The Trade Rules Review Thread (READ THE RULES)

[chewwy]

@ noleah: Simple, to the point. Look understandable to me. ^^

How are mine?

[Celozon]

How are mine?

From the first glance over my first thought is 'too many pictures' You've got four pictures of dogs, and they are all lined up on top of each other taking up room. My general rule for trade rules is that they should be as short, simple, and unique as possible. Taking a look at the rules, I like how the important stuff is bolded, that automatically tells us that we only really need to read that part. Now reading the rules themselves, number one, I personally find redundant. A scammer is going to send an unfair trade anyway, most everyone else on the site tries their best to send an unfair trade, and unfortunately a lot are wrong, but giving them that rules doesn't change that. The third one, I also find redundant. Everyone should know that if a group is locked that means its not for trade. Even if you put that there, anyone desperate enough for them will ask for them anyway, and probably won't even look at your trade rules unless they see the pet they want in the trade rules themselves, which is why I don't show off pets in mine. Number four is, well I can't really say redundant, but somewhat unneeded, if your trying to cut down your rules, that one isn't necessary. For seven and eight, the rules themselves are fine, but the wording makes them come off rather mean, and you just said in rule four you would be nice, except just reading seven and eight you don't sound like it. And then right under that you say you won't bite. Its kinda contradictory. Also, I think the 'A suggestion' part shouldn't be bolded, its not a necessary part, but it looks more important than it is because its bolded.

As for the rest of the trading rules, my own opinion is that the rest isn't needed, taking all that out would make it look much more clean and neat. If you really need it, I would suggest pulling up an art program (even Paint would do) and you can make your own image of hoard pets by just combining pictures, you can then put right on there 'Hoarding Yulynh horses and ponies' and 'any dogs in this lineart' which would cut out some space. The BA confused me at first, I thought you were hoarding it at first as well, and frankly, its not needed there. I do always suggest a picture to two in trade rules. But a picture of hoards would be enough, and the BMD and BA are not needed and will only attract beggers. Yes your proud of your pets, but its completely meaningless to everyone else. I don't really know what to make of the pic of the pet your looking for, but if its only going to be there a short while it would work best at the bottom.

Yeah I do a lot of talking, but I always work to find something that can be improved, I say there is no such things 'perfect' trading rules X3

Well, mine? Anything at all that seems out of place, unnecessary, or needs improvement? I'll probably be updating the 'still needed' pic and take out the pets I already have so its doesn't take up so much room.

[Demisle]

I think some of the schpeels under your main rules can be split up into other rules and the images you have are jpegs and not pngs so they aren't as crisp but that's about it I guess.

The formatting on the bottom of mine is broken, for some reason @_@. If you, who reviews my rules, knows how to fix it, could ya help me? XD

[ohdeer]

I like your rules, clean, neat and straight to the point c:
I would love to help you fix the bottom, but unfortunately I'm not exactly expert at these things

[5404]

The formatting on the bottom of mine is broken, for some reason @_@. If you, who reviews my rules, knows how to fix it, could ya help me? XD

Hm... You mean those 'Pet gifts' and 'Others' parts should be on the same line as 'Item gifts'? Just move [left] and [right] before this part with [center] - it should work. :3

My review: I would rather read rules in normal text, not on pictures. And your rules look... long because of those pictures and nothing on sides. But I'm maybe too minimalistic. ^^" Overall they are simply and clean.

So I have a chance to ask: how about mine rules?
In trade rules preview they look good but I don't know (because I can't trade with myself) if there isn't too much space between pet and rules?

[Morticia]

@ 5404
Yours look good. They're simple, to the point and get across what you want. Also, the spacing of the pet looks fine to me ^^
How are mine?

[chewwy]

@ Queen of Anything

Yours overall look good, but I would make the font a bit bigger (normal or something) because it may be a bit hard for some people to read them. :3
Othewise good!

I improved mine a little, how are they now? (And should I keep the 2 helpful links or not?)

[Lake Petal]

@ Queen of Anything

Yours overall look good, but I would make the font a bit bigger (normal or something) because it may be a bit hard for some people to read them. :3
Othewise good!

I improved mine a little, how are they now? (And should I keep the 2 helpful links or not?)

Your rules look very good! Personally, I would not add the "Unless..." seeing as they, in my mind, should be clear and to the point.

What about mine?

[Liirarwen]

I like your rules! Nice points, not a lot of extra fluff. The only thing is that the centering of the text makes it a little harder to read; I kept losing which line I was on. xP But it's probably just personal preference.

Also, I think you might have meant to say adoptable forum, not form. c:

[&& echo;]

@ Liirarwen

your rules are very simple, to the point, and easy to remember. a problem that i
often have with rules is that i can't remember what i've read, so it can be hard to follow
them. ^ ^ but yours seem perfect, to me. < 3
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anything that could improve mine? are they okay, easy to to read/remember, etc? c:
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