Please educate me on a fs/t issue

[SAWYER]

I was always under the impression that we were allowed to have an active wtb and an active fs thread at the same time, am I mistaken? It certainly wouldn't be the first time I would be wrong, I was curious and wanted to be sure so I wouldn't do it anymore as I have been doing that

 

[Soundmanred]

Multiple Threads -- Please keep no more than one thread of any type (FS, FT, WTB, etc.) active at the same time. For example, you might have a FS thread and a WTB thread.

There are new mods, they may not have the rules down yet.
http://forums.anandtech.com/announcement.php?f=19&a=29

 

[SAWYER]

The way I read that is that we are allowed to have both but I was told that is not the case, just want to be certain

 

[Soundmanred]

The way I read that is that we are allowed to have both but I was told that is not the case, just want to be certain

It is allowed, lots of posters on the FS/T first page are doing so. I suggest posting in Mod Discussions.

 

[Red Dawn]

I was always under the impression that we were allowed to have an active wtb and an active fs thread at the same time, am I mistaken? It certainly wouldn't be the first time I would be wrong, I was curious and wanted to be sure so I wouldn't do it anymore as I have been doing that

I kind of makes sense just to have one. If you bump both your FS and WTB threads it does knock others threads down two notches.

 

[Gillbot]

The way I read that is that we are allowed to have both but I was told that is not the case, just want to be certain

It is allowed, lots of posters on the FS/T first page are doing so. I suggest posting in Mod Discussions.

In all reality, you are allowed to have ONE thread but we've been letting it slide because it hasn't been a large issue. As more and more people make two, and now sometimes three or more, it may be an issue but we are currently evaluating and considering a rule rewrite. It is likely everyone will be advised (via sticky, etc.) before if anything should change.

 

[ahenkel]

How about having a you can only bump one thread every 4 hours rule. So even if you have a wtb and a wts thread you can bump one but you have to wait 4 hours after your last bump to bump the other. That way we don't have 2 threads knocking other peoples threads down at the same time.

 

[Evadman]

How about having a you can only bump one thread every 4 hours rule. So even if you have a wtb and a wts thread you can bump one but you have to wait 4 hours after your last bump to bump the other. That way we don't have 2 threads knocking other peoples threads down at the same time.

That would be almost impossible to enforce.