We have introduced templates for the #market subcategories,
They are meant to make transactions easier by presenting all necessary information right at the start and ordered by questions.
We value your input and experience. Please have a look and check them out (but don’t post any test topics please )! We are looking forward to hearing your feedback, and even more so if you think they should be improved.
Just in case anyone else (like me) doesn’t “find” the templates right away: Just enter one of the four subcategories (“Giveaway”, “Buy”, “Swap”, “Sell”) and then hit “+ New Topic” to see each template. Just do not “publish” it ("+ Create Topic").
I think we used to have such templates before and in my memory people kept posting both their own text and the template instructions/questions eventually. Might have to live with that now, too.
I think it’s a great idea - curious to see if it’ll improve things. It may save @Lidwien the hassle of repeatedly asking for date & time pictures!
How about adding an instruction for OPs to mark their threads with SOLD or GONE or FOUND ONE when a transaction has been completed? We don’t want to overwhelm people with a wall of text, but it would make it easier to see which threads can be closed and it prevents that situation where a market thread just turns into a chain of people asking “hey is this still for sale I’m interested”
Wouldn’t it be better if the link to community moderators in the templates would lead to the automatically created group list at https://forum.fairphone.com/g/moderators or perhaps just be replaced by @ moderators?
Reviving this topic as I see a lot of comments in the market section of this type:
Hello, I can’t work out how to direct message. I am interested in the phone.
although it is clearly written in the template:
NB: If you are interested and want to send a direct message, please check how-to-dm.
Should we change it to something else more understandable? Put it higher?
Perhaps we should write:
If you want to contact the user and don’t manage, please check the guide how-to-dm.
Or put directly the conditions:
To be able to send a direct message to the user, you will need to reach trust level 1 by entering/opening at least 5 topics, reading at least 30 posts and spending a total of 10 minutes reading posts.