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[Rejected] People failing to read notes. Not offering what you were asking for and adding you as friend when you asked not to
Many people here know that some users don't read notes. It just makes it a time waste because they often don't even offer what you were asking for. I thought about a few things:

1. Allow you to remove the "add friend" button. This should be an option that any user can change but ONLY if they have their trade offer URL added to outpost and the arrows icon appears. Some people (like me) want people to only send them trade offers instead of spamming adds and inability to read the notes and offering lowballs


2. Add the ability to add a question (or a few, up to 3 different American questions) when creating a trade.
The answer/s to the question/s must appear in the trade notes. However, in order to avoid abuse the questions and answers will already be made and the user can choose the answer to them and if they want to have them in the trade. Here are the 3 questions I thought can be used (they can be changed or more can be added):

-Does the seller accept friend invites or trade offers?
A. Both
B. Only friend invites
C. Only trade offers

-Does the seller accept item offers?
A. Yes, with equal price or more
B. No
C. Yes, but with overpay

-If the seller accepts item offers, do they have any filters?
A. No, they accept any items
B. Yes, they accept only specific items (such as 1st unusual generations only, or no robo-hats and etc.)
C. Yes, they only accept clean items (non-duped or gifted)
D. They don't care about changes made in the item (such as paints, strange parts, killstreaks and etc.)
E. Answers B, C and D are correct

If the buyer is wrong with at least 1 of the questions, they will be unable to offer on that trade for 30 minutes (this includes sending trade offer, adding seller as friend and commenting on that trade).
Abusing this and selecting wrong answers on purpose will only harm the seller and not anyone else because people will be unable to trade with them and they will be unable to sell their item so there is no reason for them to do it.
This is a good thing because it will make people actually have to read notes and not randomly adding saying "Hi I want to buy your max for 30 keys" when you have your B/O set to 35. This is just a waste of time.

Maybe the 2nd idea is not that good, I might agree but something has to be done about people not reading notes and offering random sh*t. But the 1st idea is a must thing to outpost
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Nooge 8 Aug, 2015 @ 2:18am 
To your first suggesion:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/tf2outpost/discussions/6/666826166345755101/
Add option to disable the "Add on Steam" button.

To your second suggestion, there's always going to be people that don't read your notes, the easiest solution is to just remove/ignore the user and move on. Implementing an entire questionare system is unnecessary for the site.
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