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They're just gonna say you're circumventing the rules and give you a warning anyway.
The way they write their rules is overbearing and so they can pop in and add another clarification as they keep calling them when they decide to change shit.
Haha, made me confused if I understand correctly. It turns out, I understood correctly.
I'm bothered about the way they're trying to paint this as something the community wanted.
Except the Venusaur thread, these other threads are about banning Telegram from the forum or areas of the forum, not banning every form of off forum contact information.
This blanket ban just shows that they had no idea how to deal with the Telegram problem so they did... this.
A sorry state of affairs for a once great site.
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The thing is, they tried to solve a problem they had from day one so by the time they finally addressed it, it was already out of control.
And to top it off they did it in the worst way possible. So they just made it harder to buy, but not that much harder to bypass the contact details thing.
And to top it off they did it in the worst way possible. So they just made it harder to buy, but not that much harder to bypass the contact details thing.
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Worst part is that this blanket ban of theirs doesn't even address the problem. People can still send their TG details via DM.
Then there's this shit from that admin.
OK so if someone got scammed from finding the contact details of an old ass locked sales thread, what does that have to do with this new rule?
Off forum contact info is still allowed in sales threads so what does this have to do with anything?
I mean if they said they were going to delete old contact info from locked sales threads then sure this is relevant but nope.
We need one of those 100% emoji reactions because you're 100% right about this.
It's the problem with being in denial about there being a problem for so long and/or dragging their heels.
The end solution is too little too late, but at least sellers can now add some raw URLs to a field on their profile?
You're right that has nothing to do with the new rule.
The whole thread looks over-explanatory out of defensiveness. They turned a new rule into an exciting event as if anyone celebrates having more restrictions placed on them and more rules to follow.
Yeah, I had a look at that discussion thread out of curiosity. It looks like this is meant to be some kind of big update that members should be excited about, but why?
"Yay everyone, you can't post off-site stuff anymore! Hooray!"
Bros no idea how they can think it's a good idea to add in another rule for everybody to remember when they can't even remember to follow their own rules.
5 seconds on their site and I see banner ads that say get free trial for Squid proxies or unlimited data from Bart proxies or Unlimited accounts from Geelark. What happened to not allowing claims like that? It's in their content standards.
They have too many rules for even their own staff to keep up with but hey let's add more rules in lmao.
5 seconds on their site and I see banner ads that say get free trial for Squid proxies or unlimited data from Bart proxies or Unlimited accounts from Geelark. What happened to not allowing claims like that? It's in their content standards.
But in the same thread, they say this.
They've even gotta a section that violates their own rules.
It's not f*cking free if I have to give a review copy?
They have too many rules for even their own staff to keep up with but hey let's add more rules in lmao.
Yeah, idk... Read it logged out on another browser and it was such a confusing read... No idea how to not break the rule. I mean I thought they turned into another Fiverr and they don't want people to communicate out of the platform at all, which is not acceptable for me. But I see you can share contact info in dm... But you can't *long list of cases here*. Uhm. I got confused on what to do and what not to do.
Also Firefox and Opera somehow got kicked out of F-Droid repo so I had to download from main Playstore
. Not open source enough or what? Wtf is going on in the world .Yeah, the celebratory tone is a little bit weird. I mean, they can put whatever rules they want on their site, but probably most people aren't going to throw a party over new rules on a website they frequent.
It's all alot I mean really.Yeah, idk... Read it logged out on another browser and it was such a confusing read... No idea how to not break the rule. I mean I thought they turned into another Fiverr and they don't want people to communicate out of the platform at all, which is not acceptable for me. But I see you can share contact info in dm... But you can't *long list of cases here*. Uhm. I got confused on what to do and what not to do.
Also Firefox and Opera somehow got kicked out of F-Droid repo so I had to download from main Playstore
Yeah, the celebratory tone is a little bit weird. I mean, they can put whatever rules they want on their site, but probably most people aren't going to throw a party over new rules on a website they frequent.
I think they want to be like Fiverr cause all of this weird stuff over the last few years just looks like they're trying to go corporate and mainstream but that just doesn't make any sense. Mainstream and black hat don't even belong in the same sentence.
Have you seen the latest update?
I'm starting to think that the other forum is run by complete idiots.
Since the October 2025 update was introduced, they have completely ruined everything.
New members join, see that they can't even hire or post in wtb, and then leave resulting in massive traffic loss affecting sellers.
They said they did this to reduce scams, but guess what? Scammers just remained and farmed the post count while potential real clients leave because it's a total turn-off.
Just the other day, there was a dispute where a seller was scammed for $500 because the buyer demanded work upfront, while potential real clients leave because staff are complete idiots....
Now they also forbid exchanging contact information. This is insane!
Are they sabotaging themselves?
This feels like the last nail in the coffin.
The forum and feedback suggestions section is a joke; they instantly locked the replies on one of my threads so that others can't share their opinions, even though the thread received 20 likes, signaling that people agree with me.
DD seems not to care. I'm beginning to doubt whether the actual DD is the same from 2012 or if the forum is under completely new management.
My business is hurt because of all of this changes and I believe other sellers experience the same.....
I've also started to hear rumors about introducing KYC???
So my genuine questions is: WTF is going on?
I'm starting to think that the other forum is run by complete idiots.
Since the October 2025 update was introduced, they have completely ruined everything.
New members join, see that they can't even hire or post in wtb, and then leave resulting in massive traffic loss affecting sellers.
They said they did this to reduce scams, but guess what? Scammers just remained and farmed the post count while potential real clients leave because it's a total turn-off.
Just the other day, there was a dispute where a seller was scammed for $500 because the buyer demanded work upfront, while potential real clients leave because staff are complete idiots....
Now they also forbid exchanging contact information. This is insane!
Are they sabotaging themselves?
This feels like the last nail in the coffin.
The forum and feedback suggestions section is a joke; they instantly locked the replies on one of my threads so that others can't share their opinions, even though the thread received 20 likes, signaling that people agree with me.
DD seems not to care. I'm beginning to doubt whether the actual DD is the same from 2012 or if the forum is under completely new management.
My business is hurt because of all of this changes and I believe other sellers experience the same.....
I've also started to hear rumors about introducing KYC???
So my genuine questions is: WTF is going on?
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with these kinds of updates, they are making it hard for genuine sellers.
