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Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

FNF165

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Nice try.


I just don't understand why 100 post are required before a person rates to place an add
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

Nice way to get your "FOR SALE" ad in regardless of the rules.

Bet it won't be here long!
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

Because some people aren't smart enough to know that the shortened version of the word advertisement is spelled "ad", not "add". That and because the owner of the site says so, and it's not the place of someone who's been here a month to tell him how to run his site.

Enjoy your ban for skirting the rules.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: FNF165</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I just don't understand why 100 post are required before a person rates to place an add </div></div>

The deal is there have been people in the past who come on here as posers get a couple posts, then sell something. Only, the ones in the past were just after getting money out of someone. So, the 100 post rule was put in place so that people could see you've been here a bit and what you do/don't know and how real you seem. I've sold stuff on here and bought stuff on here and never met the person I've bought sold/from. But, the kicker is, I know they've been around and somebody knows them and somebody knows me. It just works better when you've been around a while and they see a little more of what you're made of. The posts themselves tell enough about whether you're real or not.

That help as to why?
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

I know you think you know everything about this placing having been on here for just over a month but there are reasons for the rules. It's there because we don't just want people using this site like Craig's List or their own personal sales site. It's a site to learn and hang out with other long range shooters and we want the members to contribute. Also it does set a better knowledge of who people are dealing with.

There are members that have been on this site for 5 years who don't have 100 posts and can't sell so don't think it's personal against new members. It's the rules of the site so they need to be followed.

Also, if you try the backdoor sale again like you did here you will be banned.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

I resemble that remark. The 100 post rule doesn't apply to buying stuff though. Thank goodness.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sledge1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I resemble that remark. The 100 post rule doesn't apply to buying stuff though. Thank goodness. </div></div>

Only 25 more to go.
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I'm with you, I was eyeballing the items for sale well before I hit 100.

I think it's a good rule. There are some forums that won't let you even see the classifieds unless you are a paying member. cough..Savage Shooters..cough..cough.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

I'm right there with you, OP. I have been a member here for a while and have tried to get my post count up without making pointless posts just so I can sell some of my stuff. It sucks for those of us who are legit sellers but the rules are the rules and I have no problem with that.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

I have been a member for a couple years, don't post very often because I can't really share any information that there are at least 100 people one this site much more informed than I have already said. That being said, I can't imagine wanting to sell any of my kit, I just keep buying more thanks to the great things I keep seeing here.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

I've been here for many years and just got to 100 posts this year. I read, try to learn and then try to ask informed questions. This method saved me from buying equipment that I might end up needing to sell because I made a hasty, uninformed purchase. So, for me selling wasn't and isn't a big deal.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

I think we should have a contest to see who can go the longest without breaking the elusive 100 post barrier. Right now I think I'm on the 10 year track although I just wasted one with this comment;-}

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sledge1</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: thezoltar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think we should have a contest to see who can go the longest without breaking the elusive 100 post barrier. Right now I think I'm on the 10 year track although I just wasted one with this comment;-} </div></div>

Yeah, I was just gonna tell ya to shut up.

Kidding . </div></div>

Sledge, I'm shuttin' up but I had to do it here so I don't burn another post....
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: thezoltar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think we should have a contest to see who can go the longest without breaking the elusive 100 post barrier. Right now I think I'm on the 10 year track although I just wasted one with this comment;-} </div></div>

Yeah, I was just gonna tell ya to shut up.

Kidding .
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

I'm kind of supprised your not band/suspended already. What a complete disregard for the rules, but either way. I like the 100 post rule as it gives me a little more confidence as a buyer. I think I've only sold 1 or 2 things here, but I have bought much more. The last thing we need is a craigslist where people are selling items that cost in the thousands of dollars. I've never been burned by a buyer here. In fact most have been awesome dealing with. Any more warm and fuzzy you can get about a seller the better.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

Christ guys, I was NOT trying to go through the backdoor and I was NOT trying to sell a damn thing here - if you had read my post everything I mentioned was already sold and it sold within hours. Turns out it was a local rifle builder answered my ad on Craigslist and he was more then happy to buy all the precession rifle parts I had for sale so it will go to good use. I understand the 100 post rule and that there are no exceptions and I was not trying to circumvent the process, I have never seen that requirement on any other site before but its been that way for the 4 years I have been here so there must be a good reason for it. I was just venting, I like to encourage people getting into shooting sports and that's more important to me then getting top-dollar or full market value for the extra parts I had. My account is two months old but I first registered on this site almost 4 years ago, got out of the sport and recently returned but forgot all my login information and the email address was no longer valid so I created another account - yes I now understand that this was a violation of the rules and Frank has already spanked my ass for it. I am not in the firearms industry and have no products to market or sell, I am just a former grunt with a lot of guns (that will never be sold) who likes to shoot and learn all he can about the subject.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

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Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: thezoltar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think we should have a contest to see who can go the longest without breaking the elusive 100 post barrier. Right now I think I'm on the 10 year track although I just wasted one with this comment;-}op </div></div>

Haha, I think I have you beat...
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

I like the rule. It makes selling/buying a little safer. I wouldn't mind seeing a feedback system similar to arfcom's. Since I'm the FNG here, I'll shut the hell up now.

BTW, anyone interested in buying 3 kids and a dog?
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: StanwoodSpartan</div><div class="ubbcode-body">bump?? </div></div>

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Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

Don't see what's so hard to understand.

Shit happens on the internet and this is a reasonable way to deter some of the a55holes who want to rip people off.

If you are genuine, just contribute to/participate in discussions and the 100 post is no big deal.

If you don't want to contribute or post....you can always go put your stuff on Gunbroker or similar.

If you just want to kick up some shit, then it's probably not going to end well....after all you did agree to abide by the rules before you got started!
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

100 plus post creates credibility as stated before. An example: I just sold a member a rifle, he wanted to send a personal check. I know his reputation on this site and it's a good one. I received his check Friday as promised, the rifle went on UPS today (Monday)as promised. I don't need to wait till his check clears the bank. The people that have been on this site value their reputation with fellow members to much to try and screw over someone for a little money. As said before your creating credibility.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

Just to add my two cents to this topic. As has been posted many people were using this site to sell there stuff and then if a deal went bad they went to Lowlight and complained. Several times the forsale forum was almost shut down because of all the problems. I can tell you that other sites have the same rules. I do not have to tell you that it cost money to run this site. If you want to help out join the on site training. That money will help out with the site and maybe you might be able to sell some stuff. There are rules and like any where else they have to be followed.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sawman556</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I like the rule. It makes selling/buying a little safer. I wouldn't mind seeing a feedback system similar to arfcom's. Since I'm the FNG here, I'll shut the hell up now.

<span style="font-weight: bold">BTW, anyone interested in buying 3 kids and a dog? </span></div></div>

Got any pics of the Dog ???
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Twisted .308</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sawman556</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I like the rule. It makes selling/buying a little safer. I wouldn't mind seeing a feedback system similar to arfcom's. Since I'm the FNG here, I'll shut the hell up now.

<span style="font-weight: bold">BTW, anyone interested in buying 3 kids and a dog? </span></div></div>

Got any pics of the Dog ???</div></div>

Ya forget the kids you get to keep them.lol
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: daybreak1199</div><div class="ubbcode-body">in the words of one of our other members, Kevin Chen..."good luck with the sale" </div></div>

and he got some SIGNIFICANT time to think about that.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

I don't really have any stuff to sell, and I may never get 100 post, but when I dropped a couple grand on a scope from someone I never met and that lives on the other side of the country, I felt a lot better knowing that other members know this person. While I'm waiting to get 100 post I will continue to read more post and gather more knowledge from the very experienced fellow Hide members. Just my 2cents worth.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Chiller</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: daybreak1199</div><div class="ubbcode-body">in the words of one of our other members, Kevin Chen..."good luck with the sale" </div></div>

and he got some SIGNIFICANT time to think about that.</div></div>

THANK YOU!!!!
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BOLTRIPPER</div><div class="ubbcode-body">why was i not alerted ? </div></div>

Your Bagman pager is broken.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

about 2 months ago, i made a comment on one of my posts that i liked my 5R so much, that "...i am going to have to sell me 30-06 because i don't need it anymore...".

i was only approximately 20 posts in. boy did i get some PM's!!! these people were not happpy. they thought i was trying to highjack the site, i guess.

my theory, if you are here to learn and contribute to the 'hide' community, then there should be no issue for "trying to get to 100 posts". if you wanna be here, cool, if your only motivation is to get to 100 so you can sell some shit, go away.


this is nothing personal, but just incase some d-bag is reading this and hopes he can jump on this site to make a quick score.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: M.Williams</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Twisted .308</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sawman556</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I like the rule. It makes selling/buying a little safer. I wouldn't mind seeing a feedback system similar to arfcom's. Since I'm the FNG here, I'll shut the hell up now.

<span style="font-weight: bold">BTW, anyone interested in buying 3 kids and a dog? </span></div></div>

Got any pics of the Dog ???</div></div>

Ya forget the kids you get to keep them.lol </div></div>

The dog is cute! The kids, not so much.

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Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

Not sure if I'll do much selling here, but I've bought a few things & I definitely appreciate knowing that the guy I send my money to isn't going to evaporate as soon as he gets it.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

Sawman that is an awesome looking dog. Which listens better, the dog or the kids?
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

The purpose of a forum is to contribute information, not to sell shit. If you wanna sell something so bad, its called ebay.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Savage 10fp</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sawman that is an awesome looking dog. Which listens better, the dog or the kids? </div></div>

Nobody fucking listens to me!!!
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Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

It's a good rule. But we all know that if we are here long enough you know who's who. Its always the same people that im you and low ball you and you see things for sale on other sites like ebay or gun brokers asking crazy prices. Just from the photos and location of the sellers you could pretty much figure out the j**ks
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

i don't mind the rule at all! i am new to this, so i am learning so much from everyone ( very appreciative)!! if i need to sell,i am also on gunbroker. don't care!!!
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mrhog</div><div class="ubbcode-body">BTW, anyone interested in buying 3 kids and a dog?


^^^^^^^^^^
You need 100 posts first</div></div>

Are the kids good at working brass? If not I do not want them.

You have to be careful in how you get to 100. Not more than 15 a day and a few other rules. Other than that easy. Once you get your hundred then it is all good. Just like most of the posts on this thread. Most are just one more post in their count. Just because someone has 7721 does not mean all of their posts have been 100% contributing or that they are all knowing.

It is fun to watch things come up for sale and then be sold in hours. While I was working on my 100 I sold a NF to a local guy. Took a day longer but worth it.

The rules are what they are. If a person wants them changed really mess up and bingo a new rule will be created or you are banned, or talk to Frank. If your suggest rule change is logical / warranted and you are clear in explaining it. Then there is a good chance he will adjust the rules.

"No Homer's" We can have one but not more than that. Will not be a rule.
 
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From what Ive seen, these "rules" dont apply to everyone. Whether you are at 50 post, 500 posts, or 5000 posts! I guess some people were grand fathered in before the 100 post took effect, which is no big deal. But to have people sell shit on the Hide for a "friend", and nothing happens is bull shit! Yea their ad gets locked so no one else can post about it (because the mod is "trying" to look like hes doing his mod job.) But when they re-post for their "friend" a day or two later and they dont mention that they are selling the item for their "friend" nothing happens. Its obvious guys on here are friends with mods (which is no problem) and skirt around the rules because they can get away with it. But if rules are rules, then lets make sure they are folowed per Franks rules!
I enjoy this site and have learned alot of information from it.
But all of this is my .02.. Who am I? Someone with 1000 posts lol
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jackalope33B</div><div class="ubbcode-body">From what Ive seen, these "rules" dont apply to everyone. Whether you are at 50 post, 500 posts, or 5000 posts! I guess some people were grand fathered in before the 100 post took effect, which is no big deal. But to have people sell shit on the Hide for a "friend", and nothing happens is bull shit! Yea their ad gets locked so no one else can post about it (because the mod is "trying" to look like hes doing his mod job.) But when they re-post for their "friend" a day or two later and they dont mention that they are selling the item for their "friend" nothing happens. Its obvious guys on here are friends with mods (which is no problem) and skirt around the rules because they can get away with it. But if rules are rules, then lets make sure they are folowed per Franks rules!
I enjoy this site and have learned alot of information from it.
But all of this is my .02.. Who am I? Someone with 1000 posts lol</div></div>

First off if you think the rules are bullshit, you can leave... nobody is forcing you here.

Second, the software controls the 50 post rule, the only way to "skirt" the rule is to have a commercial sales account... which is not subject to the rule because they are business. Mods are not letting their "friends" post with less than 50, you can't do that and because everyone is aware the moderator alerts would be through the roof...

So, at face value you have no fucking clue what you are talking about.

As far as posting for friends... we lock them when see them and try to prevent it... bottom line is, if you post for a friend you take on 100% of the responsibility if the friend screws someone, you get permanently banned.

Any issues with the For Sale forum, we ban first and ask questions later, much to a lot of people's dismay. Trust me the For Sale section is a HUGE pain in our ass... but again, if you don't like how we run it, leave, or I can simply remove it to stop the bitching and moaning by assholes.
 
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First off, I never said the rules are Bull Shit. I said that the rules dont apply to everyone. What I did say was Bull Shit is "But to have people sell shit on the Hide for a "friend", and nothing happens is bull shit!"
I have seen a few items for sale in the for sale section by guys with under 100 posts, but they have been members for quite a few years, and are not in commercial sales. If I remember reading correctly, these guys were grand fathered in. No big deal. But when it is brought to a Mods attention that the same person is selling the same exact item again but not "for his friend", nothing happens. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out what he is doing. You said "we lock them when see them and try to prevent it." Well, nothing was locked and prevented. I forgot how it came along because its been awhile, but I did get a PM from the guy I reported, and he stated "he has sold stuff on here before for his friends, and ***** "mod" knows about it because he is his buddy. But all of this is what it is. I dont own the site, and the responsibility doesnt fall on me. All of this was my .02 in reagards to the OP's post.



<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lowlight</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jackalope33B</div><div class="ubbcode-body">From what Ive seen, these "rules" dont apply to everyone. Whether you are at 50 post, 500 posts, or 5000 posts! I guess some people were grand fathered in before the 100 post took effect, which is no big deal. But to have people sell shit on the Hide for a "friend", and nothing happens is bull shit! Yea their ad gets locked so no one else can post about it (because the mod is "trying" to look like hes doing his mod job.) But when they re-post for their "friend" a day or two later and they dont mention that they are selling the item for their "friend" nothing happens. Its obvious guys on here are friends with mods (which is no problem) and skirt around the rules because they can get away with it. But if rules are rules, then lets make sure they are folowed per Franks rules!
I enjoy this site and have learned alot of information from it.
But all of this is my .02.. Who am I? Someone with 1000 posts lol</div></div>

First off if you think the rules are bullshit, you can leave... nobody is forcing you here.

Second, the software controls the 50 post rule, the only way to "skirt" the rule is to have a commercial sales account... which is not subject to the rule because they are business. Mods are not letting their "friends" post with less than 50, you can't do that and because everyone is aware the moderator alerts would be through the roof...

So, at face value you have no fucking clue what you are talking about.

As far as posting for friends... we lock them when see them and try to prevent it... bottom line is, if you post for a friend you take on 100% of the responsibility if the friend screws someone, you get permanently banned.

Any issues with the For Sale forum, we ban first and ask questions later, much to a lot of people's dismay. Trust me the For Sale section is a HUGE pain in our ass... but again, if you don't like how we run it, leave, or I can simply remove it to stop the bitching and moaning by assholes. </div></div>
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

We don't run through every post in the for sale section so if someone reposts after a lock and we don't see it then we don't have any way of knowing. The mods all have lives and jobs so we don't sit on this site 24 hours a day. Mod alerts are the best way to report anything like that.
 
Re: Why the 100 post before you can place an add?

How about we lock this thread? The people in the know have explained the ruling, and the question has been answered. Lock it before it spirals into something it was never ment to be. I love this site, and had to go through the 100 post ruling. I don't really see what the big deal is, if you try to contribute to the site 100 posts is nothing. Hell I was buying at 20!!!

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