"I think you need to add"

I believe this concept will reduce trade values significantly to newly released "semi whales" or "whales" and they won't be so outrageous as to 6:1, besides the really rare bottles I listed. People are only getting so many bottles because other people are and its only going to get worse if we don't step in. Hecklers are like lobbyist of the ISO:FT, they're just doing it to benefit their future trades of the same bottles. Attempting to maintain a fictious value via heckling, is outrageous. I can understand 3:1, even 4:1, especially if a couple buddies want to go in on a bottle to trade for, but 6:1 - 12:1 should be for rare bottles only and I believe if we limit the comments, bottle hype will be reduced. If you don't think this site controls the secondary markets, you are OUT OF YOUR MIND. The only thing BeerAdvocate is missing is a link to where we can sell collector bottles. I dont know why Im using BX or BADV, when I could be using BA, like I use the ISO:FT. Those sites are piggy-backing off BA's rating and evaluations of all beers produced.

 

I like the idea of disabling comments but I believe, we're past that point. I'm about leveling the playing field. Ive also made awesome friends through awesome trades on this site via long distance or IP, despite my local pals I already know. I operate many liquor stores!

 

Please try to say something constructive man, if you want to joke, just private message me and we can work it out through a cool trade or something. Your alternate mindset with your statement, is whats messing up the trade forum. Knowledge is power.

 

Well, thats actually a main point, a less rare beer and a more rare beer are inconclusive unless there is a history behind the beer. Most of the beers are all new, constantly coming out.

If a guy hits me up in MY ISO:FT thread about wanting Jai Alai and Other Half cans and thats one of the things I listed and I offer a box full of CCB goodies and Other Half cans + a nice bottle and then someone heckles my thread saying "You have to be stupid to take Jai Alai for FO" because he doesnt know the extent of the pm'ed trade and then the guy reads that heckle and then stops responding to me entirely because he listens to someone who is just being a dick, I find that BS. I was more than offering what he wanted, I went up and above and it didnt close because of some thread noise. That was my last heckle and that was the end of the line for me. I am a fair trader, thats why the rating system is in place. We should be able to rest on that enough to complete new trades. FO has no weight except for being newly released. It has like 40 reviews. You know what I mean? This heckling is everywhere with new bottles. A lot of people don't know what they're talking about and that's okay in the rest of the forum, not in the ISO:FT, where its about trading and meeting cool people and getting what you want if you can get it.

I believe comments should be disabled, that is a fair and just way to establish a better trading community and ultimately lower bottle weights and sniff out the good and bad. As much as I enjoy the good comments, supporting a great trader or beer or hash-tagging a friend for a trade someone was looking for, it isn't worth dickheads in a great beer community and like Todd said, the only way to do that would be to moderate more and over-dictate and thats no fun for anyone. If someone wants an arm and leg for a bottle and no one hits, the user will be forced to reevalute his offer by either different bottles or less of them or he can use the secondary markets for $$$.

 

Yep, or what we could do is flag people for heckling and not allow them to post comments to possibly appease the good side of commenting.

 

Right, threads arent allowed to be edited either, if its possible in the coding, maybe we could adjust that to better satisfy.

 

No because there is no scale of shaming. These same people feel entitled to post on anyones trade. If you feel a trade is outrageous, just PM them. Do your part.