Thread: Am I Reading The Classified Rules Correctly?

1. Members wishing to post a 'For Sale' (FS) or 'For Trade' (WTT) ad must have a minimum of three (3) months of membership and no less than 100 posts or six (6) months of membership and no fewer than 50 posts. Exceptions to this rule may be made by the senior moderator team.
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100 posts in 3 months or 50 posts in 6 months... What if I am at 4 months and 75 posts? Still have to wait until I have 6 months time in?

Color me... 'Confused'...

I think there are some forums out there where you can just pay to put an ad in and then you won't have to be confused.

Have fun

Originally Posted by Prahston

1. Members wishing to post a 'For Sale' (FS) or 'For Trade' (WTT) ad must have a minimum of three (3) months of membership and no less than 100 posts or six (6) months of membership and no fewer than 50 posts. Exceptions to this rule may be made by the senior moderator team.
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100 posts in 3 months or 50 posts in 6 months... What if I am at 4 months and 75 posts? Still have to wait until I have 6 months time in?

Color me... 'Confused'...

You've got me confused ..... what is it about the rules that you don't understand ?

Originally Posted by Prahston

100 posts in 3 months or 50 posts in 6 months... What if I am at 4 months and 75 posts? Still have to wait until I have 6 months time in?

Color me... 'Confused'...

It is simple, you can make 25 more posts and have 100 posts in 4 months, or just sit and wait till 6 months pass , your choice.

LOL... Understood about the Pay Sites... What is confusing is the numbers... Or, perhaps the way that it is written...

100 posts in 3 months is greater than one post/day. That seems steep for any standard, Free or otherwise!

Would it not be clearer to just say ".. minimum of 6 months membership or 100 posts.." assuming that anyone posting one post/day as a Troll would be fairly easily weeded out?

I recommend you just ask more questions. After all how else will you learn fast. All these learning curves can make for plenty of questions.

Originally Posted by Prahston

1. Members wishing to post a 'For Sale' (FS) or 'For Trade' (WTT) ad must have a minimum of three (3) months of membership and no less than 100 posts or six (6) months of membership and no fewer than 50 posts. Exceptions to this rule may be made by the senior moderator team.

It's called being an "Active Member" (as opposed to merely having one).

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.