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@Velocio
Just sent this to you via PM:
Hey FullCampa, a word please.
Did you read the rules on classifieds before you started posting?
http://www.lfgss.com/thread17652.html#post694751
And the more general ones here:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread17652.html#post555116
I think you're starting to understand them, but you're very deeply missing the spirit in which they are intended.
Being blunt: If you continue to ignore the spirit, you will be banned.
So, what is the spirit of the rules? Well let's pretend that the forum is really just a large number of people in a pub garden and we're all having different conversations. Somehow we're graced with the ability to be omnipresent, so we can take part in all conversations all of the time, or none... it's up to us, but we're happy because we're hanging out with mates in a pub garden and talking shit about bikes.
When we talk, we talk about riding, we gossip about stuff that's happened to each other, we arrange rides, we talk shit about polo... and occasionally we might let people know that we're in the market for something to complete our next build or that we're selling a bike.
The context for such adverts is that it's intra-community, it's buying and selling off mates, and it's informal and cool. We're giving our mates first chance and mates rates to avoid the hassle and cost of things like eBay.
What we do not do, is to sell ourselves like sluts with a hard push (adverts on many sites or in many parts of the forum), and we do not have little attention fits (SHOUTING, lots of >>>>>>>>>>>>> special characters <<<<<<<<<<<, or other stuff to somehow have our voice be louder than the general din of the pub garden chatter).
We also do not play pricing and time games with mates. What mate starts saying to another, you've got 24 hours or else you lose it... come on, make your mind up, be fast, quick, buy now! No-one does, no mate ever would do such a thing. Time-restricted sales set off so many alarm bells it's crazy.
To have done all of that and to also duplicate your threads is offending quite a few people. In fact, you've been reported quite a few times and that in itself is an achievement you were probably not looking for.
So you have a choice, you either understand the spirit in which classifieds on this forum are done (a pub garden, relaxed, mates rates between a crowd of like-minded people, and no hard sell and shouting), or you do not.
It's perfectly fine not to want to sell stuff here btw, as a community we're pretty good at sharing what we find elsewhere (check the ebay thread out). So if you posted stuff on eBay and we thought it was good shit, then going back to that pub garden metaphor it's the equivalent of saying, "Hey, did you see that great bike on eBay at the moment?". So you don't lose out by selling stuff that the community is interested in elsewhere.
You do lose out if you spam the hell out of us and try and game us. In fact, it's pretty offensive that you'd treat the forum like that.
So this is your 1 chance to understand the spirit of the rules and to either go along with it or go elsewhere.
This messages has been PM'd to you and posted publicly. As such, we're going to assume you've read it, and the community will judge whether they believe you've understood it. If I were you, I'd immediately back off a little, and be more timid and understanding of the spirit of these rules were you to want to try again.
Cheers
David