I agree somewhat with yeehah.
I'm a bit of a lurker - I'm on here a reasonable amount and I pick up lots of good information. But I don't post much - I just find I don't often have much to add (ok - perhaps I could try a little harder).
What I wanted to ask is if you could consider making a modification to the rules to allow members like yeehah and myself to gain access. Perhaps also allow access once you've been a member for a period of time - say 3 or 6 months. If you did that you might be able to make the post count 50 for those who haven't been members long enough. I think that would stop most "fly by nighters".
Another consideration might be to make the trader section read only for members who don't qualify? That would allow us to at least see what is up for sale, but still not allow us to sell (I guess we'd need to send a PM to make a purchase). Again it should stop people "coming in, off loading their stuff and then doing a runner". Who knows, the trading section may help attract new members, but it can't if they can't see it.
Anyway, again like yeehah, this is a great site I will respect the admins rules - I'm just hoping for a little more flexibility.
