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Old 03-21-2010, 09:57 PM   #8
hhmoore
This isn't anything new, Kevin - BOI topics are restricted to the BOI. There used to be an infraction for it, but it got dropped during a period when Rich tried cutting back on them a while back. FWIW, I don't think anybody has ever been given grief for posting something positive about a seller in a discussion forum....but, if a discussion thread started turning into a "good guy" thread, I would certainly step in and advise the posters that the love fest needed to be transferred to the BOI.
The reason the infraction got brought back is that a few people were making (negative) BOI type posts in the discussion forums; and, in at least one instance, the post was removed by the OP after the subject threatened them with action. Now, you might see nothing wrong with that, but the BOI is here for a reason...just like the classifieds. We don't let people advertise the discussion forum, and we don't allow inquiries/discussions about specific businesses there either. The BOI has requirements that don't apply to the discussion forums - like the full name rule - and there is one key fact about the BOI that makes it the place to put these complaints: posts cannot be edited by the membership...and are not edited by the moderation team (we will, in the case of certain rule violations REMOVE posts, but that is a different story)