Just for the record, this doesn't just happen for sales of photography equipment. Here is a reddit post from Craigslist that gave me a chuckle this morning (warning - strong language):
Eyeball wrote....I think the best approach is to treat those kind of offers like Spam and ignore them.
Good point --- but that doesn't address the behavior.
With the miscreants username exposed responsible members might choose to post behind their other aggravating posts. Which would also encourage the seller while bumping that post.
At a minimum this could force the bad actor to start using another username, depleting his reserves so to speak.
But more importantly, this class of bums learn the limits by watching --- and if they see scamming FM is embarrassing and unproductive they'll move on.
Sooner the Better is the thought. (Not to worry, we may thin the herd but we'll never run out)
Thanks for the chuckle unclechuck, made my day. I think we need an option to kill file these people. I love having that option in my Usenet reader. The amount of spam, trolls, and plain old idiots that I can weed out of Usenet posts is awesome; streamlines all the messages. Of course you do run the risk of kill filing legitimate posters, but I think it would work wonders for repeat offenders.
Just my two cents.
Trent
Edit: Reading in another post and someone mentioned a hide list, kinda the same thing as a kill file. Guess I need new glasses, never noticed the hide button.
