Lol-ing the OP in FS threads

BBBlues

I've seen this around for a while but it's an ever increasing thing. I've kinda picked up this is what people do when they think the price is far too high. What's people's take on this? Trolling, or flagging up maybe not a great deal to others?

tone1

I think it was discussed in January 

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/94200/classifieds-and-loling/p1

digitalscream

There are many legitimate reasons for hitting LOL on a classifieds post - I've been known to do it occasionally when someone on here who I know well is selling something that they'd fallen in love with when they bought it a week earlier, for example.

Bridgehouse

digitalscream said:

There are many legitimate reasons for hitting LOL on a classifieds post - I've been known to do it occasionally when someone on here who I know well is selling something that they'd fallen in love with when they bought it a week earlier, for example.

*cough* @Gassage *cough*

octatonic

We needs to be able to give multiple frets.
plemty of things are lollingly wisdomous or wowingly lolful.

slacker

There's one currently with multiple lols. The guy has two posts both the ad and an amendment. It's written like a gumtree ad explaining what it is (to a guitar forum). It's probably a cut and paste. There's no pictures. There's no specifics on what variant it is. 

BBBlues

tone1 said:

I think it was discussed in January 

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/94200/classifieds-and-loling/p1

You're right. And I don't find it as half as annoying as people not using the search function before posting a thread!

Fortheloveofguitar

There's a lot of newbies that are only here for the classifieds and have never contributed anything else to the forum.

 A high percentage of these are also dreamers/chancers asking ridiculous money for what they're selling 

cbellanga

+ a bit of usability feedback .. on mobile is very easy to hit the icons by chance .. not sure if you can un-lol something once it's done? I've found myself doing that a couple of times!

DrBob

cbellanga said:

+ a bit of usability feedback .. on mobile is very easy to hit the icons by chance .. not sure if you can un-lol something once it's done? I've found myself doing that a couple of times!

I actually just LOL'ed this post by accident. The irony being that I came here to say that I do that quite frequently by accident when browsing the forum on my phone !

UnclePsychosis

cbellanga said:

not sure if you can un-lol something once it's done? 

You can, once you've reloaded the page. 

vale

UnclePsychosis said:

cbellanga said:

not sure if you can un-lol something once it's done? 

You can, once you've reloaded the page. 

i love the concept of the 'un-lol'. the idea of taking back a lol.

like when you have a shitty break-up with someone & as a hurtful weapon of last resort they scream at you '... and i never really loved you!'.

now when we have rows on fretboard we can go back over old threads & un-lol all the jokes of people we suddenly hate, to fully indulge our flounce;

'... and i never found you funny!!'

slacker

or wise...

vale

or wow.

kjdowd

DrBob said:

cbellanga said:

+ a bit of usability feedback .. on mobile is very easy to hit the icons by chance .. not sure if you can un-lol something once it's done? I've found myself doing that a couple of times!

I actually just LOL'ed this post by accident. The irony being that I came here to say that I do that quite frequently by accident when browsing the forum on my phone !

Yep I do that quite a lot when browsing on my phone. Usually refresh and fix it tho. 

starwarsnosebleed

In the last year id estimate ive accidently 'fretted' about 20 people. Didnt realise you can reverse it.

Aidanspaghetti

Bring back the facepalm

vale

Aidanspaghetti said:

Bring back the facepalm

is it no longer acceptable forum currency? i faceplamed only yesterday in offtopic.
maybe i'm losing it. senile in my 30s. i need cats, i must have more cats!

Schnozz

Fortheloveofguitar said:

There's a lot of newbies that are only here for the classifieds and have never contributed anything else to the forum.

 A high percentage of these are also dreamers/chancers asking ridiculous money for what they're selling 

I think this is a nonsense comment.

All content is good content - I never would have come across half the stuff I know without people posting classifieds.

If you don't like the price their asking then scroll on by. Different people, different circumstances and we all want we want and (eventually) compromise accordingly.

There's a high percentage of low ballers/cheapskates plaguing the market too.

Sorry to rant, but it's a tiring read that comes up far too often.

TimmyO

I think I only remember that those features exist about 5% of the time - I honestly couldn't tell you of any of my posts have evr had LOLs, Wows etc - I never look at it. Just ignore it and get on with things :-) 

Sassafras

Seems like a desperate way to get your fret rate up.

On an unrelated matter, I shall be listing some gear at outlandish prices in the coming weeks.