[META] distinguish hosted pool shares from mass hardware buys

[amer]

I think it would be really helpful to come up with some way to differentiate between buying shares in a pool and buying physical hardware as part of a mass order.

Technically, many of the hardware sellers aren't doing a group buy at all (which is when a bunch of individual consumers pool funds to purchase an institutional quantity of item at discount prices). They seem to be more like stores with a limited inventory, or the buyer purchases first/personal risk and then coordinates delivery to each individual.

More importantly, some of these posts are for "a share of something" and some of these posts are for actual physical hardware that is to be delivered. It would be nice to standardize on how that's depict - not necessarily via subforums, but with tags in the subject.

Example:


A similar convention is already being voluntarily followed to some degree to indicate if group buys are open or closed.

Just a thought to keep things organized, feel free to tear down (also this post probably belongs in a different forum)

[Miner_2049er]

Sounds useful, but I would just use the well-known abbreviation of {HW} vs. {HARDWARE}

[goggles1200]

Why stop there? Just make it a subcat. of group buys. That way you can just select which you want to see rather than searching through all posts to see what is what.

[infamousdutch]

Why stop there? Just make it a subcat. of group buys. That way you can just select which you want to see rather than searching through all posts to see what is what.

I like the subcat better, helps reduce static.

[Bogart]

Yes, please do this.  I also favor separate subforums for each type.

[twib2]

I too would like separate subfora for the different types.