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Hexlicious 29 Mar, 2016 @ 6:23pm
Approval of comments
Although some comments on my trades are all fine, there is a still a good bunch of the total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that seem to throw their opinions around like anybody would actually care.

I don't know how many people I have reported at this point, but it seems ridiculous to constantly ask mods to deal with that ♥♥♥♥ when they probably got much better things to do, and it is an issue that could simply be dealt with by any individual user with a click of a button.

Hiding a comment does not hide it unless you go bug a moderator about it, give everyone the ability to hide comments permanently, or implement a approval system so they wont even show up for anybody than the trade owner and staff members, unless approved.

Been asking for this simple implementation for MONTHS, yet nothing is being done about it
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norby89 29 Mar, 2016 @ 6:43pm 
Most spam comments can be hidden by the user like you already mentioned, if someone is being disruptive then and only then should you report them so their comment is hidden by an admin. I think it goes without saying that giving everyone the ability to hide comments permanently would be abused too much and it also means that trades would lose transparency.

If I recall correctly an approval system was suggested before but if it hasn't been implemented by now it was most likely rejected.
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Hexlicious 30 Mar, 2016 @ 2:50am 
How can something like this be abused? It would only avoid you having comments you don't want on your trade, which is more than fair and should already be a thing.
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Flawlessh 1 Apr, 2016 @ 3:54pm 
Originally posted by Hex:
How can something like this be abused? It would only avoid you having comments you don't want on your trade, which is more than fair and should already be a thing.
one way i can see this being abused is lets say some1 scammed some1 by refunding a game after they traded it, or refunded a paypal transaction.

its alot quicker to comment on there trade to warn other users then to report them (obviously you should report them) but in the day or 2 it takes for them to get banned they can scam other users. with an approval of comments system, they can just deny all comments that say they are a scammer.
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Hexlicious 1 Apr, 2016 @ 3:56pm 
Originally posted by Flawlessh:
Originally posted by Hex:
How can something like this be abused? It would only avoid you having comments you don't want on your trade, which is more than fair and should already be a thing.
one way i can see this being abused is lets say some1 scammed some1 by refunding a game after they traded it, or refunded a paypal transaction.

its alot quicker to comment on there trade to warn other users then to report them (obviously you should report them) but in the day or 2 it takes for them to get banned they can scam other users. with an approval of comments system, they can just deny all comments that say they are a scammer.

Seeing as only a dumbass would go to the comments on a outpost trade to report a scam, this makes it not "abuseable" in the slightest.
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norby89 2 Apr, 2016 @ 6:14am 
There aren't many cases in which deleting a comment is better than simply hiding it and in those very few cases you can contact a mod to help you out because well, that's their job. If you have nothing to hide then others reading your comments should not be a concern to you.
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Hexlicious 2 Apr, 2016 @ 6:17am 
Originally posted by norby89:
There aren't many cases in which deleting a comment is better than simply hiding it and in those very few cases you can contact a mod to help you out because well, that's their job. If you have nothing to hide then others reading your comments should not be a concern to you.

People shit posting on my trade is a concern to me, amnd it's not a mods job to constantly hide comments instead of actually punishing the people constantly posting them.
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norby89 2 Apr, 2016 @ 6:34am 
The term "shitposting" is very subjective and some people would label any comment that they slightly don't like as that, even if it's a perfectly fine and acceptable comment hence why I said it would be easily abused.
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Hexlicious 2 Apr, 2016 @ 6:38am 
Originally posted by norby89:
The term "shitposting" is very subjective and some people would label any comment that they slightly don't like as that, even if it's a perfectly fine and acceptable comment hence why I said it would be easily abused.

Shit posting and a perfectly fine and acceptable comment do not go hand in hand, there is quite a big gap there, and if someone thinks a fine comment is shit posting, then it's their porblem, after all, it's also their trade, and they should have every right to moderate it to their own taste, and not have to go off the opinion of some other random person with a fancy name color.
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norby89 2 Apr, 2016 @ 6:51am 
Yes there indeed is a huge gap, many people on Outpost tend to not get. People who will report others just because they didn't read their notes or "rules" and offered something they don't like or a price different than what they asked.

There is a hide button, if you don't like a comment, hide it.
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Hexlicious 2 Apr, 2016 @ 6:56am 
Originally posted by norby89:
Yes there indeed is a huge gap, many people on Outpost tend to not get. People who will report others just because they didn't read their notes or "rules" and offered something they don't like or a price different than what they asked.

There is a hide button, if you don't like a comment, hide it.

Really no point in discussing it any further, cause you obviously don't at all get the main concern here, as stated in my original post, hiding a comment does not a hide it, FIX THAT.

Simple solution to what causes much more annoying problems.
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norby89 2 Apr, 2016 @ 7:14am 
Originally posted by Hex:
Really no point in discussing it any further, cause you obviously don't at all get the main concern here, as stated in my original post, hiding a comment does not a hide it, FIX THAT.
What you don't seem to get is that it is meant to work like that. If something isn't broken then there's no need to "fix" it.

There's a reason comments aren't hidden permanently and that is for transparency. People who don't have anything to hide should not be affected by the fact that others can read their past comments.
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