Should we have a post requirement for new people posting in the sales thread?

[BigusSchmuck]

I dunno about you guys, been seeing a lot of sale threads with people posting their first post as a wtb or FS thread.

[MrBroadway]

I voted 100 posts, but on second thought, perhaps something like 50 posts and 2 months of activity.

[blueraven]

150-200 would make me feel a bit better, but whatever. I voted for 100. The likeliness that this will happen?

I dunno coz am ledumb

[Emerald Rocker]

I voted "no".  Thank you for your support

[EmperorIng]

posting requirements never seem as effective as people think they will be.

[MrBroadway]

I voted "no".  Thank you for your support

i was the first "no" vote. I think if a newb wants to buy and sell out of the gate, they can expect that oldtimers will at best ignore them or at worst mock them. Provides good drama. Let them do as they will... gouge each other... buddy price each other... eventually they will either integrate and become one of the gang, or they will ragequit in spectacular fashion.

vote "no".

don't deprive the community of the dramalulz.

As long as we have DK around, there will always be dramalulz. But allowing price gouging raises the prices for everyone. I'd rather not condone that.

[MrBroadway]

I was talking about the other part of your post. Also, remember when wmac came in and could say "I sold X games here for Y prices," even though that Y price was something only you when you're drunk or DK would pay, or other newbs. If they think they're getting a steal here, then they'd be more willing to pay ridiculous prices of other games on ebay, leading to total price inflation. Or they could point to a thread and say "look at how high PCE sells it for, ebay would be even higher to make up for ebay fees."

It's all incidental to the question, though. My real beef is that they clog up the system and snatch good deals from long-time members. They're predatory and that hurts the community more than price gouging newbidiots.

[EmperorIng]

they clog up the system

This complaint can be leveled at many posts here.

they snatch good deals [and] that hurts the community

The Turbo-Everdrive and Ootake exist, you know.

[MrBroadway]

So does emulation. So do longplay videos on Youtube. What's your point?

Why is that the default answer from so many people? Yeah, no shit I can just everdrive it. I don't want to. I don't think it's healthy to a forum community to just say "let the prices rise and just everdrive it," especially if something can be done about it. Why are so many of you f*cking pansies when it comes up to parasitic vultures? Don't be a defeatist cuntnugget.

[grolt]

I voted no. As a new user here this summer, the first thing I did was buy some stuff from users in the sales threads. Then nullity helped me out in a thread I made in the sales forum asking for a second controller. Then there was a n00b raffle that I was lucky enough to win. All these things endeared me to this place right off the bat and got me really enamored with the TG-16 in general. I love this place, but it would have been a real slog having to wait 100 posts just to be able to buy games here, since I'd imagine many new users are up for buying a lot of games, especially the more common ones that veteran users would have little interest in, thus keeping the economic cycle here alive and strong.

I like how there is usually a post minimum for raffles, since that's such a generous bonus here by and for longtime members. To dissuade n00bs who are only here to exploit the sale forums I think a much more modest post threshold, like say 10 or even 5 posts, might work better. No disrespect though, I think it's a worthy thing to be talking about now in light of all the crazy threads here over the last month or so. 

[MNKyDeth]

Being one of the newer members here I saw the issues off the bat. So I made a few posts first. But I got what I mostly wanted right away in the repair mod area as my Duo wasn't fully working at the time.

Now it's new, during that time I watched the sales section and participated in things mostly buying when I saw the opportunity. Hell my first week when I was still under 10 posts I won a copy of Buster Bros. from Agent_Orange. It was a raffle for people under a certain number of posts to encourage us to participate.

Look... I love my Duo, I would turn it into a warm apple pie and make sweet sweet love to it and this forum... community is the only place that I have that helps me support my console.

I did a 50 post first count as I think the ultra new people, like myself even just a few months ago doesn't understand this community until you read, read read, and realize the personalities on these forums.

It's a great place, a love, hate, Jo crystal place. I try to support people like Turbokon and Thesteve as much as possible by buying stuff from the tg16pcemods website. Tons of other people as well here that are incredibly helpfull and I hope soon I can contribute back in a good way besides just starting and trying to contribute to conversations.

I selected the 50 count so people can learn what this place is about a little before just buying/selling.

[RNSpeed]

I voted no,  but my suggestion will be that at least that person if new should be kind enough to get known first by introducing themselves. 

Low post count or what a newcomer is called "newb" doesn't means that necessarily that person is new to the Turbografx/PC Engine scene. Of course there are newcomer to the scene but in my case I myself have only 37 post count (well 38 after this one) but I'm not new on the Turbografx/PC Engine scene.   I still have the Turbografx and CD since way back in the 90's.  My systems had been in and out of storage all this years and I had made my contribution to the scene as well.

[BigusSchmuck]

I'm going to take a stab in the dark here and say this: If you look at most of the old timers posts here, their first posts were not in the sales sections. You can look my first posts it was just asking questions about arcade cards, gaming, gouging, etc and it wasn't until much later on I was wanting to buy stuff. Then there was newbie sellers that felt they got burned on by a deal (which they really didn't) and caused all sorts of unnecessary drama. No, I honestly feel at least 50 posts. This isn't about buying and selling, these forums are a place for knowledge and gaming! The selling and buying should come as a after thought IMHO. End of rant.

[WoodyXP]

50 to 100 posts seems reasonable if that's the direction we want to head in.  I prefer leaving it to the member to decided on whether they want to deal with noobs or not.

[NightWolve]

I dunno if we have the discipline for this sort of thing to be honest. We got a good Wild West thing here going, don't we ??

I recall when we had this debate in the past, Necromancer wasn't a moderator so there wasn't a more immediate way to add some kind of rules like this, much less enforce them. Since that's now changed and he's usually very active here as well as open to the idea of keeping people from treating this place solely as their eBay storefront, we could get the enforcement now though.