Do you like the new classified section?

[2TurboZ]

@BooStang

Yes.

Every forum I’ve been on from 4 wheelers, car audio, home theater, cars, cell phones, etc…

The community polices itself for the most part. When someone is overboard & reckless, they get a 1 week - 1 month ban. Or, specifically have their access to the classifieds section removed. And these penalties are rarely needed, refer to self-moderation.

Of course, some of these boards have been around since 2000, some have 1k active users where as others have closer to 10k.
Hell, look @ ot.net, 100k active users, and their classifieds are pretty self-sufficient.

But from reading, I gather that we’re all along for the ride.

I see your join date/post count. So have you been witness to how out of hand they really were?

I understand other boards work well and this one had the exact same opportunity to function “normally” It didnt happen. Changes were made based on the fact that it could NOT function with self policing. The mods had to work overtime to clean shit up and hand out bans.

People who get banned for something like this, tend to come back, and act the same.

:lightbulb:

Maybe we should have a 3 strikes rule with bans in classifieds
Maybe we should have to have a certain post count to use classifieds.
Maybe as I have suggested, we need a specific classifieds form to post.

Those would all make it an easier format and perhaps give it a chance to go back to a discussion style forum.