theres this guy who was going around the marketplace category like yesterday or two days ago literally commenting on every trade like “trade profit for the recipent: very poor, trade profit for the poster: extremely good.”
okay, like occasionally going on that one garbage trade and saying it sucks is totally fine obviously. but this guy literally like made his account for this purpose. his name is “trade_advisor” and he kept doing this on like several posts.
he also said some trades were good (one of mine) but like still, its just annoying for some guy to literally discourage possible customers. i was wondering if this could be disallowed. “this,” as in what he was doing-making an account to literally critique every post and advise people if they should trade or not. he’s wrecking people’s trades.
sorry i just realized i assumed their gender the entire time but im too lazy to change every he into them, i just realized making this sentence probably would take more effort than that. okay im done.
Yeah I don’t see too much of a problem with this either. Based on the information in this post this trade adviser person isn’t being rude about rating people’s trades and their ratings seem to be accurate as well. Given this, if a trader is “discouraged” from making a trade due to a comment from this person, that’s more due to their own lack of knowledge about what is and isn’t a proper trade rather than something that this trade advisor person is doing themselves; the trade advisor is simply serving the role of a tool, how you choose to use that tool depends on you.
If anything, this is a good thing because their comments will prevent more inexperienced players from getting ripped off.
but I also don’t like how trade advisors do things in WoM. In the CMMA discord server for example, they literally codified values in crowns for items in the “max level market” based on anecdotal trades or personal perceptions about the usefulness of an item and in the marketplace here on the forum prices vary a lot depending on who’s currently buying or selling. Inexperienced players should just sell to the highest bidder or buy from the cheapest seller and let supply and demand do its thing instead of resisting any deviation from a trade advisor’s perception of what’s fair.
it’s like putting a label on everyone’s trade. moreover, this guy wasn’t even being accurate with his judgements. trades are posted for trades, not to be evaluated. if i remember correctly, there’s literally a section for asking if trades are worth it or not. he’s driving away possible costumers. idk its just kind of irritating to me. setting up shop or trying to get costumers and theres this one guy standing in front of the door telling everyone its not worth buying your goods. let the buyers make the evaluation and if they need guidance let them make a post.
i see your point but he was actually pretty inaccurate with his comments. inaccuracy aside, i get why it’s helpful for people who read the post, but it’s like some guy standing on the doorstep to your shop telling everyone the stuff isnt worth it. its just pretty annoying, im sure no one posts trades just so they can be critiqued. the trades are out there for those who want them.
if someone needs advice on a trade they can make a post about it. and if the trade is a ripoff, people will almost always comment it is.
tbh like this isnt even a serious thing because ive never seen it really happen besides yesterday. idk i was just irritated so i made a post about it.