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So, I normally don't do this, but something kinda' stuck out at me as funky- not to name names, but as an example, this thread generated a couple responses that all said that the thread was misleading. I agree, but let's give the thread the benefit of the doubt and say he had a different opinion of his models' worth than the chunk of responses since model values are often subjective.

So, using that as a jumping off point, there are some cases were we can talk about objectively misinforming things, for the purposes of arguments. There can be things that are blatantly misinformative, such as:
-"[h] Space marines [w] (whatever)" when they have no space marines
-"[h] space marines [w]free!" when they're not.
-"[h] space marines [w] cheap!" when selling easily acquired models (ex: new or used but not impressive kits of stuff that's been available for a while) for more than retail
-'[h] LE's [w] (whatever)" when the models aren't limited. Maybe they're common, or are OOP but were common, but they were never uncommon.


IDK why someone would do the first (just going for another example), but the rest all reek of driving traffic in my opinion.

So... does anyone feel there should be a policy regarding transparency at least on an objective level, and does anyone feel like a policy on subjective but still rather misleading titles would be enforceable? In the case of the latter, what sort of criteria would be useful?

Even with the semi-automated titling system as we have now, people still manage to click the 'Other' option and mis-title their Swap Shop threads. Having the Swap Mods police all new threads to make sure their contents match the titles as well would be an exercise in futility, likewise expecting users to stick to some sort of standard or agreed framework. As with most things, if you see a misleading title, hit the yellow triangle and flag it if it bothers you that much or otherwise ignore it and move on. The cost/benefit ratio in clearing them up with regard to Mod time and effort isn't worth it I'm afraid.

Sure, thanks for the response.

I wasn't calling for more aggressive moderation since it's obviously a lot of work, but currently there's nothing in the rules/guidelines actually saying you shouldn't post misleading info, just to discourage people from doing that.