Bumping in PC and Buy forums

I am confused on the rules on bumping in Price Check and Buy forums. Recently the Service forum has added the rules for Sell and High-end that you can't bump more than once in 24 hours. I have sent a PM to Inde concerning this and still as of yet received a reply back on the matter.

I checked the Ventari's rules on the matter it clearly said you can't bump more than once in 24 hours, and this applies to all forums in Ventari's sell not just the thre forums: Sell, High-end, and Service.

What are your guys' thoughts on this?

I personally don't see a problem in bumping in the PC and Buy forums, but it doesn't really matter to me at all since I just respond to questions in those two forums.

Wow, Murder in China, just checked back 3 pages in my PM's and you did message me on 02/05. Sorry I didn't respond, it just got lost in the chaos of my PM box. It's very hard to enforce this type of rule in those forums. Price Checks are open for discussion so this would be a very difficult rule to enforce. Also, the mods have a heavy workload in the 3 forums as it is. It requires hundreds of moderating actions a day for just those 3 forums. Adding 2 additional on top of it would mean that something has to give and right now it's pretty controled.

So yes, I would like to hear the communities thoughts, if I have to find moderators I can if this is something that people want.

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Loviatar is basically right. 24 hour bump is to prevent excess posts.
Oh and you passed the 5000 post mark... So I guess the legend was false .

Murder in China,
The 24 hour bump rule has always been here. Maybe it wasn't enforced enough back then...

Don't whip me.

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The PC forum is dynamic for sure. While I can sympathize and understand someone's grief over someone bumping an excessive amount of times within a 24 hour period, I don't see how enforcing a 24 hold on bumps would benefit the community. Price checks are, in my opinion, fluid and are subject to change, even on a daily basis. Also, some of the people who post for price checks on items are in situations where someone wants to buy an item in-game, and they'd like to know what the said item is worth (so as not to overpay or conversely, undercharge).

Some people come to get pricechecks on stuff thats been sitting in their storage for weeks or months. Others come to get a quick pc on a weapon they see in LA D1 and want to know (rather quickly) if they should snatch it up, for a good deal. So, the paramaters seem broad in that I don't think 24 hour bump rules would be the best idea there.

Having said that, the Price Check forum should'nt be some wild-west lawless forum, where rules don't apply. What I'd be in favor of, and would like to see is:

1) Limit Thread submission to 1 per 24 hours -- I've seen several times where someone has posted 3-4 threads consecutively.
2) Limit bumps to once every 3/6/12 hours. ( I would say 6 hours would be ideal* but thats just me) Even this would be rather difficult to keep track of, but if there are rules posted, most people should start to abide by them. This also allows for others to get their items appraised by the handful of PC Forum regulars who like to help out a bit.
3) This is just a personal fancy, but perhaps limiting the amount of items to be PC'ed down to around 5 or so. Sometimes.....lets just say its not un-common to see 20-30 items posted in one thread, and the person wants them ALL pc'ed.

There's always room for improvement, and while I like the current set-up of the PC forum, I wouldn't be averse to some subtle changes. For the most part, the forum runs itself pretty smooth, IMO.