[Steve1968LS2]

Originally Posted by jimhamptons

Put me in the camp of not putting in a post minimum restriction on For Sale posts. This is a car site and the car in question is IMO a really cool car.

I bought my Fairlane from Charlie Libby who was a first time poster on this forum, but also had 2 awesome cars in the member rides.

Obviously, if it becomes spam, then I could see the problem with it.

I think the reasoning behind a "post count minimum" is one of trust. We're a community and when you buy off the board you tend to give a bit more "benefit of the doubt" to a seller since he's a member. Obviously someone who only joined to sell a car isn't truly a contributing member of the board. Also, we could end up getting a slew of stuff for sale that really doesn't pertain to what the board is about.

In the posters defense maybe he's a board lurker that has been reading here for a long time and just now joined so he could sell his car. Maybe he's a car dealer just looking for free advertising. I dunno.

Other boards instate the minimum but the poster can contact a moderator for a waiver if the reasoning is good. Helps stop spamming and is still fair to the occasional lurker that comes out of the shadows to post.