I've seen this issue raised on other forums too. There's often a concern about auctions being "discovered".
As one option, we could easily make the entire /auctions section only visible to members, or those with certain "likes", post-count, etc. Is that an approach we'd want to take?
I personally favour a more open site, which includes transparency in sorting out the ok/good/great auctions, even if it means they end up bumped a little higher in the end. Perhaps it could become more of an issue as ΩF grows larger.
That's a great idea. We've been discussing similar tie-ins to achieve tighter interaction between recommended-auctions and the rest of ΩF. Right now it still feels a bit disjointed.
The following additions or fixes will be rolled out very soon:
- Ability for any nominated members/experts to contribute auction suggestions (in the beta this is being done manually).
- Fixed progress bars for buy-it-now auctions
- Fixed "added-by" labels being reset in certain circumstances when Ebay returns unexpected replies
- A section for all archived auctions saving their final value and other stats
This will continue to evolve based heavily on member feedback/opinion, so now's your chance to be heard Click to expand...