brandonsantacruz
12/3/2010 5:14:00 PM
On Dec 3, 5:34 am, Peter D Bakija <p...@lightlink.com> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 1:27 am, Aaron Clark <aamacl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This newsgroup is the only place I would find out about these
> > auctions, since they are not on E-bay. From what I understand, Orian
> > has an appreciable inventory of cards whose sale at auction is worth
> > being noted in this, the principal worldwide English-language VTES
> > forum. He didn't list the inventory itself, thankfully.
>
> Which is nice and all, but still, the newsgroup charter does not
> permit sales posts. Just like the WW forum does not permit sales
> posts. And most reasonable discussion forums about, well, any game at
> all don't permit sales posts. Which doesn't strike me as at all
> unreasonable.
>
> There are list serves and places where sales posts are completely
> reasonable (the vtes trade google group. for example. Which this was
> posted on.) The newsgroup, however, not so much.
>
> > If it's not in one of those places, I'm probably going to miss it.
>
> Sometimes that happens.
>
> -Peter
Orion has a good point about other people doing sales posts here and
not having others tell them to stop. As much as we appreciate artists'
work on our cards and as much as the occasional sales post doesn't
clog up the newsgroup, they do have some impact on it by tempting
those who have to that point displayed restraint to make their own
sales posts. If this were a forum with a designated section for trades/
sales(see practically any VTES forum out there), it would be
different. Sorry to call you out Orion, I hope this rule can be
enforced more equitably in the future.
Brandon