I agree.

so what you are saying is that we need like 3 times more mods, so they can babysit everyone's trades??

When I look for stuff on ebay.com and they say they dont ship overseas, I go and ask them if they would be willing to ship to EU, 70% of the time they say yes, and tell me how much shipping would be, when you see a trade with bold huge letters "I dont take anything else but metal/keys" it might not seem like a great idea (I don't usually even post there) but I guess they think, I'll make my offer and if no one else offers at least the seller can think about selling it to me (at least if they offer an overpay in items), so I don't see that as trolling, more like they really want that but they just can't afford it without adding items, I don't think clicking "hide post" is such a hard job for you whenever that happens, it would be much worse to make mods babysitting your trades, instead of looking for scammers

While I know how you feel since I keep getting that all the time, I completely disagree with you. Prices change all the time, some items might be rising others dropping like dead flies. Some people forsee that and offer accordingly. I know it can be frustrating for the seller but all you have to do about it is hide their post. It's just one click.

I also think those who have rules like "if you lowball you'll get reported" should be the ones getting banned instead. They have ridiculously high prices and when someone offers them a fair trade they get real mad. It's not in the rules, so don't abuse the report system and stop wasting moderator's time.

Totally disagree, it would be a total waste of admin's time. You have a hide post option for a reason, besides, demanding only keys/promos is a bad idea. Often people will give far better deals than you could get in pure currency, simply for paying in items.
I'm sure admins have far better things to do than delete posts that you could hide anyway.

Would you go to Asda/Walmart and try and offer them a sausage roll for a pork pie? No you wouldn't. If the seller has their trade listed as a SALE, then the buyer is in no right to offer anything other than that.

If you ask money for something and you get an offer in diamonds (which is 2-3 times more valuable) would you refuse it? Sure you'd have to resell them but hey it's more than what you asked for.

Sure we can just click hide, but you could say that about anything, let's say someone posts a huge racist rant on someone's trade, that'd be against the rules, right? "But you could just click hide!" - no, it doesn't work like that.

That's completely irrelevant, it's in the rules to be polite to your fellow traders and not call them any names. Yes it can be considered disrespectful not to read the OPs notes but offering something other than what you asked for isn't crossing any line and certainly can't be called trolling, unless the person is doing it on purpose to annoy you. Most of the times though that isn't the case so you'll have to learn to deal with it yourself.

Originally posted by Gee:

One of the items you can put in is for 'Offers'. If I was accepting offers then I would have put the 'Offers' one in, wouldn't I?

Originally posted by Gee:

It's quite clear that anyone who offers on a non-offer listing clearly has something wrong with them mentally,

You're deluded.
Outside of U trading, barely anyone puts offers in their wishlist.
Because that's a bit more efforts. And because we know that people will offer random shit anyway. The base assumption is that a trade is up for negotiation. Because prices are fuzzy AND always shifting. Because this is a barter economy. Because there are probably tens of other traders offering the same shit as you do for suspiciously similar prices and a good chunk of them are less picky than you.

In other words : You are not wallmart. Deal with it.

You want wallmart ? Here it is[tf2wh.com] (well the closest we have anyway)

Originally posted by Gee:

Sure we can just click hide, but you could say that about anything, let's say someone posts a huge racist rant on someone's trade, that'd be against the rules, right? "But you could just click hide!" - no, it doesn't work like that.

I wanted to address that too, coz it hinges on a pretty telling poing.

The reason a racist rant would be against the rules and moderated is that racist rants are bound to hurt someone's feelings at some point. (grossly simplified)

Now tell us Gee. Why would you make that comparison ? Is it that people offering a bunch of uncraftable hats instead of luscious raw metal are actually hurting you ? What is your brain made off ? Why is it unacceptable to you to merely click that little hide cross ?