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With the influx of new spammers....

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xjay1337:
I have nearly 12,000 posts on UK-MKIVS in 2 and a half years - So I'm basically one of the most active members on there) and I can tell you this forum has more downtime and timeouts than uk-mkivs.
The joke there is that uk-mkivs.net don't accept donations (even though I want to give) and yet here they are almost always asking for a money.
I've not had the typical error for about a month now. I would get it once a week normally - which is a good few hundred posts knowing me!

UK-mkivs are also moving to IPB forum very soon. I was part of the testing with a few other active members and the new site is much, much better and will be more reliable.

Don't get me wrong I like this forum but I will defend uk-mkivs as it always seems the butt of all jokes

On the subject of spammers and what not 10 posts is not enough in my opinion. Edition employ a 200 post limit and they have much stricter rules in the classifieds forum.
I think it could be good to have some of their rules put here as well.

If as moderators you cannot be bothered to remove spam posts or keep on top of it then consider getting more moderators? There are plenty of active people on this forum, myself, RizzlePizzle80-thrizzle and Hurdy for example (there are many others no doubt) who would happily offer a helping hand.
Ultimately it's a double edged sword when you have such a low post count. People spam it in a matter of minutes.

rich83:
Easy way to fix this in one very simple move.

Remove the FS section completely.  :signLOL:

Rumple:
That's a terrible idea, The FS section is better than ebay imo!

dodds-gttdi:

--- Quote from: Rumple on September 06, 2013, 10:53:00 am ---That's a terrible idea, The FS section is better than ebay imo!

--- End quote ---

x2 Terrible idea. I don't know of anybody who has had a bad experience using classifieds, nor have I had any myself.

I'm pretty sure the SEAT Cupra net forum lost many many members after the for sale section disappeared. :-/

stealthwolf:
Personally, I would make the classifieds hidden until you reached both a post count AND a time limit. I've been on forums where this has been the case. Waiting say two months and 50 posts isn't difficult. But as above, they need to be meaningful posts.

As I and others have said countless times before, this isn't a website for buying/selling stuff like Amazon or ebay. It's designed to allow like minded people to chat about cars and maybe other things. If you can't be bothered to do that, are you really somebody who: 1. Can be trusted? And 2. Should be around here?

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