(Shots WILL be fired in here. Names won't be used but if you don't like criticism in general you might wanna leave after line 17.)
To be specific, a rule where items listed elsewhere for sale (EG: ebay or Craigslist) cannot have their condition, price or the description criticized....or even advertised in some cases.
Notable example to this rule. I know there's more than the below forums with this rule but I don't go to a million forums. I like to go outside as well.
Apple Community Forum X
This is not an eBay/Craigslist/etc seller appraisal forum
While there are certainly some items listed on eBay/Craigslist/etc that our membership would find interesting, we will not tolerate posts that insult a seller for the price they have decided to sell the item at or the contents of their listing. While we don't mind users questioning the price of an item posted, it is the seller's prerogative to choose the price they sell their item for, and not knowing the exact value or specifications of old computer equipment certainly doesn't make them an "idiot". Posts linking to an auction with the sole purpose of questioning the price or listing details will be locked or removed. Not only can they can encourage people to overstep the fine line between fairly questioning the price and flaming the seller, they lead to a generally bad atmosphere on the forums.
x86 PC Retrocomputing Forum Y
There's an all-out ban on selling or even advertising of items listed for sale. Likewise, linking to items and saying how dumb something about it is is not allowed.
VCfed Forums (Yes, here)
It's an unwritten rule here (Go look for yourself) that's basically the same as Apple Community Forum X's rule.
You know what this makes you as the administrator who set the rules? A manchild who can't handle reality.
You know what this makes your forum moderators and you as the administrator look like?
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You know what this does? It helps reinforce a speculative market. You can set any price you want if nobody can call you on it. It sells, it sells. It doesn't...well okay, I guess it was the wrong time. There's nothing listed anywhere that says I might be trying to ask too much, though there's this one particular thread where I'm seeing a bunch of posts with moderator edits.
No joke. Everyone looks at you from the outside and sees a bunch of dull tools who run away crying at the slightest form of criticism.
Supposedly the reason we're even at this point was that years ago a seller on ebay got an ADB cable so far up his ass he emailed the forum administrator and threatened him with legal action.
Because something he had for sale was branded "stupid" by a member
on a public forum
on the internet
I'm pretty sure you specifically (the ebay seller) are inbred, then spent 25 years of your life being homeschooled and never allowed past the front gate in the yard. If you really think pulling that card is the right thing to do, you are an asshole. I'm not about to carpet blame this rant with saying it falls under free speech but if you can't handle someone laughing at your $5000 price for an Apple IIe with two broken keys you shouldn't be allowed to interact with the public. It's not a museum piece. It's not even complete. You don't even know if it works because it takes five minutes to get a power cable and a video monitor. You're nuts.
Go do something. Go to Best Buy or your local big name electronics store with a friend or two. Look at the stereos or cameras and between eachother rag on how awful the prices are (because they will be). Hell, hunt down an item you can't immediately find a price for, ask a store employee and gawk at the price a little ("Are you nuts? a phone for $650?""). They won't seek litigation because you just said $599 for a Canon T3i is that much in 2016 (I bought mine new in 2013 for $499 at London Drugs, for reference)
You're literally making everyone who uses the forum below you look like oversensitive babies by enforcing a rule imposed by people who eat glue (that would be your Amibay moderators :) )
Welcome to the Internet. You will NEVER do ANYTHING online that everyone will like. There will ALWAYS be people out there who disagree and if you try to counter that with playground rules you should be going back to your classroom about now.
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Call me rebellious but it's stupid. What are we? Are we all special needs children collecting old computers and remaining closed-minded, or are we intelligent and slightly nerdy people in our teens to late 60's who take pride in what we do while remaining open-minded that there WILL be criticism for what we do.
PS: While I do find it a touch insensitive to repeatedly use the special needs community as a comedic relief, the antics of some people can really only be best described by the strong use of stereotypes.
Hence why I refer to the average Amibay members as cavemen. ;)
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To be specific, a rule where items listed elsewhere for sale (EG: ebay or Craigslist) cannot have their condition, price or the description criticized....or even advertised in some cases.
Notable example to this rule. I know there's more than the below forums with this rule but I don't go to a million forums. I like to go outside as well.
Apple Community Forum X
Quote:
This is not an eBay/Craigslist/etc seller appraisal forum
While there are certainly some items listed on eBay/Craigslist/etc that our membership would find interesting, we will not tolerate posts that insult a seller for the price they have decided to sell the item at or the contents of their listing. While we don't mind users questioning the price of an item posted, it is the seller's prerogative to choose the price they sell their item for, and not knowing the exact value or specifications of old computer equipment certainly doesn't make them an "idiot". Posts linking to an auction with the sole purpose of questioning the price or listing details will be locked or removed. Not only can they can encourage people to overstep the fine line between fairly questioning the price and flaming the seller, they lead to a generally bad atmosphere on the forums.
There's an all-out ban on selling or even advertising of items listed for sale. Likewise, linking to items and saying how dumb something about it is is not allowed.
VCfed Forums (Yes, here)
It's an unwritten rule here (Go look for yourself) that's basically the same as Apple Community Forum X's rule.
You know what this makes you as the administrator who set the rules? A manchild who can't handle reality.
You know what this makes your forum moderators and you as the administrator look like?
You know what this does? It helps reinforce a speculative market. You can set any price you want if nobody can call you on it. It sells, it sells. It doesn't...well okay, I guess it was the wrong time. There's nothing listed anywhere that says I might be trying to ask too much, though there's this one particular thread where I'm seeing a bunch of posts with moderator edits.
No joke. Everyone looks at you from the outside and sees a bunch of dull tools who run away crying at the slightest form of criticism.
Supposedly the reason we're even at this point was that years ago a seller on ebay got an ADB cable so far up his ass he emailed the forum administrator and threatened him with legal action.
Because something he had for sale was branded "stupid" by a member
on a public forum
on the internet
I'm pretty sure you specifically (the ebay seller) are inbred, then spent 25 years of your life being homeschooled and never allowed past the front gate in the yard. If you really think pulling that card is the right thing to do, you are an asshole. I'm not about to carpet blame this rant with saying it falls under free speech but if you can't handle someone laughing at your $5000 price for an Apple IIe with two broken keys you shouldn't be allowed to interact with the public. It's not a museum piece. It's not even complete. You don't even know if it works because it takes five minutes to get a power cable and a video monitor. You're nuts.
Go do something. Go to Best Buy or your local big name electronics store with a friend or two. Look at the stereos or cameras and between eachother rag on how awful the prices are (because they will be). Hell, hunt down an item you can't immediately find a price for, ask a store employee and gawk at the price a little ("Are you nuts? a phone for $650?""). They won't seek litigation because you just said $599 for a Canon T3i is that much in 2016 (I bought mine new in 2013 for $499 at London Drugs, for reference)
You're literally making everyone who uses the forum below you look like oversensitive babies by enforcing a rule imposed by people who eat glue (that would be your Amibay moderators :) )
Welcome to the Internet. You will NEVER do ANYTHING online that everyone will like. There will ALWAYS be people out there who disagree and if you try to counter that with playground rules you should be going back to your classroom about now.
Call me rebellious but it's stupid. What are we? Are we all special needs children collecting old computers and remaining closed-minded, or are we intelligent and slightly nerdy people in our teens to late 60's who take pride in what we do while remaining open-minded that there WILL be criticism for what we do.
PS: While I do find it a touch insensitive to repeatedly use the special needs community as a comedic relief, the antics of some people can really only be best described by the strong use of stereotypes.
Hence why I refer to the average Amibay members as cavemen. ;)
