Originally Posted by
Brilliant Bill
This is a public forum. It costs absolutely nothing to create a post saying you want to sell something. I don't think that entitles you to special protection from any comments anyone feels compelled to make.
You get what you pay for.
That is a bunch of bullshit.
Even though we seem to have a completely rudderless ship, and there is no way to intervene officially because the absentee owner has never allowed anyone to have any control over day-to-day options, this is IN FACT a site that is driven by it's membership.
Many have been here for years, and there is an accrued value in the content of the forum, contributed "free of charge" by the members. There is every reason in the world for the people who have added to this site for years to have not only a say in how things go - ESPESCIALLY in light of the lack of governance - but to also address those who are new to the site. To have that kind of behavior, and to callously interfere with the people utilizing the sales areas, is simply unacceptable.
I have no love of the sales forum. I actually wish it didn't exist. But since it does, and since I know there are good people (as well as others) involved in it, I am going to extend them every courtesy. The concept of "getting what you pay for" is completely fucked up, because this community has "paid" for it with the level of interest and contribution over the years that very much
does entitle the concept of a code of conduct, written or otherwise.
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