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Ginsu Victim:
I was banned pretty much the moment I signed up. As soon as I could post, I did. Right after I posted what I was looking for, I received the rules, sent to an email account I forgot I even had. I tried to log in a short while later and it said I was banned. (Obviously because I had no idea how strict their rules about posting were.)

Nazis.

ChadTower:

That doesn't make sense.

1)  The rules are sent to the address from which you signed up... so if you forgot about that address it must have been immediately as they are sent out by the system when your membership is approved.

2)  You can't make postings from emails that aren't signed up, so either you were signed up multiple times, or it wasn't a different address.

3)  There is no logging in to Freecycle.  It uses Yahoo Groups.

protokatie:
WANTED - 13 INCH CRT MONITOR (E FPK)

Would that have worked?

myntik1:
I think it would have worked.

I can't believe I got into an e-beef with someone over something so stupid.  I just checked my old emails and I guess the others mods aren't as conforming to the rules as this mod was since they've accepted the following items

offered: assorted moving boxes (efpk)

offered: queen sized box spring (efpk/16acres)

offered: older working microwave (efpk)

offered: enormous workbench and (3) 4/8 pieces of masonite wood paneling (EFPK)

My main rant centered around my belief that the spirit of freecycle is often violated in my area.  I see people looking for video game systems, work vans, staging so a guy can start up his own painting business, etc.  These are things worth money if resold.  These aren't items that wouldn't normally wind up in a landfill.  And this is my opinion - the mods should probably spend more time feretting out those requests from people continually looking for a $ item than harassing a guy over a simple formatting issue who's looking for something with no real value that will take up space in a landfill.

If the mod came back and let me know that it was because WANTED wasn't in capital letters I would have thanked him and adjusted my message.  Because he replied like he did I let him know how I felt about my local freecycle.  It's a dead issue at this point.

DrewKaree:
That was a crap reason to ban you, and IMO, from someone who enjoys lording their power over others.  I've denied posts from people.  I've deleted posts from people.  They could have easily just deleted your message, forcing you to repost, if they couldn't be bothered to deal with your original posting.

That's beside the point though.  That was a pedantic reason to deny your post, and following such idiotic "rules" doesn't add a THING to the group.  I've recently set up my group, and the only things I've denied postings for (and pointed out that I would allow if they were addressed) were exactly what you pointed out - just last week, I had some idiot post a "Wanted" for round-trip airline tickets to Seattle (from WI).  Really, idiot?  You expect there just might be someone who had round-trip to Seattle tickets, and just happened to not have a need for them, AND want to give them away for free? 

I've also denied the "begging" posts where the people want to give every reason under the sun that you should find it in your heart to help them (My kid is retarded, I'm a single mom with eleventy kids, incurable hangnails, my second car has tires that will only last another 12,000 miles, etc), and doing so to those few beggars seemed to stop the flow of items needed to police.


--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 20, 2008, 01:04:05 pm ---
That doesn't make sense.

1)  The rules are sent to the address from which you signed up... so if you forgot about that address it must have been immediately as they are sent out by the system when your membership is approved.


--- End quote ---

In fact, I was forced to set it up to send out the rules when someone first applied, and again as a "welcome" package after someone's accepted. 

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