Let's look at the ORIGINAL post that started this whole brouhaha. It should be opbvious that I am not Simon Legree picking on the little people: Tell me how this is a Dive report, a review, ANYTHING but an offer. It even admits to being an "offer" which is just another way of saying advertising. You just can't start a thread in the basic Coz section with an offer (advertising). Those belong in the Trips and Marketplace areas. If you have a specific trip that you want peeps to join you on, please use the Marketplace. Peeps don't look into the main Coz forum for opportunities and it is anything but dead.
That being said, I am having the mod squad look at this thread and determine if parts of it should be split into site support. Without some semblance of orginization we would only have chaos. However, since I am in this thread, I won't be participating in the discussion about that.
Pete this is the 3rd time I have asked you to read my questions and answer them.
If we where face to face would you not answer them, I dont ever say or ask things when I post that I would not say to someone personally, I take it personally when someone evades me upfront and close, so.... answer them please.
Again you called me a person that thinks I'm above the law, very narrow.
In one of my replies I said that I opened the thread differently, I did say there is an offer out there,
every dive op has offers therefore every dive report tells of these opportunities. I just happened to change the way I normally write to give myself a breather in writing style, my bad or what? If you would read the original thread again get to the part thats says' I know this
because I bought the package.' That is my report which is the same as every other report we do.
What your insisting on is be mundane and just clinically specific with our posts dont add any ad jargon or semblance of business savy. I asked you to read the other thread in the other forum sites, tell me the ones that dont do what I did. I read the Bahama site, better move that one on Stuarts Cove, I can go on, and on. Man you shredded my thread because I got flowery with my writing, sorry for putting some difference in my writing Pete.
Also your summation or assertion that people dont lurk the Coz forum is rediculous and sounds quite condescending to our intelligence and knowlegde of how the view tab works. Just like people check their post counts I'm sure posters check how many peeps have been done on their threads they are in and moreso on the thread they start.
You also removed the thank-you button on prop-joe, why? And why did you not answer him either.
From what I gather on your idea of posting properly one cannot say the words, 'hey I found a great deal for us divers that I did not know existed before, and this is what it is........ so and so is offering this......... I bought the package to do it and I want to know what it is like anyone ever been there?.........'
You cant even post what your paying for the deal you get and cant post the hotels name and dive shop your diving with and their dive package prices or business method/how to access.
You tried to say this is what you can or cannot post but it makes no sense. To be as rudimentary in structure as these rules you in place and then start saying well after all these years posting like this you cant any more is not right.
EVERY poster that uses a dive op on Coz is advertising when they post. What your saying is I'm trying to abuse the system. So if that's true, you have opened up a mess for us in the forums to try and perfect ways to write our post so they dont offend you; as in advertising offence.
Now Pete, I know your busy, this is important, answer my questions specifically in my post please. Thanks for your time. kevin