Editing Hotrodders.com classified ad issues

==Points in favor of== *A designated buy/sell forum may reduced the moderation overhead required in adjudicating the more subtle potential business guideline violations. *All questionable posts could just be placed in the buy/sell forum, and the tech forums could thus be kept clean and crisp. *Some posts are borderline commercial, or their commercial status can't be firmly established (like trying to determine if the poster is discussing a part that his brother's uncle's cousin is selling). Such posts could simply be moved into the buy/sell forum. The original poster couldn't rightly complain that their post was deleted, as it was simply moved. *The classified ads don't allow back-and-forth commenting. The conversations surrounding buying, selling, and swapping parts constitutes a legitimate part of hotrodding culture, and the classified ad format doesn't allow for it. For example, this thread: [http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/whos-got-predator-carb-laying-around-150184.html Who's got a predator carb lying around?]. *Moderators can't currently move commercial posts "into" classified ads, but they can move posts and threads in between different forums. *By allowing buy/sell discussion within the forums, more people would make use of the ability to run classified ads on the site. ==Points against== *By allowing a designated commercial forum, we leave the door open for commercial marketers to find sneaky ways to bypass policy. *We already have a designated buy-sell area, in the [http://hotrodders.com/ads Hotrodders Classifieds]. A forum is redundant. *The format of the classified ads is much more cut-and-dried than a discussion. This cuts down on using subtle conversational methods to game the guidelines. ==External links== *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright-line_rule Bright-line rule] *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balancing_test Balancing test] *[http://www.hotrodders.com/help/board/business.html Hotrodders.com business posting guidelines] *[http://www.hotrodders.com/help/board/guidelines.html Hotrodders.com general guidelines]

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