Require 10 post to view sales forum, What is your view?

[pegasi]

Agree to disagree. I believe it's also the forum owner's interest to grow the member size of the forum. If "marketplace" is the prime attraction of the site, imho, it would be good to leverage on it, to attract people joining the forum. Members contributing to the forum should be encouraged and not because obligated to.

Possible outcomes:
1. Turning people to alternatives
2. Encouraging unnecessary posts

Good points. I especially like what you said about "members contributing to the forum should be encouraged and not because obligated to".

Ya I know I am contradicting myself...

[Seaman]

Agree to disagree. I believe it's also the forum owner's interest to grow the member size of the forum. If "marketplace" is the prime attraction of the site, imho, it would be good to leverage on it, to attract people joining the forum. Members contributing to the forum should be encouraged and not because obligated to.

Possible outcomes:
1. Turning people to alternatives
2. Encouraging unnecessary posts

[pegasi]

SG-ROC is a club, a club in the form of a social forum. Hence its primary objective/function is for social networking/sharing experience of watches, not as a market place.

Imagine you run a real club with free membership, and the members only come in to buy and sell things using the club facility.

[time-traveller]

same here

[lhjake]

Trying to get my 10 now... :P

In Rome, do what the Romans do. If not, dont go there at the first instance.
Outsiders have no right to demand explaination of any house rules implemented by Romans in their own city but it will be real nice for the Romans to step forward to explain the logic of implementing certain house rules that outsiders consider unfriendly. Also, good guess that sometimes quality means more than quanitity in term of posting in a forum for sharing information among forumers.

[dragonforce]

i can understand this rule. other forums i go to have this rule as well. and it is not 10, i think is like 50 counts before you can post on garage sales threads.
i registered some time back but did not post, did not even log in until recently.

posting now not cause i am trying to get enough post counts to post in sales forum, but cause i want to share and learn from people here.
cheers.

[Dfive]

As per topic headlines, novices now required 10 post to view sales forum. What is the reason behind it? Please share your view.

Trying to get my 10 now... :P

Prevent SPAM which is rather prevalent of late.... notice all the long questions for first post made many months ago then NO activity.... prob done be computers .

[vinkcen2233]

i having a hard time asking details bout watch if wana buy esp certain only wan PM...beacuse i can't reply to their thread

[schiz]

Ok. I'm guilty of lurking and not posting enough.
If that's the rule, guess we'll just have to abide by it whether we agree or not

Wonder will the count requirements be increased if ppl start trying to get around it by posting more meaningless messages ; )

[wolfeyes1974]

10 posts is lenient....i've come across you need 60 to do so

[mrimhere]

now can view already! yeah!

[taxico]

Well, every forum can set their own house rules (it is not necessary for the admin to explain their purpose behind it) but I do believe every decision they make is for the benefit of everbody. Correct me if I'm wrong.

the former is true. if you believe in the latter, then you, my dear grasshopper, are sorely mistaken and have obviously been well looked after your whole life. this does not mean this is NOT the case here; it just means i disagree with your belief.

[dtctan]

Well, every forum can set their own house rules (it is not necessary for the admin to explain their purpose behind it) but I do believe every decision they make is for the benefit of everbody. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Xcalibur]

Not sure if with such a new system many of us would post for the sake of posting to just clock our 10 post count

[antdejo]

Was shocked when cannot access the forum site today. Was able to post new thread previously.