The current method.

Make a game, get all your front matter ready, get ready to post an ad, write out your ad or copy paste, hit post, get told you don't have the looking for players flag set, lose the text for your ad, start over.

Better ideas.
1. Have the flag automatically set when you post or bump your ad.
2. Make not having the flag an error like all the others so that you can keep your post but go back in another tab to set the flag.
3. Have the error page ask if you want the flag set and let you push the button right there.
4. Only put games with their flags set in the games drop down.

I know it's sort of a minor inconvenience. But if I were the type to write out a long involved pitch that wasn't just a copy past of my game intro. I would be devastated because I have never once set that flag correctly before posting and I would lose everything every time.

The easiest solution here is to draft posts off-site in software like Google Docs, Notepad, Notepad++, MS Word, Open Office, or the like.

That's happened to me. What I do when it happens is hit the back button to go back to the ad, then open a new window to change the flag, then resubmit. Nothing is lost or needs to be retyped.

That's not the point. The site should work in a sensible way. You shouldn't need to work around it.

It DOES work in a sensible way: It only lets you advertise for players if you have a game open to addng players.

The issue here isnt' the site, it's that you forget to set the flag properly for adding players to a game and have to go back and do so. It's not the site's fault if you're advertising for new players for a game you've closed to new players. Really.

Not sure  what the thing  is?  But i have  changed soem of  my  ads..i bump every  week, i will up date  'how long' the game  has been aropund., and i update  every 1000 posts.

 I did  switch  an ad as i moved  one game from  'D&D' ish, to my own system,. The flags  and such  are up to the GM, becuse the   site doesn't know what we're posting

anyway..Minor thing

Alright. Does anyone actually disagree that any of those changes would be good/user friendly?

Is there ANY advantage to the current system?

i can't  count in a vote like that.  I am Blissfully unaware of any of those problems,  I have been here  since  2005,,,GMing since 2010..never had a problem?, so i figure   no one else does?

My tech skiolls  aren't  anywhere near others here ( i still can figure out  how to put  pics  up!)

Have you tried simply going back to the ad with the back button?  That works for most failures.

As Sir Swindle says, while there might well be workarounds, it'd certainly be more user-friendly/functional to adopt one of those suggestions.

I'd prefer it to automatically set the flag and just show me a message to tell me that had been done, but all of the suggested changes would be acceptable.

So that's a +1 from me.  :>