Promoting sales threads in "Recent Status Updates"?

[two_zero]

It just don't seem right to me. The thread is already in sales, and one can bump it.

If everyone did that, it seems to me, that the "Recent Status Updates" would become very chaotic - then should it really be allowed?

 

Nothing personal towards anyone

[team flex]

I don't think so, that's not what the status update place is for, and so people shouldn't be allowed to advertise there. Just my take

[sp00n]

i generally don't read status updates, i normally go straight to the "most recent"

[Sitting Duck]

?

[team flex]

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so some time back, maybe last week or two weeks back 1 or 2 newer members listed their guns and then promptly posted a status update saying they had etc. that is what I have noticed, correct me if I am wrong

[M_P]

Not fussed by it it's not a common thing so on the odd occasion it happens I don't think it matters

[Airsoft-Ed]

Wow, the overall vote is for "no"?

Seriously?

It's a personal status update. It asks you to type, "What's on your mind" so if that happens to be, selling your shit, type it out. The space is for whatever you want it to be.

If you're trying to sell something, why wouldn't you advertise it? When I'm selling my stuff I put it on 2 forums and at least 5 massive Facebook sales groups. The more places it is, the more likely and the faster it's going to sell.

I'm struggling to think of anything wrong with doing it, apart from that it sends other updates off the page. But that's hardly the end of the world, and even regular, non-sales related updates do that. If people's updates were so important that having it pushed off the main page by a sales related update was annoying, or a problem, then why not make a topic out of it instead of an update?

Or am I missing something?