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My 2 cents

I don't care about the thread "players for sale" closed or not my life will be the same but I speak about BBs, I think that an happy community can bring you more money and more satisfaction compare to another community. Probably the success of BB in Spain and Italy is due to the "good feeling" of our national forums. If a community somewhere is happy spamming porn sites I think you should let them free to enjoy, if this create a problem you've to take a decision. The new system to make advertising (players and scrimmages) is horrible, not easy to find for new users and useless but once again no problem about it, I can only remember you that the speed limit is not the same in all the world.

Last, I personally think that there are too many posts cancelled here in global (I'm not speaking about this thread), are you happy to keep alive threads like "the most sexy player in BB" or do you prefer to discuss about some aspect of this game even if this can create some "work" to mods or gms?

what about 2 auto-generating threads (maybe only in global), created with the ads collected with the new sistem?
they could auto-update 1-2 times every day, no more than one scrimmage ads user/week, no more than one ads user/3 days.
could you (also other BBs) give me your opinion about that?

By far the best suggestion.

I don't really like the new system but I understand why we have it. The new system is not good because you can't browse all the ads that have been made. Instead of reading all those you have to hope that you're lucky to see some ad that's interesting to you.

4 scrimmage ads and 2 transfer ads are just not enough to even think about writing an ad, imho. It's just pure chance that someone might see your ad...

One of the comments Ned made in his thread was:

The new system to make advertising (players and scrimmages) is horrible, not easy to find for new users

I honestly prefer the new system, I think it has helped me sell more players than any Transfer thread ever did. However I really agree with Ned's comment that the Ads are not easy to find. I think to make it easier for new players to place and utilize these ads is to add an option to put an ad on the player your selling right on his player page or in the drop down menu on his page. As for the Scrimmage ads perhaps having an option for it below or near where the main page suggests teams to scrimmage.

While this isn't a solution for Italy's woes it's progress and might help make the game easier for New Players

One of the comments Ned made in his thread was:

The new system to make advertising (players and scrimmages) is horrible, not easy to find for new users

I honestly prefer the new system, I think it has helped me sell more players than any Transfer thread ever did. However I really agree with Ned's comment that the Ads are not easy to find. I think to make it easier for new players to place and utilize these ads is to add an option to put an ad on the player your selling right on his player page or in the drop down menu on his page. As for the Scrimmage ads perhaps having an option for it below or near where the main page suggests teams to scrimmage.

While this isn't a solution for Italy's woes it's progress and might help make the game easier for New Players

i honestly don't like it.

i can see only 2 players and i must refresh several time to view approximately 10 players. why?

because users who use this system are few.

if all of us will use this sistem, we must in any case refresh the same page

i think if we all keep on refresh the same page several time we overload the server, as well as we read 20 message in a forum with 2 click...

Last edited by ÐΞﮎ@þiﮎA at 2/8/2010 7:39:49 PM

I think it's probably time for me to leave the thread for a while and see if some good ideas develop.

Starting with this one: How about scrimmage and transfer ad pages presented like the newspaper ads in Street Rod I & II? (At approx 0:45 in this video) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqpr7K4jf2o)

lol.

that's fine :D

Improving where ads are located will increase the number of people who use the system.

It increases the visibility of players Worldwide to all players new and old not just those who check a thread on the forum. The bottom line is the #1 place to find players will be the transfer list itself. All other things are just increasing the visibility of the player. The transfer thread lets you see a bunch at once however not everyone checks it, the new ads force everyone to see your players. Neither system is perfect yet one is gone for sure we can either debate on how to improve the new one or work to find an alternate solution.

Iv'e tried that but I'm chasing flags, so only one of these ads is interesting, most of the times. And this one ad doesn't change with every refresh. It sometimes comes up longer than half an hour. Same with transfer ads in "manage my team": right now it shows a guy who's transfer deadline is at 10.33 and I bet he will be there till 10.33...

Last edited by LA-Karangula at 2/9/2010 3:19:24 AM

My suggestion is this: on the transfer list page have a link to ads. This link would be a list of single line ads made by managers that would follow this template:
name idlink age potential position salary notes

for example
Buzz R. Beater 000000 18 star center $3251 terrible player with low inside scoring. great for your team
Ima Gudplayer 000001 23 MVP PG $75345 marvelous JS Stupendous OD

This page would access only players listed for less money than the searching manager had available.


Same with scrimmage ads. On the scrimmages page a link to a list of single line ads made by managers looking for scrimmages following this template:

country flag icon team name division and league notes

USA Hoosiers div. VII league 123 looking for away scrimmage
ENG Lobsterbacks div. II league 22 Oi!


Moderation could be very easy. Any offensive remarks in an ad results in a lifetime ban from using them again.