I was asked to post, thus without further ado:
I wrote several Price Guides for D2R when it first came out. As an example see here:
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=92988581&f=276This was quite similar to what we had back in the days of D2LOD here:
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=72865307&f=54When I asked if such a price guide (once completed) could be stickied, the response was a "No".
In the same vein a better seperation between D2LOD and D2R on these forums was requested at the time of D2r Release. Eventually "D2LOD" and "D2R" tags in such forums as the "Trophy Room" -
https://forums.d2jsp.org/forum.php?f=103 were created. This has had disasterous results.

It basically meant that 2 games, made decades apart, had their different communities mashed together, and they did not get on, at all. From a LLD perspective its even worse - they deleted the LLD trading sub section "no activity" and made no D2r tags for the LLD forums
https://forums.d2jsp.org/forum.php?f=143 until very recently. By then alot of players had already moved to other platforms to trade and discuss.
I applaud your enthusiasm and I commend you, but it is very hard to make people change their minds. I tried for months and eventually gave up, but feel free to carry a torch for a better D2JSP (they can ask their moderators to enforce the rule "no racism" while they are at it (they dont)).
My best suggestion to you would be to write a blog and make it perfect with regards to your idea. try to get buy in from the community and slowly but surely network with a moderator or two and see what happens if you get them on board.
This post was edited by ferdia on Nov 7 2022 11:49am