That defeats the whole purpose of autobumping, which is having a trade bumped without the need of doing it manually.

That is not possible to do with the current Steam API.

I think the better solution would be a nice filter for the search function. Filters like, If the user is online or not etc...
And one more important thing, when we are browsing the matched Trades, we should be able to select which of our trades to be matched and shown. That would make a lot of things easier.
if it's necessary I'll make a thread for this suggestion, should I?

i agree the system is kind of poor atm.

often i find someone autobumping a post who doesn't even have the item any longer.
and that's after waiting for a day to add them.

it's kind of pointless to autobump if you're offline.
people will add you, then just add someone else, until they find someone online.

enable the donation system, or do something.
it's just kind of half arsed right now.

you can't donate, you can't use a script to bump, and people who are offline are auto bumping? derp?

I agree completely with the annoyance of the person not having the item, or 'not buying at the moment' who have their trades autobumped. Because they aren't technically trading.

If someone is offline, I'm okay with that to a degree.

WHAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED: Posts that don't have any action from the creator after say a week, need to be auto closed. I have run across a few trades that were autobumped, where the person has obviosly not been on TF2OP, or Steam for ALMOST A MONTH. They're full of comments about people adding them, but no accepting/hiding of posts from the original poster.

Makes me wonder. If someone who donated, and has their posts autobumped, where in a tragic accident (I honestly hope not, this is just for the sake of discusssion), and passed away. Would their posts autobump forever?

Originally posted by hugdealer:

i agree the system is kind of poor atm.

often i find someone autobumping a post who doesn't even have the item any longer.
and that's after waiting for a day to add them.

it's kind of pointless to autobump if you're offline.
people will add you, then just add someone else, until they find someone online.

enable the donation system, or do something.
it's just kind of half arsed right now.

you can't donate, you can't use a script to bump, and people who are offline are auto bumping? derp?

Stop necro' ing old discussions.

Originally posted by Ha Ha Ha Thud!!!:

Posts that don't have any action from the creator after say a week, need to be auto closed. I have run across a few trades that were autobumped, where the person has obviosly not been on TF2OP, or Steam for ALMOST A MONTH. They're full of comments about people adding them, but no accepting/hiding of posts from the original poster.

Makes me wonder. If someone who donated, and has their posts autobumped, where in a tragic accident (I honestly hope not, this is just for the sake of discusssion), and passed away. Would their posts autobump forever?

1) You can't tell how long a person has been away from the site. Only the staff can see the user's activity. Being offline on steam or not replying in trades doesn't necessarily mean the user is inactive.

2) Inactive trades are closed if we confirm the user has been away/gone for a long period of time.

Originally posted by Blue Screen of Dea†h:

2) Inactive trades are closed if we confirm the user has been away/gone for a long period of time.

I've reported lots of clearly dead trades and not seen them closed. Off the top of my head:
http://www.tf2outpost.com/user/188361
and http://www.tf2outpost.com/user/28684

Both MIA for months

Those users still look at their trades I see an offer from 4 day ago on that second profile. Staff normally doesn't close trades unless they're a week+ inactive or so. You can seriously tell when a trade is dead.

Also, people pay for donator status and that would be a harsh thing to do to them. A change in autobump would get half the donator community mad at Sneeza. lol I need auto bump for my trades.

And if you're talking about finding trades, just look for white names if you need something immediately cause that means they bumped their trade if you're annoyed that mostly donators are the first few pages.

Originally posted by Moony♥™:

Those users still look at their trades I see an offer from 4 day ago on that second profile.

wut. Yes people are offering. But he hasn't replied to a post, or hidden a post, in 3 months. How on earth do you figure that people posting = OP reading?

I tried to report inactive trade as well, but it's still up and the guy has not replied in months now.

Originally posted by naknak:

Originally posted by Moony♥™:

Those users still look at their trades I see an offer from 4 day ago on that second profile.

wut. Yes people are offering. But he hasn't replied to a post, or hidden a post, in 3 months. How on earth do you figure that people posting = OP reading?

As Blue said, staff can check activity of certain members. How can you figure that the OP isn't reading the threads and just privately contacting the person he'd like to trade with? lol

Originally posted by Moony♥™:

How can you figure that the OP isn't reading the threads and just privately contacting the person he'd like to trade with? lol

This is true, they OP could be just contacting people privately. But if they haven't hidden, or done anything to their post in obviously months, that to me makes them a bad trader. Clean up your posts. Hide uneccessary comments. If someone added you and you contacted them privately, hit the green accept button. Let people know you're active!!

Side note: It would be nice if the post had a thing like "Last edited by [user] on " so those who put things like "not buying at the moment" we know how long their post has been like that. Might help the admins too.

Originally posted by Moony♥™:

As Blue said, staff can check activity of certain members. How can you figure that the OP isn't reading the threads and just privately contacting the person he'd like to trade with? lol

LOL well joe is also "selling" a BMOC, but hasn't owned one since May. Are you just trolling? This is what dead trades look like.

Both accounts have been taken care of. Locking this.