Comments on Swap Posts

This is such a pervasive issue that it needs it's own post. If you've seen this before, that is probably because you have seen it before.

Image: Comment Section on Swap Description Page

lol check that out. that comment on the bottom of the swap, in the Swap Discussion section?

yeah.

NO ONE is ever gonna get an alert for that. Not the winners of this bonus envelope giveaway, not me (the host,) not anyone. 

The framework for Swap-bot was out of date 10 years ago. The coding was already very basic for 20 years ago. I coded pages like this ~2002. There are no longer Admins for the site. It basically runs on ads and untouched servers. The comments and profiles are overrun with spam bots. We will not be getting notifications on comments ANY time soon. Unless you personally plan to buy the website and implement funding and a dev or three to update it all, this is not a thing that will happen.

I post comments on RAKs and Bonus swaps so that people can publicly see them, but I ALSO message individual users.

If you leave a comment on a swap, there's not much chance someone will see it- or see it *in time* before the swap is assigned!

please just directly message the host.

one thing:

If you see spam or bots posting a lot of weird messages, especially with links, or a normal-sounding username but with a comment that has nothing to do with the swap topic, MESSAGE THE HOST. We are the only ones who can delete these comments. And it's very important: the more spam is allowed, the more spam is 'ranked' as important and the more people are exposed to malicious spam and bots.

Help us keep swap-bot safe for everyone!

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I apparently have to add this on: y'all. All y'all. Swap-bot is NOT a job. I do not clock in and clock out precisely when their servers say it's time to assign swaps, and I don't spend hours of my week checking for comments that have no notifications on all swaps I run from the past month and onwards. I frequently run 30 swaps a month, putting up new ones when others close out. That is HOURS spent checking and re-checking swaps that have NO notifications. 

lol no. 

A screenshot of (Disney's) Kronk talking to Yzma.
The text explains that chronic illness does not get
better. It is chronic, ongoing. Yes, I am STILL sick.

Again with the chronic illness. The very serious one that typically kills people. The one that I experience chronically, which is why it's called a chronic illness.

NO, I cannot spend literally hours of my week checking on these swaps Just In Case. That is why I say to send me a message. I get e-mails for new messages. People who don't get e-mails do get a bright red notification next to their messages when they log in, which says NEW! 

This is not an issue I am budging on. You cannot guilt me into sacrificing more of my daily abilities to ::checks notes:: read a comment on a swap when you could not be tossed to click THREE buttons (my username -> Message -> Send) to talk to me.

When a host tells you in the swap description to send a message, and you agree to sign up for the swap, it means you agree to adhere to swap rules. That means if the host saying not to comment, you will not expect your comment to be read. No one is forcing you to sign up for anything. I will enforce not reading comments unless I am checking on something else, and by then, it is likely too late to answer your question. 

YOU will also NOT get a notification for the response to a comment you left! So if you are a frequent swapper AND you, say, have a "real life" with responsibilities and stuff, you might not even remember exactly what swap you commented on to begin with- which means you won't read my response anyways! 

That is why you just message us.

I swear, the next person who tries to passive-aggressively tell me that my ratings would be better if I checked comments (because SB *allows* comments) is getting banned from my swaps.

Pointing out that Swap-bot *allows* you to leave comments, therefore it is an expectation that hosts should be checking them all the time, does not actually work out. It just shows me that you haven't paid attention to the listing or what hosts have actively taken time to tell you. It tells me that you fully intend to be disrespectful. If I wanted to deal with that crap, FOR FREE, I'll go visit my family.