Questions about bike hire abroad and everything light bike related. No off-topic chat please
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boysa
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by boysa on Mon Nov 30, 2015 7:11 am
dynaserve wrote:Why not just change the title of this topic to "Post nonsense here to increase post count".
^This. Make it a Sticky! If Starbike really wants to continue with the offer, it is probably best not to fight it and just give these folks a place to post.
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sawyer
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by sawyer on Mon Nov 30, 2015 11:46 am
Minimum word count is a bad suggestion I'm afraid guys - would just lead to cut and paste rubbish being posted
It's a commercial decision I assume to increase the marketing value of the forum - i.e. more active users
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Calnago
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by Calnago on Mon Nov 30, 2015 11:53 am
I thought the purpose of a certain number of posts was to help ensure that the user is legit and not just a scam artist looking to rip people off or something. Not sure this really works, especially if people can just post randomly like they are doing. If those kinds of posts count, then I don't think the "post count" rule is even coming close to achieving its goal and may as well abandon it altogether and caution buyers to beware of buying from unknown sellers, as they should be regardless.
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xena
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Kayrehn
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by Kayrehn on Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:47 pm
I can't help but notice many of them having Korean sounding usernames... Wouldn't have guessed that they are big fans...
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sawyer
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by sawyer on Mon Nov 30, 2015 1:36 pm
nmx - impressed by the response!
I interpret the 10 / 25 post discount as attempt to increase the Forum's value, by that I mean the (essentially marketing) value of the forum.
So you have to balance the objective of driving more traffic to the Forum with maintaining the Forum's quality
For that reason having a "post rubbish here" section may not work ...
Adding a one month minimum and seeing how that goes might be worth trying yes
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F45
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by F45 on Mon Nov 30, 2015 5:51 pm
nmx, the paceline has a two month time req and a minimum post count and doesn't suffer the spamming problem we do.
Their for sale forums are also very active.
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nmx
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by nmx on Tue Dec 01, 2015 12:20 pm
>> nmx, the paceline has a two month time req and a minimum post count and doesn't suffer the spamming problem we do.
Sorry I cannot clearly understand what you mean with that..
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fogman
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by fogman on Tue Dec 01, 2015 2:40 pm
Maybe make the requirement be at least 25 words to count as a post. That would eliminate these scammers from writing 2 word posts such as "good info". When I see a suspicious post, I immediately report it.
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kgt
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F45
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by F45 on Wed Dec 02, 2015 6:43 am
nmx wrote:>> nmx, the paceline has a two month time req and a minimum post count and doesn't suffer the spamming problem we do.
Sorry I cannot clearly understand what you mean with that..
nmx, I went and checked and you have to be a member for 30 days plus a 30 day post minimum to post in classifieds.
velomane, I do not know how they mod.
