Reminder about respect

Lately moderators have been getting some abuse when members are pulled up about their marketplace posts.

Remember to re-read the rules, and keep your threads updated to the current rules. Failing to comply will result in a warning, this isn't the time to call us names, abuse us more and tell us you've been here for x amount of years.
Rules are rules, and we won't hesitate to ban you for a week for arguing with staff.

We are basically working for free to keep the forums fair for everyone.

 

It pains me to see threads and posts like this becoming a more consistent element of the site. Respect for others was always more or less a given here. It was basically a part of the site's DNA. Assemblergames was a high-end sub-culture and it has been growing into a scene for years. Membership is increasing and so is the turn-over rate. It's understandable that the rules are being more strictly enforced, but I wonder if the site will forget it's roots in the mix and slowly dissolve into a hierarchy of obnoxious scene kids and nazi mods like basically every other forum. I don't think anyone wants to see it happen but it can happen.

With that said, don't get me wrong. I certainly appreciate what the mods contribute. If the site was a restaurant, and the users are people eating in the restaurant, the mods are the ones that get the Monty Python spam treatment everytime they just want to relax and order something. Everytime.

 

Letting kiddies run riot never has been allowed here to the best of my knowledge. The marketplace rules are pretty black and white.

 

On most forums, this is definitely true. Sometimes, the criticism is more than called for. Hell, I had a few recent experiences with a Facebook group and some "friends" of mine that I won't get into, but was basically Nazi Germany, and it was bullcrap. Thing is, I definitely don't that to happen here, and it seems that, for the most part, it doesn't and the ones who bitch and complain usually don't deserve to. The mods here are, at least for the most part, nice people who aren't short-sighted (well, figuratively, anyway) and the people who get in trouble, for the most part, deserve it.

So I think for now, it's mostly fine, but there are times (primarily elsewhere) were mods overstep their boundaries and are indeed perhaps not as relaxed as such a site would like. Good communities seem to be built from nice members (including the mods) and relaxed mods who only enforce the rules when it's absolutely necessary, and this certainly seems to be the case here. Pretty much all of the stuff I've seen people get in trouble for when it comes to marketplace posts is clearly stated in the rules (and, let's be fair, the rules are very brief and vague in the good sense. It's basically "anything goes but please don't do these three things nor be a dick"). So unless HEX1GON suddenly tells me he has my nudes (I have nudes? News to me) and I've got to post only nice things about him every day or he'll ban me, I really don't think there's much to worry about right now. The rules are pretty simple, and the mods tend to stick to them without chewing people out over minor things. And I like that.

 

The thing with the marketplace rules is that essentially every single one of them was made as a response to something that happened. We didn't just come up with them for the heck of it. I've been here a while now, in the past it was essentially a free-for-all, which was a mess and ultimately lead to people getting shafted in some way. We can't police the forums and make magic happen when things do go wrong, but the rules are there to hopefully help prevent at least some bad things from happening.

 

Fair enough. I didn't see those particularly posts, but I did see mods calling out people for not following the rules with their first post for their topics because people weren't following the rules. Which is obviously fine. Also, maybe I'm misremembering, but isn't the only selling requirement that a member have 50 posts? That could theoretically be accumulated in a day. If it's not already there (and it might be - I just don't remember), I propose a limit for anyone who is still fairly new to the site. Hell, even I am still fairly new, and whilst I'm not going to rip anyone off, no one here has any guarantees of that (yet), so the more safety measures, the better. It sucks when people get ripped off. I had it happen to me once on another site with a supposedly trusted and liked member, and I lost a nice, somewhat expensive (and now highly sought-after, for some dumb reason) chunk of plastic. I should have made a public deal out of it just because, but I didn't. Six years later, it's pointless to make a stink of it now. Still, I'd hate to have that happen again, to me or anyone else.

 

Ha, each response in this thread has been fair. I'm glad to see my uncertainty be proven wrong in such a respectful manner and with the proper insight to back it up. It's the kind of wrong that feels right to be wrong about. Other than that I hope it keeps being proven wrong like this, I have nothing else to say.

 

Not just 50 posts, but also been here for 3 months.

 

As Hex said, there is a 3 month requirement. On top of that, we do our best to prevent those that create an account, let it sleep, then spam 50 posts in a day.

 

Unfortunately a lot of kids these days take advantage of the fact "it's da internetz" as they believe there are no consequences for their bad behaviour as they can hide behind masked IP's and use false accounts easily - unfortunately it's the way of the world; it leads to posts being disrespectful to others, abuse, general stupidity and trolling. There are always consequences of course in one form or another. It is the bane of running a site; and was always a pain in the ass I found; add that, spamming, spam bots, attacks too. Members who disrespect others, especially moderators and admin on a site, deserve swift removal from a site if they do not correct their ways when given the opportunity to redeem their ways; I had to do that many times and then mop up any damage and smooth things down as a result if the person(s) concerned were "higher up the food chain"; but it is what has to be. Fair rules for all, and no exceptions whatever their rank. IMO.

 

My days of being a forum dick are over.

It's the end of an Era.

 

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Because it makes it that much harder to steal a photo if we know where it was originally posted to. Someone could register a username that steals from another forum who doesn't require the site to be listed, essentially identity theft, and pose as that person.

 

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You don't have to sell here, if it's wasting "so much paper and time".

Some have posted a sheet of paper with their username and all other sites they sell on. It's not difficult, think about it for a minute.

 

Just be super rude to everyone and you will get along just fine.

-doulomb

 

Title of the forum topic is "Reminder about respect", yes?

 

It's just a preference thing for me and the main reason I don't really try to sell anything here. I don't like to "pollute" pictures with site specific stuff. I want to take one picture and post it on multiple sites without exposing account information or the other places I am trying to sell.

 

Sarcasm yes?

-doulomb

 

Well you could make one for each, and have the date on another piece of paper. Instead of writing your name every time. What I did anyway..