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I basically think that if well moderated and if every user make what has to be done the old ads system is much more useful than the new one. You talk bout fines and bans that several times are used by GMs but let me say that they only apply the rules: bumping, posting over and over the same player, these things are against the forum's rules so they must be punished.

In the other hand you try to avoid those facts by introducing this new system (that personally I don't like, but I'm only trying to make a constructive discussion that want to go above what I like and what I dislike :P). I think that those communities who want to continue "on the old road" of the ads-thread should be able to do that (of course by a good system of moderators that I think is well represented by our Italian Mod and GMs for example), while those who like the new system should close the old ads-thread and start to join "this new road".

I'd also like to point out another thing regarding what you've said:

I'd like to start by just reminding everybody that we actually studied this before we banned transfer ads in the forums and found that posting an ad in the forums about your transfer-listed player DID NOT make the sale price go up.

if this is real, and I think it is, I even more don't see the problem of let the thread open.


PS: sack by the Saints, go guys! :P

They could just post a sticky with a link to some off-site forums and then post transfer ads/police themselves there? Seems like a win-win.

It seems like we a few things we can safely declare as facts:

- Many people like posting ads on the forums

- Many people do not like the current ads system

- The people in charge of moderating the forums are against ads in forums due to the fact that they cause a ton of moderating work above and beyond the usual moderating

How does the following compromise work:

We create a forum that is designed to be for nothing but transfer, scrimmage, and PL ads? This would be largely unmoderated for content other than for things that aren't allowed anywhere (referral links, profanity, that kind of thing). You could use bold, underline, post in whatever language, post multiple times, who cares? It'd be a place where you can advertise to your heart's content without actually getting in the way of the rest of the normal forum business.

That way would be fair to all countries, would not be a strain on our moderators, and gives you freedom to aggressively market your players, scrimmages, and PLs.

What do you guys think?

very good mind. do it :)

It was clearly a joke and it has been already deleted, as you can see.
I think it's not the case to make yourself as a victim of bad bad bad italian people, and by the way, you misunderstand one post (I repeat, I'm not the author of this post, but it's clear that it was a joke) and is it enough to appeal to "all italian managers and GMs"?

BTW, about what BB-Edju suggested, I'm not so "optimistic" about how we can handle an external forum without generate complaints about "he posted 100times more than me" "my ads have no visibility because traders post 100 players in a row" and so on.
And I think it's not a good idea to create something completely out of control, it would be surely helpful to step back to the previous 2 thread (Scrimmage Ads and Transfer Ads) and if we find out that it's a so heavy work to do, then hire 10 or 20 MODs from all over the world. It's our duty to handle the forum as better as we can.
Just my 2 cents.

Last edited by NdR619 - Pilipinas U21 at 2/8/2010 5:44:25 AM