Spamming irrelevant offers.

[I_Luv_Cowz]

I've been seeing a lot of service teams or hosting companies copy pasting responses to every requesting thread in a subsection.

The problem with this is that most of the times, they're completely not what the OP is looking for. For example, this post: https://www.mc-market.org/threads/663376/#post-4828878 where the OP has "dedicated server" in the title yet this person offers minecraft hosting nowhere close to the specs the OP is looking for.

Suggestion:
Make it against the rules to advertise products/services not meeting the requirements outlined by the OP on a requesting thread.

Example:
If this is my post:
I am looking for an dedicated server with at least 32GB of ram and 3.7GHz. Please post offers below!

Posting this would result in warning points:
uSE cOdE GenErIcCoDe fOr 50% OfF minEcRafTPrOHoStIng EmeRaLd PlAn

 

[I_Luv_Cowz]

It's rather annoying, However it shouldn't be a rule

It should fall under the same boat as LQ posting or shitposting. As it is extremely low quality and wastes time for people requesting services/products.

 

[Dread]

I've been seeing a lot of service teams or hosting companies copy pasting responses to every requesting thread in a subsection.

The problem with this is that most of the times, they're completely not what the OP is looking for. For example, this post: https://www.mc-market.org/threads/663376/#post-4828878 where the OP has "dedicated server" in the title yet this person offers minecraft hosting nowhere close to the specs the OP is looking for.

Suggestion:
Make it against the rules to advertise products/services not meeting the requirements outlined by the OP on a requesting thread.

Example:
If this is my post:
I am looking for an dedicated server with at least 32GB of ram and 3.7GHz. Please post offers below!

Posting this would result in warning points:
uSE cOdE GenErIcCoDe fOr 50% OfF minEcRafTPrOHoStIng EmeRaLd PlAn

Just report the post

 

[I_Luv_Cowz]

Just report the post

Its not against the rules rn though

They aren't spamming imo. they are just representatives tryna make some money by advertising their services.

They're advertising services that the OP clearly states they don't want.

 

[Ally]

Report the post, in this instance.

Several options:

1. 1.8 - imho the best option: the user is offering irrelevant services to the thread/their post is irrelevant.
2. 5.1 - admittedly a bit of a stretch seeing as the example you gave isn't a product/service thread: but the user is offering a non-requested/irrelevant service.
3. 5.2 - okay a bit stretch but for the more extreme cases: if the user offers a completely different product or service to the one the user is requesting, in a given category, then it's probably irrelevant to the category as a whole.

Make it against the rules to advertise products/services not meeting the requirements outlined by the OP on a requesting thread.

Sometimes this can actually happen accidentally or unintentionally. Not all products fit what a user is looking for. For this case, 1.8 is probably the most relevant, but for what you're saying - if a user offers a product they do think works, but the OP doesn't want that particular product because there's 1 thing it doesn't have, then it's not particularly the fault of the user, it's just that the OP's usecase doesn't fit it. It would be different if they explicitly specified it, because then the user would be intentionally ignoring it.

 

[I_Luv_Cowz]

Report the post, in this instance.

Several options:

1. 1.8 - imho the best option: the user is offering irrelevant services to the thread/their post is irrelevant.
2. 5.1 - admittedly a bit of a stretch seeing as the example you gave isn't a product/service thread: but the user is offering a non-requested/irrelevant service.
3. 5.2 - okay a bit stretch but for the more extreme cases: if the user offers a completely different product or service to the one the user is requesting, in a given category, then it's probably irrelevant to the category as a whole.

Sometimes this can actually happen accidentally or unintentionally. Not all products fit what a user is looking for. For this case, 1.8 is probably the most relevant, but for what you're saying - if a user offers a product they do think works, but the OP doesn't want that particular product because there's 1 thing it doesn't have, then it's not particularly the fault of the user, it's just that the OP's usecase doesn't fit it. It would be different if they explicitly specified it, because then the user would be intentionally ignoring it.

Well it’s kind of hard to overlook a requirement if it’s literally in the title, if you offer a dedicated server that has similar specs to what the OP is looking for I’m all for it, but if you offer something the OP specifically outlined they didn’t want/it’s obviously implied they want something else, this offense should be specifically against the rules so people stop doing it.

The purpose of this is not as much to find a rule to report these posts, but just to get people to stop doing it.