While I can understand your perspective here
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It's ok a mod told me that it was a new rule. If reviewing is not enough then a thread template would help us to avoid what is not allowed and also a notification about when it is updated and a deadline to change our content, a template that would describe what is forbidden and how we should write the message. I checked the forum rules after the warning and nowhere is mentioned that saying that your gold is handfarmed is forbidden for resellers, what do you want me to expect when this is the most common thing everyone says on all other platforms? I could never imagine it's not allowed. In the end, we are doing marketing, it's easy to say something that you may consider wrong if we don't have something that will act as a guide. I had no intention to break any rule. Now I'm trying to make my threads as generic as possible but then again you might find something else wrong and I have no way to know, eg. you may consider other terms such as "cheap" or "safe" invalid because they can't be proven or because they could be misleading, you see where this pursuit of correctness leads.
To be honest, I have never experienced so much correctness on other platforms, I don't know what's the point of it, it looks weird, I don't believe you are fixing anything with these rules and usually when you follow such systems then you will never end until you have restricted everything so in some way they are pointless. This market has a huge problem with liars, scammers, price abuses, and dupers. It's not like that I hate what you are doing or that it bothers me much, it doesn't really affect my sales, on the contrary, I'm having success with this platform, it's just weird, that's it.
Do you want true Transparency and honesty?
Force all the sellers to show their prices and real stock at their titles and create filters for them, ban anyone who is lying about his stock (hiding your price is already a HUGE layer of subtlety that it's allowed here that some abuse for crazy huge margins)
Force them to trade through the trade guardian with the rates mentioned in their threads (disallow all social contact methods like all other platforms)
Allow them to have 1-2 threads max at the entire website for selling purposes only and force them to sell on very few servers only for multiserver games (this will kill all of the resellers without harming the farmers)
Create an intermediary that will allow buyers/sellers to use the platform to pay for the goods and force them to pay a decent fee
Remove the option for feedback without a proven completed transaction through the trade guardian
Remove all types of marketing words such as cheap, safe, previous sales numbers, and so on that can't be proven either, and allow them to say "I sell x gold on x server" only, Disallow expensive branding too and force them all to advertise the same way.
Have a feedback cap at a low number of vouches or make feedback resets every now and then so that the new sellers can compete easier
Create a minimum price cap for each game that you deem fair so that the sellers don't undersell their work or are exploited by resellers or are getting undercut by botters/dupers (you can place price expert mods on every forum for this)
Disallow them to sell to a reseller and ban anyone who is a proven reseller
There you go, then you will be called, the soviet republic of epicnpc, the forum will be a haven for farmers and buyers, however, I don't know how many will use it and how much money you will make, I can guarantee though that the quality will be high and "honest". If you want to remove anything that is unfair, dishonest, and competitive then you may as well go all the way to the end.
In my opinion, a more appropriate way to deal with "dishonest" statements would be something like "epicnpc is not responsible for anything that the sellers say neither can confirm it is the truth" aka similar to what you are doing with discord and trade guardian. It would be more consistent with your liberal image so far. You can't be both a communist and a liberal. It's not like you can prevent me from saying that my gold is handfarmed because the customers usually ask for this info privately and much more than that so it makes little sense to have this rule in place yet allow private communication through other social platforms. Overall, the real problem of the customers are scammers, bad/slow support from some sellers, and failure to find someone at their preferred price and stock quickly, these are real issues they are facing and all of them are byproducts of dishonesty. Duping/illegal gold is also an issue in some games for them but finding someone who is trying not to deliver them such gold is better than someone who is not, so such statements in the thread might be beneficial in the end. Even if I farmed the gold myself, there would still be no guarantee that I don't use a bot or a cheat and in fact, most farmers who do this professionally use these tools to survive. The other ones don't stay in the market for long. As a default, all of my suppliers mention that they farm their gold legally. As you can see everything is subjective, you have no way to know if my gold is legal or not.
This is just an opinion, I'm not meant to offend anyone, I'm not a forum expert by any means.
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