Can Someone help me with Posts?

[Lukken]

I have made more than 20 posts but my sale posts keep getting taken down. Please help.

 

[scotrace]

The requirement is 20 posts in OPEN FORUMS, not 20 posts in classifieds in fifteen minutes.

 

[Lukken]

The requirement is 20 posts in OPEN FORUMS, not 20 posts in classifieds in fifteen minutes.

How much time has to elapse between my first post and my twentieth post for me to post a product for sale in classifieds?

 

[RDS]

How much time has to elapse between my first post and my twentieth post for me to post a product for sale in classifieds?

If you’re asking these type of questions you’re clearly only interested in selling and not contributing.
You might find eBay more appropriate to sell any items you are wanting to move on.

 

[Lukken]

If you’re asking these type of questions you’re clearly only interested in selling and not contributing.
You might find eBay more appropriate to sell any items you are wanting to move on.

Well its like people were messaging me about my items and the posts were taken down denying these nice people of getting something they really want.

 

[RDS]

Good of you to be so thoughtful, however many of the nice people on here also frequent the various online auction and classified sites.
So, if you advertise your items on these I’m sure they will still be found.

Alternatively, you could always genuinely contribute to the various and varied threads on the FL forums, rather than just making very short and pointless single sentence comments in an effort to build your post count to 20.

 

[Lukken]

Good of you to be so thoughtful, however many of the nice people on here also frequent the various online auction and classified sites.
So, if you advertise your items on these I’m sure they will still be found.

Alternatively, you could always genuinely contribute to the various and varied threads on the FL forums, rather than just making very short and pointless single sentence comments in an effort to build your post count to 20.

Looking at my profile, how many of my posts would you consider "legitimate"?

 

[Peacoat]

I have made more than 20 posts but my sale posts keep getting taken down. Please help.

Each time I deleted a sales item I sent you the reason for the deletion. Did you not see those notices?

 

[Lukken]

Each time I deleted a sales item I sent you the reason for the deletion. Did you not see those notices?

Yeah it was for insufficient posts but I am over 20

 

[Peacoat]

Yeah it was for insufficient posts but I am over 20

I believe I said, "Insufficient posts in the Open Forums?"

 

[Lukken]

I believe I said, "Insufficient posts in the Open Forums?"

What do you mean by open forum?

 

[TheOldFashioned]

Well its like people were messaging me about my items and the posts were taken down denying these nice people of getting something they really want.

If such is the case then couldn't you just carry on the private conversation and potential sale(s) with these nice people in the message(s) already sent to you?

It's nothing against you personally per se, but what you are trying to do goes against the spirit of this forum. It's a forum, not a sales platform. The Classifieds exists as a benefit for the members and it's build on trust. To that point, there has been an increased amount of ****mers over the past year or two. Contributing in open (sub)forums within content specific threads helps build rapport and trust.

 

[Lukken]

If such is the case then couldn't you just carry on the private conversation and potential sale(s) with these nice people in the message(s) already sent to you?

It's nothing against you personally per se, but what you are trying to do goes against the spirit of this forum. It's a forum, not a sales platform. The Classifieds exists as a benefit for the members and it's build on trust. To that point, there has been an increased amount of ****mers over the past year or two. Contributing in open (sub)forums within content specific threads helps build rapport and trust.

I have been a member at TFL for I think close to a year now. I don't have any intention of doing anything malicious. I just have a couple pieces I think the members of this community would be interested in.

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

Looking at my profile, how many of my posts would you consider "legitimate"?

I'm no authority here, but here's my view:

When I see items for sale on this forum, I want to know who the sellers are and that they have an investment in this community. If I'm unfamiliar with them, I can click on their profile and see their activity or at least know how many posts they have made (and how many likes received).

That way, I can be more confident it's not a ****.

After all this with you, I still have no confidence that you aren't a ****mer (no offense intended, I just mean to say that you are still an unknown). For the amount of time you are investing in arguing your case, though, I'd reckon you are legitimate.

But here's the other side: not only do I want to know you if I buy anything from you, but I also want to like you or at least trust you. And so far you haven't done anything to earn that trust from me since your posts seem either sneaky or argumentative. Again no offense, but that's all I've seen from you so far.

You contributing in the open forums could definitely change that opinion, though.

Just my personal insight into the matter, but I honestly need to gatekeep less.

 

[Lukken]

I'm no authority here, but here's my view:

When I see items for sale on this forum, I want to know who the sellers are and that they have an investment in this community. If I'm unfamiliar with them, I can click on their profile and see their activity or at least know how many posts they have made (and how many likes received).

That way, I can be more confident it's not a ****.

After all this with you, I still have no confidence that you aren't a ****mer (no offense intended, I just mean to say that you are still an unknown). For the amount of time you are investing in arguing your case, though, I'd reckon you are legitimate.

But here's the other side: not only do I want to know you if I buy anything from you, but I also want to like you or at least trust you. And so far you haven't done anything to earn that trust from me since your posts seem either sneaky or argumentative. Again no offense, but that's all I've seen from you so far.

You contributing in the open forums could definitely change that opinion, though.

Just my personal insight into the matter, but I honestly need to gatekeep less.

Can I send you a video with my face and the products I am selling? Wouldn't that make me legitimate?

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

Can I send you a video with my face and the products I am selling? Wouldn't that make me legitimate?

First, I'm not the one you have to convince in order to sell here.

And second, that wouldn't suffice for me since that kind of thing is no guarantee.

And there is no guarantee here, which is exactly the point. We want to know and trust the sellers here. If you're brand new or have no activity, then we can't know you and certainly can't trust you. I don't know how much clearer to make that.

 

[Lukken]

But I am not new. I have been a member at TFL for almost 1 year

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

But I am not new. I have been a member at TFL for almost 1 year

What part of "have no activity" did you not understand?

I'm done here... this isn't my position to argue. Like I say, I've got to stop gatekeeping so much.

I hope you will join us in some of the non-classified forums and show us who you are. Best regards.

 

[RDS]

Can I send you a video with my face and the products I am selling? Wouldn't that make me legitimate?

Frankly no !

You’re obviously desperate to help all the ‘nice people’ on here to buy your items, however if only you spent as much time and interest in contributing to the forums as you have done in trying to sell none of this thread would be necessary.

 

[Lukken]

Frankly no !

You’re obviously desperate to help all the ‘nice people’ on here to buy your items, however if only you spent as much time and interest in contributing to the forums as you have done in trying to sell none of this thread would be necessary.

Every time I contribute to the forums I am told they don't count. I can post my 3 items I want to sell in 5 minutes or I have to contribute to the forum 20 times and who knows if it will be considered legitimate.