Should we re-enable replying to trade posts?

Absolutely - yes.

 

100% yes.

 

One problem with the completed trade forum, is people can (and do) post bogus trades to jack up trade value. Reddit has the feature that both members have to validate the trade. Then everyone can see the details of the trade.

 

Bring it back

 

Fair enough, then I guess it's a No from me :-) I like my other idea, leave it up to the OP to decide. That way if they want feedback they can get it... if not, they can turn commenting off.

 

Absolutely bring it back. It makes beer trading a lot more fun and educational if you're making a bad trade.

 

Vote Nay,

The troll society is too strong. Everyone has an opinion on completely arbitrary values. Arbitrary.
Traders set values on beers that no one has ever had. Ive been told countless times by traders that their beer x was better than beer y and hadnt had either. I prefer not to read trolling posts about how someone is "way off" and a myriad of reasons. Would rather people just be happy and remember this is beer.

 

No, I like taking advantage of uninformed traders.

 

Yes

 

I am in favor of bringing back the ability to reply to ISO:FT posts. I have fallen out of touch with values, plus have no idea what the new acronyms stand for, and would really appreciate the ability to catch up to current times via peoples replies (even with the trolls lurking, it never took long to recognize who was truly being helpful and who was trolling and deserved to be ignored). Hell, that's how I learned the first time around. No clue how new traders learn today. I'm getting old

Plus, reading the replies use to be half the fun. It made the ISO/FT threads more entertaining and definitely made things way more spicy.

How about reinstating replies for a set period of time and taking another poll? The traders that it would help the most (new to the block) have more than likely never been on the forums when replies were enabled. Maybe give them a little taste and see if they think it is sweet or sour.

 

Honestly Todd, as a member here for a long time I think that less people use that part of the forums because with the lack of replies, it seems robotic. It puts BA at a disadvantage compared to sites like Facebook or Reddit. I'm all for replies. Just my two cents.

 

That's entertainment!

This in a nutshell covers why the vast majority of those in favor are saying yes. These other comments like "helping the newbies out", as others have brought up, does the PM function not work for you? I've PM'ed a few people when I have seen requests for really old IPAs in the Chicago area. It's really not difficult to do. Opening up replies is all about entertainment value imo. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with this but this is what it is.

@cfh64 made a great post just above and I agree with most everything he wrote. I was reading through the thread while thinking about the topic so might be a bit repetitive here. Imo, many of the peanut gallery commentators/Beer Street Journal columnist types do have ulterior motives in protecting their regional 'beer value'. And if I never see another 'Great trader here" or "Someone hook this guy up!" comment in the trading forum it will be much too soon.

Regarding letting the poster switch on/off replies, this would not be a good idea imo. It's either all on or all off. Selective comments will just result in people switching it off when seeking what many might see as lopsided deals. So feedback when it would be most needed, in some minds, would not be available per the OP's choice of switching it off.

I appreciate BA opening up this discussion and soliciting feedback. I do agree in some instances feedback could be beneficial but I think the negative aspects far outweigh the positive. And a simple PM can be used to be constructive to the poster. My vote is no.

 

I vote yes.

 

nah, I don't miss it. So much threadshitting.

 

Absolutely!

I fee that it creates a more balanced market to allow feedback and helps new traders because it's easier to gauge whether an offer is good or not based on feedback to the post, and encourages more traders to provide feedback if they don't have to go through PMs for everything.

 

No! Please don't bring it back.

(1) comments are enjoyed by those who comment, but usually just annoying to the original poster. Comments on Reddit tend to be "no way that'll get done!" Or "you'll need to add" -- which help no one. TB ("Talk Beer" forum) replies are often either mocking the OP, or spinning off into unrelated topics. BA is the only place that is clean and simple and safe.

(2) seeing new ISO:FT posts at the top (instead of whichever post got the most replies) is helpful for traders.

(3) BA Is unique in disallowing comments -- and that is a selling point! Stay unique and stick to your guns. Comments do not improve the specific service.

One helpful thing for BA Admins to maybe work on is warning when beers are potentially infected. When a beer is announced to have infection problems, a ton of people try to quickly unload there's on this forum. On Reddit / TalkBeer people can reply to warn trader's, but on BA there's no checks and balances. Maybe the admins could flag posts of infected brews somehow. Just an idea.

 

Please do not. It sounds good in theory, but you end up with trolls who think they are the beer police. It's simple enough to just message someone.

 

Really well said. I want to like this 1000X times.

 

If it bugs you that much than post your trade and just wait till you get a pm. You can ignore your thread altogether.

Maybe somebody should put a poll together. Curious to see where it would land.