[BonzoHansen]

I got to tell you from a user point of view I am not really against the friendly bump thing. Hell, I’ve wanted to add “great car” a number of times. We don’t police that too much at NastyZ28 and to my knowledge we don’t hear too much about it. Rare is the moderated for sale thread there.

The catch is policing what is allowed, as now we are talking about judgment calls on specific content, and with this club it would be fairly difficult. We will get accused of playing favorites and/or 'having it out' for someone. We get that now even though from what I have seen the moderating there has been as consistent as possible. If we relax the current rules, we will get complaints from Member A about why we deleted his off topic post but let Member B’s ‘nice car’ post stand in the same thread. Hell, I know people who have posted in this very thread have complained about off topic and low-ball posts in their for sale posts – so for me there is also some level of hypocrisy here. So from a moderating viewpoint, our current ‘all or nothing’ stance is easier to moderate on an unbiased basis.

On a lesser point, the ‘friendly bump’ could conceivably aid scamming (similar to shill bidding at eBay) or members may incorrectly feel “Hey, that guy trusts him, it must be good.” But I’m relatively sure that is not an issue for us. I guess this points are more theoretical in nature.

While we are talking about the classified, I’d like to be able to go back to making posts that just pass on info of interest, like if I see something in the local newspaper classified section. Currently, that is a violation of the rules regarding posting items you do not own. But I think that rule was put in place to prevent people from selling parts they might buy, opposed to simply passing on info. I’d like that clarified, but I could see why Justin would not want to change that.

Just some lunchtime thoughts.