I respect the point deduction sysem very much but i do have some sugestions, THIS IS NOT A COMPLAINT! it's suggestions on how to make T&C a little
more easy to understand for new users, using my personal experience, so i feel this is the correct place to post it instead of the complaint thread.
My very firs time i got docked 1000 points...and it was SOOOOO hard for me to get to the 250 points that i had because people do not take you
seriously wuntil u get at least a couple hundred, i found instances where i made a thread that go no replies, then tried it again after i had a couple
hundred, and started getting replie right away...and it was the same topic! You see, i haven't even been here a month, and i thought i read all of
the T&C but i didn't click the side links that were on the main page...thereofore i didn't know i was abusing it in some cases. I knew u shouldn't
have two threads about same topic, so i tried to combine the two threads...the only was i could figur out how to do it was to quote the 5 replies i
had on the earlier thread to the new one...BIG mistake i know, but i didn't know any other way to do it.... now i'm -750 points and everything i did
was an honest mistake...why can't we have 1 warning for minor offenses, without a decuction, because i really don't know how to get taken seriously
now, and if i had been warned i would never had done it! You see, all of my mistakes were tallied up at once, and i was shocked to see that the
number was 1000! my gosh, if u read my posts u realize how respectful i am and tollerant to everyones opinion, i never use ignore because i think the
only way to see all sides of the story is to even allow prople 100% against me and who don't respect me at all, they have that right, and i want my
threads to always be an open door to anyone, unless they make personal attacks that are of a "spiteful" nature instead of jusst highy in
disagreement. I'm a fairly smart guy, but this is the first forum i've ever joined, and i think maybe we could find a way to put a checker in the
forum that would have come back with a message warning me that i was trying to post too many quotes, of that putting these symbols #%@$ in place of a
curse word was not acceptable...or maybe docked me the points for each 1st offense, gave me the warnings, but not dock me multiple times for the same
ones before i ever got warned! I am a proud member of this forum, some seasoned users have told me that i have a future here and they like the way i
think... so please, if your'e reading this ATS members and Mods, i am sorry for the violations, definately learned my lesson, but could someone U2U
me about a way that i could maybe change my practices and make my threads better? And i also want to ask those of u reading to please read someone's
ideas even if they are a NOOB, because everyone here had to start from 0. Thank You, and KEEP TALKING!
[edit on 21-8-2008 by Enigma Publius]
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