Allow me to elaborate on what SlipZtrEm has said. I'm pretty sure that I'm the moderator who has been getting the most reports of bad trades since I have had close to thirty.
If you want to offer a descent marketplace for your members to access, protect them to the best of your ability.
We already do protect them as best we can. A lot of the stuff we do is behind closed doors, but it does happen.
As a mod, you may not be able to ban them from PSN, but you sure can ban them from your site.
We can, and we do. However, we cannot simply ban them because you claim they are ripping you off. We need to investigate, and these things take time. If you look at
this thread, you will see the due process involved for properly reporting bad trades. We do not simply react by hitting the ban button - we need to work out what happened first, and then decide on the appropriate course of action. Even then, we have only banned three members for ripping people off because we do not have enough evidence in the other cases. Your say-so is not good enough - we need detailed proof that they have been using the forums to defraud people.
But I guess he provides a few more ad clicks, so how about just a month. It's funny how I got a PM with a warning for writing "bump" in one of my threads.
You received that warning because your post was in violation of the forum rules. "Bump" posts add nothing to a discussion other than to draw attention to a thread, and if we allowed it, then this entire subforum would degenerate into a race to see who can "bump" their posts the most to keep them at the top of the queue, which means anarchy will reign. Don't think that just because there are wider issues out there, you may make smaller violations of the AUP. You can't - if you do, you will be held accountable.
Rigxs blatantly used this site to steal cars from others, seems to me it was the only reason he was on this site (he tried many times).
And he has been dealt with accordingly.
I'm not even sure he hasn't registered a new name to continue his efforts. Sad, and you really lost a lot of respect from me, and I'm sure many others, with this move.
You're not sure - but we are. The moderators have a lot of extra little tools that the average user doesn't, tools which are specifically designed to catch out this kind of behaviour. If and when Rigxs shows up again, you can rest assured that we will be there to counter him.
Lastly, you can ban me to from this site for my comments, too. I'm sure you would give me a permanent ban, however since the negativity is directed at you.
We do not ban people because they disagree with us. We ban people because they continually violate the rules of the forum. You have every right to question the activity of the moderators, and we will reply in kind with detailed justification of our actions, provided that you do so in accordance with the AUP. We are not a bunch of thugs and bullies running around with superpowers - we are charged with maintaining order and stability in the forums, and we do so accordingly.
