Suggestion Prevent New Replies to Old Postings in Classifieds

[VikingDives]

Locking posts after some time would keep the classified section more relevant. Newer ads would get more traction. Older posts would avoid being recycled by users asking if the item was still available.

My thought is that after 30 days of inactivity, or 90 days after the post is made, the thread is locked, so new replies are not allowed. Doing so would keep newer, more active posts alive and still allow people to contact the OP via DM on older posts, lowering the signal to noise ratio.

 

[rhwestfall]

Things might be still available..

I'd better think that an automated message after XX days be made to the OP to maintain the listing.

Self maintenance....

 

[Akimbo]

Just a reminder to up or downvote this suggestion to help us gauge how popular it is:

 

[Quikster]

i think if people actually put closed when they sold things it would prevent more of these from being dredged back up.

 

[VikingDives]

If anything mentioned above was being done regularly, I'd agree that this isn't needed but take a look at the computer classifieds as an example:

Posts from 2021 are displacing posts from this year. In the Oceanic post, the OP failed to respond in May of this year, and hasn't been seen since the 2nd of the month. Meanwhile, much more recent posts are displaced.

Maybe things could be marked as closed unless the user intervenes?

 

[lexvil]

Maybe not allowing any comments except from the OP?

 

[rhwestfall]

Maybe not allowing any comments except from the OP?

An interesting idea. All efforts or interactions then go only via DM....

 

[RIHappyDiver]

An interesting idea. All efforts or interactions then go via DM....

And it would allow the OP to still post price drops, etc

 

[Marie13]

And for the new people without enough posts to initiate DMs?

 

[rhwestfall]

@Akimbo - sede post #6 from @lexvil. This is a really interesting idea to revise the classifieds...