User blog:Blupo/The Market Concept, Revision 1

The Market (not the Market page) is a concept I've hashed out several times before, but I've never really been able to come up with a solid solution, so in this blog post I will try to revisit the concept once again.

You can read my previous blogs on the concept here and here.

Centralised Trading
The core of the Market is centralised trading, where people post their trades and conduct business in one place. This is different from the current method in which people trade, where they post comments on several pages hoping their trades get seen.

The implementation of the Market would be the most complicated project undertaken by the wiki, and you could argue that the goals of the Market aren't worth the effort to create it.

Postings and Offers
Postings are where traders will post what they want to buy and/or sell. These can be presented and formatted in any way the trader wants to.

Offers are what traders post to respond to postings. They have some rules:
 * You can only post one offer per posting
 * Posting authors can delete your offers
 * Posting authors can blacklist you from posting offers

Posting authors can mark your offer as accepted, denied, or closed. If your offer is accepted a message will be added to the offer giving detals about where to meet, etc. The posting author can also close the offer and it will be hidden. If an offer is denied then it is automatically closed.