Ahh but you weren't grandfathered in so this doesn't actually affect you. Just another lifetime to go.
IMPORTANT: Members Market access
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Anyone who reaches the required criteria will be able to access the MM.
Just like it's always been. All we've done is remove those who aren't good community members. To be part of the community, you need to participate in it.
By removing those who don't participate in the community, we've done exactly what you've asked for. You want good community members to be able to access the MM, we've removed those who aren't good community members.
So you had an absolute minimum of 250 posts in January 2012.
Now you have around 310 posts. You've made 60-70 posts in eleven years?
Requirements change. Back in 2012, we could quite easily have just removed everyone who didn't meet the new criteria but we left it open. Now, over ten years later, we've closed that loophole. I think that over ten years is a perfectly decent time span to give people a chance to actually be active and participate.
Because the forum rules say you should.
This is not a democracy. It never has been, it never will be. The administrators make the decisions.
Under the old stewardship, you'd probably have been banned already for the way you've posted in this thread. Fortuntately for all of us, we've moved on since those days.
It's a loophole in that people who had access kept access when the forum rules changed.
The MM rules say:
"Access to the MM is granted as a privilege to forum members who have contributed to the community. Once you have access, we expect you to continue participating in the other forums outside of MM. If it is noticed that you only post in the MM then this may be raised with you. If you no longer participate in the wider community outside of MM then we reserve the right to remove your access."
I hadn't checked @Sturm's stats. You've saved me the chore.
As already explained in this thread, we've been working on this for over a year, gradually removing access from various members. This is the seventh and final stage of the cleanup.
This is not something we're able to do, there are instructions for account deletion in the Privacy Policy.
It looks like it, yes.
Bang on.
Oops some people mid MM transaction and have lost access
This was posted on the 10th July with a targeted forum notice to everyone it was going to affect.
Not sure how you saw it, I've just checked the user criteria and it was set to show to anyone who was logged in, had access to MM and had a post count of no more than 1000 postsThats the message I got - I wonder if i'm also a gonner
Pretty sure you're safe
Not that I can see, what milestone?
It already is 1000 posts
Yes, the only thing that's changed is that the box on your account that grants access to MM has been unticked. Once you meet the requirements, you'll gain access automatically as per normal.
Well looking at the Life sections, you have Motors, Home and Garden, La Cuisine, Sports Arena, Music, Box Office, TV and books. Mobile Phones and tablets.
None of those are especially technical.
There's also an Audio Visual section with areas on home cinema/hi fi and photography/video.
Then there's the Games section, PC games, tabletop, console and retro.
So that's at least ten forums that are nothing to do with 'hardcore computer tech', not including the ones above that have their own sub-forums.
No excuses....
Not just at you but to anyone who sees this behaviour.
We take this very seriously, using the MM to buy and sell for a profit is grounds for instant removal and it’s happened to quite a few members. We can’t police this by ourselves so if anybody sees this happen, please tell us and it’ll get dealt with quickly.
And please, in response to us asking for reports, don’t anyone use the pathetic ‘snitches get stitches’ (or equivalent) line.
That is correct.
These people haven’t been banned for breaking the rules six times like you were. Their access has simply been suspended until they reach the requirements.
Not sure how the general membership would know about bad deals and what we do to help resolve them unless they've been involved in them, it's all speculation on behalf of the members.
I will talk about one that went bad though. Some items with a considerable value of several hundred pounds were posted and never arrived. The seller claimed that he had the shipping receipts but they'd been 'washed by mistake' and were unreadable.
(we're dealing with another one at the moment where the postage receipt 'has been lost').
Nothing ever turned up, the buyer ended up taking the seller to small claims court and won.
At the same time, the seller had two or three other deals going through with various issues of something turning up broken. This was finally refunded. In a way, it was lucky that he had these deals going on because one of the buyers hadn't obtained all his details (name, address, phone number etc) before going ahead with the deal. This is quite stupid, anyone dealing with anyone in MM should always, always get full name, address and phone number(s) before sending any money. We specify this in the guidelines and there's a notice reminding people to do it but still some don't. But I'm digressing.
This was a member who joined at least fifteen years ago and had many thousands of posts but had barely posted outside of MM for about five years. This person clearly didn't care about the community at all as they seemed to have no qualms about ripping someone off for a decent amount of money.
Needless to say, they won't be back. Please don't speculate in here as to who it was.
I will talk about one that went bad though. Some items with a considerable value of several hundred pounds were posted and never arrived. The seller claimed that he had the shipping receipts but they'd been 'washed by mistake' and were unreadable.
(we're dealing with another one at the moment where the postage receipt 'has been lost').
Nothing ever turned up, the buyer ended up taking the seller to small claims court and won.
At the same time, the seller had two or three other deals going through with various issues of something turning up broken. This was finally refunded. In a way, it was lucky that he had these deals going on because one of the buyers hadn't obtained all his details (name, address, phone number etc) before going ahead with the deal. This is quite stupid, anyone dealing with anyone in MM should always, always get full name, address and phone number(s) before sending any money. We specify this in the guidelines and there's a notice reminding people to do it but still some don't. But I'm digressing.
This was a member who joined at least fifteen years ago and had many thousands of posts but had barely posted outside of MM for about five years. This person clearly didn't care about the community at all as they seemed to have no qualms about ripping someone off for a decent amount of money.
Needless to say, they won't be back. Please don't speculate in here as to who it was.
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