Rule #4 requires that your ad list an appropriate title for what you are selling, AND list within the body of the ad what you are selling.Rule #4: Ad format: Use a proper DESCRIPTIVE Title & Content
If you want to post your ad in multiple relevant forums, which is good, then please title your ad appropriately.
Good example: "Have Eldar and Tau, want to trade for Dark Elves and Empire." This will fit NICELY in the 40K and Fantasy sections!
Bad example: "Have Eldar and Tau." If this shows up in the fantasy section, it will be nuked!
Other BAD examples: "Have stuff.", "H: Lots! W: Lots!"
Rule 4a: You are also responsible for accurately describing all items that you are trading or selling.
That includes version, condition, assembly status, converted or not, painted or not, any missing pieces and any other information you think might be helpful. Failure to do so may result in the other party filing a Backout Trader or Bad Trader report against you.
Rule #4a requires that you describe what you are selling.
I agree that his pics cover describing the condition/state/version of what he is selling, but they do not constitute a proper listing of what is for sale.
Furthermore, strictly speaking, the pics are not in his ad--they are on another site.
Of course it is. The rules state a minimum requirement for ad format, and it is the role of the staff to apply the rules, as they interpret them, subject to review by the established authorities.Ironhide wrote: Is it a mod or admins right to take an ad down because it doesn't conform to what they think is the "correct" ad format, even though it falls within the rules? I don't think so.
Anger is inappropriate when you've been asked to correct an ad so that it conforms with the rules. Absolute refusal to conform to a rule that has been brought to your attention is an obvious reason for penalty.Ironhide wrote: As to his suspension from the site...I do not understand why that resulted in a suspension. He did not name call or seem belligerent to me. He did seem a little self-righteous, but in context to what he was responding to I think it can be somewhat understandable. After all, in his view the people involved were trying to micro-manage his ad and tell him how it should be written. That would kind of piss me off to, I'm surprised it wasn't worse. I think a little anger is understandable.I have no intention of changing the adds. If this is what you must do to inflate your sense of self worth then by all means do so. Also, feel free to, and I quote, " police our members' ads as best we can. " I can almost hear Eric Cartman saying " RESPECT MA AUTHORITAH!" I was under the impression this was a friendly site where people traded gaming supplies and not some sort of police state. So, I leave you and the the rest of the brown shirts to "police" your regime. I will be happily cruising other sites where the admins aren't currently trying to squeeze lumps of coal into diamonds using only the power of their rectums.
Further, calling the staff involved Nazis ("brown shirts"), assigning motivation for action to ego/powertripping (" RESPECT MA AUTHORITAH!"), and namecalling the staff involved as tight asses ("squeeze lumps of coal into diamonds using only the power of their rectums") are all clear violations of Rules #1 and 7. What started out as a simple warning/request for ad change escalated on the part of the poster, and I would refer you to the section of the rules re Disciplinary Measures if you think that a suspension is inappropriate.