So now that threadshitting is back in full-effect ...

I agree. Almost every trade now has either the replies of negativity, or the replies of "great offer" / "I wish i had that beer because i would do this".. etc..

I am not sure how I feel about them. Either way, I am not sure they are necessary.

agreed. if you think something is great and should get done, make the trade. if you don't have the beer being asked for in the trade, then there shouldn't be a comment.

It seems to me that a lot of the "This a great trade and should get done" comments are usually about offers that won't be completed. I wonder how many people want to see said offer get done because they have the bottle being traded, and want to see if they can use it to trade up?

Exactly. Opens it up for people with similar beers to keep bumping the OP's thread so it can get done, in hopes they can then turn around and copycat his post. If you (the general you reading this, not cosmicevan) think I'm just being cynical, then you haven't been watching the trade forums lately.

Great minds...

/internet high five

I wouldn't do this because a lot just escalated to arguments and got the whole thread deleted so I'd just try and get them to stop. Someone made me realize today though that since the new forum, only the replies get purged, not the whole thread anymore...is that an accurate statement? If so I'll start flagging but I was used to not doing it because it would get some poor guys offer to disappear when they had nothing to do with the arguments.

Awesome, glad you guys can do that now. I'll start using the flagging feature then.

Everyone should always just report posts. Replying to a threadshit that you know is going to get deleted is just as bad as threadshitting in the first place.

Before, further threadshitting would get the whole thread removed. I usually just said something along the lines of those are your opinions and everyone's differ so send them privately. I wouldn't start arguing over their opinions but yea, now that I know whole threads don't get nuked anymore because people get into arguments on there, I'll switch to reporting. Before I would reply to thread shits in hopes that it didn't evolve into a shit storm and get the whole thread deleted.

I'm pretty sure the Bros. have always had the option to nuke individual posts without taking down an entire thread... Not sure why you had the impression that they didn't.

I don't know, because thread after thread(not implying in a short time frame) of legit offers with thread shitters arguing would disappear completely instead of just the replies when the OP wasn't even in the arguments? There would be quite a few posts of err...not sure what happened to my offer but I'm trying this again. Basically people that would post, log off and when they logged back on, poof the thread was gone.

Probably because with a high volume of reported posts, it was just easier to nuke the whole thread. Which is why it's best not to reply to the threadshitters, but just ignore them and report them.

Yes, I'm saying that that was always wrong and you should have been reporting posts (and NOT replying AT ALL) the whole time.

It seemed to work fine and I never got warnings for them, EVER so that's just the way I got used to doing it. I'm starting the reporting now that the whole thread doesn't get nuked though.

yea, I guess you're right. Anyways my point is moot since they don't do that anymore so I'm gonna start using that button.

re: "this is a great offer," i think i've done it out of magnanimous drunkenness (i'm willing to bet many BA posts are like that), but if we're gravitating toward anti-threadshit rules, i do think such posts should be reported and removed.

the intention may not always be bad, but it's clearly something that would be done for bumps, trying to influence value, and other silly reasons that make the community worse rather than better if the behavior becomes normalized.

I nominate myself. 100% serious.