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The new requirement (i.e. removal of the 'The World' option) is to help facilitate new Marketplace functionality, as you said. In the new future, item country will be displayed directly beside each item listed (in the forum view), so that it's easier for people to skip sales they aren't interested in. Previous attempts of including item location in the thread preview text wasn't much appreciated.
Instead of having a country dropdown there, we're just going to use the global option, as it's a lot easier to implement. If this were some sort of private information then we'd take a much more conservative approach, but since your country is no secret to any site you visit on the internet, I figured users wouldn't throw a fit. One compromise I'm willing to consider is to allow continents in the Country dropdown, however. Not sure if this would make much of a difference or not.
Modification of the item listing form to accomplish this would be possible, although any information entered there can't be used globally in the forum thread listings. At best, we'll think of a different approach should an overhaul be done in the future.
Adam
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