From now on, no more advertising your personal trades in the status update bar on the right-hand side of the main forum index. People have had enough of their personal status updates being overridden or "spammed-over" by people trying to sell their stuff. If you want to check out what is for sale, or sell something, please keep it in the Trading Post area.
The official Neocodex rules have been amended to bring this into effect, and can be seen in the "spam" section of the long version of the rules: http://www.neocodex....s-long-version/
Failure to follow this rule will result in deletion of the status updates (this is us being nice if you did not bother to read this), having the ability to make status updates revoked completely if you don't catch on to the fact that your statuses are being removed, or a warn issued for spamming if you really don't get it that we don't want these appearing. People would actually like to use that area to update others on what is happening with themselves.
Thanks!
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jcrboy, posted this about a week ago:
2. Status Updates... Come On, People
You know those ads on Facebook that say "You have 2 matches on our dating app"? You know how annoying those are? That's how annoying spamming selling/buying statuses are.
We may have different opinions on what qualifies as spamming, but the point of a status update is to indicate when something about your status changes, not to be your personal billboard.
We're not making anything official, or making hard and fast rules about what constitutes status spamming, or even disallowing selling statuses... YET.
This is a call to everyone's sensibilities to tone it down on the status updates so we don't have to make a rule.
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