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Thread Locked, Why?
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:00 am
by exlibrismortis
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=160184
^that's the thread. I looked in the rules to see if I violated anything, and I could not read anything that would be applicable to cause that thread to be locked. Anyone?
Re: Thread Locked, Why?
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:08 am
by imp522
Rule #13: Ad Posting & "Post Bumping"
Please note that Bartertown users are limited to one topic/ad per forum per seven calendar days.
For those of you who don't understand this: Look at a calendar. If I post an ad on 3 July in the 40k forum I may not repost an ad to that forum until 10 July. That is seven calendar days. It's a legal term.
Example:
Let's say I have some LOTR Riders of Rohan I want to get rid of and other miscellaneous stuff from WHFB and 40K. I can post an ad with those items together in the LOTR, WHFB and 40K forums. Seven calendar days later, I can post another ad with the same items OR I can edit the ad at any time.
What I can't do is relist the items every day in each forum.
Helpful Hint: The idea here is to prevent excessive promotion of one's trade/sale items or discussion topics. Users are prohibited via software from making more than one new topic per seven days, but there are other ways to self-promote. It's awkward wording, but "post bumping" is a term understood by the greatest number of people.
If you've got items that fit into multiple categories, you may cross-post given the stricture above. You may update your ad as you see fit provided your purpose is not to attempt any form of bumping.
Updating an ad is not bumping if there have been changes made to the inventory or pricing presented in the ad. It is bumping if "hey i still have this stuff available" is all that's written, or something to that extent.
Interest shown in an ad is not bumping. If you see something posted a few days ago that catches your fancy (and it's not your ad!) replying is not bumping.
you broke rule #13 post bumping
Re: Thread Locked, Why?
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:10 am
by MagickalMemories
Yes. Yes.
"Bumpity" definitely qualifies as bumping.
Eric
Re: Thread Locked, Why?
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:24 am
by exlibrismortis
See, I saw this and the way I read it, it doesn't apply. I'm not trying to argue but just want you to understand where I saw a misunderstanding of what was being said.
"Please note that Bartertown users are limited to one topic/ad per forum per seven calendar days"
To me, one topic/ad mean the ad as a whole, or the thread, in this case. The way the explanation is word keeps pointing to the word "ad" and not individual posts. It keeps saying things like "re-listing the items" or "making new topics", whereas, and I like to think I'm in line with the majority of various forum users (I hope at least), that there is a difference between posts and topics/threads. Really, the only place is mentions the "post bumping" is in the title, but just like normal law, the title of a rule/law can be invalidated by the given explanation of the rule/law. I mean, I completely understand why the rule is in place, but the way it is written makes it seem that you don't want people re-listing threads over and over again, not to keep people from bumping their threads to he top of the forum subsection. I don't know if you've have issues with the misunderstanding of this before, but that's how I read it.
I really do mean this with all respect. You may not really have a problem with this, and it may already be an understood thing here. Just that I do apologize and do ask for the thread to be unlocked.
Re: Thread Locked, Why?
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:33 pm
by MagickalMemories
But...
Updating an ad is not bumping if there have been changes made to the inventory or pricing presented in the ad. It is bumping if "hey i still have this stuff available" is all that's written, or something to that extent.
Regardless of anything, it specifically says bumping is against the rules and you knowingly bumped it ("Bumpity" is rather telling of that fact).
The thread won't be unlocked. Only in the rarest of occasions do we do that.
Eric
Re: Thread Locked, Why?
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:35 am
by kbolster12345
How about unlocking a thread in the BAD Trade forum when you yourself say there needs to be more pictures then lock the thread in the same post?
Re: Thread Locked, Why?
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:28 pm
by reegsk
You could, y'know, PM them to an admin.