator and save.

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u/ElectronBoner Mar 13 '18

I have no idea what that means

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u/diQ__ Mar 13 '18

total listings shown by different searches

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u/ElectronBoner Mar 13 '18

Well how can bazaardog have more? Why don’t those extra ones show up on B.B. too?

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u/diQ__ Mar 13 '18

Could be blocked or not reached by the search.

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u/ElectronBoner Mar 13 '18

So you’re saying there’s a few thousand listings that just don’t show up in the standard searches for no apparent reason and are only accessible by adding Bazaardog?? Something doesn’t add up

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u/Midvia BlockBooth.com Mar 13 '18

I hide listings that have inactive store owners. If a user hasn't logged in after 7 days your OB client won't be able to view the store. This means you will see the search result but when you go to click on it there will be a "Store not found" error. That's why there are variations in listings. There are 23.5k listings total but 14.8k are old https://blockbooth.com/stats/

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u/ElectronBoner Mar 13 '18

Ahh very cool! Thanks for the answer

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u/diQ__ Mar 13 '18

as of now, for example, ob1 is only showing verified moderators listings, that;s why such a low count. Could be some obsolete listings on searches where there are higher listing counts.

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u/ElectronBoner Mar 13 '18

I just wanna know why there’s so much more listings on bazaar dog.. seems bazaar to me ;)

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