Thread: Rules for Classifieds - discussion

Perhaps make it where the dropdowns HAVE to be used and blank spaces such as price and location HAVE to be filled out, or the forum will reject the post and make them complete the form...

There is a good bit of coding involved in that kind of change, so that might not happen right away (or at all). They are good ideas though, and if it can work out I'm pretty sure there won't be much opposition. I would expect baby steps...

For now, the template is going to lose some of the pre-formatting which seems to scare away some people or cause weirdly ambiguous or counter intuitive results.

this needs to be update to state that a VIN is required.

I'm not sure if the first post in this thread should be modified. I think it needs to stay the way it is for posterity. This has never been meant to represent the current rules. If you're using this thread to determine what the current rules are, you're in the wrong place.
I've added a link to where the current rules reside at the end of the first post.

I will add the part about the VIN to those rules, as obviously it was missing.

http://www.sr20-forum.com/cars/announcement-rules-classifieds.html

I couldn't post in that thread so I posted here. The thread does not state that a vin is required and it's on top of all the classifieds.

I don't agree with threads being closed when the forum does not state anywhere that the vin is required.

For historic reasons, I'd like people to know that the VIN requirement has been in effect since the classifieds got an overhaul over a year ago. I could find the exact date but I don't think it is that important. The rule was not officially added to the list as such, an oversight I've corrected (thank you Keo), however the rule has been in place ever since then.

I would agree with you if that were the case, however I will show you exactly where the forum states the VIN is required. It has been there for over a year. Hang on.

COOL! waiting patiently!

I was ready to take a screen shot for you, but the text has since been rendered obsolete by the new classifieds form and thus removed. So I have to go by memory...

When the classifieds were overhauled, and the template was put in place, there was text shown above the thread creation part with text similar to this.



I remember the text very well, because I always had an issue with the wording of it. I thought it was one of the reasons so many people had italics in their sale threads or other silly things (because they were too scared to modify even one single character of the pre-filled template).

Regardless, it had been there since day 1 of the classifieds overhaul and stayed there for all to see every time they created an For Sale thread up until just last week when the new form went into place making the text not entirely necessary.

Yes, it was an additional set of rules not expressly explained in all places. Thank you Keo for drawing that to a head.

I remember when gas cost .79 cents a gallon.

VIN should be in every cars for sale ad.

In order to add some "content" to this thread, the only thing I am not too comfortable with is the requirement for a VIN number.

But that also falls in line with me being fairly "hidden" in retrospect and prefer to not disclose certain vital (and in some cases potentially incriminating) information about myself, and my possessions and their whereabouts.

Any ol hoot can come on, steal and use the VIN number for God knows what...........I am not comfortable with that idea.