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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: vectorsalimundo on January 25, 2013, 04:01 am

Title: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: vectorsalimundo on January 25, 2013, 04:01 am
Anyone else screwed by this new regulation about needing 50 posts to make any real posts outside of this board? I am right in the middle of an order and would love to talk bitcoin pump and dumps in the exchange market or why my vendor suddenly pulled all his listings for a specific substance (not his other listings) even though he is in top 2%. It's funny I have spent thousands of dollars on the road and have had this account the entire time and helped new folks myself but I am still being blasted in the ass by these new rules. I know something had to be done about the spammers but fuck it would have been nice to be grandfathered in or something. Now I have to make a dozen posts in here to even be qualified to speak again on the real discussions. For shame.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: dipset on January 25, 2013, 04:05 am
exact same spot as you... got locked out of other forum account and now this bullshit. Just spam the bitcointalks scammer threads to get to fifty
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: beadvised on January 25, 2013, 04:06 am
Same. I've only been on the forums for like 9 months but on the road for over a year. I think grandfathering in older accounts would have been a very reasonable solution (at least as much of a solution as what they did in fact do!) but my guess is that it's easier said than done. I suspect it'd have to be done one by one, manually, but perhaps not.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: C20H25N3O on January 25, 2013, 04:14 am
Displeased with this situation .
I am a member since September 2011  8)
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: vectorsalimundo on January 25, 2013, 04:15 am
So what actually counts as a post? Does this simple question in an existing thread count? I should also mention I had to message a kind member I could find active in the Technical Support board just to find out about this new rule. There was nothing whatsoever made clear on the main SR forums page or anywhere else about these new rules, which frustrated me for hours until in desperation I messaged the most recently active member I could find to ask WTF was going on. It is really a shame they isolated a lot of devout members like this. Just because I am not super active in the forums and only place orders every few months doesn't mean I should be lumped in with spammers for fucks sake. Hell if you look back at my post history you can find a specific comment I made pointing out that some people might not necessarily choose to maintain profiles on the forums due to paranoia about law enforcement or simply because they don't have the time in their lives to frequent the forums. Whoever made this decision is really punishing the semi-lurkers who still have much to contribute to the community. I hope someone in power sees this and passes on the suggestion about grandfathering in older accounts or at least grandfathering in old accounts that have more than 20 posts or something.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: vectorsalimundo on January 25, 2013, 04:17 am
Displeased with this situation .
I am a member since September 2011  8)

We could start a thread for Grandfather Candidates like us and try to get enough visibility the admins see it and start manually grandfathering in people that are obviously not scammers.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: zeroday1122 on January 25, 2013, 04:25 am
it really is a shame for you guys but I understand why the rule was put in place and I don't mind it. Just need to....work a little i guess.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: C20H25N3O on January 25, 2013, 04:32 am
I don't mint too but please the rule to be effective !

I will post your idea vectorsalimundo in   
" This section is an open topic disscussion for newbies.(Overthinking the Section) " -   http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=110463.msg760486;topicseen#msg760486
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: imtheman25 on January 25, 2013, 04:35 am
I'm not a big fan either.  I made a new account thinking something was wrong with my old one...to find out it was just this new rule.  Go figure I can't post where I need to post when i really need something.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: dipset on January 25, 2013, 04:39 am
I see this post limit policy spreading much misinformation and lies, as well as facilitating scams of  the newbies and idiots out of their money.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: novakane on January 25, 2013, 04:43 am
I'm in the same situation.  I suppose now's the time to help out people that really are new here?
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: vectorsalimundo on January 25, 2013, 04:50 am
I see this post limit policy spreading much misinformation and lies, as well as facilitating scams of  the newbies and idiots out of their money.

This policy has caused more harm than good. Unfortunately there will always be spammers that find a way through, just like those who crack and pirate software or those of us who find novel ways to order our favorite substances at the click of a button. Look at craigslist casual encounters as a great example of the battle between a legitimate social-oriented website and spammers. They have been battling them for years and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. We can only do our best to mitigate spammers and in the process hopefully not alienate too many real and passionate users. This current policy is a bandaid on a bullet wound and whoever is in charge needs to take a more proactive approach to this and at least minimize the fallout of loyal users that are getting fucked by this. There are better ways to handle this and this is simply fucking a lot of frustrated regular users and only a minor inconvenience to the spammers. Shit if they want to they can hire people at 5 cents an hour to fill out recaptchas so this security theater shit that looks like it's straight out of a TSA handbook for retards isn't going to cut it.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: mezzanine2323 on January 25, 2013, 05:05 am
There are better ways to handle this and this is simply fucking a lot of frustrated regular users and only a minor inconvenience to the spammers.

I definitely agree that there are better ways to handle it. Absolutely no question about it. I think that making decisions to try to prevent spammers is a good idea in theory but that if not handled carefully it can lead to more problems than it solves. However, because I am relatively new, in that I joined the site about a month ago and only found the forum a few days before this rule was enacted, I see it as sort of arbitrary to be angry about it. I could've just as easily joined today and never known the difference. Therefore it is a minor inconvenience to me. This is just one of the many rules I have to deal with while using SR, many of which I learned very recently.

However, since we're complaining and I don't think they'll delete this thread, I'll say that I think the thing that most irritates me about this situation is that the moderators are allowing these newbie "Count to 50" spam threads to reach 150 pages of posts and then deleting them and making these people start over. That is the most painful and absurd thing to watch. I posted maybe 10 times in a thread that was deleted today. And now I'm seeing the same people do it again. To whoever is making these decisions: please come forward and talk to the community about how you are handling this. We have some suggestions.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: Copycats on January 25, 2013, 05:13 am
REDACTED for being too drunk and high
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: MollyRingwald on January 25, 2013, 05:24 am
Were there any warnings that these regulations were going live? If so, I completely missed them.  :-\
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: mezzanine2323 on January 25, 2013, 05:38 am
Were there any warnings that these regulations were going live? If so, I completely missed them.  :-\

If there were, nobody seems to be able to find any evidence of them. I'm operating under the assumption that the moderators discussed it and decided this was the best way to go about it even though users wouldn't be happy about it. Maybe they were high and forgot :) Maybe we were high and we forgot! :o

Unless you have a decent solution to this problem, then why post about them problem?

A post is a post is a post is a post. We're all in the same boat here, or as you so eloquently stated, "JOIN THE CLUB!" And a note on irony: complaining about complaining - how many layers is too many? I'm complaining about you complaining about them complaining. Is this too many layers of complaint? What happens if someone complains about my complaint? Where does it end?

Now i posted a decent solution against the spammers on my other forum account so... can you guys come up with some good solutions? or just complain?

Well, I haven't read your solution, because I don't know which "other forum account" is yours, or what thread you posted it in. You should probably post it again or maybe make a new thread if you really want anyone to read it.

my excruciating brain will thank you very much.

wut
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: brianm on January 25, 2013, 05:42 am
Nothing to add. Just making a post while Im here.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: mezzanine2323 on January 25, 2013, 05:44 am
Nothing to add. Just making a post while Im here.

Smart man.  ;)
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: Copycats on January 25, 2013, 05:54 am
A copy of a copy of a copy of copy :D

The more layers the better, and I'm going to fix that typo

hey you know you're right, i won't add to the complaints, and I'll repost my solution for spammers, gimme a sec
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: Justchillin39 on January 25, 2013, 06:17 am
OK, this is for all the guys who have been here quite a while, but never really posted any messages, thus being stuck by the newbie rule:
Please help me, lol, started an acct here over a year ago, but just browsed for a coupla months and quit, forgot old login info and had to make new acct, lol, basicall I will be needing someone to walk me thru pgp and getting bitcoins, some of the directions are just not followable, need someone to put the shit in plain ol english
any help would be greatly appreciated, i'm no dummy, just never got into anything like this before
Good stuff is hard to find these days, will be looking into MDMA from here in the states

Anyway, thanks in advance, to anyone who decides to help, I'm sure by the time we are thru, we will both be over 50 posts and will have done it without spamming
I will be back on tomorrow to see if I have any takers.......
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: Rent0n on January 25, 2013, 06:34 am
yesha, its bullshit. i feel bad i can no longer put my reviews on my vendors threads. thats why im doing all of this, to help people know when a vendor is solid
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: mezzanine2323 on January 25, 2013, 06:40 am
Please help me, lol

I have no problem with helping you, but I'm not going to do it by waiting around all day on a forum for you reply to posts and have it take hours and hours. I have already helped a dozen people through the steps since discovering the site and I'll be happy to help you. But you'll have to PM me some username I can use to IM you somewhere. It can be fake or whatever, I just don't want to sit here and do it on this forum and have to fill out captchas etc. Even if it does take me over the minimum. I've been using Steam chat (the video game software) to discuss related matters for a while and feel it's quite safe. But we can use whatever you think is smart. Just please not an email/wait for reply situation. I've got things to do too.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: Copycats on January 25, 2013, 06:43 am
Alright, here is my grand solution against the spammers. Please feel free to come in an dispute me, it's the only way for me to check myself against my own bullshit so I actually appreciate it. Also it helps me know if my ideas are stupid or not :D

It requires randomizing the captchas, not just randomizing them, but randomizing the randomization of the styles of image effects. it all has to do with throwing off the program the spammers are using to bypass the verification process by making it more and more unpredictable. the coding may require a randomization of the captcha image effects and a further randomization of the decision of which effect (colors, stretch, skew, lines and combination of all, etc) The more sophisticated the better, any idea anyone can come up with to confuse a computer about an image but a human would easily see the better (of course that is a no-brainer I just realize that putting this into the forums requires coding beyond me so it requires work i cannot do myself and also would take a few weeks to do)

Anyway just think of the verification processes we have to do in the clearnet, sometimes I'm trying to decipher a captcha and i think to myself "who the hell could possibly see what these letters and numbers are?"

Same idea applies here, it might piss people off to have to try and do this (especially if their really really really high, but i think it's worth it if it gets rid of the spammers for a while until they program themselves an equally sophisticated program to read the captchas)

Alright... that's my idea, don't think I elaborated enough but we shall see, go ahead and tear me to shreds if my idea is stupid
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: rozelle on January 25, 2013, 06:58 am
spam time :(
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: Copycats on January 25, 2013, 07:12 am
damn... and i thought i had a good idea too...
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: mezzanine2323 on January 25, 2013, 07:29 am
Alright, here is my grand solution against the spammers.

It's actually a good idea. And one that has been thought of before, and carried out. If you look into the history of CAPTCHA, there have been many different structural designs and features, some of which function basically as you describe. The problem is that someone has to actually sit down and write the code. This forum wasn't coded from scratch. DPR might have set up SR himself, but this here is just SMF 2.0.3, aka Simple Machines Forum, a popular free and open source forum design. The CAPTCHA code that we have to fill out here is actually the default CAPTCHA system that's built into SMF. Out in the clearnet, the vast majority of sites are now using reCAPTCHA, which is a service designed by academics at Carnegie Mellon. The reCAPTCHA service is designed to make users look at an image of a scanned word from a book and transcribe it into digital text, thus over a period of time digitizing books into Google's digital archives (for free). It is also a very reliable CAPTCHA system and you would be very hard-pressed to write a bot that can foil it. It has only been hacked once, and the problem was patched before the hack was even announced at the LayerOne 2012 security conference.

Unfortunately for obvious reasons, an illegal darknet site like this one can't use reCAPTCHA because the people who run the service would need to agree to become at least tacit partners with DPR (notgonnahappen). And if it was deemed to be easier to use SMF rather than code a completely new forum, and if it was easier to raise the minimum post count than to individually ban spammers, I hardly think that the staff would take the time to code a new CAPTCHA. Doesn't seem to be their MO around here. No offense guys :)

As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure that the infrastructure of SMF allows you to replace the built-in CAPTCHA with another one. But it's not my area of expertise.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: Justchillin39 on January 25, 2013, 07:40 am
Please help me, lol

I have no problem with helping you, but I'm not going to do it by waiting around all day on a forum for you reply to posts and have it take hours and hours. I have already helped a dozen people through the steps since discovering the site and I'll be happy to help you. But you'll have to PM me some username I can use to IM you somewhere. It can be fake or whatever, I just don't want to sit here and do it on this forum and have to fill out captchas etc. Even if it does take me over the minimum. I've been using Steam chat (the video game software) to discuss related matters for a while and feel it's quite safe. But we can use whatever you think is smart. Just please not an email/wait for reply situation. I've got things to do too.


thanks mezzanine, I will download Steam Chat tomorrow, and PM you whatever you need, Thanks, and I totally understand what yuou are saying..........
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: sleepyg on January 25, 2013, 07:42 am
18 month "newbie here". Only left reviews when I thought necessary, now it looks like to give a vendor credit I'll have to start posting more.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: Copycats on January 25, 2013, 08:00 am
Alright, here is my grand solution against the spammers.

It's actually a good idea. And one that has been thought of before, and carried out. If you look into the history of CAPTCHA, there have been many different structural designs and features, some of which function basically as you describe. The problem is that someone has to actually sit down and write the code. This forum wasn't coded from scratch. DPR might have set up SR himself, but this here is just SMF 2.0.3, aka Simple Machines Forum, a popular free and open source forum design. The CAPTCHA code that we have to fill out here is actually the default CAPTCHA system that's built into SMF. Out in the clearnet, the vast majority of sites are now using reCAPTCHA, which is a service designed by academics at Carnegie Mellon. The reCAPTCHA service is designed to make users look at an image of a scanned word from a book and transcribe it into digital text, thus over a period of time digitizing books into Google's digital archives (for free). It is also a very reliable CAPTCHA system and you would be very hard-pressed to write a bot that can foil it. It has only been hacked once, and the problem was patched before the hack was even announced at the LayerOne 2012 security conference.

Unfortunately for obvious reasons, an illegal darknet site like this one can't use reCAPTCHA because the people who run the service would need to agree to become at least tacit partners with DPR (notgonnahappen). And if it was deemed to be easier to use SMF rather than code a completely new forum, and if it was easier to raise the minimum post count than to individually ban spammers, I hardly think that the staff would take the time to code a new CAPTCHA. Doesn't seem to be their MO around here. No offense guys :)

As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure that the infrastructure of SMF allows you to replace the built-in CAPTCHA with another one. But it's not my area of expertise.

Well at least I thought up a good idea, seems like we can recode SMF captchas to do this on our own (without the need of outside code work) better than the captchas i see in the clearnet though, but i realize how much coding and work this would require. Oh well... least my post wasn't useless spam
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: Justchillin39 on January 25, 2013, 01:32 pm
To Mezzanine
have gotten pgp installed, also joined an anonymous email service, going to find Steam Chat now, will be back in touch this afternoon. Thx for being willing to show me the ropes of PGP, very appreciated, be in touch as soon as I can
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: vectorsalimundo on January 25, 2013, 01:52 pm
18 month "newbie here". Only left reviews when I thought necessary, now it looks like to give a vendor credit I'll have to start posting more.

My solution for people like us that have low posts but have been here a long time:  Add something to the algorithm that allows users that have been here longer than a month with a very low frequency of posting (which can be found on your profile). Mine is currently 0.136 per day and I have been here nearly 330 days. Spammers aren't going to have those kinds of stats. Don't base it simply on number of posts that is a terrible control scheme.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: thirdeye47 on January 25, 2013, 01:54 pm
Hopefully this does have a positive impact on spam.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: digitalhuxley on January 25, 2013, 02:02 pm
In the same boat, here for about a year but posted rarely.  However no harm done in the end... perhaps a bit of time spent less productively than it would be but if it stops the spam it's all good.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: mezzanine2323 on January 25, 2013, 02:11 pm
To Mezzanine
have gotten pgp installed, also joined an anonymous email service, going to find Steam Chat now, will be back in touch this afternoon. Thx for being willing to show me the ropes of PGP, very appreciated, be in touch as soon as I can

Steam isn't just a chat client, it's a video game distribution system. You can picture it sort of like the Xbox Arcade. You download games and it also has a friends list and chat. I feel like it's pretty safe because LE wouldn't look there. They can get whatever info they want from Google, Hotmail, Yahoo etc. I just don't think they're going to subpoena the company that made Counterstrike for my records. It seems like a stretch. So that's why I suggested it. It's not "anonymous" per se in that your IP is still being shared with a company. But the likelihood that LE will subpoena that company and get our transcripts is very, very very very low.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: Justchillin39 on January 25, 2013, 02:45 pm
I got what ur saying, not worried about steam chat, I have the client downloaded,  Good thing I'm not worried, tried to make my profile name the same as the acct name i signed up under, but it gave me the first part of email address, which has my name, lol, will Pm u the Name.....going to try and go thru the pgp tutorial, if I feel I am not catching on, I will def be in touch, thx again in advance
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: ThePsych on January 25, 2013, 03:37 pm
Mmm I've been here over a year now but created a new account due to forgetting the info.. It's a shame but I guess it's better this way after all of the spamming that occurred constantly. Looks like we'll all just have to start posting more..
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: CANNA INC on January 25, 2013, 04:02 pm
same thing here. but id rather post 50 times here than read 500000000000 bitcoin scamming posts everytime I try to read something in the forums
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: Rent0n on January 25, 2013, 04:10 pm
18 month "newbie here". Only left reviews when I thought necessary, now it looks like to give a vendor credit I'll have to start posting more.

My solution for people like us that have low posts but have been here a long time:  Add something to the algorithm that allows users that have been here longer than a month with a very low frequency of posting (which can be found on your profile). Mine is currently 0.136 per day and I have been here nearly 330 days. Spammers aren't going to have those kinds of stats. Don't base it simply on number of posts that is a terrible control scheme.

i like your solution a lot
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: mezzanine2323 on January 25, 2013, 04:26 pm
18 month "newbie here". Only left reviews when I thought necessary, now it looks like to give a vendor credit I'll have to start posting more.

My solution for people like us that have low posts but have been here a long time:  Add something to the algorithm that allows users that have been here longer than a month with a very low frequency of posting (which can be found on your profile). Mine is currently 0.136 per day and I have been here nearly 330 days. Spammers aren't going to have those kinds of stats. Don't base it simply on number of posts that is a terrible control scheme.

i like your solution a lot

Without question this would be the most efficient method. However, I'm not sure whether there are any coders working with the SR staff who would be willing to modify the code for this forum. This forum is just Simple Machines Forum 2.0.3. It's open source but not easily modded by any amateur. Even if you tried right now I think you would have some trouble modifying it to those parameters, which I don't think it was designed to understand. I'd be happy if somebody proved me wrong. I just don't think it's realistic to expect it. The way this current spam issue is being handled indicates to me that the moderators of this forum prefer a quick, temporary fix rather than slower, more complex solutions.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: Justchillin39 on January 25, 2013, 05:15 pm
ok going thru the pgp tutorial, but ran into a pron with mocrosoft office 2007, seems it is an unauthorized copy, lol, go figure, wasn't able to copy the key certificate or whatchamacallit, downloaded open office from oracle, and it has let me copy what i needed to, just giving an update as to where im at, and adding another post at same time,
back to the tutorial now
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: Justchillin39 on January 25, 2013, 05:40 pm
need someone to gimme an email address so I can see if the email I have with my pgp key works, PM me PLEASE
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: torus19 on January 25, 2013, 06:35 pm
It's unfortunate but it'll pass soon enough.  *shrug*
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: vectorsalimundo on January 25, 2013, 06:45 pm
18 month "newbie here". Only left reviews when I thought necessary, now it looks like to give a vendor credit I'll have to start posting more.

My solution for people like us that have low posts but have been here a long time:  Add something to the algorithm that allows users that have been here longer than a month with a very low frequency of posting (which can be found on your profile). Mine is currently 0.136 per day and I have been here nearly 330 days. Spammers aren't going to have those kinds of stats. Don't base it simply on number of posts that is a terrible control scheme.

i like your solution a lot

Without question this would be the most efficient method. However, I'm not sure whether there are any coders working with the SR staff who would be willing to modify the code for this forum. This forum is just Simple Machines Forum 2.0.3. It's open source but not easily modded by any amateur. Even if you tried right now I think you would have some trouble modifying it to those parameters, which I don't think it was designed to understand. I'd be happy if somebody proved me wrong. I just don't think it's realistic to expect it. The way this current spam issue is being handled indicates to me that the moderators of this forum prefer a quick, temporary fix rather than slower, more complex solutions.

Yeah it is rather unfortunate the constraints that are placed on this forum because of the somewhat dated and very basic out of the box forum code we have to use. Only three more posts and I am emancipated!
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: Haizenberg on January 25, 2013, 06:46 pm
interesting ideas
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: redcube1 on January 25, 2013, 07:42 pm
I understand the actions put in place, and i also understand why you would be upset. Maybe it would have been a good idea to set this rule, but revoke the ruling for anyone with more than 5(?) transactions and longer than 3(?) months, but considering the forums and the vendor/buyer accounts are different, i suppose theres no way to enforce such things. Its upsetting, and annoying for you, im sure, but its just as annoying for me and its not that big of a deal :-)

I assume they are trying to encourage people to post on forums for the benefit of EVERYONE in the scene. And guess what? For me, its working.
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: sambo on January 25, 2013, 07:59 pm
Same boat. Been here since 4/12
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: redcube1 on January 25, 2013, 08:18 pm
I understand the actions put in place, and i also understand why you would be upset. Maybe it would have been a good idea to set this rule, but revoke the ruling for anyone with more than 5(?) transactions and longer than 3(?) months, but considering the forums and the vendor/buyer accounts are different, i suppose theres no way to enforce such things. Its upsetting, and annoying for you, im sure, but its just as annoying for me and its not that big of a deal :-)

Yeah, I noticed the same sort of fix was already mentioned... Im guilty of only reading one or two pages. WHOOPS!
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: camomug on January 25, 2013, 09:37 pm
Guys its a conspiracy. LEO wants to isolate the members who care enough to post 50 and then bust them!!
JK but still, its a pain
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: MandyEmay on January 25, 2013, 09:39 pm
newb
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: MandyEmay on January 25, 2013, 09:41 pm
j.k..yes 50 post!
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: The-Truth on May 25, 2013, 09:13 pm
Ridiculous
Title: Re: So according to the new rules I am a newbie even though I have been here a year.
Post by: SlimeGuy on May 25, 2013, 09:32 pm
Why drag up a 4 month old post? Everyone knows the rules, they've been like this for a while. I do agree it's pretty stupid, but surely only 10 or so posts would be enough to stop spammers. Now most people have to spam in order to hit 50 posts.

Either way, there's nothing we can do so leave dead posts dead.