Modern Vespa

FYI:
First to PM claims it, replying to a post doesn't.

FYI, even if this were true (and why should it be???), a mensch would communicate it via PM, not in an open post on the thread.

This is why we can't have nice things!

Unless I am miss understanding you, here are just a few issues using replying to posts as a way to claim an item is a bad idea.

What if the person that posts the item, doesn't come back and look for replies?

If I post something, I don't want to have to come back and look to see if anyone wants it.

Once there are pages of posts going back and looking for replies would be a night mare.

That was two seconds of thinking it through.

Done.

This seems unnecessarily harsh to me, particularly considering essentially the same sentiment was posted twice in this thread already. I read it as a reminder, albeit perhaps a bit presumptuous.

DUDE, you gave me negative karma
Do you understand what I was saying ?????
I was repeating what Jess said

If I had to guess, I would guess that Trep wasn't the one that gave you negative karma. Besides, a single vote can't make a post go negative all by itself.

So, why would someone negative that post? If it takes more than one, I get dinged for any post I make now I guess.

I think it's fairly obvious why you get dinged.

I should start by saying that I agree, my response to the comment was overly harsh. I apologize.

My only defense (and it is admitedly a weak one), is that on so altruistic a thread as this, it struck me as churlish to try to impose a 'rule' that, up to that point, had only been a suggestion.

It really felt TO ME that someone had come along and tried to impose themselves as umpire in the first innocent pick-up neighborhood baseball game of the springtime.

Sorry if I'm not expressing myself well.

Oh, and for the sake of full disclosure, yes, I admit I did give you negative karma; something which I think my 'bias' bears out I seldom do. But I have thought better of it, and removed the thumbs down.

It isn't that I feel the post didn't deserve it. I just don't want to be guilty of being punitive, when all I really meant to do was convey that an altruistic, innocent gesture such as this thread shouldn't require a referee.

Split from Freecycle thread.

And locking.