2. Have a forum that is ran tighter than 1942 Germany. I mean I can't mention any other pin site or the Overlords will banish me? Also don't get me started about editing posts. That is the one thing that will make me want to groin kick whoever did it.
For anyone who started collecting after Dizpins closed, this restriction is a holdover from Dizpins. Before the rollout, PinTalk had been more lax about it. Now, that the site all the rebuilding is basically "live" now, I can see how the old rules are now in effect. But no links or discussion allowed, that was SOP for Dizpins. That went so far that even for the first day or so after Joette announced that Dizpins was going away, even then they maintained their rule of "no mentioning other pin sites or posting links to other pin sites," which is the thing that absolutely drove me nuts because it left the lurkers in the pin community with no place to go to. Eventually, they backed off that and allowed a locked post with a couple links in it.
There's been enough turnover in pins, that I'm not sure how many people even remember the joy people felt with the opening of DPF where they were freed from excessive moderation, not to be mean or snarky, but to just talk freely about other pin places and the more negative aspects of pin collecting without fear of being banned or deleted. This is the number one reason, IMO, why PinTalk never really grew as much as DPF did. People back then, knew that PinTalk mods were the remaining Dizpins people and so if given a choice between the "old ways" of Dizpins or the new way of DPF they chose the new way. And despite the rough periods DPF can go through, I think many people would still prefer it to excessive moderation.
Like in the area of prices and trades, I believe that hobbies like pins benefit from a cooperative game theory approach. "A rising tide lifts all boats." So the more all people get the pins they want, and the information they want, quickly, the better it is for all pin communities, because there is a higher level of satisfaction that leads to a growing hobby, which leads to elevated values for a broader selection of items. But Pinpics, much like Dizpins has chosen a different approach. It's an approach that I believe makes people frustrated and resentful, and speeds up a person's lifecycle in a particular hobby. So for example, if a person, under some circumstances would collect for 5 years, will get frustrated and give up after 3. If essentially telling people "take it or leave it" many people do just go with the "leave it." And it will be to the detriment of all Pin collectors and communities.
I also know you will understand that at the onset i wanted this thread to be about questions on the functionality of the site,
I'm still waiting for my questions in Post 26 to be answered. Two of the questions, were answered in other posts, but the remaining questions were never answered. My "additional questions" were answered, but not post 26.