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| | | Author: | activoice  | | Posted: | Jul 28, 2015 14:16 | | Subject: | Add country flags to forum posts | | Viewed: | 103 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I think it would be helpful if next to the posters name in the list of forum
posts if a country flag was displayed next to the poster's name.
A lot of times I am browsing the message topics and see a forum post for a sale
or free shipping.
Most of the time it's a store that does not ship to my country, or a free
shipping offer that is only domestic. It would be helpful if a flag indicating
the country of the poster showed up. It would save time when viewing forum posts
like these to know that these deals are not available to me.
It would be even more helpful if the poster was a seller, and it showed the symbol
that Seller ships to me... but that might be asking too much...
This should only really apply to the Sales Topic.... but it might be helpful
if it appeared in other topics as well, but I can't think of any other one
where this would apply...
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jul 28, 2015 14:25 | | Subject: | Re: Add country flags to forum posts | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| There is an alternative that the seller mentioning the sale puts [US / UK / DE
/ NL / WW] etc in the title.
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| | | | | | | Author: | fredjh | | Posted: | Jul 28, 2015 14:33 | | Subject: | Re: Add country flags to forum posts | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
| | There is an alternative that the seller mentioning the sale puts [US / UK / DE
/ NL / WW] etc in the title.
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Good luck with that.
I even have the same issue with people on the Eurobricks buy/trade forum... unlike
BL, it's optional to fill in your location, so half the time you don't
even know where they're from even if you read the full message.
When a group gets large enough, you will never get everyone on the same page,
even to follow simple guidelines like "mention your country in sales subject
lines."
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jul 28, 2015 14:35 | | Subject: | Re: Add country flags to forum posts | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| It depends if BL wants it to happen and if they want to spend time educating
people. If every post without this info is deleted (without warning), sellers
advertising their sales will soon learn.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | fredjh | | Posted: | Jul 28, 2015 15:17 | | Subject: | Re: Add country flags to forum posts | | Viewed: | 16 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
| | It depends if BL wants it to happen and if they want to spend time educating
people. If every post without this info is deleted (without warning), sellers
advertising their sales will soon learn.
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True; I have no problem with BL enforcing such a policy... but wouldn't that
require policing it, too? I think it would be easier for a technical solution
to put a little flag next to the post... then no one would forget or wonder why
they aren't getting hits from their sales announcements...
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| | | | | Author: | activoice | | Posted: | Jul 28, 2015 15:04 | | Subject: | Re: Add country flags to forum posts | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I just figure the sellers won't remember to do it... and bricklink already
has the information, and it will fit on the screen, it's 1 or 2 small icons
next to the name...
Should take what an hour to add, a day to QA, then push out...
I think some sellers forget that bricklink is an international marketplace.
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| | | | | | | Author: | fredjh | | Posted: | Jul 28, 2015 15:58 | | Subject: | Re: Add country flags to forum posts | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, activoice writes:
| | I just figure the sellers won't remember to do it... and bricklink already
has the information, and it will fit on the screen, it's 1 or 2 small icons
next to the name...
Should take what an hour to add, a day to QA, then push out...
I think some sellers forget that bricklink is an international marketplace.
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Frankly, now that we're talking about it, and when we discuss anything related
to the forum, we should get 21st century forum software. In addition to what
you wrote, I'd like to filter out sales posts started by sellers in countries
I already filter out in my searches.
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| | | | | Author: | Biodreamer | | Posted: | Jul 29, 2015 01:22 | | Subject: | Re: Add country flags to forum posts | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, activoice writes:
| | I think it would be helpful if next to the posters name in the list of forum
posts if a country flag was displayed next to the poster's name.
A lot of times I am browsing the message topics and see a forum post for a sale
or free shipping.
Most of the time it's a store that does not ship to my country, or a free
shipping offer that is only domestic. It would be helpful if a flag indicating
the country of the poster showed up. It would save time when viewing forum posts
like these to know that these deals are not available to me.
It would be even more helpful if the poster was a seller, and it showed the symbol
that Seller ships to me... but that might be asking too much...
This should only really apply to the Sales Topic.... but it might be helpful
if it appeared in other topics as well, but I can't think of any other one
where this would apply...
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I think it's better to add a filter setting for those forums. So if you only
want to see sales and offers in US you can use the same filter as if our looking
for a store.
That way I don't have to remember all flags and it's personal, you can
choose your style and don't need to filter away those with your eyes.
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Canada, Ontario
United Kingdom, England
USA, Georgia
Sweden, Stockholm