Option to banish For Sale from the home page?

[marinosr]

First, thanks for all the great work the webmasters and board are doing to improve the website. Y'all put in a lot of thankless hours I'm sure. Something that was great about the old separate classifieds system is that people's ads didn't clog up the discussion board, particularly on the main page that lists the newest posts. While the classifieds are great, I don't need to have every odd biscuit joiner brought to my attention. I would propose that either users are given the option to hide content from certain forums, or perhaps make this the default. That way we could turn off the ads unless we specifically wanted to look at them every time we logged in.

 

[danmart77]

At least offer the viewer the option to get rid of it is the option I would like.

 

[Pop Golden]

I didn't always go over to the classifieds. Having them on the main page lets me see them. Besides what's wrong with them being on the main page? Most of the time they are very small post.

Pop

 

[MarkE]

I agree with Pop. It doesn't seem too intrusive to me, and if you don't want to see it, its easy enough to scroll past.

I'm not opposed to giving people the option to block any particular forum, if that is easy enough to set up.

 

[gritz]

I also preferred the ability to click a box in the header to see the entire list of items for sale or wanted when I am interested in such.
It's pretty cumbersome to scroll all the way through most of the forum list to get to the for sale forum.

 

[bowman]

if you want to see the for sale listings quickly, click on the box to the right of the screen.

 

[NOTW]

Just my 2¢ I don't see it as a big enough deal for the mods to need to go in and change it. If you are reading through the new discussions titles and see one that says for sale, skip it and go to the next.

 

[gritz]

if you want to see the for sale listings quickly, click on the box to the right of the screen.

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That doesn't appear on my screen

 

[Mike Davis]

That doesn't appear on my screen

Do you see the small advertisements on the right (or in some cases on the left?)?

Classifieds should be under those ads.

 

[gritz]

Do you see the small advertisements on the right (or in some cases on the left?)?

Classifieds should be under those ads.

Sometimes the ads appear...sometimes not. This time I did find them at the bottom. Thanks Mike.

 

[MarkE]

It doesn't seem to work correctly for me. When I click on the brown title bar "LATEST FOR SALE LISTINGS" the what's new page comes up. It does not link to the for sale forum.

If I click on one of the ads under the title bar it brings me to that ad. From there I can click on the for sale forum link at the top of the post.

 

[gfernandez]

What a slippery slope this is. I don't mind the for sale items, they are at least woodworking related. If you banish those, I imagine all the gardening, HVAC, car, salad, food and other non woodworking posts would be next. Leave it as it is, skip what you don't want to read and move on.....

 

[bowman]

It doesn't seem to work correctly for me. When I click on the brown title bar "LATEST FOR SALE LISTINGS" the what's new page comes up. It does not link to the for sale forum.

If I click on one of the ads under the title bar it brings me to that ad. From there I can click on the for sale forum link at the top of the post.

You have to hover over "LATEST FOR SALE LISTINGS and wait for it to turn into a hyperlink you can click.

 

[tri4sale]

You have to hover over "LATEST FOR SALE LISTINGS and wait for it to turn into a hyperlink you can click.

When I do that, it pulls up all the What's New Posts, not the for sale posts.

 

[Mike Davis]

When I do that, it pulls up all the What's New Posts, not the for sale posts.

That is what I get on my phone.

 

[marinosr]

A few points to expand on my original post:

- I guess having the classifieds on the main page have made the site feel more transactional to me, less like a community for discussing woodworking.
- I end up clicking on threads with vague titles thinking it's a discussion about the title, but really it's just an ad. I know the forum name is right there but it's tiny and not very visible. Maybe automatically prefacing classifieds titles with FOR SALE: or WANTED: would make this less of an issue.
- I don't care that much

 

[MarkE]

You have to hover over "LATEST FOR SALE LISTINGS and wait for it to turn into a hyperlink you can click.

That happens pretty much instantly once the cursor is on the title bar. Clicking on that link still brings me to the Whats New page.

 

[bowman]

you are absolutely right Mark. I thought when I clicked earlier it took me to that specific forum, must have been a brain-fart.

 

[Hmerkle]

A few points to expand on my original post:

- I guess having the classifieds on the main page have made the site feel more transactional to me, less like a community for discussing woodworking.
- I end up clicking on threads with vague titles thinking it's a discussion about the title, but really it's just an ad. I know the forum name is right there but it's tiny and not very visible. Maybe automatically prefacing classifieds titles with FOR SALE: or WANTED: would make this less of an issue.
- I don't care that much

Richard, are you talking about the "latest for sale listings" on the right side of the page or forum posts in the discussion feed?

 

[marinosr]

Richard, are you talking about the "latest for sale listings" on the right side of the page or forum posts in the discussion feed?

To clarify, I am talking about the "for sale" threads showing up in the discussion feed. The "Latest for-sale listings" column I hardly notice, and that seems like a much better place for these sale notices than in the discussion listing.