amibay broken again?

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Hopefully, someone over there is working on combining this Pulu dudes spam into one single thread. Whoever thinks listing dozens of games separately (giving each one their own thread), needs their ever loving head checked.  

I brought up that issue in the past and was shot down.

Basically many sellers are too lazy to maintain and update their sell threads and want to spam the **** out of the forum with tons of For Sale threads. So instead of maintaining one thread, they have to watch many. Fantastic. :insert rolleyes:


When ever I list stuff I try to group it into a single thread unless there is too much stuff (which hasn't been a problem for me) or its stuff that should be in another thread or another portion of the forum. Have 10 hardware items for sale? Great, break it up into 2 or 3 threads and maybe stagger them a day or so apart if you want to be considerate of your fellow Amibayers.


Nothing worse than posting up a For Sale thread and having some jackass come along and post up 25 different threads each with one item in them completely driving your thread off  the first page.





Ohhh and yes, the admins should have let people know well in advance of the possible downtime in case they had deals in progress (cause, ya know, it is primarily a marketplace) so they could exchange email info or alt contact details in case of troubles. They might not of have known it was going to be down this long, but they must have had advance warning from their hosting company of maintenance and they should have gave a warning about it.

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I have heard someone say they believed the admins there regularly went through peoples PMs and read them.

Sounds unlikely, however there is plenty of people that have beef with Amibay, deserved or not. Clearly they are rubbing some people the wrong way with sometimes heavy handed and inconsistent moderating. I think part of the problem is too many moderators.

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I would like to hear from a high ranking Amibay admin like Merlin or Zetr0 about a couple things:


Magnetic has stated he was unfairly banned due to perceived scalping or flipping of 1 item. When he called them out on their overbearing rules, he was life banned. What I would like to know is why exactly he was banned. Cause its pretty easy to look through the Amibay forums and see people sell items they recently received or no longer need. Some (though I am not going to name names) are habitual seller/upgraders and this hasn't been an issue.


Also, he has mentioned that Amibay admins read other users PMs. To be honest I have heard this from another source a couple weeks ago and I would like to hear if there is any truth in this and if so, under what conditions it was done? This seems like it would be an enormous breach of peoples Privacy.


Also, its pretty obvious that there is a small, but vocal community upset with Amibay and some of their rules and policies. Perhaps the Amibay admins need to take a step back and reconsider how things have been ran to date and possibly consider that things could be done differently and better for the sake of the community. Amibay is a community driven site and when parts of that community, however small, start voicing concerns we should consider what can be done to improve the experience that Amibay provides.


And yes, I am a member over there  (different user name). In the past when I have brought my concerns directly to a mod via PM or opened a thread in the forum, I seem to get this very distinct "don't rock the boat" type of response.