BST etiquette am I wrong

[Vintage Vern]

Originally Posted by John1941

If you read the FAQ carefully, you'll see that Leon says you can't remain anonymous if you want to criticize or accuse a person or company. You can discuss a person or company anonymously as long as you're not ghost-attacking them. My post in "New COMC issues" was about how I liked buying from COMC despite their shipping issues - praise, not criticism. And as far as I know, I've never criticized or accused anyone... though who knows, maybe if you look carefully enough through all my posts, you'll find something.

This bolded in the header at the top of the page, and it say quote:

If you write anything concerning a person or company your full name needs to be in your post or obtainable from it.

[John1941]

Originally Posted by Vintage Vern

This bolded in the header at the top of the page, and it say quote:

If you write anything concerning a person or company your full name needs to be in your post or obtainable from it.

Which is just a quick and dirty formulation of what the FAQ states comprehensively. A summary of something doesn't supersede the full/rigorous formulation. The FAQ makes clear that it's only anonymous negative statements about a person or company that are verboten.

Here:
"Anonymous, where this board is concerned, implies that you are not known to the moderator or anyone else. That is not permitted on Net54baseball. However, you may remain private on the board; otherwise, as long your post is not argumentative, controversial, confrontational, accusatorial etc.…For example you can discuss attributes of cards, sets or memorabilia and stay private. You can not say someone is an imbecile, hard to deal with, gave poor service etc…and remain private on the board. In addition to that if your opinion is that you dislike someone, hate them, can’t stand or don’t like anything about them, and you want to tell the world about it on Net54baseball, then your full name will need to be in your post."

[Vintage Vern]

Originally Posted by John1941

Which is just a quick and dirty formulation of what the FAQ states comprehensively. A summary of something doesn't supersede the full/rigorous formulation. The FAQ makes clear that it's only anonymous negative statements about a person or company that are verboten.

Here:
"Anonymous, where this board is concerned, implies that you are not known to the moderator or anyone else. That is not permitted on Net54baseball. However, you may remain private on the board; otherwise, as long your post is not argumentative, controversial, confrontational, accusatorial etc.…For example you can discuss attributes of cards, sets or memorabilia and stay private. You can not say someone is an imbecile, hard to deal with, gave poor service etc…and remain private on the board. In addition to that if your opinion is that you dislike someone, hate them, can’t stand or don’t like anything about them, and you want to tell the world about it on Net54baseball, then your full name will need to be in your post."

Well, Leon may say differently. Ask me how I know.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by John1941

Which is just a quick and dirty formulation of what the FAQ states comprehensively. A summary of something doesn't supersede the full/rigorous formulation. The FAQ makes clear that it's only anonymous negative statements about a person or company that are verboten.

Here:
"Anonymous, where this board is concerned, implies that you are not known to the moderator or anyone else. That is not permitted on Net54baseball. However, you may remain private on the board; otherwise, as long your post is not argumentative, controversial, confrontational, accusatorial etc.…For example you can discuss attributes of cards, sets or memorabilia and stay private. You can not say someone is an imbecile, hard to deal with, gave poor service etc…and remain private on the board. In addition to that if your opinion is that you dislike someone, hate them, can’t stand or don’t like anything about them, and you want to tell the world about it on Net54baseball, then your full name will need to be in your post."

The original rules have not been updated since almost the beginning of this iteration of the forum. They will be. "Any" comment, is the correct verbiage and the rules wording will be amended asap.
Approximately 3-4 yrs ago, a major auction house (and advertiser) employee was shilling his own companies auctions, anonymously.That is when the rule changed and he and I had a chat about it.

Edit....The FAQs on the forum have now been updated and shortened a little bit.

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Anonymous, where this board is concerned, implies that you are not known to the moderator or anyone else. That is not permitted on Net54baseball.

If you write anything concerning a person or company your full name needs to be in your post or obtainable from it.

Members can discuss attributes of cards, sets or memorabilia and stay private.The moderator may put the members name on the forum or delete their posts, at their sole discretion, when this rule is not adhered to. Tense debates will require first and last names to be known, and made public. Names can be scrambled to be unsearchable, but they must be decipherable. Contact information will be given out for legal reasons or under extraordinary circumstances at the discretion of the moderator.. There are no age requirements on the forum however, you must be 18 years of age to participate in the Buy, Sell, Trade areas, or have a parent or legal guardian contact the moderator for approval first. Registered members may also receive periodic, infrequent, industry related emails. Members may opt out of these by clicking the unsubscribe button.[/B]

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