Official Announcement: The Trade Drawer Gets Legitimized

I couldn’t resist to point that out

its because BE is one of the highest regarded SBN sites, not a fantasy site, and trade fanposts makes this site worse. People start arguing like crazy and so the trade posts are also the fanposts that most often end up with people insulting each other.

They aren’t banning the trade posts, just asking that they be put in one place so they don’t take over the site. People spend around 3 seconds when they consider what to write for trade posts, while they often spend a good deal more time on other posts. Trade posts also often get comments like “FAIL” and “ur stupid”, which certainly lend to greater levels of disrespect. If the posts are all grouped in one area, the people who actually want to discuss trade posts can do whatever they feel like.

The only reason for not wanting to put your trade post in to the designated area, would be if you thought your post was so much better than everyone else’s that you didn’t want to be stuck in the same place. Which is almost never true.

Inside of the daily trade post you don’t see people demeaning each other, because they are there for a reason: to discuss trades. Everyone is generally more respectful, and people can actually discuss the merits of the trades. It works better for everyone involved.

I like and enjoyed reading your social commentary, but couldn’t tell if you meant that as a response to my comment.

When I said “Who starts the Junk Drawer?” I meant that the Trade Drawer should be started by whoever decides to create it first. Just like the Junk Drawer is create on a first come, first serve basis, the Trade Drawer could be the same way.

Discussion of one proposal always leads to another then another then another….having them together lets you go with the flow…it will prevent having to repeat yourself in more than one place….

we would rely on your skills to keep us updated on his progress – much better than we would be able to do ourselves. – Elgin

Since you don’t have the rose colored glasses on, we need more of your opinion. Probably most people here are biased.

Does Travis suck? Is Channing a joke?

The Oregon Trail Fur Trade Post

or Hudsons Bay Company Trading Post

or John Jacob Astor Fur Trading

And not need to be rec’d, but the Trade Drawer (or whatever it is eventually called) should be SOMEWHERE easily visible so that new people see that there is a place to post trade ideas… because they can ransack and take over the sight more than the junk drawer type posts can.

I dunno if it can be ‘stickied’ or whatever so it doesn’t need to be rec’d daily, and not take the place of the top 5 current fanposts… I’ll leave that for the historians to decide.

“KP’S SUGGESTION BOX” could be the trade drawer. And just like any other suggestion box, it will soon be filled to the brim with fresh pee.

I’m the type of dude who doesn’t mind anything that people post, as this is all for fun, but I also don’t like the clutter of endless trade proposals. Keeping the Trade Drawer in clear sight is the best way to fight that.

Uncle Morty

We will see.

On the one hand I don’t think they’ll be all keen to do custom jobs considering how many blogs they tend to. On the other hand we’re pretty much the biggest blog on the network now—1 or 2 anyway—so we may be seen as a guinea pig of sorts.

—Dave