Originally Posted by
gugi
No, the classifieds do not count. Usually these things happen in response to something. I hate to keep making rules, and would prefer that people would just behave well on their own, but it doesn't always happen. Creating a rule at least ensures that it is something that can be applied uniformly and objectively and addresses particular behavior not particular persons. Although I still get accusations from those who don't get to do what they want that they have been unfairly targeted, but that's just how certain people are.
Nothing has changed with any rules, and I think the new text in the raffle is just more clarification (that should not be necessary). Multiple entries in the raffles have never been allowed, and 'posting on four separate days between the raffle contests' to be eligible to win seems pretty simple and clear.
But probably there are enough people who post multiple entries in the raffle sign up thread and nowhere else in the forum, expecting that they're still eligible to get something for free.
In any case, this site is a community; not a fleamarket, not a free billboard, not a place to just get freebies, so to keep things in proportion there are certain incentives to hopefully nudge those who are primarily interested in the secondary things towards the main purpose.
Pro-forma compliance doesn't work well either - if somebody would, say, only post 'nice razor' type of posts in order to sell for free in the classifieds that is bound to be noticed and it's not going to work for too long. It doesn't make sense to give people access to the community if the only thing they are interested in is profiting from such access without contributing anything to advancing it.