Child boards for buy/sell/trade

[rowdy]

Sometimes I glance through Classifieds to see what people are selling, but at least half the posts are WTB or WTT.

How about adding separate child boards for buy, sell and trade?

One problem might be if someone has something to sell or trade - perhaps a rule or guideline to post in just the sell board?

[mkawa]

they are more likely to be tabs than child boards, but yes, we would like to make it easy to filter by transaction type; it's on our todo list

[sth]

filtering would be much better than child boards, we have too many subforums as is

[rowdy]

Filtering would probably only work if there was some way of clearly separating out the WTS from the WTB from the WTT, but it would reduce confusion for people wanting to WTS/WTT or other combinations.

Thanks mkawa, looking forward to it

[sth]

Yeah, a multiple-item filter would be good (think the difference between checkboxes and radio buttons or drop-downs for choices -- not necessarily a design consideration).

[rowdy]

But the filter would only work if people were 100% consistent with putting WTS, WTB or WTT in the thread title.

Most members are good in that respect - but there are always exceptions that would fall through a filter.

Is there some way perhaps of specifying in the thread, like checkboxes, whether it is WTS, WTB, WTT or a combination?  If so, a filter would be much easier.

Hmmm ... a quick look, and a lot of the current threads just have FS or FT, and a couple have neither.

[sth]

We used to have a drop-down menu to choose a category - WTB/WTS/WTT were not part of the thread title.

[rowdy]

That would be the best approach.

What about people who want to sell or trade?  I guess they would just pick whichever one they preferred and give the other option in the thread title or first post.