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  • Sticking an ad up on a public forum is like putting something on the table at a car boot sale.
    You can't install and guarantee a sense of grassroots morality on a public internet marketplace in 2024.

    This is bollocks. Any platform of users can and do police themselves, either through direct authority that controls that space or through the actions / reciprocality of the collective.

    Seems the general mood is that anyone who picks stuff up at forum rates and then goes on to punt for profit elsewhere is out of step with the broader consensus of what we're actually all doing here.

    Personally I don't understand anyone who would rather hear out profteering shits but are ready to try and explain away gripes from long time members who have sold stuff in good faith.

  • Seems the genral mood is that anyone who picks stuff up at forum rates and then goes on to punt for profit elsewhere is out of step with the broader consensus of what we're actually all doing here.

    I think thats a separate issue to what I was discussing. Thats a little shitty.

    But how do we lose out if a same thing is advertised 'on here' and on ebay/fb etc? That I dont understand.

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    The rules don't do much except clarify that I'm not responsible for anything that goes wrong, and just codifies the etiquette so that new people know how to conduct themselves.

    https://www.lfgss.com/comments/6571303/

    Perhaps we need to hold a folkmoot.
    I still like the idea of putting classifieds selling access behind 99p paypal donation.

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