New here - What do greyed out checkboxes mean?

[Nick]

Hi everyone,
Sometimes when I want to propose a trade, I can't click on the checkbox of the game out of my tradables that I want to propose. I can't really figure out why this is. Can anybody help me? :)

[r6d2]

Try hovering your mouse on the checkbox. Does a tool-tip appear?

[Nick]

Oh yeah there does, "cannot select this item because it is in this user's tradable collection".
So does that mean that the game is both in the wishlist and the tradables of the other person?

[r6d2]

Exactly. I know it may be confusing, but lots of people do that, myself included. The reasoning in my case is this one. Other people may have different reasons, though. Cheers!

[Sug4rPi3]

Oh, thanks! I was about to ask the same thing

[devotee]

In my case, I use tradable+wishlist as "may keep"

[Nao 尚]

I think I'll set up a series of states for games... 'don't show in matches, don't allow getting offers for, don't show in offerable games'... also maybe temp flags like 'skip this game in matches for X minutes.'

[gorthic]

> "cannot select this item because it is in this user's tradable collection"

When I get a match with several of my tradables but none can be selected, I usually select the "skip this user" for 12 months. Or maybe 1 month if it's the first time. That way I don't waste my time looking, but they can still make me an offer.

Probably most people aren't as cruel as me, and are less spastic in attacking the skip and ignore buttons. I like to press them, it's like tossing out unused stuff in the closet and now you can find things. :p

[Nao 尚]

Yeah, but it's more a barter bug than a user offence... Really, the bug is in the fact that these games still show up in matches even if they're not selectable. I'm expecting there will be PLENTY of similar bugs on the new site, only someone will be there to fix them...

[gorthic]

> Yeah, but it's more a barter bug than a user offence

That's why I feel a bit conflicted about doing it, unlike for example Ignore for users with worse than about 10% of Sent offers completed, and over 100 offers.

Also--if Barter were still being developed/maintained, I would be more patient with things like every game choice being unselectable.