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ASRA AdminPermalink Reply by Bugs on February 11, 2011 at 21:24

Dani said:

Ok, Im going for my second suggestion. Is it possible to block ''marketplace'' threads from popping up on the home page? Could there maybe be a link that takes you to another page that show all recent marketplace threads? Home page has offically turned into Ebay and I personally, find it crappy.

I understand, and agree. But there isn't an option for the "Latest Activity" to not show Marketplace posts, while showing other forum posts. It's all forums or none.

Perhaps we need some other way of separating out the Marketplace stuff...not having it in the forums?...I dunno.

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Fitz on February 11, 2011 at 23:22

Can "Marketplace" be added between "My page" and "Forums" on the top bar somehow?

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Robert-Da-Bomb on February 11, 2011 at 23:36

The 'gear' secton of the forum has turned into its own little marketplace anyways

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Mack Daddie on February 12, 2011 at 0:01

The matter of popular threads bumping other threads out of view by large amount commenting or replying should be addressed.

Besides that its all ungedory

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Phil Bartlett on February 12, 2011 at 11:00

yeah the gear section is wearing a lot of posts that should be in marketplace ATM

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ASRA AdminPermalink Reply by Bugs on February 12, 2011 at 11:39

I've just moved a bunch of threads from Gear to Marketplace. I should be tidying my house instead!

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ASRA AdminPermalink Reply by Bugs on February 12, 2011 at 13:16

Fitz, it can, but it won't solve the problem. The Marketplace is, structurally, just one of the forums. I can put a link to any individual forum anywhere I want, but the Marketplace is still a forum, and all forum updates are included in the "Latest Activity".

Robert, it's always been a problem that the Gear forum is filled with other stuff. It happens a lot because it's the default forum option when you create a thread, and people don't always think to change the default.

Mack, that's a hard one to solve. You can always look at the forums page directly, as it is only updated by new threads, not individual posts, and so older things stay visible for longer.

In general, this site software has only a limited number of configuration options, and those limitations can be frustrating. But I like to get feedback on what people like/dislike so I can tinker with the options that do exist.

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Mack Daddie on February 12, 2011 at 18:05

perhaps some naked women could do good here
womenboarding :)

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Permalink Reply by mack daddies daddie on February 12, 2011 at 23:47

how about deleting some of the older market place threads that have not had anything posted in them for 3 months say

when u search market place (for a particular board) it comes up with random ones from a year ago n stuff and it makes it hard to find any current ones