Pix in "For Sale" section

[95GTST]

Christian & co,

Is it possible to get the rules for selling items changed so that people have to upload a pic of their item to be able to sell it?

Seems like in every thread, the first thing people are asking is if they have a pic of the item... Makes sense to me that this should be mandatory...

Kyran.

[Sciby]

Obviously I can't speak on behalf of the mods but unfortunately not everyone owns a digital camera or a scanner, but I agree that instead of emailing it to people, they should post it the thread once.

[Laurence]

Also a location of the seller is important. At least the state...

Perhaps if that can be on a menu when you make the post or something.

[funkymonkey]

we were discussing organising a gallery section where you could upload photos, and maybe a tutorial showing you how. I'll see if I can work out a way of modifying the forums so that when you hit submit in the for sale section it asks you for filenames of photos to add to your post.

But yeah we have thought about this, hopefully a solution is upcoming.

[PranK]

if you read the rules in that section (the announcement) you'll see all of that has been added to the rules... its just enforcing it..

Sciby - got your email, will reply shortly.

[predator]

yeah.. people are a little stupid. Picture sells an item a heap quicker and saves a lot of hassles. Ranging from a whole car to some little widget.

And its not hard to upload one either or host it somewhere and just link it.. but people are often n00bs and don't even know how to do that (or too lazy to learn).

But you have to give people a bit of a break as not everybody does have a digital camera or is as l33t as us all Half the time i feel like emailing the seller myself and offering to host the pix to take the stupid load and "pix please" pointless replies.

[dAVE]

Its a good idea, but as predator says so well .....

people are a little stupid.

Its hard enough trying to get people to follow the simple rules we have now (see a few of those people posting in this thread even!) so it would be almost impossible to try and get everyone to post pics.

[wados]

why dont we use a symbol like a camera on the side of the thread so people know if there is a pick or not, so if there is a pick then you see the camera if there is no pic then there is an X over the camera

[Sciby]

Well, there's the paperclip icon at the moment, showing an attachment... although that doesn't show if they've pasted a url to an off-SAU site with photos.

[wados]

yeah i knew that but i dont think most people would know that that could mean a photo or directory is attached so a camera pic would be easier for people to understand, and you could keep the paperclip thing aswell

[Sciby]

I can see where you're coming from, but I would suggest that it would involve some changing of code, and some process (manual or automatic) that might be more trouble than it's worth. Far easier to just enforce a 'you must have a pic of the item' policy.

[dAVE]

thats something i have been meaning to ask... prank or brody, is it possible to show an image icon next to a post if it has the tag used in it?