Made some changes, hopefully make people happy. Some of the stuff sounded good on paper when we talked about it, but didn't work out so well in practice. Highlights-
You can TTT once every seven days now. People want TTT, well, here you go. I saw lots of people just getting their buddies to come in and ask random questions to bump the thread anyway. After the first people complained, I knew people would start working around the rule, and I was right, so on another note, please stop doing that. Not going to name names, just stick to the new one every seven rule.

Umm, eliminated some of the less necessary stuff to make the important stuff clear. The biggest change is the TTT thing, really, since that's what drew the only reasonable complaints. The other big ones are still there- you need to post asking prices, no off-topic posting, no bargaining in threads take it to PM, no random posts of universal parts by non-mitsu people.

Well, enjoy.

 

Sounds good!

 

I'll give you $10 Dolla

And no I do not think that is a lowball.

Oh and TTT for ya.

 

TTT






i knew you would break down sooner or later.

 

When there's only one mod. everything is an easier decision.
Sometimes there might be disagreements with multiple mods.

 

The one new rule that people effectively argued against was the TTT rule. It's hard for people to know what's still for sale without TTT, leading people to bump threads themselves asking about it, leading to more clutter because some of the threads will be dead. Also, people were going around the rule anyway by having their friends post, so it was quickly becoming pointless unless we wanted to go to Nazi-moderation locking down everything, which would never work. Finally, letting people get their threads back on the first page from the second or third page doesn't really seem that unreasonable after thinking about it for a while, though I personally search FS forums when I'm looking for something instead of just looking at the first half page...

Since a majority seemed to want the right to TTT and there were good arguments for it, it only makes sense to reinstate it. If you want to call it breaking down, that's fine, I call it giving the people what they want. And that is the point of moderating here- to preserve an environment people want to post in. Too much or too little moderation and people are unhappy, the proper balance and things run smoothly and the site grows.

Well, I've announced the change, given time for anybody who wanted to make any comments and time for anybody who wanted to gloat about some perceived victory. Time to lock 'er down.