Posted 09/13/2012 3:15 pm
John D, it's possible there was a misunderstanding regarding your motives. We never delete anything here, we just put it somewhere the membership can't access it so I've read your original post. The way your original post was worded was precisely how one would ask the membership to engage in trading off-forum. That's what the term "off-forum" means. And that's why you received the reaction you did, except for the part where we usually summarily ban someone who posted what you did.
But the remote possibility existed that your intentions were honorable. Understand, we ban a couple people a week for doing exactly what you did - joining and almost immediately asking to engage in commerce. Some (very) few of them might have been honorable, most were certainly malicious and we cannot afford to differentiate in order to protect our membership.
Had we left your post intact, 90% of the membership would have drawn you over red-hot nails for posting it, and the other 10% would have done something requiring us to discipline them as well as yourself.
I can restore your post any time I want, and let the membership decide what they thought you said. You probably wouldn't like that.
But the remote possibility existed that your intentions were honorable. Understand, we ban a couple people a week for doing exactly what you did - joining and almost immediately asking to engage in commerce. Some (very) few of them might have been honorable, most were certainly malicious and we cannot afford to differentiate in order to protect our membership.
Had we left your post intact, 90% of the membership would have drawn you over red-hot nails for posting it, and the other 10% would have done something requiring us to discipline them as well as yourself.
I can restore your post any time I want, and let the membership decide what they thought you said. You probably wouldn't like that.
