Thread:DinoKev/@comment-1889-20120815183544/@comment-5012038-20120817081020

That "trading forum" was created by babyghost based on this page I created for ZJ Wiki so I'll let you know why and how I came about creating that page and its pros and cons.

The main reason for having that page on ZJ Wiki is because there were too many people spamming the article pages with friend code, trades, etc and it's tiring for admins to keep having to delete them and block people. We have posted tons of warning but yet people just ignored them. So in order to solve the problem and since the fact is people will continue to post those advert spams on the wiki anyway, we came up with the idea to group all the "spams" to a single page instead of having them posted everywhere and hopefully they will stop spamming the article pages and it works. As people begin to concentrate their friend code or trade adverts on this page, the number of adverts posted on article pages dropped significantly. In order to prevent comments from flooding the wiki recent activity feed, a new non-content namespace called "Marketplace" was requested from Wikia and all postings on this page are filtered out from the recent activity feed. As more and more people come to the wiki to do trades, the number of contributions to the articles increased as well.

However as people keep refreshing that trade page to see new trade posts, you will start to get ridiculous number of views figures which do not represent the exact unique number of views. Also you will start to see people creating accounts just to do trades which is not "healthy" to the wiki.

It may seem out of place for a wiki but it's up to you really depending on what's the purpose of having that on Legend of Cryptids Wiki.