conrad_iii
(Member)
15/06/2007 13:25
Re: Found Quiggle Swim Trunks - in my trades

Oh wow, that is a problem. To be honest, I'm surprised neoitems has done as well as it has, given the limited resources at your disposal (not to mention the fact that all 10 of the people you mentioned have lives outside of NeoItems).

I would seem that out of all the data you collect on items (names, descriptions, categories, status', etc.) the price of items fluctuates the most by far. I can think of a couple of possible ways in which we could keep up with the changing prices without adding to the workload of the current admins.

The first idea is that we could set up a Wiki, where anyone could update the current price of an item. People wouldn't have any access to any other part of the item database, just the estimated prices, which they could update several times a day. The problem with this idea, of course, would be that people could really mess things up if they wanted to (just like on the real Wikipedia).

The second idea is that you could assign trusted members of the site to be 'price-admins' who are given the ability to change the prices of items, but not anything else. Personally, I’d love to do this since I use the SSW several times a day and it feels like such a waste to keep all of the data I get to myself. Of course, I'm not exactly a 'trusted' member of the site yet (LOL, this is only my fifth post, for heaven's sake) but I hope to become one in the future.

Anyway, thanks for letting me add my two cents. Regardless of what happens, I hope something is done to take the strain off of the 10 people who have to manage this site all by themselves.



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