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Dor_42 Dor_42
At this point a ban should have been given, no? Maybe my finger is too light on that trigger
Agreed about a ban, avatar looks like a company logo to me.
 
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Dor_42 Dor_42
How is he passing under the radar like that?!
It becomes personal when he bombards my "Latest" Threads section with irrelevant stuff from months or years ago!
F*cks up my whole morning routine!
At first I thought you were being a bit over dramatic but you weren't. It's bloody annoying.
 
amfalconer
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Wait for the next one on the post about the politician spewing over the dead fish.

Any second now
 
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Tubber Tubber
At first I thought you were being a bit over dramatic but you weren't. It's bloody annoying.
He will reach 200 by 11am CET. Looking forward to his Truck 😀
 
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STANDY STANDY
🤦 he drives a automatic. He’s going to have quartz watches for sure. 😜
Actually, some of us quite like driving automatics ::psy::

But, on the basis of what the OF detection squad has unearthed - I support the ban proposal
 
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I think new members don’t necessarily see discussions in which they’re being tagged.
It took me at least a year or two to look at and then figure out the “latest” and “alerts” and to realize there was a tagging system.
Unless there’s an outright message or reply to a thread in email form it’s very easy to miss.
That being said, I did reply to one of his posts so he ought to have seen that warning.
 
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Hernium Hernium
Imagine if someone just went all the way to 200...only to post a WTB!

Yea I really don't see any point in making a fuss over rapid fluff postings until the magic 200 mark is hit. For sale offerings are subject to approval and that's when a post farmer becomes a post farmer. Until then one never knows if someone might just be an excitable type that's bored during the pandemic.
 
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janice&fred janice&fred
Yea I really don't see any point in making a fuss over rapid fluff postings until the magic 200 mark is hit. For sale offerings are subject to approval and that's when a post farmer becomes a post farmer. Until then one never knows if someone might just be an excitable type that's bored during the pandemic.
The point of making a fuss is that a forum that has so many members, with volunteer moderators who have jobs and families and busy lives, needs some amount of “self policing” or “community policing” in order to function properly.
The founders created the 200 post rule to protect against scammers.
The validation of FS posts is a new procedure, but it’s easy to imaging the moderators cannot necessarily do a full due diligence of the past posting history before they approve a FS post. Opinions may differ on the tone of the banter but there’s a valid argument IMHO.
 
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Oh I get it, but until there is an actual infraction it's hard to separate the harmless-yet-tedious fluff posts/threads from potential scamming. The chances of a potential scam being thwarted prior to hitting the 200 post mark is nil. Once an ad is placed that is a different story. However there is already posted guidelines suggesting how one can avoid problems through due diligence. There is usually some sort of verifiable buying-selling history to a member posting offerings on the selling section no?
 
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But isn’t the act of post farming to get to 200 in itself the infraction? It’s artificially circumventing the 200 post provision, even if an eventual sale is legitimate.
 
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But isn’t the act of post farming to get to 200 in itself the infraction? It’s artificially circumventing the 200 post provision, even if an eventual sale is legitimate.

Yes I understand the spirit of that rule but there are examples of prolific fluff thread starters/posters where the lack of substance along with a general passive-aggressive instigating tone is tolerated. schoolboy comes to mind. Come to think of it, maybe y'all are right and some prevention is in order...
 
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Oh I get it, but until there is an actual infraction it's hard to separate the harmless-yet-tedious fluff posts/threads from potential scamming. The chances of a potential scam being thwarted prior to hitting the 200 post mark is nil. Once an ad is placed that is a different story. However there is already posted guidelines suggesting how one can avoid problems through due diligence. There is usually some sort of verifiable buying-selling history to a member posting offerings on the selling section no?

There are a few tens of thousands members here, I think spewing rapid fire empty nonsense (35posts per hour ffs!) is an infraction per se. Just imagine if on a regular basis, two or three bored types did what this guy did? The forum would look like a bot infested sh!thole and not the OF we all appreciate.
 
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