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I can't believe the amount of people I send trades to for sub-domain only trades, specifically adding a comment to select a subdomain for link back and they select a TLD instead. It wouldn't be so bad, but I swear its about 50% of the people I request trades from.

What a fucking waste of my time.

Might be cool to be able to set hard 'rules' when sending a request. So the other party has no other option but to select what you want, or deny.

drocd wrote:Might be cool to be able to set hard 'rules' when sending a request. So the other party has no other option but to select what you want, or deny.

that would be a good feature!

yes that would be nice, also, please revert it to before the activity page, its annoying. Improve the message system because its worse than before too

Make people read messages and make them more visible, i dropped a few domains and have 17 trades that I wait to be deleted by the other guys. I emailed them 3 weeks ago and still did not get any answers, and they are active but just not following errors page.

I would esp. like to have the ability to click on a button that would restrict the other party to: No stacked trades. I state No stacks in my profile, but not everyone is reading that notation.

We can most likely set up restrictions for inbound requests, but it will decrease the amount of quality trades you do find and are sent. You will get less requests and it will be frustrating when looking for trades to be constantly told you don't meet the requirements, or restrictions that the other webmaster set. (I imagine looking for trades, responding to requests and having to custom fit my strategy to every partner im working with.)

We do want to set some filters for inbound requests and for return replies and I've been thinking of it for many weeks, it's going to be a hard thing to implement and have it work and not just frustrate people more.

To me, I'd rather have 400 requests, with 200 ridiculous ones, 125 semi-nuts ones, and 75 'maybe' trades, then have just 75 'maybe' ones.

And it's frustrating that people don't read comments, but that's how it is, could be language issues, could be them not giving a shit, could be them thinking your request was out of line. For everyone I think is crazy I'm sure just as many feel the same about some of mine.

With the new inbox and control panel, we plan on attempting to make people pay better attention to them, they've only been live for a few days and like everything else, will evolve and continue to gain some functionality.

It's tough to have this many unique operators in one place and not have a little give and take, I think some need to realize that this is about give and take, it would be nice if it was pure give but that just isn't a reliable system and a system that works.

As always, I welcome these posts and we do read and pay attention to them and always keep striving to make things as good as possible for the community as a whole.

^^^^ well said

Why don't you hide the TLD's so they can't see them to request from them?

vrocks wrote:Why don't you hide the TLD's so they can't see them to request from them?

Because I have pending TLD trades.

vrocks wrote:Why don't you hide the TLD's so they can't see them to request from them?

From what I read he does do TLD trades, but then he also tries to do subdomain trades but the other users ignore and gun for the tld root links instead.