Allow reporting of demos not marked as demos
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Peter Stindberg
Regrettably, a lot of merchants
still
don't have their demos labelled as demos, so that they can be excluded from search.However, there is no category to report such mis-classifications. We only have:
Disallowed listing practices
- Demo not linked to full version
But we are lacking:
Disallowed listing practices
- Demo not classified as demo
In order to help sanitize the Marketplace, users should be able to report those things.
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Everian Hexem
The example flag listed here
is
the correct flag for this. Demos are marked as demos by linking them to a full product. So if it's not linked, it escapes the filter and doesn't show as a demo. Dishonest merchants use this so it shows up in your search anyway, and that's why it's under disallowed listing practices.primerib1 Resident
Everian Hexem Thanks! Did not realize that's how things work; I thought it's just a simple checkbox "This is a demo item" and linking to the Full Version is optional / orthogonal to that.
Everian Hexem
primerib1 Resident No problem! It's definitely one of those things you have no means or reasons to know if you don't list on the mp, and I'd agree it's a bit obtuse in the wording. Changing it to say something like "demo not marked as demo" would make it easier to understand for the average person, and thus get more of this content caught by reports.
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quadrapop Lane
being able to use boolean search terms would help a LOT "-DEMO" was once a thing back in the Pre LL owned marketplaces, allowing boolean search modifiers on MP search would make it possible to trim down searches to specific things much more easily than the current clunky methods
Celestine Ghiardie
quadrapop Lane You need to use "NOT" - so write your search term then add " NOT DEMO NOT Demo NOT demo" That usually does it for me
primerib1 Resident
Celestine Ghiardie to the best of my knowledge, the exclusion happens case-insensitively. So a simple "NOT demo NOT demos" should work.
HOWEVER
Some people are naming their items like this:
"DEMO_black"
That doesn't get filtered out by "NOT demo NOT demos".
Celestine Ghiardie
primerib1 Resident Yep - that one is tough to catch with the boolean search terms for sure.
Caelan Whimsy
I have learned to search for items that cost at least $L1. Trouble is, I end up looking at demos that cost, and missing freebies and gifts that don't. It would definitely be nice to be able to report demos that are not marked.
ZortyTheExplorer Resident
much better is to make change to include try demo button under main product so listing bloat cut 100%