Role of SRP BST discussion thread cont.

[The Topher]

I wasn't suggesting going after the off topic areas for post count as that used to annoy me too but the problem as I see it is this... people are getting annoyed that other people are flooding BST with razors that do not have any or do not have sufficient value added to them after they were purchased to justify the pricing making the bst into an over valued ebay(if that is even possible). Another issue is that some people only post here in bst with a few exceptions. I can think of a few people who have anywhere from 25 posts to 150 posts and all of them are in bst. Then again I can think of a few buyers who only buy things in bst and never post elsewhere. If posts did not count in bst then these people would have 0 or only a handful of posts making them instantly obvious to everyone and weeding them out. If they start posting in other areas then maybe we could get some other participation from them and this enriches the community. You can only post so much "noise."

The problem here is that we are gentleman for the most part. This means that we don't like to be the one to call out that something is junk or someone is abusing things. Even now I could name names of people who I think abuse stuff but I don't out of respect and a desire to avoid unpleasantness. So either we need to appoint someone to do that which makes things unpleasant (not my first choice) or we need to find ways to let the market work things out. I am a capitalist and think that with the right incentives and a little accountability things will work out.

I enjoy things as they are since i know what is nice and what is not which is why when I am not to busy I try to post when something is good so the members who don't know can get an idea. And yet I have 5-10 rare, large, or beautiful sheffield razors in full polish (at my obsessive level of polish) that I am trying to custom scale that I will sell in a month or so and I am doing this because I want to show off, get my scale technique worked out, pay for some new stuff like a belt grinder, and provide the best razor I can to the community that I think would like to get what I do. I am no vendor. I don't even make very many of those kits. I am a financial consultant by trade and will remain so. So I will do my best to respect the bst as I have always done. I would hate to think that I would need to take the work I do somewhere else because some people ruined things here. Let the market work things out.