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Sorry for the clickbait title. This post isn't about bots at all; its a suggestion for trade bumping:
"Bump all trades" causes the following issues:
It floods the "Browse trades" page with blocks of trades from only a few people.
Since you can only see about 30 items at a time, if a few people are selling 5 items each, It quickly makes for a 5 or 6 person show.
Promotes laziness when reviewing trades
Some people list garbage items, or items with prices that are too high. Bump all encourages people to ignore their failed listings or overpriced items.
Reduces site interaction
Pressing one button reduces the amount of time spent on one page and reduces ad viewing opportunities for non-donators.
Encourages extra data storage
People are more likely to let failed trades float for multiple days/weeks because they aren't forced to review their failure to get traction. This increases the amount of data your servers have to store, thus increasing server cost.
Suggested fix:
Replace "Bump All Trades" button with "Review and Bump" button
Review and Bump button will iterate through your top 3 most viewed trades
Each "review" shows the trade with its current comment/view count and lets you "bump" or "not bump" the trade.
If you choose "bump" on each review, the next trade is shown
After 3 trades are shown, no more reviews are offered. If the user has more than 3 trades, a dialogue box indicates that other trades must be manually bumped
"Review and Bump" button is only available if one of your top 3 trades hasn't seen any action after "X" amount of time.
OPTIONAL: Add Premium Bump option for donators. "Premium Bump" has the same functionality as current "Bump all Trades"
In a vacuum, the Bump All Trades button is nice feature for the sellers, but its negatively impacting your site and potential buyers. With a few tweaks, you can maximize your site interactivity, reduce your data storage and processing costs and add a premium (paid) feature for whales.
Sorry for the clickbait title. This post isn't about bots at all; its a suggestion for trade bumping:
"Bump all trades" causes the following issues:
It floods the "Browse trades" page with blocks of trades from only a few people.
Since you can only see about 30 items at a time, if a few people are selling 5 items each, It quickly makes for a 5 or 6 person show.
Promotes laziness when reviewing trades
Some people list garbage items, or items with prices that are too high. Bump all encourages people to ignore their failed listings or overpriced items.
Reduces site interaction
Pressing one button reduces the amount of time spent on one page and reduces ad viewing opportunities for non-donators.
Encourages extra data storage
People are more likely to let failed trades float for multiple days/weeks because they aren't forced to review their failure to get traction. This increases the amount of data your servers have to store, thus increasing server cost.
Suggested fix:
Replace "Bump All Trades" button with "Review and Bump" button
Review and Bump button will iterate through your top 3 most viewed trades
Each "review" shows the trade with its current comment/view count and lets you "bump" or "not bump" the trade.
If you choose "bump" on each review, the next trade is shown
After 3 trades are shown, no more reviews are offered. If the user has more than 3 trades, a dialogue box indicates that other trades must be manually bumped
"Review and Bump" button is only available if one of your top 3 trades hasn't seen any action after "X" amount of time.
OPTIONAL: Add Premium Bump option for donators. "Premium Bump" has the same functionality as current "Bump all Trades"
In a vacuum, the Bump All Trades button is nice feature for the sellers, but its negatively impacting your site and potential buyers. With a few tweaks, you can maximize your site interactivity, reduce your data storage and processing costs and add a premium (paid) feature for whales.
Originally you could only bump one trade at a time and that made people very, very angry Whilst it would be possible to take this a step further with your 'review' UI suggestion, I think that it will just frustrate traders to no end having all these extra steps needed for bumping their total offering.
The justification of reducing site interaction and encouraging extra data storage are of negligible value to the site, and I decided a while back not to offer premium functionality to users as a matter of principle (cosmetics/flexing only).
It seems your main quarrel is the fact that some users list a lot of shit that you don't want to filter out using the filters/search functionality. Another thing you might not be aware of is that you can Squelch other traders who are creating a lot of noise, which means that their listings won't show up in any of your market views.
Originally you could only bump one trade at a time and that made people very, very angry Whilst it would be possible to take this a step further with your 'review' UI suggestion, I think that it will just frustrate traders to no end having all these extra steps needed for bumping their total offering.
The justification of reducing site interaction and encouraging extra data storage are of negligible value to the site, and I decided a while back not to offer premium functionality to users as a matter of Principle (cosmetics/flexing only).
It seems your main quarrel is the fact that some users list a lot of shit that you don't want to filter out using the filters/search functionality. Another thing you might not be aware of is that you can Squelch other traders who are creating a lot of noise, which means that their listings won't show up in any of your market views.
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Squelches this trader, making their offers on your trades invisible to anyone except themselves. Their trade listings will also be hidden from your marketplace.
Your squelch list can be managed and edited from Top right dropdown > Account Prefs > Squelches.
Whilst it would be possible to take this a step further with your 'review' UI suggestion, I think that it will just frustrate traders to no end having all these extra steps needed for bumping their total offering. 
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