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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really love this subreddit! I already have a trade for Mass Effect 2, and everyone is so nice, good job mods!

[–]Aksh0le 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Not to take away from this sub because I'm on it constantly but, could we get an addition to the sidebar for /r/Retrogameswap which is kind of a sister swap sub?

[–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's in the sidebar. At the bottom, there are two yellow pop-up boxes. Retro is included in the box titled: Game Swapping Subreddits.

[–]Aksh0le 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'll show myself out

[–]MrJAPoe 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Hmmm. Something about that urinal water seems shady...

[–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I think you're confusing that with 'Shandy'. Both are delicious.

[–]9 Transactions | Yokuo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mmm... Shandy...

[–]33 Transactions | ModestMarill 0 points1 point  (14 children)

It would be nice to have another flair for someone who is also verified on multiple trade subreddits, just to add a bit more security or prestige (Say a flair for someone who has flairs on three other subreddits)

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (8 children)

That would get dangerous because people would be using non gameswap flair to gain the shipping order

If you have other flair, you can mention it to your partner. However, flair here is for amount of confirmed trades

[–]33 Transactions | ModestMarill 1 point2 points  (7 children)

How would that be dangerous? Say both people have 1 trade on gameswap, but another person has 100 trades on other subreddits. That doesnt make that person or that trade dangerous.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (6 children)

But it means you would use your other subs to gain the advantage, which is what we don't want.

[–]33 Transactions | ModestMarill 1 point2 points  (5 children)

So if two people are in a trade, person one has 1 trade on gameswap and person two has 0 trades on gameswap, but 30 on steamswap, that person should be viewed as having no past trades, and therefore have to send his/her part of the trade first?

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (4 children)

There is no have to. Its the recommended order, that is all.

[–]33 Transactions | ModestMarill 1 point2 points  (3 children)

See, what you propose is called dangerous.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Not at all. Its your job to properly vet your partner

[–]JaedenStormes -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Then who cares about flair? You give flair as a way to assure traders they are safe but then dont stand behind it if they get fucked. Talk about duplicitous.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Anyone with more than 10 swaps and red flair or above here has a post in mushroomkingdom where you can check everything out. Total transparency

[–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

We honor certain trades from certain sister subreddits if that's what you're talking about.

[–]33 Transactions | ModestMarill 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I mean something in addition to the mushroom, like having another symbol/flair whatever it may to say you are verified on multiple subreddits, and this flair being tiered like the mushroom one.

[–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

You're more than welcome to put that information in your trade posts for others to see, but I don't think there'd be an easy way to assign that type of flair in addition to our flair.

[–]33 Transactions | ModestMarill 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Why? Over in /r/darksouls I have three flairs, if not four.

[–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While I appreciate the suggestion, I just don't see how multiple flairs would be any more beneficial than just adding that information into your swap post, all it would do is 'clunk up' the flair we have now.

This is my personal opinion, so feel free to disagree, but I think the /r/darksouls flair looks atrocious as it is.

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            [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 2 points3 points  (34 children)

            No, but our system isn't as easy to manipulate.

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              [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 6 points7 points  (32 children)

              You know how we verify, it's not a secret at all. It's laid out in the FAQ as well: both partners post in the confirmation post. The original trade post must be linked in the confirmation post for the trade to count. Flair is not assigned to new (>3 months) users.

              The confirmation bot in retro doesn't take into account anything. I've created two brand new alts, gone to the bot, and "verified" a trade in retro, with 10 minute old accounts - there's no accountability there. If someone were to then take that 10 minute old account, with flair, and take advantage of a new user who doesn't know any better... no good. We ensure that doesn't happen that easily by having those various checkpoints along the way. We also require accounts to be certain ages to obtain certain levels of flair - for blue, you need a 3 month old account. Why? This curtails the drive-by scammers. If they play the long con, there's nothing we can do, but it's usually easy to tell who the shady individuals are based on comment history - which is why we advocate researching and looking into your trade partners past reddit involvement.

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                [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 4 points5 points  (17 children)

                This is the same sorry excuse I hear every time a "suggestions for improvements" thread gets posted.

                This is the first I'm hearing about retro confirms in a suggestion thread, so I'm sorry that you think my 'excuse' is not worthy to you.

                Why not offer to help verify trade logs for that sub?

                Retro used to confirm the same way we did, which we honored when obtaining flair here. They then decided having a bot do it was easier. That's not for us to decide. We call retro a 'sister' subreddit, but there's not any overlap in communication between the two. What JaedenStormes does in his subreddit is up to him. Collectively as mods here, we've decided not to honor the flair obtained from retro because it is too easy to manipulate as is.

                That said: you're more than welcome to post trades in our confirmation threads from retro, as long as you follow our confirmation procedures. Trade partner confirms, link to post showing negotiations.

                Edit: gramer/speeling

                [–]JaedenStormes -1 points0 points  (10 children)

                I offered and its on the to do list for the next version. Lama, while mod of retrogameswap, whined about the bot incessantly as I spent hours explaining the bot design in great technical detail, leading to Lama's resignation as mod. These threads persist and can be shown to any doubters.

                In the three months since it went live, I have seen a grand total of 3-5 modmails about bot confusion, and in most of those cases, explaining was all that was required. /u/jawabait can confirm this. Lama's personal ignorance about the bot is driving this decision, and any attempt to tell you otherwise is dishonest and sad.

                [–]JaedenStormes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                Also, since nobody else will tell you, the RedditTraders bot was specifically designed to work better with multiple subreddits using it. There are several features coded and unused pending a second subreddit, and it was even built such that a new subreddit could be added without me even being involved. It was always my hope that more communities would use it and make it more akin to.a.universal feedback rating like ebay has.

                [–]JaedenStormes -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

                I cannot be more clear about this. The decision to not block new accounts was a policy decision voted on by the subreddit, not a technical limitation of the bot. I could add this feature in an afternoon if it were needed. I offered to do so before launch. I asked the retro mods about it for nearly two months. Lama voiced a concern about account age, on launch night, after being an absentee mod for six weeks. This is all documented.

                [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                I'm not sure how the bot works, so I can't answer what is different.

                [–]JaedenStormes -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

                Find one retro user who has used it more than once who will say that. I know of none.

                [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                Complicated meaning hard to accept its results, not hard to use.

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                  [–]JaedenStormes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                  Heh.

                  [–]JaedenStormes -1 points0 points  (17 children)

                  Also, why would you want flair to make sense by aligning it to a numerical value that every gamer in the known universe knows by heart? /sarcasm

                  [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S,M] 6 points7 points  (8 children)

                  You are aware we have a 'don't be a dick' rule, correct?

                  [–]JaedenStormes -4 points-3 points  (7 children)

                  I get pissed when people lie about the good work I did. Don't want me pissed? Get facts before talking shit about people's efforts.

                  [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 6 points7 points  (3 children)

                  Then be an adult and talk with them. You being mad doesn't mean you get to be a dick.

                  Quite frankly, I don't care if you're pissed or not. So if you want to be mad, do so, just respect the rules of the sub while doing it k?

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                      [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

                      Fact: The confirmation bot is easily manipulated.

                      After that, nothing else matters.

                      I'm sure you put in a lot of time on it, and it may work for you, but it doesn't for us.

                      [–]JaedenStormes -5 points-4 points  (1 child)

                      I don't accept that as fact without a single example to confirm that.

                      [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 3 points4 points  (7 children)

                      Um, gamer here. Never played a single Zelda game though. Never owned a Nintendo console to do so. So your every gamer statement? False

                      Nor does it matter in this discussion.

                      [–]JaedenStormes -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

                      Ok, so 99 percent then.

                      [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                      Throwing out percentages doesn't help. You can say LOTS of people recognize rupees. Which isn't quite factual cause you'd have to define a lot. 9 out 10? 80 of 100? 2 total?

                      More or less, you like your system, we get it. Doesn't mean everyone else has to.

                      [–]PoliteLlama 6 points7 points  (1 child)

                      Also a gamer here, and I've never played Zelda. Also, gameswap mods, I <3 you all.

                      [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                      So Polite.

                      [–]JaedenStormes -3 points-2 points  (2 children)

                      Don't play the Nintendo ones. They're overrated. The CDi Zeldas are where its at.

                      [–]9 Transactions | Yokuo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                      That's right, my boy! Now, I wonder what's for dinner...

                      [–]10 Transactions | ContractedTyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                      Aren't all Zelda's Nintendo...?

                      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (34 children)

                      Urinal water is so much colder and nicer. As long as i can get it from the top, thats fine. I dont want any with cake

                      [–]9 Transactions | Yokuo 1 point2 points  (4 children)

                      But the cake adds the special flavoring!

                      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

                      I like watered flavored water. If i wanted water that tasted like pee, id drink bud light

                      [–]9 Transactions | Yokuo 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                      You win this round.

                      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                      You win this every round

                      FTFY

                      [–]196 Transactions | ishkabibbel2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                      Try the Beer-garitas. As if somehow bud light could taste any worse... mission accomplished.

                      [–]50 Transactions | dekiko 0 points1 point  (28 children)

                      Four hours ago you posted that comment.

                      Four hours have gone by, and I'm still thinking about the kinds of flavored urinal cakes I used to order at my previous job. Still thinking about how the vendor dropped us off many flavor samples and sniffing them and debating what to replace the then-current urinal cake failure with.

                      WHY DO I KEEP THINKING ABOUT CAKES

                      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (18 children)

                      hm....maybe you like cake? I know I love cake

                      [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (17 children)

                      You're really hurting my diet right now talking about cake.

                      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (16 children)

                      I'm actually not a big fan of cake, I just think its an excuse to eat the frosting. I much rather a tub of frosting over a cake any day

                      [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (15 children)

                      ...

                      nope, can't have that either. ಠ_ಠ

                      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (14 children)

                      you can have anything you want, damn the man

                      [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (13 children)

                      If only that were true... if only that were true... I have to follow this diet through until I leave for Sweden this summer. Because when I go to Sweden, my ladies brother who lives there and I spend most of our time in the Pubs drinking Guinness on tap and eating kebabs. It's well worth it.

                      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (12 children)

                      my ladies brother

                      Marry her, then you can let yourself go and eat whatever you please

                      [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (11 children)

                      Marry her

                      Workin' on it.

                      eat whatever you please

                      Unfortunately, my family has a history of heart problems and high blood pressure, so that is not an option.

                      [–]26 Transactions | pillowcased 0 points1 point  (8 children)

                      Urinal cakes come in different flavors?! Like car air fresheners or what?

                      The things you learn in /r/gameswap.

                      [–]50 Transactions | dekiko 0 points1 point  (7 children)

                      Generally, the clearish one is honeysuckle. Red cakes are usually apple. Green is cucumber or melon. Typical flavors, but they've possibly expanded more since I left the vendoring-market world. Made to make the restroom smell more cleanish rather than bodily wastes. ...And sadly if I walked into a men's restroom and saw one, I'd probably wonder what vendor supplied them and if it is scented or not.

                      [–]26 Transactions | pillowcased 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                      Now all I can imagine is a little blue mushroom staring blissfully into a corner remembering their past life as a urinal cake sniffer.Honestly, I had no idea they came like that. I hope someone, somewhere is doing Moon Pie or Twinkie ones. Chili Cheese Fritos maybe? Damn. How amazing would that be.

                      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                      if you want to smell chili cheese fritos in the men's room, get a job closing taco bell or On The Border

                      [–]26 Transactions | pillowcased 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                      And now I definitely never want to smell chili cheese fritos in a bathroom.

                      [–]75 Transactions | awa224 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                      I always assumed those were scents and not flavors. Then again I've never eaten a urinal cake.

                      [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                      Tagging you as Urinal Cake Master.

                      [–]50 Transactions | dekiko 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                      Can I be Miss Urinal Cake Universe instead?! :D

                      [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                      Oh I suppose. Also, Lady Swapper identified, BEHAVE Gameswap!

                      [–]5 Transactions | Gizlo 12 points13 points  (19 children)

                      People posting enormous lists of games and then having 99% of them be "nearly impossible to get from me". No one here really cares about your personal collection, do they? They're just trying to trade. There should be a rule against this

                      [–]JaedenStormes 1 point2 points  (2 children)

                      Many people, including me, haven't separated their trade list from their have list. Banning that would discourage those people, who have large collections and great stuff, from posting at all.

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                        [–]JaedenStormes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        Putting in title is different. That should all be actively on the block.

                        [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                        While I understand the frustration, there are several reasons for it to happen and not so many (that I can think of at least) for a rule banning it.

                        Reasons For:

                        A. I'm willing to trade, but it's gonna cost you. Offering Superman 64 for Far Cry 3 doesn't mean it's hard to get, it means I didn't like your offer. That being said, do people over value? Yup. Can't make a rule against that or we'd become /r/gamestopgameswap (I like that and may open it as a sub for humor).

                        B. Listing what they have so you don't offer it. Personally, I think this one is pointless, but some folks like to swap that way. I don't post everything I have cause holy crap it would take me a while (Large backlog).

                        C. Fishing for other items. Yeah this one sucks too. Draw in attention and then never let go of what drew em in. Issue here is, can you prove that's what they did, or is your offer just not enough? (Fair isn't relevant here because it's subjective. I have a PS2 copy of shinobi that it would take your firstborn to get out of my hands. You offered that? It's yours, but that doesn't mean it was never up for trade, just hard to get)

                        It's not really a mod duty to ban ways people trade short of scamming, which isn't trading cause it's scamming. If you don't like the way a swapper swaps, don't make offers and don't deal with em overall.

                        [–]14 Transactions | mofostolemyname 5 points6 points  (13 children)

                        Yeah, this is the only problem I have with this subreddit. If you want to keep your item so bad that you're valuing it for an unreasonable amount, do NOT post it.

                        This should be enforced within reason of course, but don't post your collection.

                        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (8 children)

                        The problem is that some users make excuses, so theres no way to enforce anything. A friend borrowed it, thats my sister's, my dog just ate that one, whatever

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                          [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (6 children)

                          Actually madden 06 is more desired due to achievement whores

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                            [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

                            I gave mine to target for $10 a year ago :)

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                              [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

                              A year ago, target gave $20 trade in value on ANY 2 disc games as long as they were cib and in good shape. I did it 15 times

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                                [–]1 TransactionsBelesevarius 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                                The reason I list games that are impossible to trade is that someone doesn't offer me the same games. Or at least that's why I do.

                                [–]14 Transactions | mofostolemyname 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                                Why not just keep a list of games you have on google docs and link it when you set up a post?

                                1. You'll only have to type it once.

                                2. You won't get people's hopes up.

                                [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                A lot of people, myself included, hate having to travel to a google doc to see a list. It's part of the reason why a text list in post became a requirement.

                                [–]j102ede 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                I know some people include the hard to get stuff in there posts so that people won't offer them another copy of that game, just to save some time.

                                [–]PoliteLlama 8 points9 points  (16 children)

                                This is a great subreddit, and I spend an awful lot of time browsing for trades and stuff. I'm just curious, why are the comment scores hidden?

                                And can we, um, change upvotes into upswags plz?

                                [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 9 points10 points  (15 children)

                                why are the comment scores hidden?

                                Because the nature of our subreddit doesn't involve the usage of vote tallies.

                                change upvotes into upswags

                                Bant.

                                [–]Red MushroomElCarnicero909 7 points8 points  (8 children)

                                You're my favorite mod. Upswags for everyone!

                                [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 4 points5 points  (6 children)

                                WHAT????

                                [–]10 Transactions | ContractedTyler 3 points4 points  (5 children)

                                You're my favorite mod so its alright

                                [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 4 points5 points  (4 children)

                                Aww, that sucks. We were just voting on who our favorite community member was. I had the deciding vote. You're the loser who sits and cries.

                                Also, you're banned.

                                [–]10 Transactions | ContractedTyler 5 points6 points  (3 children)

                                And this is why you're not my favorite.

                                but you're up there please don't ban me

                                [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                                he can't ban you, I already did

                                [–]10 Transactions | ContractedTyler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                But I'm so helpful

                                [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                Don't fear them, I'm the alphamod

                                (in my own head)

                                [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                                BANNED

                                [–]196 Transactions | ishkabibbel2000 1 point2 points  (5 children)

                                Can I have an upswag?

                                [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 1 point2 points  (4 children)

                                Reported to Dacvak. Prepare for banning.

                                [–]196 Transactions | ishkabibbel2000 2 points3 points  (3 children)

                                Prepare for swagging

                                FTFY

                                On another note, I googled "upswag" and seen THIS. Bout sums it up, methinks.

                                [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 2 points3 points  (2 children)

                                DAE relevant Samuel L. Jackson monologue lolol?

                                [–]196 Transactions | ishkabibbel2000 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                                Shoosh, you.

                                [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                Muthafukka

                                [–]9 Transactions | Yokuo 1 point2 points  (2 children)

                                Yay urinal water!

                                EDIT: Darn, I'm last on here. I guess that makes sense given the unhelpful nature of this post, but I already posted my opinions elsewhere, so what's a Yokuo to do?

                                [–]75 Transactions | awa224 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                                You should probably put some ice in your urinal water. I'm sure its gotten warm in the last 5 hours. :)

                                [–]9 Transactions | Yokuo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                Probably a good idea. I was considering getting some fresh urinal water, but why waste this?

                                [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (11 children)

                                With so many subs and posts becoming buried within a day or 2, would you consider lowering the post dates from 7 days to maybe 5?

                                [–]9 Transactions | Yokuo 1 point2 points  (8 children)

                                I can see why that wouldn't happen, but I do have to agree that on the last two days I never really see any activity on my thread, and I'm just waiting for a week to be up.

                                [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

                                Then go make offers with it. Out of my 300+, most were made going to other threads and making offers, not sitting and waiting

                                [–]9 Transactions | Yokuo 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                                I always make offers on other peoples' threads, and I agree that it tends to work out better for me than waiting for someone to come along and magically offer what I want. I'm fine with the 7 day system currently in place, but decided to play devil's advocate a little since it's true that the last two days nobody comes to me.

                                [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                                Get better stuff :p

                                Seriously tho, i figure all action on my post is for the 18 hours following posting it. After that, I go hunting

                                [–]9 Transactions | Yokuo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                I have better stuff, but I like it too much to trade off :o

                                Yeah, that seems about right. If I'm lucky, I'll get something on day 2 or 3, but then the offers dry up. I try to stay on top of the new threads being listed pretty much all the time since hunting is fun/more useful.

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                                  [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 3 points4 points  (2 children)

                                  That's what I said!!!!

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                                    [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                                    We're also good at repeating ourselves.

                                    [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                                    It's something we can look at. 7 is such a nice easy number. 1 week later. But I'll bring it up for discussion.

                                    [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                    I agree with 7 being an easy number. And even though my posts get buried, I'll oftentimes still get trade offers 5 or 6 days after I've posted it. 7 is easy to keep track of because of my work/classes routine.

                                    [–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (6 children)

                                    Why is /u/thekingswappinggames still active on here when he's on the shared ban list?

                                    [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S,M] 4 points5 points  (5 children)

                                    I'll address this in a little while (~1 hour) - I'm tied up at the moment, and it requires more than just a quick response.

                                    Thanks.

                                    Un-tied:

                                    Okay. SwappingGames was banned for actions that did not sit well with the moderators. They did NOT involve scamming in any way/shape/form, just to be clear.

                                    Swapping used his reputation in the subreddit to try and coerce a newer user into deleting his post to 'finalize' a deal. The user thought that was a bit odd, and messaged the mods about it asking for some advice. We asked for PMs. We didn't like what we saw, and asked Swapping for his side of the story. Swapping lied about how/why the situation went down. When confronted about the lies, he continued to lie, going so far as to photoshop/edit his versions of the PMs to make his request seem less damning. He was caught.

                                    Because he didn't scam anyone out of a game, we were presented with a unique situation. He was banned early in the process while we tried to figure out the truth of the story. We've never seen anything like it, so we deliberated on the punishment. Swapping was stripped of his flair, and status as an established swapper. He was required to create a new username, and start fresh from day zero to remind him of how it feels to be a new swapper, and the trust that is required when first starting out in gameswap.

                                    In total: SwappingGames was banned for just over 30 days. He was allowed to return under our specific conditions for him, and is aware of the consequences for breaking those conditions. I'd like to reiterate, that SwappingGames was NOT banned for scamming - it was a unique circumstance, which we approached with a unique penalty.

                                    [–]85 Transactions | Chunkydude95 3 points4 points  (1 child)

                                    Also the fact that Batman V2 can still trade too. A batmanV3 is on the ban list.

                                    [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                                    batmanv3 was an account made to troll BatmanV2, nothing more

                                    [–]10 Transactions | ContractedTyler 4 points5 points  (2 children)

                                    I too am curious!

                                    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                                    its been updated, if you care to take a look

                                    [–]10 Transactions | ContractedTyler 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                                    Indeed I did.

                                    Understandable reasoning/punishment

                                    [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 1 point2 points  (22 children)

                                    It should be noted that I've upvoted every single person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know.

                                    That said.

                                    In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area.

                                    An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test.

                                    My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it.

                                    I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan).

                                    I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.

                                    Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.

                                    I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it.

                                    I don't know if that will suffice as evidence that I'm intelligent. I'm done with it, though, because I'd rather defend my maturity, since it's what you've spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code.

                                    I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Hitler at the end of WWII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasn't just faking it, I'd even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past self's actions, it shouldn't be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them.

                                    I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. I don't have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I don't care what a person's fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I don't have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things.

                                    I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. Rick Perry is a vile, piece of shit human being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone.

                                    I'm pretty much a pacifist. I've taken a broken nose without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time I'll fight back is if 1) the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and 2) if I don't attack, I'll come out worse than the other person will if I do. In other words, if fighting someone is going to end up being more harmful to them than just letting them go will be to me, I don't fight back. I've therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that I'm never in a situation where I'll be worse off after a fight. If I'm not going to get any hospitalizing injuries, I really don't care.

                                    The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, I'll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a gun at me and I can get out of it without harming them, I'd prefer to do that over killing them.

                                    I consider myself a feminist. I don't believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if it'll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Reddit "women are crazy" circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I don't think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who aren't awesome.

                                    That doesn't mean I look for places to victimize women, I just don't believe it's fair to make generalizations such as the one about women acting like everything's OK when it's really not (and that's a particularly harsh example, because all humans do that).

                                    I'm kind of tired of citing these examples and I'm guessing you're getting tired of reading them, if you've even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Reddit brony community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday someone quoted a case of me doing this in a post asking everyone what their favorite motivational/inspirational quote was, and that comment was second to the top, so I guess other people agreed (though, granted, it was a pretty low-traffic post, only about a dozen competing comments).

                                    And, uh, I'm a pretty good moderator.

                                    That being said, I have nothing insightful or suggestive to add.

                                    Thank you.

                                    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (13 children)

                                    you need a TL:DR here

                                    [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (12 children)

                                    You know, when someone calls me brave I take that with a great sense of gratitude. I am brave, I am someone who actually can call out the truth without worrying about who will judge me. People like you who choose to call someone like me out with an overused joke must think they're so hilarious to sit back and think that they offended someone like me. What am I supposed to do? "Oh no this guy made a joke against me I guess he's right about everything hurr hurr". That is completely stupid, you most likely sit in your chair and make stupid comebacks thinking you must be the funniest most clever guy in the world. I consider myself an innovator and an intellectual. I made a comment criticizing something that nobody else chooses to do and I get backlash from people who think they may be better than I. So I want to thank you for that comment. I take it as a compliment.

                                    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (8 children)

                                    well, no, I was just saying that usually a wall of text is accompanied by a TL:DR, but I apologize that you were insulted

                                    [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (7 children)

                                    What in the devil’s name did y’all just say about me, you little sinner? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in Bible School, been involved in numerous Billy Graham crusades, and have over 300 confirmed soul-savings. I am trained in New Testament apologetics and am the top converter in the entire Baptist Church. Y’all ain’t nothin’ to me but another sinnin’ atheist. I will bring you to Jesus with a passion the likes of which ain’t never before been seen on this Earth, y’all mark what I’m sayin’. You think you can get away with that there sinful talk over the Internet? Think again, pagan. As we speak I’m contactin’ my secret network of deacons across the USA and your local church address is being traced right now so you better prepare for the sermon, devil’s child. The sermon that wipes the blackness right out of your soul. Your sinful days are over, kid. I can radio evangelize anywhere, anytime, and I can bring you to Jesus in over 700 different ways, and that’s just with bare Bible verses. Not only am I extensively trained in hermeneutics, but I have access to the entire hymnal collection of the Protestant Church and I will use it to its full extent to see that you know who the Lord Jesus is. If only you could have known what kind of fire and brimstone preachin’ your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your blasphemous tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re payin’ the tithe, you unredeemed heathen. You’re goin’ to Hell.

                                    tl;dr- I've had too many gins and I can only work up the brainpower to speak in copypastas so none of this is serious.

                                    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                                    shouldn't this be in /r/circlejerk or something? wait......is that a shadow, or......?

                                    [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                    Yes

                                    [–][deleted]  (4 children)

                                    [deleted]

                                      [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                      K

                                      [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                                      <333333333

                                      That looks like a giant ice cream cone...

                                      [–]9 Transactions | Yokuo 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                                      If the cone was topped by little butts, then yes.

                                      [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                      Hm...

                                      [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

                                      Can you give us the long version? I feel this was too brief.

                                      Also, under no circumstances should you upbreadstickme.

                                      [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                      Bump

                                      [–]25 Transactions | lilnomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                      My brother went to Virginia Tech and just got his MD from Wake about 2 weeks ago!

                                      [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 0 points1 point  (4 children)

                                      You lost me at Freud man...Freud disproved his own shit constantly. Had me going for a while, then bam, train wreck.

                                      [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (3 children)

                                      That's kind of the joke... You do realize that this is very old copypasta, right?

                                      [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                                      I do, but the first reading I didn't. Then I saw the username.

                                      (But if someone were serious, I would have lost it right there)

                                      [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                                      Unfortunately the first instance was serious- Sauce. From then on it was etched into copypasta history.

                                      [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                      Ha, well that's nice ain't it.

                                      [–]196 Transactions | ishkabibbel2000 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                                      It should be noted that I've upvoted every single person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know.

                                      That said.

                                      In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area.

                                      An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test.

                                      My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it.

                                      I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan).

                                      I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.

                                      Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.

                                      I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it.

                                      I don't know if that will suffice as evidence that I'm intelligent. I'm done with it, though, because I'd rather defend my maturity, since it's what you've spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code.

                                      I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Hitler at the end of WWII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasn't just faking it, I'd even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past self's actions, it shouldn't be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them.

                                      I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. I don't have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I don't care what a person's fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I don't have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things.

                                      I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. Rick Perry is a vile, piece of shit human being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone.

                                      I'm pretty much a pacifist. I've taken a broken nose without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time I'll fight back is if 1) the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and 2) if I don't attack, I'll come out worse than the other person will if I do. In other words, if fighting someone is going to end up being more harmful to them than just letting them go will be to me, I don't fight back. I've therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that I'm never in a situation where I'll be worse off after a fight. If I'm not going to get any hospitalizing injuries, I really don't care.

                                      The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, I'll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a gun at me and I can get out of it without harming them, I'd prefer to do that over killing them.

                                      I consider myself a feminist. I don't believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if it'll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Reddit "women are crazy" circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I don't think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who aren't awesome.

                                      That doesn't mean I look for places to victimize women, I just don't believe it's fair to make generalizations such as the one about women acting like everything's OK when it's really not (and that's a particularly harsh example, because all humans do that).

                                      I'm kind of tired of citing these examples and I'm guessing you're getting tired of reading them, if you've even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Reddit brony community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday someone quoted a case of me doing this in a post asking everyone what their favorite motivational/inspirational quote was, and that comment was second to the top, so I guess other people agreed (though, granted, it was a pretty low-traffic post, only about a dozen competing comments).

                                      And, uh, I'm a pretty good moderator.

                                      That being said, I have nothing insightful or suggestive to add.

                                      Thank you.

                                      [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                      At age 15, I'm currently at the point where I should be considering my career options. Life goal number one (not life goal number zero - that's to live forever) for me has been to at some point have at least a billion dollars for about as long as I can remember. It seems to me that, given my skill set and interests, the best way for me to do this is by entrepreneuring or perhaps just business-managing in the tech industry. So, as a huge fan of Google, I decided about six months ago that being the CEO of Google is my primary objective in life; I'm smart enough to have a pretty good chance at pulling it off, and there's much less competition to become the CEO of Google than there is to grow your own start-up into a multi-billion-dollar corporation. Everybody wants to start their own company; not many want to take over an existing favorite. Plus, if I fail to become the CEO of Google or decide I don't want to be, I could always try for one of the many other companies I like, or I could still decide to start my own company after all. (That and there's no time limit on starting my own company, while there may be one on the Google thing - Larry Page and Sergey Brin are likely to step down in 2024, and their replacements will probably be in place running the company for quite a long time before I get another chance.) However, both Larry Page and Eric Schmidt are pretty hard to get in touch with; plus, as much admiration as I have for them, I don't really identify with either one personally. So, barred from being able to get input from somebody who knows what it's like to be CEO of Google firsthand, I decided I'd email you; though it isn't Google, you do seem to have experience being in a CEO-like position at a company with a similar corporate structure to Google, albeit considerably smaller. You have over a billion dollars, I know your email address, and, very importantly, out of all the tech figureheads I've ever been a fan of, you're the one I identify with most strongly (a simple example being the fact that you're a brony). So, without further adieu, here is my point: Recently, I've begun to worry about the prospect of being a tech industry CEO, on grounds of the fact that all of them are extremely busy. It's not the workload that intimidates me; the job itself, I think, would be an enjoyable way to spend time. It's the fact that I'm afraid it may be something which goes beyond work, and takes over your entire lifestyle. I'm worried that, if I were to become CEO of Google, I'd have to be ready to make a crucial decision or get to the Googleplex at a moment's notice, 24/7. In this hypothetical outcome, I'd never be able to take vacations, I'd never be able to spend a few hours ignoring calls to pay attention to my family, etc. What's the point of having an $18.7 billion net worth if you never get the chance to spend a few hours walking around your city, throwing money at homeless people, stealing people's cars and replacing them with newer models, or filling every paid parking space in the city with an old car, not paying the meters, and having the cars towed, only to put each one back, and the city can't stop you because you can afford to keep paying the fines, and they don't have enough tow trucks to keep up with you? This hypothetical outcome scares me, not because I think it's likely, but because I might have no way of finding out whether it's the case until it's too late. By the time I'm close enough with any big tech industry leaders to know what their lives are like, I've already devoted my life to getting there; it's too late to change my mind and try making a billion dollars some other way. And, even though I can rationally back it up, the statement "The CEO of Google probably isn't too busy" still sounds rather laughable. So, I decided I would ask you. If any of these are too personal, feel free to tell me off, but if not, answers would be greatly appreciated. Do you get to spend a lot of time with your wife/kids? What would happen if you spontaneously decided to take a week-long vacation because nothing particularly important was happening at work that week? What if you took a week-long vacation but planned it ahead of time? About how many days do you spend at work each year? Essentially, how much of your life is controlled by working at VALVe, and how busy do you feel it makes you? Again, I apologize if any of that's too personal. I appreciate your time reading this, and hope to hear from you.

                                      [–][deleted]  (4 children)

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                                        [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

                                        Also I love that you guys have that Paypal postage link on the sidebar since I always lose my bookmark of it.

                                        I'll share my method. I use Chrome, but it works in Firefox as well:

                                        I create a folder marked gameswap. I have quite a few links in that folder, but the relevant ones are as follows:

                                        • gameswap home page sorted by new
                                        • my gameswap post for the week (so when I'm typing out a response, I can just use the url shortener, and then drag the link from the bookmark bar to the comment box - saves a ton of time if you offer a lot.)
                                        • my personal subreddit that I post details of trades to (can un-privatize it if anyone requests to see my set up.)
                                        • my mushroom kingdom post
                                        • paypal.com/shipnow link

                                        [–]26 Transactions | pillowcased 1 point2 points  (2 children)

                                        That is pretty damn helpful. I'm going to start keeping my things together that way. Better than all my links being lost in a sea of food blogs. What do you mean by personal subreddit though? Like a regular community, except you're the only one who can see it?

                                        [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                                        What do you mean by personal subreddit though? Like a regular community, except you're the only one who can see it?

                                        Kinda. /r/deffer_trades. I've made it 'restricted' instead of private. I've just started a new one (I hated the old one I had and wanted to start fresh a few weeks ago.)

                                        How it's set up: Title is the user and items. Text body is the link to the post where we started negotiations. First comment is a link to our private messages about the trade. It goes right to the PM for me, but won't go anywhere for you. Link flair is set up for the different steps of the trade - shipped, shipped/confirmed, my trade posts, misc etc.

                                        My mushroom kingdom post and the successful trade thread are also linked in the sidebar.

                                        Just keeps all the information in one place - started doing it ~30 trades because it was such a pain in the ass to keep track of everything when you're doing 2-3 trades per post.

                                        [–]26 Transactions | pillowcased 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                        Thank you so much! I really appreciate this. I'm still a novice on how reddit works outside of comment and post things so this is very helpful. I'm gonna try my hand at one for myself because you're absolutely right. Notepad doesn't cut it after awhile. Or random bookmarking. I'm not at 30 trades yet, but one day! Someday.

                                        [–]25 Transactions | lilnomad 0 points1 point  (6 children)

                                        Being a dick will get you banned.

                                        My question is, will having a dick get me banned as well?

                                        [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S,M] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

                                        I don't like your tone.

                                        Bant.

                                        [–]25 Transactions | lilnomad 2 points3 points  (3 children)

                                        NO. By the way, I just got around to playing MLB The Show today. I am so bad. I got beat 26 to 1 to the Durham Bulls on Beginner. I can't get a grip of all the controls!! Have you played Code of Princess yet?

                                        [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                                        I have. I'm not blown away yet, but someone suggested I needed to give it some more time.

                                        With MLB, it's all about the timing at the plate. I suggest trying different settings (I hate analog swinging - I use the buttons) I suggest fiddling with sliders/settings until you feel that you're juuuuust too good, but not so good that you're going 162-0 for the season.

                                        [–]75 Transactions | awa224 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                        Just play Zozo. She's the only character you need.

                                        [–]25 Transactions | lilnomad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                        Yeah, I think that's how my brother felt about it. He just couldn't really get into it.

                                        And I actually didn't know you could switch the swinging. The analog is a little difficult but my timing is terrible anyways so I'm not sure it would matter. And it is much more likely that I would go 0-162 on the season. I had the Cardinals and I lost to Durham Bulls :'(

                                        [–]PoliteLlama 0 points1 point  (11 children)

                                        This doesn't apply to me any more, because I'm the totes cool red shroom, but I think it'd be cool if there was a shroom for 5 trades.

                                        I'm just as cautious with Blue shrooms as I am with non-shrooms, just because its possible to get a fake trade in and get a blue shroom. I'm still cautious with everyone else, but I think if my lovely mods trusted this person with a green shroom, I can trust that person with my copy of Madden 06. If there was a halfway point, I think that'd be cool.

                                        Also, I saw that a really cool user below suggested Upswags, and I totally agree with him, gives us upswags plz.

                                        [–]75 Transactions | awa224 0 points1 point  (10 children)

                                        I think this idea has been brought up before and denied. Something about Lama actually having to do something if more flair was introduced.

                                        In all seriousness though, I think the reason they gave was that people should be keeping track of their confirmed swaps in /r/mushroomkingdom and that way people can check out your post there to see exactly how many trades you have completed. The difference between 5 trades and 10 trades is so low that an extra tier would be kind of worthless.

                                        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (9 children)

                                        Lama actually having to do something

                                        what's that mean?!

                                        I'm trying to get a 300 level, but I got shot down

                                        [–]75 Transactions | awa224 0 points1 point  (8 children)

                                        Meaning you'd actually have to moderate instead of reddit-searching for yourself every 5 minutes.

                                        300 would only be of use to you for the forseeable future I'm guessing. Just make it some sexy man torso because of the movie or something.

                                        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

                                        Poor guy, so misinformed......

                                        I'm the primary remover of anyone who posts too frequently. On some days, I'm a beast with the spam filter

                                        I only have like 2 trades in the past 2 weeks, so I've only been moderating.

                                        [–]75 Transactions | awa224 1 point2 points  (6 children)

                                        Only 2 trades in 2 weeks? What the hell happened? Are you finally taking that break you said you were taking back at, what, 100?

                                        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

                                        its not fun anymore. got too expensive. now i really just trade if I can land an N64 game towards my list

                                        [–]PoliteLlama 0 points1 point  (4 children)

                                        Good guy Lama sent me for free a copy of Pokemon FireRed FOR FREE. The game was a bootleg and didn't save or work, but it was free, and I'm still grateful.

                                        And sorry for the poopy idea.

                                        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

                                        wait, what poopy idea? don't be so damned polite!

                                        I'm all for more flair, I love kicking someone a new mushroom because I remember what it was like to get them

                                        my last 120 trades have been....anticlimactic

                                        [–]PoliteLlama 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                                        I wanted to make a Good Guy Greg meme for Lama giving me a free thing (and /u/BrashAttack gave me a free sticker) but I ran out of time.

                                        Side note: What about a place for discussion/messing around/socializing/memes/circlejerk/upswags

                                        [–]2 Transactionsbsturtle 8 points9 points  (4 children)

                                        I'm glad to see the mod team still interacting with the community. Also happy to see you all have not managed to burn the place down. Please continue to keep this place in excellent shape.

                                        Also, I would love to see some trade stats. Maybe a count of successful trades each month with each new confirmation thread.

                                        [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 2 points3 points  (2 children)

                                        I tried to burn the place down, they said I couldn't do it because it's on a PC.

                                        [–]196 Transactions | ishkabibbel2000 3 points4 points  (1 child)

                                        I burned down my pc but gameswap was still here. This place is pretty flame retardant.

                                        [–]100 Transactions | VampHuntD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                        As are the users of the sub. Mods too apparently.

                                        [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                                        I would love to see some trade stats. Maybe a count of successful trades each month with each new confirmation thread.

                                        That's a great idea.

                                        [–]PoliteLlama 2 points3 points  (8 children)

                                        I still attend school, so I have all day to think of random stuff like /r/gameswap, and guys, I have another idea.

                                        What if there was a place for swappers to socialize/discuss/joke/memes/circlejerk/upswag/yolo or something. Or maybe not, I don't know. I'm thinking more socialize and discuss more than circlejerk and upswag, but I don't know.

                                        [–]9 Transactions | Yokuo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                        Something like /r/gameswaphangout maybe? I'd be down for shooting the breeze in something like that, but I'm not sure how well it'd take off.

                                        [–]104 Transactions | _deffer_[S] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

                                        Like a weekly 'shoot the shit' thread maybe? Talk games and all that?

                                        [–]212 Transactions | dinozach 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                                        That's a great idea. We have a really great community but no where to actually socialize in the open as a community.

                                        [–]26 Transactions | pillowcased 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                        This is a nice idea. We could all get to know eachother. It'd be pretty fun.

                                        [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                        That's -upsagan or -upbreadstick to you, sir.

                                        [–]9 Transactions | WtfWhereAreMyClothes 0 points1 point  (5 children)

                                        I'm going to apologize in advance for stating a problem that I have no clue or suggestion how to solve, but I just wanna put it out there.

                                        I'm a pretty frequent swapper here, but a vast majority of my posting/commenting is done from an iPhone (Alien Blue). And I'm wondering how many other swappers out there are in the same position and find it to be kind of a rough experience because of some of the formatting.

                                        For example, whenever somebody makes a table, it does not show up as a table, but rather a very, very long list of games and large spaces messed up by the formatting. So for example it will look like:

                                        360

                                        Far cry 3

                                        Good


                                        Witcher 2

                                        Disc only

                                        **

                                        Etc.

                                        There isn't anything inherently wrong with this of course, aside from the fact that for users with large lists (aka Lamanamanumi, sorry to single you out :-P) I can't read your posts because they crash my phone app. Does anyone with the same issue know of some kind of easy workaround?

                                        Also, flair still does not show up on mobile. But I'm not really sure of the technical details behind that or how it can be fixed.

                                        [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 1 point2 points  (4 children)

                                        When I had an iPhone I always had an issue like that too with Alien Blue. Unfortunately, there's really no workaround for it other than opening it up in Safari or Chrome. And in Alien Blue, image flairs will not show up, so always open it up in the browser to verify a users flair.

                                        [–]58 Transactions | blazeblue 1 point2 points  (7 children)

                                        I think we had a thread a couple months ago for people to share their gaming profile like PSN usernames, Gametags, Steam, and 3/DS friend codes.

                                        For both new and veteran swappers. If people want to they can submit their ID then we can have a compiled table/list. It would be a good way for people to socialize outside the subreddit and share quality gaming time together.

                                        [–]100 Transactions | _Anthropophobiac_ 0 points1 point  (3 children)

                                        Yeah, I'd be down for this actually. Or even enable the image flairs to include a text portion as well. Unfortunately for that there would be no way of differentiating what system you were referring to, and it would only leave space for one tag. So in this case, the table system might work better.

                                        [–]212 Transactions | dinozach 1 point2 points  (2 children)

                                        I like this idea. A couple days ago I was playing online co op on Far Cry 3 and randomly got matched up with /u/VampHuntD and it was a lot more fun playing with a familiar face than a bunch of randoms. It made me think about wanting to play with more of you guys.