A better and more organized solution to advertisements | Menu, categories, keywords, notifications, search

[Entity]

Short description: Moving the advertisements from the chat into a menu which you can access via a command.

Detailed description: Upon using the /ad(vert(isement)(s))(s) command (so /ad, /ads, advert, /adverts, /advertisement, /advertisements etc.), a menu will be brought up. It can either be a CEF menu (I believe they are called) or just a small, light, normal one. There's going to be four categories - All (all adverts), Private (for normal /ads), Business (for /bad) and Company (for /cad). This menu would also show in the X menu and in the I menu.

 

Choosing either of these categories will show a live list of the adverts.

 

3 cool features that could be added

1. An option inside the menu to use keywords and strings. A notification will be shown (like the SMS ones) whenever an advert containing your keyword or string will be placed (ex. "Kawaii", "House", "Out of Towners", "Hiring" etc.)
2. An option to search through the ads based on specific keywords.
3. (Optional) Whenever you post the ad, you could have the option of using a category (or none if you don't want to). We could have adverts divided between vehicles, properties, businesses, events, jobs, items etc. in the same place.

 

The adverts would remain in the list until the person disconnects or removes them. Using /ad or /cad again (after 20, 15, 5 and 3 minutes as it is right now) will bump them to the top of the list. If the person posts a second advert, only the last one remains. It would not clutter the menu because everyone will either log off, crash, disconnect or delete their advert at some point. One way it could have been abused is if people were to post multiple versions of the same ad, thus populating the list with their ads only. This won't happen though, since only the last advert will appear on the list.  

 

I think this is pretty straight-forward and will go a long way towards helping people get in touch with one another without resorting to spamming /ad and hoping someone sees it on the spot. The chat would also be clean, the adverts neatly and simply organized and the menu easy to navigate. We'd also be able to get notifications whenever something an interest is advertised, thus not needing to check the list every X minutes and all in all, it'd be a great alternative to the very old system which we're currently using.

 

Commands to add: CEF or normal menu for adverts containing the options described above.

Items to add: N/A

How would your suggestion improve the server? It's literally what we have right now but moved out of the chat, thus reducing spam and clutter, making everything more immersive and easier to navigate.

Additional information: Until it's properly and fully implemented and developed, there would be a way to switch between receiving the ads in your chat, the old way, or in the new way.

[Camacho]

I’d like to see this idea in an app in a smart phone.

[Wuhtah]

This has been implemented with the new advertising system!