Which rule did I break?

[Ultra Sound Guy]

I've just been informed that a post I made about a month ago in the "Having a beer and enjoying the view" thread has been removed as it "infringes one of PHs rules".

I've read through the rules and am having a problem seeing which rule I may have infringed. 

For future clarity, please could you please enlighten me?

[Ultra Sound Guy]

Anyone?

[B'stard Child]

Ultra Sound Guy said:

Anyone?

Join the club - several of us have had posts removed

Your comment has been deleted because it has broken one of our Rules of Posting, please check our rules of posting: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/rules.asp

I couldn't find a single reason why the post removed broke the above rules

Get used to it

[B'stard Child]

PS You are breaking rule 22

You cannot mail moderators directly. If you have a complaint about or issue with the moderation of the forums, do not post threads in Website Feedback but email [e-mail].

So expect this thread to get locked quiickly

[AndrewEH1]

Ultra Sound Guy said:

I've just been informed that a post I made about a month ago in the "Having a beer and enjoying the view" thread has been removed as it "infringes one of PHs rules".

I've read through the rules and am having a problem seeing which rule I may have infringed. 

For future clarity, please could you please enlighten me?

Can you remember what your actual post was? Odd that a post from a month ago has been removed...

[Johnnytheboy]

I've had a post or two removed, and for the life of me I can never remember what it is i wrote.

But the chances of getting anyone on the Marie Celeste that PH seems to be evolving in to to let me know, coupled with the fact it doesn't matter means I don't dwell on it.

[Ultra Sound Guy]

(Because not even a response from email I sent!)

[anonymous-user]

One has to ask, is it really so important that is worth spending time over?

In the grand scheme of things, I'd say probably not.

PH forums are a small breeze in the Haymarket basement and little more than that.

[Ultra Sound Guy]

Very little time spent! I'd just like clarification of what (if anything)I did wrong so that l don't transgress again in the future!
It seems that the the powers that be have plenty of time to wield their mighty swords but can't be bothered to justify their actions!

[jjlynn27]

Is there a person who replaced Garlick?

[B'stard Child]

jjlynn27 said:

Is there a person who replaced Garlick?

I believe there have been several replacements since Paul

[Mr2Mike]

Ultra Sound Guy said:

Very little time spent! I'd just like clarification of what (if anything)I did wrong so that l don't transgress again in the future!
It seems that the the powers that be have plenty of time to wield their mighty swords but can't be bothered to justify their actions!

I think the mods just get little trigger happy sometimes, and since they don't have to answer to anyone they can chop what they wish.

[hyphen]

janesmith1950 said:

PH forums are a small breeze in the Haymarket basement and little more than that.

I think you maybe wrong there,PH is one of the main businesses of Haymarket.

[AndrewEH1]

hyphen said:

janesmith1950 said:

PH forums are a small breeze in the Haymarket basement and little more than that.

PH is one of the main brands of Haymarket...

The Classifieds yes, these forums no.

[hyphen]

AndrewEH1 said:

hyphen said:

janesmith1950 said:

PH forums are a small breeze in the Haymarket basement and little more than that.

PH is one of the main brands of Haymarket...

The Classifieds yes, these forums no.

Without the forums, the classifieds and the business as a whole doesn't exist...

[WinstonWolf]

Mr2Mike said:

Ultra Sound Guy said:

Very little time spent! I'd just like clarification of what (if anything)I did wrong so that l don't transgress again in the future!
It seems that the the powers that be have plenty of time to wield their mighty swords but can't be bothered to justify their actions!

I think the mods just get little trigger happy sometimes, and since they don't have to answer to anyone they can chop what they wish.

I had a post binned simply for replying in kind...

[CivicL]

Luckily if the Ultra Sound Guy isn't available, there's always the Hip Replacement Guy to stand in for him.

As you were.

[hyphen]

anonymous said:

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If the pistonheads forum closed. The users would migrate somewhere else, and if they centralised then that site would make its own classifieds that would soon overtake Pistonheads.

Pistonheads gets lots of 'hits' via search engines, as people search for stuff and the forum posts come up. They would lose all this traffic, which converts to classified users.

Pistonheads doesn't get free cars to try, press days and so on to appeal to classifieds users, they get it as the companies want to appeal to the forum users, so the news part of this site would die.

The users of this site tend to be richer than the average with multiple millionaires, it is a lucrative user base to have, and one sponsors will pay to access.

And so on.

The web-world is all about competition for traffic and eye-balls, the forum is very valuable. Haymarket just aren't very good at it, and the forum has survived/grown inspite of them as opposed to because of them.

[eybic]

hyphen said:

If the pistonheads forum closed. The users would migrate somewhere else, and if they centralised then that site would make its own classifieds that would soon overtake Pistonheads.

Pistonheads gets lots of 'hits' via search engines, as people search for stuff and the forum posts come up. They would lose all this traffic, which converts to classified users.

Pistonheads doesn't get free cars to try, press days and so on to appeal to classifieds users, they get it as the companies want to appeal to the forum users, so the news part of this site would die.

The users of this site tend to be richer than the average with multiple millionaires, it is a lucrative user base to have, and one sponsors will pay to access.

And so on.

The web-world is all about competition for traffic and eye-balls, the forum is very valuable. Haymarket just aren't very good at it, and the forum has survived/grown inspite of them as opposed to because of them.

PH actually get very few "freebies", they are "given" to the likes of Autocar & What Car? to review and PH share Editorial with them. PH users seem to be under the illusion that PH matters to HM, it really doesn't. Look at the thinning out of staff over the past couple of years, look at the statement saying that there will be absolutely no dev work on the PH forums unless something is broken. Trust me PH is very far down the priority list for HM.

Classifieds aren't anywhere near as popular as they were a few years ago, at one time there were over 140k cars for sale, now there's just over 103k (compare that to 438k on autotrader). The vast majority of cars for sale there aren't from forum users, I bet 75% of them don't even know there's a forum!

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...and a lot of those 103k cars aren’t actually for sale! I guess PH management leave them there to boost the numbers and thereby the advertising rates.