@DomainRecap .. nice timing .. lol .. I already wrote most of the below before your post .. but just to reply to yours .. from what I gathered upon a quick look the other day .. I'm pretty sure you actually curate your lists (meaning you don't simply spit out the top X highest godaddy value) .. I've had a crazy week so admittedly haven't looked at anyone else's threads with too much detail, and yours is very new. What I'm talking about is like in the link I posted below where the person simply took a basic search result directly from GoDaddy and didn't curate at all ...
That'd work, too, similar to 1 minute less than 24 hours, but it may complicate the explanation since it wouldn't quite be "per day" anymore; it'd be "per 23 hours," which is unusual in things like this.
Well .. you don't actually need to change or say anything .. 99% of users won't even notice, it's just that those who post "almost" 24 hours later won't get an error. No need to get overly technical with the explanation!
I said 21 or 23 hours .. but it could even be 23.5 hours if you're resistant to the idea. Essentially all I'm saying is that exactly just a single minute is still rather tight as you need to have everything ready and still be sitting there and click exactly in that particular minute .. and that's every single day to the exact minute without exception. 23 hours gives content creators a bit of much needed flexibility and wiggle room.
If the setting is per forum, then for auctions you could be stricter with 23:55, but listing pages being 23:00. Although if it's a single setting then 23.5 I think would be a fair compromise, while at the same time still technically be 24 hours (rounded up .. lol).
It's worth noting that the formatting of your posts (BB Code such as colors) is why your posts reach that limit. If your post was solely text, it would fit in a single post.
Yeah .. I cleaned my code significantly not too long ago .. unfortunately doing so removed my grandfathered URL shortener with GoDaddy forwarding .. as of a couple of months ago, you can no longer use forwarding to shorten URLs. So I shortened the code per domain significantly, but the URLs got significantly longer, with the net result being a lot of work for only a 10% shorter code. I'll try to do another round of code cleaning .. but at this point after my last code cleaning I can fit about 350 domains in a single auctions post, and well over 400 in the closeouts. This week I've had a ton of stuff on my plate with slightly shorter lists, and it's made all the difference with just a single post for each. When I only have one post, then none of this even matters, as I can post one post a day at any time I want with no penalty.
Another factor is that there are now often over 50,000 domains at auction per day .. while when I started my new process (in the quieter summer months) there tended to be under 40,000 per day.
As for the colours, I removed some, but people really key in on # of bids, so it's really helpful to members that I keep that column colour coded.
Interestingly, we had to lower the character limit because your posts were so large with so much formatting that they were freezing a lot of users' browsers when they visited your thread. We resolved that by making the post limit smaller so that less content can appear on a single page before moving to a new thread page.
Ha .. I beat NamePros!
In my defence .. my non-list posts are infinitely longer than the average post anyways .. I bring a lot of Google love with all my posts! lol
Are you able to set the number of posts per page to a different number per specific forum? You could maybe drop it to 10 posts per page in the lists section if so?
What was the old character limit? 200k?
Could you provide us with some examples of this? Are you saying that they're reading through your lists and posting a smaller version of it, or copying all of the domains with their own affiliate links?
I honestly don't really have time to check other people's lists thoroughly enough to see if they are cherry picking from my own lists .. certainly possible, but that wasn't what I was talking about. I hate pointing fingers .. because I'm not even sure if these people are technically breaking the rules, but an example is the following thread .. which simply lists the top X search result for closeouts by GoDaddy value. Zero effort and zero curation:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/hi...able-for-5-buy-now-godaddy-closeouts.1104187/
Again .. I'm not accusing anyone of breaking the rules when how those rules are specifically applied to lists is a little arbitrary and certainly open to interpretation. But tomorrow I could set up my system to spit out such a list in a minute or two .. but in reality anyone could get the same list directly at GoDaddy simply grabbing the closeout list sorted by value.
What's worse is you couldn't even blame anyone from copying another person's list because in fact they simply got the basic search result directly from GoDaddy. It could be very possible the 3 people each post the same simple uncurated list without even knowing of the other 2.
I'm not sure if posting a directly copied list from GoDaddy is technically a copyright issue or not? It likely is, although obviously I doubt they care since it's all about domains they are selling.
Even from NamePros' perspective I can understand that you simply see such uncurated lists as more content .. it's just that as someone who puts in a huge amount of time actually manually curating my list, it really gets a little under my skin to share my clicks with lists that have zero curation.
This should solve itself based on quality: if your lists are better than the generic search result lists, your thread will get more watchers/subscribers, engagements, and interest than other lower-quality lists.
Well .. that actually really how it works. Because any person who has clicked on 100 of my links, but then subsequently clicks on just 1 of those other links essentially nullify 100% their visit to my list. The effect is the same as if the list reader never even came to my list, as the only thing that counts for commissions is "the last click".
That's a fair point. We could require that the lists be unique so that whoever publishes it first is the winner and no one else can publish those domains in their list, but that would affect you, too, since you're doing it manually and likely won't be able to post them as quickly as someone posting search results.
That would effectively be impossible to do .. and to police ... I have no issues with some duplication .. my lists are so deep and thorough that it wouldn't be fair to others to not allow any links from my own list.
And to be very honest .. I make so little per hour from my lists that I would simply stop posting the list if I had to double check each and every domains from every other list and cross reference each of my 300-400 domains I list per day.
At the end of the day I do concede there is no simple clean solution as the forum owners. I can see how for you, you definitely want as many lists as possible, regardless of quality, overlap or non-curation.
We're open to all suggestions.
Well .. as mentioned above .. the green "auction" forum notification box/bar at the top each forum page could be alternated with a different colour (orange maybe? lol) box advertising lists in the similar way auctions are advertised. My vote would obviously be to split the share up by number of characters .. lol .. But seriously, random threads "updated by thread starter within the last 24hours" would likely be the most effective (to be sure people don't get sent to lists that are too old).
Also, maybe occasionally have the NP blog/news/emails refer to things in the lists (although I'm not sure if I'm the only one who actually does write a text "blog" portion on some days).
Speaking of long posts ..
