Bitcoin Forum

Lately I've been trying to put some bids on auctions. Turns out the auction board is one of the hardest sections of this forum to browse. It's mainly dominated by some particular posters that create new posts for every single item they have on sale. It feels like the board is barely moderated (or the rules are too loose).

There are also many locked/finished auctions taking space in it's frontpage. It would have been more productive if this space was saved for auctions that are still ongoing. I realise that the posts have to remain there for future reference, but keeping them in the front page of the auction forum after their auction has ended doesn't seem to be meaningful.

All these result to many auctions getting buried before they even receive a handful of views. Giving both sellers and buyers a bad experience.

I think there should be more subsections reserved for auctions for specific kinds of items (especially for domains). Or even making a separate section for domains - I have noticed that domains generally will receive very few to no bids (probably 90%+ no bids or even replies other then bumps) but take up a huge amount of "room" as many people are trying to farm domain names.

Posts get bumped up to the top of the board every time a new post is made on it. If you see a locked thread on the first page of the board, it'll be moved on soon enough.

Its been discussed a few times, auctions need to be moved somewhere else because of the spammy nature. Registor 50 $2 terrible remotely related to bitcoin domains and auction them each for $100. Sell one and you make your spam money back.

From what I have seen is that the reasoning behind not giving domains their own forum section is that a domain section would be too spammy from all the low quality domain selling spam. However I really do not see the problem with having all the spam posts concentrated within it's own section designed for such spam.

It is like saying that the section designed for spam would contain too much spam

Close, more like saying it would be better to curb the spam.  I've banned several for excessive/annoying topic creation already, and another yesterday.

Not sure another child board is really necessary, first page of auctions goes back 3 days, so it isn't overly busy.

Well AFAIK, there are no rules limiting the number of auction threads that a person can have open (I would think that at a point it would clearly become abusive though).

I would say that there should be a hard rule in place that says that a person can only have n number of unlocked auction threads open at a time, but even this would not prevent someone from creating multiple accounts to create multiple auction threads.

My argument is that people will look at the first half  (so "my" screen can see as many topics as it can) of the auction board and see 9 out of 16 threads advertising domains, of which they have zero interest in (as the vast majority of people do) and decide to not bother looking at the rest of the board (or to not advertise their goods). If you count all of the topics on the first page of the auction board, you will see 26 out of 39 threads belong to domain auctions (plus one sticky).

i agree that the auction board is hard to browse or to be honest i hate it.
it should be categorised into
          -domain names
          -mining equipment
          -other goods

               -endet auctions

this would make it a lot easer to braves and bid.
hope something like this gets implemented.
thanks,
JT