how do i get the 25 posts required

New User

looking to sell and buy something but i don't have any posts yet, except for this
don't want to post garbage just to have 25 posts

m00npie

I believe buying can happen immediately by sending the seller a PM. As for selling, look at this way, if you post 25 useless posts just to get 25, no one will want to buy from you anyway and your ID will be added to everyone’s ignore list. In addition, you’ll have the senior members eating you alive. Ask legitimate questions, help others out with their questions and contribute. Oh yeah, don’t start any threads regarding wires, cables, HD-DVD or Blu-ray and you’ll be okay.

Good luck!

SLOCOOKN

m00npie wrote:

I believe buying can happen immediately by sending the seller a PM. As for selling, look at this way, if you post 25 useless posts just to get 25, no one will want to buy from you anyway and your ID will be added to everyone’s ignore list. In addition, you’ll have the senior members eating you alive. Ask legitimate questions, help others out with their questions and contribute. Oh yeah, don’t start any threads regarding wires, cables, HD-DVD or Blu-ray and you’ll be okay.

Good luck!

Wrote very well with great advice Moon!

bobman1235

Wow, n00bies helping n00bies. What a wonderful world.

shack

I you are only on the forum to sell, please keep moving...there is nothing here for you. This isn't the classifieds. E-bay, Audiogon, Craiglist are transaction based websites. The FREE Flea Market is a perk for the contributing members of the forum (thus the 25 post minimum). Nothing precludes you from buying...just selling until you meet the requirement.

Ricardo

shack wrote:

Nothing precludes you from buying....

I would say this depends on the seller; at least in my case, I'd rather NOT sell something cheaper than elsewhere to somebody that found the flea market through a google search; prices here are "special" for members.

But that's just me.

shack

Then let me rephrase...Nothing precludes one from attempting to buy on the flea market.

tonyb

how do i get the 25 posts required

Easy....send me 25.00 bucks and I'll give you 25 of mine.:)

hearingimpared

m00npie wrote:

I believe buying can happen immediately by sending the seller a PM. As for selling, look at this way, if you post 25 useless posts just to get 25, no one will want to buy from you anyway and your ID will be added to everyone’s ignore list. In addition, you’ll have the senior members eating you alive. Ask legitimate questions, help others out with their questions and contribute. Oh yeah, don’t start any threads regarding wires, cables, HD-DVD or Blu-ray and you’ll be okay.

Good luck!

Good advise but for one thing. You can't send PMs until you have 10 posts LOL . . . catch 22

rskarvan

The answer is.... One post at a time. DUH!!!

Meechsterlee

m00npie wrote:

I believe buying can happen immediately by sending the seller a PM. As for selling, look at this way, if you post 25 useless posts just to get 25, no one will want to buy from you anyway and your ID will be added to everyone’s ignore list. In addition, you’ll have the senior members eating you alive. Ask legitimate questions, help others out with their questions and contribute. Oh yeah, don’t start any threads regarding wires, cables, HD-DVD or Blu-ray and you’ll be okay.

Good luck!

"Oh yeah, don’t start any threads regarding wires, cables, HD-DVD or Blu-ray and you’ll be okay." ...I do not understand.

I am pretty new to the group and am looking to get the best information on every detail. I should avoid asking questions about the proper cables to use when I make upgrades in components?

janmike

The primary objective here is to learn and share information. That being said....

beardog03

what he said ....again !



besides, your in the testing area..
Move about and get your learn on, and contribute, and before ya know it....

hearingimpared

Meechsterlee wrote:

"Oh yeah, don’t start any threads regarding wires, cables, HD-DVD or Blu-ray and you’ll be okay." ...I do not understand.

I am pretty new to the group and am looking to get the best information on every detail. I should avoid asking questions about the proper cables to use when I make upgrades in components?

No the statement was or should have been tongue-in-cheek!

schwarcw

Meechsterlee wrote:

"Oh yeah, don’t start any threads regarding wires, cables, HD-DVD or Blu-ray and you’ll be okay." ...I do not understand.

I am pretty new to the group and am looking to get the best information on every detail. I should avoid asking questions about the proper cables to use when I make upgrades in components?

This place is about talking all things audio and video. There is no such thing as a dumb question, we were all newbies. There are plenty of people who will welcome you here to join in on the discussion. As someone said, this is not a place just to buy and sell. There are plenty of places on the web to do that.

Welcome to Club Polk and we sincerely hope that you will join us in discussion. Tell us about your system, your likes, dislikes and maybe some problems you are having. Ask for advice or even share some of your experiences. It's all cool! Post some pictures if you like, we love pictures of audio gear and other desireable eye candy:D

Serendipity

What's wrong with a thread regarding cables?

F1nut

Start one and find out.......better yet, just read any of the ones already posted here.

DarqueKnight

m00npie wrote:

In addition, you’ll have the senior members eating you alive.

I've been around for a few years (since 2001) and I am still not clear on the following:

1. What, exactly, is a "senior" member?
2. What are the criteria for achieving "senior member" status. Certainly post count can't be a valid criterion since it would then be possible to achieve senior member status by making 10,000 posts of useless drivel.
3. How is a noob/noobie/newbie/new member supposed to recognize a new member?

m00npie wrote:

Oh yeah, don’t start any threads regarding wires, cables, HD-DVD or Blu-ray and you’ll be okay.

Actually, I think you will be safe talking about cable and wires as long as you don't mention anything made by Monster Cable or you don't say that all cables sound alike.

DarqueKnight

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janmike

"Senior Member" is anyone over 30. :eek:

BlueMDPicker

DarqueKnight wrote:

I've been around for a few years (since 2001) and I am still not clear on the following:

1. What, exactly, is a "senior" member?

I got nothin'...except it seems incongruous that someone who chose "New User" as a handle might eventually become a senior member.

VR3

Im a senior member...

I brought the DIY forum and the gaming forum here....

AND Ive been here a looooooooooooooong time.

PolkThug

DarqueKnight wrote:

I've been around for a few years (since 2001) and I am still not clear on the following:

1. What, exactly, is a "senior" member?
2. What are the criteria for achieving "senior member" status. Certainly post count can't be a valid criterion since it would then be possible to achieve senior member status by making 10,000 posts of useless drivel.
3. How is a noob/noobie/newbie/new member supposed to recognize a senior member?
4. There are currently 43,491 Club Polk members. How many of these have achieved senior status?
5. If a senior member does a really bad thing, can he/she be demoted to regular member status?

I think you have to be at least 59 1/2.

m00npie

DarqueKnight wrote:

I've been around for a few years (since 2001) and I am still not clear on the following:

1. What, exactly, is a "senior" member?
2. What are the criteria for achieving "senior member" status. Certainly post count can't be a valid criterion since it would then be possible to achieve senior member status by making 10,000 posts of useless drivel.
3. How is a noob/noobie/newbie/new member supposed to recognize a senior member?
4. There are currently 43,491 Club Polk members. How many of these have achieved senior status?
5. If a senior member does a really bad thing, can he/she be demoted to regular member status?

Actually, I think you will be safe talking about cable and wires as long as you don't mention anything made by Monster Cable or you don't say that all cables sound alike.

DarqueKnight – Not really sure why you quoted me that many times but I’m sure you have your reasons. Back on the 15th when the individual initially asked their question as seen on post#1. I had a thread fresh in mind when I made my response. There was an individual that started a thread in order to get 25 so they could sell something... forum members kindly reminded him that his tactics were a good way to get ignored. Maybe I was thinking F1nut was going to rip him a new one at that time. Never happened.

As for the senior members, well, I guess it was a poor choice of words on my part. Post count means nothing. Perhaps I thought of that based my experience with the search tool. I have a question, I search on it, I find the answer and in doing that research, I see some forum members names very often when researching various topics. So, I can see your confusion from my post, there is no identifier of who is senior or who is not on the face of it. I have found that if you do enough research in this forum, you will get an idea of the folks that know what they are talking about and others that are out for post counts or witless banter only. Of course, even that is subjective.

Meechsterlee – You can ask anything you want. Instead of saying don’t ask questions regarding those topics, I should have mentioned the usefulness of the search utility to find the answers to FAQ’s.

ben62670

Too bad he can't use all the responses to his post as posts.

BTW welcome to Club Polk

hearingimpared

I'm a senior member but I'm a noobie. Go figure. LOL

Meechsterlee

schwarcw wrote:

This place is about talking all things audio and video. There is no such thing as a dumb question, we were all newbies. There are plenty of people who will welcome you here to join in on the discussion. As someone said, this is not a place just to buy and sell. There are plenty of places on the web to do that.

Welcome to Club Polk and we sincerely hope that you will join us in discussion. Tell us about your system, your likes, dislikes and maybe some problems you are having. Ask for advice or even share some of your experiences. It's all cool! Post some pictures if you like, we love pictures of audio gear and other desireable eye candy:D

Thanks so much! Trust me, I came to learn and share.

hearingimpared

Meechsterlee wrote:

Thanks so much! Trust me, I came to learn and share.

Welcome to Club Polk.

Meechsterlee

m00npie wrote:

DarqueKnight – Not really sure why you quoted me that many times but I’m sure you have your reasons. Back on the 15th when the individual initially asked their question as seen on post#1. I had a thread fresh in mind when I made my response. There was an individual that started a thread in order to get 25 so they could sell something... forum members kindly reminded him that his tactics were a good way to get ignored. Maybe I was thinking F1nut was going to rip him a new one at that time. Never happened.

As for the senior members, well, I guess it was a poor choice of words on my part. Post count means nothing. Perhaps I thought of that based my experience with the search tool. I have a question, I search on it, I find the answer and in doing that research, I see some forum members names very often when researching various topics. So, I can see your confusion from my post, there is no identifier of who is senior or who is not on the face of it. I have found that if you do enough research in this forum, you will get an idea of the folks that know what they are talking about and others that are out for post counts or witless banter only. Of course, even that is subjective.

Meechsterlee – You can ask anything you want. Instead of saying don’t ask questions regarding those topics, I should have mentioned the usefulness of the search utility to find the answers to FAQ’s.

I look at it this way...

Any question I have has been asked a TON of times. While I can try and archive an issue, I sometimes come up with a vague answer. My disposition (having the funds and ready to buy) leaves me only to quickly thread and get a top notch answer...thanks to the members who have helped.

So no worries, m00npie...just trying to get my theater on and help out with what I learned from the crowd.

DarqueKnight

m00npie wrote:

DarqueKnight – Not really sure why you quoted me that many times but I’m sure you have your reasons.

Of course I have my reason(s). When responding to a post that has several points, I will sometimes break the initial post down into several sentences. This involves cutting and pasting the initial post several times and then trimming each quote to an single sentence.

In the case of your quote, after I wrote my first two comments, I received a phone call which distracted me for a while. When I returned to my computer, I decided to end my response at two comments, but I forgot to delete the other quotes that I had cut and pasted. I trust this explanation resolves your concern.