Where are these folks posting on the Exchange without a Gold membership?
And if they are posting sales in discussion threads or someone else's Exchange thread, they should be brought to our attention via the "report button. 100% of those I have encountered have been dealt with, often quite harshly...with violators receiving admonitions, warnings or being kicked over the side.
As for cleaning up Dodge City, I pride myself on culling the worst of offenders...but the fact remains that the numbers needing cleanup on any given day are daunting for a volunteer staff of essentially four individuals...
@rycen ,
@Boru13 , myself and
@knarfeng . So unless we rewrite the rules, and that's up to
@Spark to approve as the site owner, we will always be fighting an uphill battle.
Whether that is a battle worth fighting is a different matter, and as you can see from this thread alone, is subject to various interpretations.
We are not a small community...and adding additional "deputies" is not the answer either, or we will end up with a bunch of us second-guessing one another and spending countless hours moderating the moderators. The four of us work well together and with
@Spark , and though not a perfect system, it does work surprisingly well, however exasperatingly.