Thread: Am I Reading The Classified Rules Correctly?

Greater than one post per day for 90 days would certainly be considered Active Membership that's for sure. Reasonable? Not so sure about that.

Family, Employment, Responsibility... Just a few of the countless things competing for that greater than one post per day ratio!

And, I'm just not so sure the Learning Curves are that steep... More Learning Bumps, IMHO.

If you really have a problem with this, why not take advantage of that last sentence? You know, the thing about exemptions if approved by moderator team.

I definitely noticed the Loophole. I am just trying to clarify as much as possible before I consider asking a favor.

I can catch up a little bit on the weekends with posts (this one is helping quite nicely) which is helping but, honestly, when I read that part of the rules I thought it was an error, misprint or that the values were reversed ie, ".. 3 months or 50 Posts or 6 months or 100 Posts..'.

I'm not trying to be obtuse but this is not really an intellectual Forum where you can just while away at the keys for hours on end... This Forum supports a VERY 'Hands On' Hobby/Activity... So, it is counterintuitive to me to require new members to spent such a great amount of time creating posts when most of the answers to those initial questions require the User to go out and 'try' one thing or another.

Rules are Rules certainly but when I see something that seems so confusing to me I am gonna ask about it... Not necessarily ONLY to get an answer to that one question but to get a pulse on the community as well.

The 'special circumstances' option is there for special circumstances. 1 post per day (on average) is anything but a difficult requirement to fulfill. The classifieds is here for active members: people who are part of the community, give back and are around on a regular basis. It is indeed a hands on hobby, but it generally takes some time and discussion / asking questions before you know everything you need to know. If you are indeed one of those people who pick up everything first go, then kudos to you but by definition, you are not an active member.

If there are no active members discussing things and later on helping out, there there would be no forum at all.

I'd also like to point out that the people who have thousands of posts to their name are not 'no-lifers'. Talking about myself, I do have a real life that eats away at my time. I am a full time systems engineer. I study Japanese and martial arts. I make razors and knives. I have 2 young daughters, 1 wife and a house that need attention. Despite all that, I still find the time to be an administrator here, which does take considerably more time than making 1 post per day.

Now I don't expect everyone to be interested in investing their time in becoming a forum regular. Most people in fact only stay around for long enough to learn the hobby, and then move on. Fair enough. That is why we are here for, after all. But in that case it also makes sense that they are not considered active members.

Originally Posted by Prahston

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Rules are Rules certainly but when I see something that seems so confusing to me I am gonna ask about it... Not necessarily ONLY to get an answer to that one question but to get a pulse on the community as well.

Classifieds are a membership perk - "membership" being the operative word, closely followed by "perk". If you have a burning need to sell something I hear ebay is available for just such situations.

If you want to sell something for free here to the membership, under the auspices of SRP, you give the members a reason to trust you by becoming an active participant in our community. Yes, the time limits and the post counts may not be the "gold standard" way to go about it, but it is fairly standard practice and usually weeds out the fly-by-nighters.

I'm not trying to be obtuse but this is not really an intellectual Forum where you can just while away at the keys for hours on end... This Forum supports a VERY 'Hands On' Hobby/Activity... So, it is counterintuitive to me to require new members to spent such a great amount of time creating posts when most of the answers to those initial questions require the User to go out and 'try' one thing or another.

It is counter-intuitive to me that a new member, who needs to go out to try things so as to learn, would be needing to sell anything in the Classifieds so early in their learning. Straight razors are a slow burn and I would suggest that the last thing on any new member's mind should be trying to sell personal gear within the first 3 months.

Of course, there are exceptions and perhaps you are one. But if I were you I'd be less worried about the rules and more concerned with building a solid reputation here amongst the community you would like to sell items to. It is really not a lot to ask for a free service.

Good luck to you.

James.

No offense but it takes at least three months to even know if a razor is shave ready. These are about the best classifieds I've ever seen for selling quality gear, the post count and time limit are to keep junk sellers and scammers out of the classifieds.

Originally Posted by Prahston

Greater than one post per day for 90 days would certainly be considered Active Membership that's for sure. Reasonable? Not so sure about that.

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I dunno. You seem to be doing OK at the moment - 4 posts in a bit over 2 hours. I have every faith in you.

James.