I just boosted my posts by including a picture like this....
To answer your question, I am a new member that has never had a Facebook account and don't plan on having one. I regret not joining back in 08 or 09 when I first started reading this forum. I joined and became a site supporter because I thought it was the right thing to do. I have goneto the classified sections a couple of times just to see what is there. Since joining I haven't made any attempt to buy or sell anything.As websites like armslist and hoosiertopices continue to get worse and worse, I think we are starting to get influx of 50. This happened a lot after facebook started to prohibit the sales of firearms. Hoosiertopics is often just a bunch of nonsense and if I had a dollar for every ad and click bait "news article" on Armslist I could retire. I have had several contacts from "members" with only 50-60 posts that are barely legible that have a 18-19 join date. I am very curious at actually how many new "members" joined since facebook cracked down in mid 2017. I use the word "members" with reservations because they aren't here for the community. They're here for the classifieds. Maybe bump up the minimum posts to 100-150? It doesn't take that long if you actually enjoy discussing firearms and or 2A politics.
The only things I bought in the classys was through word of mouth anyway, wasn't looking for them. I'm only here to lower my IQ.
Another forum I am on, requires "continued participation" after the first 50. If they see people set up shop in the classifieds and stop participating elsewhere, they get the boot.
I just boosted my posts by including a picture like this....
I think he mean "elsewhere" as in other sections of INGO.
In other words, the guys that hit 50 in ten days back 2014 then have nothing but 40 WTS since then.
I am kind of in the boat where I am struggling to get my post count up because of a few reasons:
-I am new with a very low post count, so what do I know about firearms?
-I enjoy reading many of these posts and don't really have much to add to a majority of the conversations.
-I don't have any pictures to add to the "Women Posing for Pictures with Guns" section...I guess I could always use Google
But in all honesty, I think it's kind of overwhelming for a lot of newer members here because I am trying to have conversations with people that have 10k posts and probably forget what it's like to me in my shoes. Regardless, I have enjoyed this website so far and hope that I can stick around.