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[orren]

Would be very helpful if New Advertisements were kept available
for more than one day; ie, two or maybe three days before being
removed from section.

If one does not look at this section late in the day he misses many
that could have been posted .

 

[patracy]

Ads in the classifieds remain for 90 days from the last post/reply. Should be plenty of time for everyone to see the ad or search for what they're looking for. The forum displays in chronological order anyhow. Further you go back, the older the posts are. (posts and replies) If I were to fudge the display sequence in the classifieds, you'd end up with the same thing you have now.

Edit: Read your post again. I assume you're gauge this from your new threads button. Again it's working as designed. Let's take this for example....

You hit the new threads button at 12pm today. You got:

1. How to change brakes on a M37
2. CUCV not starting
3. GA - M1008 for sale
4. What oil to use in M35A2

Let's say you only were interested in the M35A2 thread and read it. Life got in the way and you didn't get back on the site until 6pm tonight. You hit the new thread button again.

You get:

1. How to change brakes on a M37
2. 5 ton sprag issue
3. TX - M101A3 trailer for sale
4. What oil to use in M35A2

Result number 1 and 4 had more replies during the day you missed, so they're back in the results again. Number 2 and 3 are new threads completely. Why isn't the CUCV thread and M1008 classified ad displaying? Because they were already listed in a new threads search previously.

If new threads simply kept up with every thread you haven't read, the results would be pages long and you'd never get to the "bottom".

 

[porkysplace]

Enforcing the 7 day bump rule would help . It seems the first 2 pages are always the same ads with a few members adding posts to keep their ads on top , with things that should be edited into the original post instead of bumping the ad.

 

[orren]

New Advertisements section only.

Thanks for the help. Of coarse new ads do not now roll with each day but are cut off leaving a time for one to miss all the messages as they are entered; so one
has to look in each category separately to try to find any advertisements
he has missed the days before.

It just would be nice to have all NEW ads in one place on a 48 hour+ roll.
I hope you see the advantage of this so ALL ads are easily seen regardless
of category and time of day entered at least over the coarse of several days.

Doing this should not preclude entering ads into their respective categories
as now is done.

Thanks for your consideration,
Orren Winjum

Ads in the classifieds remain for 90 days from the last post/reply. Should be plenty of time for everyone to see the ad or search for what they're looking for. The forum displays in chronological order anyhow. Further you go back, the older the posts are. (posts and replies) If I were to fudge the display sequence in the classifieds, you'd end up with the same thing you have now.

Edit: Read your post again. I assume you're gauge this from your new threads button. Again it's working as designed. Let's take this for example....

You hit the new threads button at 12pm today. You got:

1. How to change brakes on a M37
2. CUCV not starting
3. GA - M1008 for sale
4. What oil to use in M35A2

Let's say you only were interested in the M35A2 thread and read it. Life got in the way and you didn't get back on the site until 6pm tonight. You hit the new thread button again.

You get:

1. How to change brakes on a M37
2. 5 ton sprag issue
3. TX - M101A3 trailer for sale
4. What oil to use in M35A2

Result number 1 and 4 had more replies during the day you missed, so they're back in the results again. Number 2 and 3 are new threads completely. Why isn't the CUCV thread and M1008 classified ad displaying? Because they were already listed in a new threads search previously.

If new threads simply kept up with every thread you haven't read, the results would be pages long and you'd never get to the "bottom".

 

[patracy]

Tried this before, people then ignored the ads completely. Actually you can see where I setup a query just for the classifieds over the top of the section.

Classifieds - Steel Soldiers::Military Vehicles Supersite

and the link...

http://www.steelsoldiers.com/search.php?do=getnew&include=123,125,126,127,129,130,131

However, this does and ALWAYS will run the same fashion. If it was resulted before in a search and you skip over it, once a new query sent.