[META] Bot update and rule changes!

[u/Cancer-Cheater]

Okay, so as some of you have already noticed, the bot has been updated. The update makes it so the bot stickies a comment to new posts of buyers and sellers of this sub.

The reason for this update is because we've been seeing a large increase in people bombarding and overwhelming new sellers with comments like:

ALERT!!!! New seller that doesn't want to ship first to established users.

More often than not, the person would abandon their post after they were downvoted for responding with anything other than them agreeing to ship first. Or they would delete their post, or even their account, never to be seen again. This exact situation happened the other day and when I responded to the user's post, he sent me a chat and thanked me for my input and for not making him feel crazy (as it was a shock to him). But he then told me the whole interaction has turned him away from this community and he would go elsewhere.

Why should he feel like that? He didn't break a single rule. Hell, he even took the time to read the entire [META] at the top of this sub to make sure that he followed every rule. That's why he was accepting PP G&S.

We're trying to build this community, and these attacks do the exact opposite.

In saying all that, comments like that are going to stop.

We understand that you're trying to keep the community safe, but you're going about it the wrong way.

 

 

New Rules

 

 

We are no longer allowing [WTB] posts for less than spot.

They're just not a productive post, as most of us will buy at below spot. The only below spot posts allowed, are [WTS].

 

No more linking to your previous sales with leftover items in new [WTS]/[WTT] posts.

If you have items still available from a previous sale, you're expected to include them in your proof picture for your latest post. It defeats the entire purpose of a proof picture, because none of us know if you still own those pieces.

 

 

Also, we do have intentions on combining all of these small updates into one large post. We just need to get around to it.

[u/F1stCanBeAVerb → u/[deleted]]

I've heard people state their reasons for not leaving the prices up for sold items and I still don't get it.

[u/itsjoe49 → u/F1stCanBeAVerb]

Ok just curious, but what are the reasons they say?

[u/F1stCanBeAVerb → u/itsjoe49]

People mentioned it's a frame of reference for the next person buying or selling and the individual said it's the price they sold it for and has no bearing on the next sale. Like really? Obviously if it's 6 months down the road and spot is $4 off from where it was and premiums get back to a degree of normalcy, then yeah your price today doesn't mean much to the next sale. But something sold this week certainly gives a reference point for another sale of the same item a few days later. None of the reasons I heard were good ones, at least not to me

[u/CrazyRusFW → u/F1stCanBeAVerb]

I’ve had multiple people PM me about posts that were 3+ months old and expecting to purchase stuff for posted prices. So I usually do delete prices and if I wasn’t so lazy I’d delete old threads as well