no, what i said was that the people who previously asked for an end to theopen commentary in the classifieds forum provided support for their position. they offered more than just an opinion, they offered information to show how it worked.
we received enough complaints about people putting up useless, off topic, and non-interest posts that it was clear that the rule change was needed.
the current opposition is based solely on the opinions of a few, certainly not near the number of people who asked for the rules to be changed previously or complained about the lack of such rules.
it is a common practice to leave classified threads to the interested parties only, not allowing free for all posting prevents threads from getting pushed out of sight and lost because the seller doesn't have as many or the right friends in the forum to hand them free bumps all day long.

i re-iterare, there aren't enoguh posts made by people selling something on here that it would get pushed of by a few comments regarding the item for sale. This site isn't as big as LS1tech, so there is pretty much no need to delete posts and such due to "someone's ad being pushed off the page"

exactly. looking at the classifieds right now, the oldest post on the first page is from 6 days ago...the section really isnt busy enough for peoples ads getting 'pushed off the page'

DING! DING! DING! This is just one of the supportive posts in this thread. The people want the rule changed. What else needs to be said? :idea: :idea: :idea:

and i said before that there are still not as many people asking for this change as commented/complained/asked for the change before. it is also common practice to not allow BS posting in the classifieds.

the rules were changed because there was a constant stream of general off topic conversation and commentary that sellers didn't want in their threads.

the rules are not jsut for how things are this week, it is for the long term good of how the forums run. wanting to be able to pick and choose what commentary you want in the classifieds now will jsut force us all to go through thsi same headache again later.

at this point you have proven that all that is behind this is a few opinions and the one example that bonzo provided. sorry to break it to you guys, but that isn't even half the information or people sharing this opinion that asked for the rules to be the way they are now.

whenever you can come up with some actual proof that your commentary sells cars in our classifieds or show examples of how you being special enough to make off topic and useless posts is helpful, get back to me. until then, this issue is closed.