It pinged me too, but I was going to wait until somebody else said something.

I don't think this person is as lame as Christian Dollar Store, but if this is all they want to do, it seems out of place somehow.

Has this person delurked or contributed anywhere else on the board? Are they really here to join the community? I can't tell, I don't get on much myself these days.

I'm not saying we should get medieval on him/her/it.

I don't what I'm saying. Other than, "it pinged me too."

I get pinged if your very first post here is about selling your stuff. To me, that's one step away from spam.

IOW, I agree with Sean.

I agree, but I think in this case a quick "hey, that's not so cool here, but feel free to hang around and chat" note is the most I'd think would be required. And maybe removing the Beep Me post but leaving the in-thread?

I don't like it, but don't think it rises to the level of addressing, and as P-C points out, the person was polite.

The person pinged me, too, because I hadn't seen them on the board before. I'm not sure it's so much specifically unBuffista as poor general Netiquette. OTOH, after one post in Natter and one in Beep Me, they've gone quiet (unless there are others in threads I haven't subscribed to).

I'm less picky than some about Beep Me vs. Press, so I'll only say that it seems a lesser issue than introducing oneself by inviting people to a private auction.

Put me toward bullshit consensus on a note in Beep Me that such things really shouldn't be done. Nothing in Natter because the conversation has moved a long way on. And nothing to be done to the poster at this time.

I @@ and ignored.

I think that such posts are OK so long as they are polite and infrequent. If we start getting a lot of them, then we can discuss a formal rule.

Agree with Jon.

Heh. I was wondering when we were going to start discussing the spam...

I don't like seeing that sort of thing in Natter, (and I didn't even notice that the other post was in Beep Me instead of Press), but the tone of the post made it seem like a one-time thing, which, whatever.

I would just like to say that I love that no one tried to engage with the poster in thread and "set them straight" about "how we do things".

Yeah, it kinda made me raise an eyebrow when I read it, but OTOH, it was v. polite, and really, is something that we could, in theory, be interested in. If it repeated, I'd be against it, but...frankly, in among a bunch of "oh, I'm grey for the weekend" stuff, is it that shocking or out of place? I don't find it so bad.

I would just like to say that I love that no one tried to engage with the poster in thread and "set them straight" about "how we do things".

Well, speaking just for myself, I only saw the Beep Me post and Beep Me isn't the kind of thread where you get to do that.