Classifieds is switching to moderated
Hi Guys,
David is switching the Classifieds to moderated. This is presently done to make sure no best offer ads get posted, and to have some quality control over the ads.
The classifieds system is something that was made by a third party, and there are a couple of things that are not the way we want, like the inability to disallow best offer ads, or to archive sold items for future reference.
This means someone has to approve ads: anyone of the moderators / supers or admins can do this.
David tells me there are about 10 ads per day, which should not be a big burden on moderators.
I've asked the mods and supers that when they come online, they just make a visit to the classifieds to see if anything needs looking at. This means that any new ad should be online within a couple of hours.
I realize that not everybody will be happy with this change (including us) but presently this is the only way to make sure no best offer ads are posted, and that ads meet the minimum quality requirements.
Hopefully, our requests for changes to the classifieds system are looked at so that we can change this back.
If we have more flexibility in the classifieds configuration, we could disallow best offer, and perhaps configure moderation policy so that only the first n ads need approval or something like that...