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nashathedog

nashathedog

nashathedog

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I'll post this here in the genearal area as we just had a couple of threads closed down pretty quick in the graphics card section and I was wondering what people think of the requirements to use the Members Market. Or more to the point should there be loopholes?
Don't get me wrong I understand the requirements and agree with them, I think it took me roughly 2 years to get access but I'm wondering whether there should be loopholes for those that do not post much.
For example the gent asking in one of the closed threads is only on post 70 ish but he's been a member of the forum for 11 years so should such a member get given access?
And if so should there be other requirements or conditions in place?
 
Why should we give exceptions to people who don't post much? Surely we want to reward members who contribute to the community?
 
nope, I think they are fine as they are. If he has been a member for 11 years, even posting once a day would get him over 4000 posts. The MM is for people who contribute to the forum, posting once or twice in 11 years isn't really a contribution imo.
 
There have to be rules.

As a long term lurker yeah, I'd like them to be different but I accept the rules as they are. I don't post on every possible topic so it will take me time to get to 1000 posts but I see why there is a posting requirement.
 
The rules are fine as they. Make an active contribution to the forum and you have your reward.
 
I think 1000 is a pretty fair number. You will struggle to hit that quickly if you only post in the tech section (unless you get involved in the AMD vs Nvidia stuff with the zealots in the GPU section), which is a shame, but it's high enough that you can't just spam GD for a week to hit it.
 
So no-one thinks that maybe being a consistent, loyal customer of OCUK over a long period of time, Buying from OCUK on a regular basis and having spent a substantial amount of money over the years as being enough to warrant being considered a contributing member?

Fair enough,

Thanks for the responses everyone.
 
nashathedog said:
So no-one thinks that maybe being a consistent, loyal customer of OCUK over a long period of time, Buying from OCUK on a regular basis and having spent a substantial amount of money over the years as being enough to warrant being considered a contributing member?
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Nope, just makes you a good customer!
 
I don't no.

If he has posted 70 times in 11 years maybe his idea of buying on a regular basis is a £1 cable every June.

The shop and the forums are different entities.
 
I've been here a fair while but don't really have time to get heavily involved in the banter etc to push my count up.

I'd like to think that from my history I'd be seen a trustworthy and to have contributed and not being able to access MM is a bit of a pain, it's clearly going to take me a long old time to reach the right post count, but it is what it is I suppose. I can't complain.
 
Doesn't matter when you joined, why would your account be worth anything to you if you barley use it to post.

Requirements are fine, most MMers feel the same way because the community in there make it a unique trading place. It is cheap, friendly and reliable. It also gets plenty of action, so there is no reason to let these newbies there because they want an easy sale or a quick scam. We dont want to trade the quality for qantity, we might as well go to ebay if that was the case.

One of the threads started (by someone with under 10 posts) in the GPU section looked like it was written by a dog with D in GCSE English. Not saying he was a scammer but someone who cant contribute or communicate with the community, as well as has little to lose by scamming, is exactly the sort of people we want to block access to the MM.

The rules in MM doesn't allow us to be choosey to who we sell two but i wouldn't feel comfortable selling the a 8 post user just because he got first reply. MM rules work wonderfully, why fix what isn't broken when there are plenty of broken alternatives?

Buying from OCuk doesn't make you trustworthy on their forums. All sorts of people may buy from OCuk, i don't believe long term customers necessarily feel obliged to follow forum rules or wouldn't mess around another forum member. People these days have developed a self entitled attitude that lets the believe anything they can get their hands on, they deserve to keep. People almost seem proud of scamming the 'big man'. Just earlier i saw a post on the CPU or general forum saying they bought a CPU from ebay broken and sent it to Intel for a new replacement. The post was then followed by 'congratulation' and 'well done' sort of posts from other members.

I don't think anyone who hasn't used the MM has a right to say whether 1000 posts is too much because unless you know the community the rules create, how can you have a say in changing the rules?

Doesn't take long to build up some posts in GD, GPU forum or any of the hobby threads. If you don't have the time, then why not use ebay?
 
nashathedog said:
So no-one thinks that maybe being a consistent, loyal customer of OCUK over a long period of time, Buying from OCUK on a regular basis and having spent a substantial amount of money over the years as being enough to warrant being considered a contributing member?

Fair enough,

Thanks for the responses everyone.
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While I do think being a long time forum member and customer should be enough to give you access to the members market I also think that to help reduce potential scamming and to be fair to all forum members across the board then the rules should stay as they are and be adhered to
 
yup,

It's fine as it is hitting 1k posts isn't even hard.

GD + GPU subsections and probably motors

Or you know post in sections you're interested in.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
The rules in MM doesn't allow us to be choosey to who we sell two but i wouldn't feel comfortable selling the a 8 post user just because he got first reply. MM rules work wonderfully, why fix what isn't broken when there are plenty of broken alternatives?
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Does that mean whoever replies at asking in the sale thread, you have to sell to? I always thought it's at the buyers discretion?
 
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