this is a terrible system. I am fine with the bumping limits, however i think that the “no replying to threads” portion of it is a shitty idea.
SOME threads get out of hand. Some. However, the number of threads with VALID questions that elicit VALID answers. Answers to questions that i may have never thought of. As such, i don’t think that the path that has been chosen is the most effective. I think harsher moderation of the classifieds would take care of the problem. If someone wants to fuck around, then ban them from the classifieds for a month. This solution is a cheap way out.
A far better system would be akin to ebay’s ability to post a question and it’s answer. Yes, ideally the original poster would be able to post up the answers to PM based questions at his discretion, but realistically it’s not going to happen, because it’s a pain in the ass and time consuming.
Imagine that you post up an advertisement for an item, but leave out information that may not be an important detail, but still will be of concern to many people. This will happen to the best of us, even, say, someone who is totally full of himself and thinks that they know everything (like RX3). Imagine, if you will, that you sign off for 3 days and return to 50 PMs with the same question. All of which need to be sorted through… this is going to be a real pain in the fucking ass.
Now imagine that someone else simply made a post in the original thread asking “xxxxx?” Would the same 50 people really ask that?
I think that certain people are just too uptight about the classified section.
Another example. When i was selling my elise, people cross posted it to a number of various forums. Would these people have still done something so thoughtful if they were not going to be able to be globally recognized for doing so? Would they still have sent me a PM saying “hey, i posted this on XXXX.org for you” if everyone else on the site wouldn’t know that they did such a nice thing? In a perfect world, of course. But this is NYSpeed. People like being involved with things, especially online.
If it’s a perceived problem (which i never felt it was), this is NOT the solution.