Alan,
How about a popup, flashing, bright red window that says READ THE RULES when some one clicks on the Reply box under a For Sale post. Your last notice doesn't seem to have reached a lot of people. Numerous "email sent" posts in the present list.
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We have no way to do what you have suggested, but I sure wish we did.
When you see For Sale posts with "Email Sent" in them, send us an alert about it. Click on the "Take Action" link in the bottom right corner and choose "Report Topic." The computers will do the rest.
Thanks Rich. I haven't done that because I thought it would add to the moderating workload. While I have your attention, Merry Christmas to y'all.
Please suggest to folks selling to just go to their original post and add 'SOLD' rather than bumping it to the top as well!
Also, I think the original poster can delete the post when sold, if there are no replies. That would clean things up a little.
Not all users have their e-mail address in their profile (no idea why). I recently sold something and the buyer posted a reply saying they wanted it. But then I had to post another reply because they had no e-mail address in their profile and it was the only way to communicate.
I stated in my original post to contact me by my e-mail which is in my profile.
So unless e-mail addresses are mandatory in profiles. Not sure you can just say no reply's are allowed.
Some time ago we set the For Sale forum to not allow any replies to a topic. While this solved the problem of "bumping" it also proved to be a genuine problem for some sellers, for the same reasons that Sandjam posted above. If a forum member does not have his email address in the Display Email field, there is no way to reach him other than an "Email Sent" post.
In other words, we can't please everyone on this situation because no matter which way we do it, we get complaints.
SandJam posted:Not all users have their e-mail address in their profile (no idea why). I recently sold something and the buyer posted a reply saying they wanted it. But then I had to post another reply because they had no e-mail address in their profile and it was the only way to communicate.
I stated in my original post to contact me by my e-mail which is in my profile.
So unless e-mail addresses are mandatory in profiles. Not sure you can just say no reply's are allowed.
Sure they can. They can do whatever they want - it's their forum. The item will just sit for sale until the original poster wakes up.
Personally, I'm about to make a list of everyone who's violated the rules in the past month and post it as a form of public shaming before those who can't follow simple directions ruin it for those of use who can.
-Greg
Greg Houser posted:Personally, I'm about to make a list of everyone who's violated the rules in the past month and post it as a form of public shaming before those who can't follow simple directions ruin it for those of use who can.
-Greg
Except it is usually pretty difficult to "shame" those fools who are simply too thick-headed to, A) read the rules, B) understand them, and C) follow them!
Greg Houser posted:SandJam posted:Not all users have their e-mail address in their profile (no idea why). I recently sold something and the buyer posted a reply saying they wanted it. But then I had to post another reply because they had no e-mail address in their profile and it was the only way to communicate.
I stated in my original post to contact me by my e-mail which is in my profile.
So unless e-mail addresses are mandatory in profiles. Not sure you can just say no reply's are allowed.
Sure they can. They can do whatever they want - it's their forum. The item will just sit for sale until the original poster wakes up.
Personally, I'm about to make a list of everyone who's violated the rules in the past month and post it as a form of public shaming before those who can't follow simple directions ruin it for those of use who can.
-Greg
You did not read it correctly. I was the original poster and have my e-mail in my profile. It was the buyer who did not. So I had no choice to reply.
Why not require the poster of an ad, either "for sale" or "wanted", to include their contact info in their post? Those without, will be removed.
If you want to sell something, or are seriously looking for something, you can find the time to add your email address!
Why not require the poster of an ad, either "for sale" or "wanted", to include their contact info in their post? Those without, will be removed.
Because ANYBODY can read the posts. People have to be registered with OGR to look up contact information in the member area. That provides just a bit of security and confidence.
Mo985 posted:Why not require the poster of an ad, either "for sale" or "wanted", to include their contact info in their post? Those without, will be removed.
Except, that would be a major monitoring job for the OGR folks!
If you want to sell something, or are seriously looking for something, you can find the time to add your email address!
The problem with putting one's eMail address into the ad is, you are left open to any internet "scammer" that is NOT a "registered" member of the OGR Forum. There have been a number of folks who complained about being contacted & scammed by someone, that can NOT be traced, as that someone was not a "logged-on registered member". With your eMail address secured within your persona profile on the OGR Forum, ONLY other registered members are able to view your personal profile.
Any potential seller (or buyer) that does NOT have an eMail address listed in their personal profile, is simply wasting his, and everybody else's, time!
It's comical how many members actually believe being a "member" helps the occurrence of non-members being able to read other member info.
There are TONS of accounts made with no posting or other participation activity of any kind, just the 2 points or so created when you submit for an account.
All those accounts were made for some reason, and I doubt anyone would go to the trouble if they weren't getting something out of it (like maybe a way to harvest email addresses, just as a guess off the top of my head).
Also, on a similar vein, typos happen (yes, even on email addresses!). I bought something from a person on the Forum around 2 years ago, and there was a typo in his email address. I had to reply to his post to let him know, so there was a one or 2 cycle of reply/response until we established email contact.
It's comical how many members actually believe being a "member" helps the occurrence of non-members being able to read other member info.
If you don't think there is any value to the protection, then why not put your contact information in your signature?
Before I contact someone in response to a posting here, I look at their membership info.
How long have they been a member.
How many posts have they made.
One of the issues I have, No Response, either from the Wanted item lister, or the Selling item lister...When I Send a Response, I add my phone number, however, very few ever call....Most of the time, it’s all about the $$$$$. Ones reputation is very important, we work a lifetime for it...Great post...
leapinlarry posted:One of the issues I have, No Response, either from the Wanted item lister, or the Selling item lister...When I Send a Response, I add my phone number, however, very few ever call....Most of the time, it’s all about the $$$$$. Ones reputation is very important, we work a lifetime for it...Great post...
Here is how I look at it: If the other person cannot be bothered to respond, I don't want to do business with them anyway.
Leapinlarry, I admire your candor and thanks for listening. At least we know we reached someone. I also have had non responders, and just won't deal with them again.
SandJam posted:Not all users have their e-mail address in their profile (no idea why). I recently sold something and the buyer posted a reply saying they wanted it. But then I had to post another reply because they had no e-mail address in their profile and it was the only way to communicate.
I stated in my original post to contact me by my e-mail which is in my profile.
So unless e-mail addresses are mandatory in profiles. Not sure you can just say no reply's are allowed.
Simple when they do that post, item for sale until someone emails me. Or in the original post place a comment something like I only reply to those who email me, with email in my bio
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