To the Administrators,
As a regional firearms forum, NWFA is unique given its breadth of topics and quality of content, and for that I am very thankful to the admins and moderators who work hard to make it so. And it is because of NFWAs well deserved reputation that I write this post.
NWFA prohibits posting critical/derogatory comments on classified ads. Yet since the November elections there has been a significant volume of thread crapping in the classifieds forums, sometimes 10+ posts to a single thread. These derogatory comments have become a significant issue because:
1. They openly violate the forum rules
2. They demonstrate impertinent and childish behavior in the commenter, which lowers the standard of quality and bloats the forums with useless blather
3. They reveal a fundamental ignorance of the free market economic system that is foundational to our great nation, again reducing the quality of the forums
4. They degrade the civil dialogue that these forums are known for, and that the many sponsors and vendors here expect from an advertising venue focused on firearms
Personally, I've stopped posting ads on NWFA for anything of significant value, opting instead to use other forums that are not littered with childish thread crappers.
I realize it is a huge job to moderate forums with NWFAs level of user traffic. One solution to reduce and hopefully eliminate thread crapping without unduly burdening the moderators is to implement a simple but tough policy:
Post a derogatory comment on a classified ad and get banned from the forums for two weeks. Do it again and get banned permanently.
Please consider such a policy for immediate implementation.
Thank you again for all of your hard work on this exceptional forum.
Sincerely,
Exnihilo
As a regional firearms forum, NWFA is unique given its breadth of topics and quality of content, and for that I am very thankful to the admins and moderators who work hard to make it so. And it is because of NFWAs well deserved reputation that I write this post.
NWFA prohibits posting critical/derogatory comments on classified ads. Yet since the November elections there has been a significant volume of thread crapping in the classifieds forums, sometimes 10+ posts to a single thread. These derogatory comments have become a significant issue because:
1. They openly violate the forum rules
2. They demonstrate impertinent and childish behavior in the commenter, which lowers the standard of quality and bloats the forums with useless blather
3. They reveal a fundamental ignorance of the free market economic system that is foundational to our great nation, again reducing the quality of the forums
4. They degrade the civil dialogue that these forums are known for, and that the many sponsors and vendors here expect from an advertising venue focused on firearms
Personally, I've stopped posting ads on NWFA for anything of significant value, opting instead to use other forums that are not littered with childish thread crappers.
I realize it is a huge job to moderate forums with NWFAs level of user traffic. One solution to reduce and hopefully eliminate thread crapping without unduly burdening the moderators is to implement a simple but tough policy:
Post a derogatory comment on a classified ad and get banned from the forums for two weeks. Do it again and get banned permanently.
Please consider such a policy for immediate implementation.
Thank you again for all of your hard work on this exceptional forum.
Sincerely,
Exnihilo