Raider, I don't know that I have ever suggested any mods need to fix our threads...but we should at least have an opportunity to do so or certain draconian rules be revised. But you make an excellent point Raider about informing us all about thread locking, not only to INFORM but to possibly PROTECT members close to buying a domain name and it having issues, not being owned by the seller, being brokered, etc. If a certain mod wants to run around closing threads all day then he/she better be damn well prepared to contact those members and fully advise them that their thread was closed so they are aware their freshly posted sale for instance is no longer active when they might possibly be missing out on a sale opportunity all day when they thought they had an active thread, and definitely note in the thread why it was closed, and maybe possibly make some effort to allow just a little bit more leeway to those who obviously don't need to post screenshots of light traffic domains that obviously get traffic and are from a seller who has excellent high feedback of say OVER 100 positive ratings and should'nt be forced to post private screenshots of domain income and traffic on public forum pages just to TRY to sell a traffic name in a sales thread on a forum we paid to be members on when that screenshot exchange can be done privately with the potential buyers via PM & email, etc. Sometimes there is really good reason why it's NOT a good idea to post the traffic/revenue screenshots of a domain.
There should surely be a exceptions made based on who posts the sale thread. Let me say it again...
There should surely be a exceptions made based on who posts the sale thread. Obviously there is a huge difference between a newbie from some third world country saying blahblahblahyeahright.info gets 1000 hits a day and makes $100k a year for sale and a seller who obviously is not going to lie about their domain stats to buyers and lists a quality .com traffic domain, nor should we have to be basically accused of such by having our threads closed for no screenshot in that case described above. Not to mention screenshots are sometimes not available at that exact moment and sometimes people need to sell domains and have a million and one other things going on and can't make one because they are posting on a mobile device, etc.
Also, I think the whole domain name in the title rule really is ridiculous and caused by one or two idiots selling IDN domains on here and causing a big headache which was really a very limited time issue and we should'nt all have to suffer because of it constantly, it's one thing IF it's a misleading sales title or no form of the domain name whatsoever in it, obviously no cookie cutter rule needs to apply here and judgement and leniency can be exercised more imo...but I mean really, if someone seperates words to avoid search engine spiders and puts some brackets around the extension or leaves the ext. off for that matter, is that really a reason to lock his/her sales thread and just close it when the domain name itself is clearly stated in the thread? Geez man, give me a frickin' break that is totally idiotic..what are we playing chinese democracy here with only guns & no roses? lol
When I'm selling a domain and getting questions posted in the thread about it and PM's and then it just get's closed all of the sudden with no posted explanation that makes ME look really bad and scares away potential buyers because of the "mystery" reason the thread got locked and that is NOT cool. The person doing the secret thread closing maybe just does'nt want to "man up" to being the one closing a thread and in which case maybe is'nt fit to be a moderator if they can't handle the responses to their actions..same with removing people's posts and comments with no explanation and no PM about it. Don't remove our posts unless you have good reason to do so and can justify it in the thread and care to post such and send us a PM about it, otherwise maybe it's just being removed because a certain mod disagrees with what we have to say & that is just NOT right.
