I would pay attention to this part
- Minimum post count of 200 is required to post in any sales forum. Contributing posts only—post farming will result in a ban.
I personally find 200 posts quite a lot. I think this rule inevitably leads to low-quality posts and content. Realistically, as a 'casual' user of the form, you might make a post or respond a few times a week. That means you need to actively contribute for an over a year to be able to sell.
It would be great to see the average number of weekly posts of an active user to inform that opinion further.
Low quality posts will be removed from the total posts by the mods - they do not allow post farming.
The point of the 200 rule is not to get 200 posts added to the forum stats, but to get to know the person before they are allowed to sell. We don't want or need fly by night sellers or scammers here.
to clearly communicate that this is not primarily a place for buying and selling
Indeed! And I for one am very glad for it. A year or so ago as an experiment, I looked at the latest 100 posts here, on watchuseek.com and on rolexforums.com. On both of the other forums, more than 50 were sales posts. On here, only 21 were sales posts. No coincidentally, I rarely visit those other forums but check in here daily.
