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Re: Ideas ready to be shot down
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Fri, 5 Apr 2002 19:33:23 GMT
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"Troy's Surplus Lego" <legosales@tcphoto.net> writes:
> > 4. How about charging companies who post their ads here - e.g. DYA in the
> > past, or LD now?
> > 5. How about charging for all market ads - e.g. posts for ebay auctions or
> > bricklink shops - $10 for 100 anyone?
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> These two seem to go together. While not adverse to paying for advertising
> (see my comments on banners above) I think this could be troublesome. We
> have a hard enough time deciding which group things go in now, I can't
> imagine the headache of deciding which messages should be charged and which
> not.
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> This touches on the content issue again. Some people come here actually
> looking for this information. If you charge, there will be less info, thus
> less people coming to look at it, thus even less people posting. It becomes
> a vicious circle.
>
> Also, what about third party announcements? Like the shop at home specials?
> Or clearance items at Walmart / TRU?
I think that were this idea (which I support) to be implemented, it
would have to go along with a reorg of the .market groups. Certain
market groups would have to be designated as *only* for ads by
sellers, and the charters of the remaining groups would need to have
their rules changed to prohibit such ads there.
Here's one way to do it:
* Create new groups market.ads.forsale and market.ads.auctions groups.
Only permit posting in market.ads.* by people who have paid for the
privilege.
* Create new group market.discuss, so that the market.ads.* groups
would have somewhere to set followups (sort of like how you have to
set followups currently in the announce groups).
* Replace market.buy-sell-trade with market.wanted and market.barter
(no need to pay to post there, because you're not selling anything).
* Change the charters for all remaining market.* groups to prohibit
announcements of items for sale.
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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