Unfortunately, both WTB and HAF on this forum are a joke nowadays

[SettingSun77]

There are a few relatively new sellers here whose entire post history is some slight variation of "discount plz" posted across dozens of sales threads.

If you have examples of this, report them. Or list them and contact Support about them. We, as a rule, do not allow members to become sellers on here if their posting history is sheer post count laziness or AI slop or both. But we're not perfect, we may have missed some.

 

[Venusaur]

It's not even that, half the replies to some threads are 2-3 paragraphs long, but posted literally seconds after the OP. That's not a human ignoring the details, that's bots set to auto-reply.

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/need-guest-posts.1833362/

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[Stavro]

If you have examples of this, report them. Or list them and contact Support about them. We, as a rule, do not allow members to become sellers on here if their posting history is sheer post count laziness or AI slop or both. But we're not perfect, we may have missed some.

Those reports were all rejected previously, but I'll report them again.

 

[itsworth]

I think that something that would definitely helps everyone is to just create a way to disallow "people" to comment on sales thread. Let me be clear about this: everytime i want to try a service from a member from a sales thread, almost all those who have sales thread created in 2026 have a lot of comments like "been using this service for a month, the seller is very good". BUT THE ACCOUNT IS CREATED THE SAME DAY! I always see that those accounts are banned, but so far, the comments aren't erased.

My user is relatively new here in bhw, but i've been reading this forum for years, so i just simply avoid any service from a sales thread with this comment pattern. But what worries me is that maybe someone new here will see all this comments and think the seller is good, and be lead to a scam. I know i'ts hard to handle something like that, because that would need to have someone looking at all sales thread... but all in all, maybe direct someone from admins to do that would definitely helps improve the quality (also punish the sellers that does that would help as well).

Because it's just natural human behavior. Almost nobody praises a good service, so to think that someone that just created the account would to that, this is just unreal.

 

[indianmojojojo]

Some checkbox before a reply on HAF or WTB section like when you create a new marketplace thread

Something like I have read the OP's requirements and accept the TOS

 

[Ryan_2]

I think that something that would definitely helps everyone is to just create a way to disallow "people" to comment on sales thread. Let me be clear about this: everytime i want to try a service from a member from a sales thread, almost all those who have sales thread created in 2026 have a lot of comments like "been using this service for a month, the seller is very good". BUT THE ACCOUNT IS CREATED THE SAME DAY! I always see that those accounts are banned, but so far, the comments aren't erased.

My user is relatively new here in bhw, but i've been reading this forum for years, so i just simply avoid any service from a sales thread with this comment pattern. But what worries me is that maybe someone new here will see all this comments and think the seller is good, and be lead to a scam. I know i'ts hard to handle something like that, because that would need to have someone looking at all sales thread... but all in all, maybe direct someone from admins to do that would definitely helps improve the quality (also punish the sellers that does that would help as well).

Because it's just natural human behavior. Almost nobody praises a good service, so to think that someone that just created the account would to that, this is just unreal.

This is off topic but i understand you are talking about fake reviews.

 

[Komlenic]

There are a few relatively new sellers here whose entire post history is some slight variation of "discount plz" posted across dozens of sales threads.

I'm pretty sure that's the reason new mod is here, to clear these spam accounts. It's easy for us to complain about it but it's not an easy issue to solve, they have to avoid damaging real members while removing the bots