Posted by Re-allow messages in trades

Mochi (rolling
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2019-04-13 08:08:11
In the big update yesterday, there was a part under "little updates" that a lot of people missed. Thats right, no more messages in trades.

This is insanely stupid, I personally use this all the time if im offering on a trade or if I am asking people to offer and don't want my inbox blown up. This is such a useful feature, and I have no idea why it was removed.

I think they should re-allow unblocked users to put messages on trades. Its dumb how they took it away, it was so useful



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🦗Aunt Cricket🦗 (#25961)

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2019-04-13 08:15:45
There was probably a reason on why they removed it, but I support anyways since I used it a lot too! It's a bummer they removed it :/



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wine [M] ♡ (#129733)

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Posted on
2019-04-13 08:17:07
I didn't even notice this till now it's ridiculous it hasn't even been out for long xD
Put it back up I say



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Mochi (rolling
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2019-04-13 08:17:18
I think they removed it because of the suggestion for blocked users, but like fam??? Dont get rid of the whole damn thing

anyway, thats why I think they removed it



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🦗Aunt Cricket🦗 (#25961)

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2019-04-13 08:18:01
Ohh yeah that makes sense. I can understand that, but instead of removing the whole thing, they should learn to work around the blocked users. If that makes sense at all xD



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PeachMilk 🍑 lil
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2019-04-13 08:24:23
It might be because a lot of people would put up 1sb or an aloe leaf or any sort of junk then leave a message which did get a tad annoying. But I can see why it would be useful to those who don't like inbox spam as well



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Mochi (rolling
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2019-04-13 08:34:55
Yeah, but for some that was like there version of an offer, I dont see why they should remove the entire thing I mean you could just say " No small trades with messages" type of thing



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Angela |Skyward
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2019-04-13 09:02:14
Blocked users can't even offer on your trades, period, so that's unlikely to be the issue.

It was probably the people who would place junk on the trades, and just spam many different trades with their 1sb message offers, or the times when people would just mass mob a trade with a bunch of silly 'joke' offers.

Which I get it, the silly offers can be funny when it's an inside joke, however the Code of Conduct does say that game features should not be used for anything other than what they were intended to be used for, so all of the 1sb offers and joke offers were probably rule-breaks.

I've also encountered many offers where people put 1sb or junk items and a "please my cat just died, give me free stuff" sort of messages, which get really old, really fast.

I've seen people use the feature to post really nasty things in the trade comments, usually either insulting the person's trade, or their pricing. If something looks like a scam, it can be reported, but in a player driven free-market like what Lioden is, price policing is generally not okay.

And the inbox spam argument, they still pop up a new message banner and game notification, you're still getting the same amount of inbox spam, with added scrolling and clicking to find what they actually ended up saying. , So I really don't see a benefit there, personally.

I think with how widely the feature was abused, it's reasonable that they've removed it.

If they hadn't removed it though, where would they draw the line between spam offers and genuine messages? What would be appropriate, and how would spam be more easily prevented? Could it be prevented if it's what the majority of the feature was used for? And if that's the case, is the feature even worth salvaging at that point?

I think these were the questions they were answering by removing it. Lioden simply doesn't have the manpower to be babysitting the trades all the time, so I think this was the most logical course of action to take.



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Mochi (rolling
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2019-04-13 09:05:34
Yeah, but the whole thing was they could send you a private trade. Its a suggestion that they couldnt send messages on a private trade.

As for the abuse of it, yeah joke offers exist. And yeah people bash pricing, beg etc. But the modbox exists. This was a useful feature most of the time, I saw it being abused a few times, and im in the TC a lot. Just because it can be misused doesnt mean you should remove it, imo. Thanks for responding tho c:



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Kich (#2373)


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2019-04-13 12:33:18
People got way out of hand with the 1sb/junk/joke offers, so.. no support. I prefer if people pm me if they have something to say instead of using the trade message system to do it.



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