Hotrodders.com classified ad issues
(New page: ==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...) |
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==Points in favor of== | ==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. | + | *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. | |
| + | *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== | ==Points against== | ||
*By allowing a designated commercial forum, we leave the door open for commercial marketers to find sneaky ways to bypass policy. | *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]. | + | *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. | ||
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