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Settings

Trade Post keeps its own count in every mode, including the two that write no flair. Switching modes later loses nothing.

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Trade Post writes it

Reads the number already in a trader’s flair, adds one, writes it back. The digits are spliced over the old digits and every other character is left alone, so emoji, tier words and region tags survive. An existing swapbot history carries over on a trader’s first trade here. There is no batch job and nothing to import. A count is recognised as digits immediately before trades, transactions, swaps, sales, exchanges, deals, confirmations, confirmed, or a flair that is nothing but a number. Not “the first number in the string”, which would read Since 2019 · 42 Trades as 2019. Reddit caps flair at 64 characters. If appending would overflow, nothing is written. Trade Post never truncates existing flair. A CSS class of exactly flair-<count> is bumped alongside the text. Requires user flair enabled subreddit-wide, and moderator permissions on the app account.
Test on one account first. The first flair write clears the trader’s flair template and background colour and forces the text colour to dark. Reddit’s flair API replaces every field it is not given, and returns only the text and CSS class to read, so those are all Trade Post can preserve.

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Keep our existing bot

Writes no flair. When both traders confirm, each gets a button that posts the confirmation comment as themselves, mentioning your bot and the other trader, with their feedback underneath. Your bot handles the flair.
A blank bot name saves cleanly and disarms the mode. No flair, no comment, no error, and the confirm button never appears.
The u/ on the bot name is optional. In the comment, {bot} is your bot and {user} is the other trader; both are required and the save is refused without them.

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Leave flair alone

Nothing is written to flair. The completion notice still posts.

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Notes

  • Negative outcomes never reach flair in any mode. Back-outs and ghosts appear only in Mod tools.
  • The mode is read on every completed trade, so switching it off stops flair writes immediately, including on trades already in flight. This is the opposite of the ghost window, which is fixed when a trade is accepted.
  • Trade Post’s count and the flair number can drift when a moderator or bot edits flair by hand, or when a count expires. Rebuild trade counts is the repair.