Quote Originally Posted by rabernet View Post
Here's a thought, and I'm really not trying to be silly, but whatever your personal thresh-hold is for minimal post counts is, why not just choose NOT to respond to ads that don't have your personal minimal count?

If someone pops on here and only posts ads, and I don't know who they are - I'm not likely to do business with them.

Just a thought.
This was my thought exactly when I read the opening post. There are acceptions to every trend and I don't feel it is fair to punish the newcomers or less-talkative members that may be honest sellers. The resonsibility ultimately lies with you, changing the rules on one forum won't nessicarily fix the problem. That's just my .