Quote Originally Posted by cyclonejohnny View Post
Hey There,

Once again another original question from a noob. How the hell do I operate this thing?

So I have joined and like most non annoying newbies avoided the temptation to jump on here and ask a lot of avoidable questions. Like hey "TD can you message me on the forum" or "what is the best Sub" so on and so fourth. I've just been straight up lurking reading as much as I can and trying to educate on what is crazy fascinating while daunting. Who new it would be looking into Timepieces on Hodinkee YouTube videos would lead me down the amazing road we call the replica path!

I am now however at the point of what do I do here, never being a forum member or the like, it seems there are some protocols in place.

My first hurdle is I would like to PM a TD however I can see that "Until my post count is 15" I cant contact anyone but staff.

Who is staff, I saw that you welcomed a member today, so assumed are you Staff?

Also what do I post, I dont want to just spam stupid ****.

Any help would be great.

Cheers in Advance,

Another muppet noob V1.0

God Damn it I just messaged this to a goddamn bot? Well there goes my credibility of being an informed individual.
@AnthonyG you may be able to assist with the above message to HAL?
Hi there, relax you haven't messaged this to a bot, at least i don't think i am one... lol

None of these questions are "noob-ish", more like newbie-ish but that's alright, everyone was a newbie one day.

To answer your first question - by staff we mean basically the guys who run this place, from the admins and founders (Brobert, AnthonyG, etc.) to moderators (mysterio, wimpie007) and section mods. Apart from running this forum, those guys also contact TDs (trusted dealers) if something goes south as well as often negotiate between members when something goes wrong in M2M transactions.

There is indeed a 15 post requirement in order to send PMs and often new members have trouble with it, perhaps administration one day will decide to lift this requirement.

What can you post? Well, pretty much everything mate, don't worry too much about it, most folks that we bust for spamming are lazy noobs who discover the 100 post requirement (in order to sell stuff) and are in a rush to get there, resurrecting five-year old threads on the way by pasting "Welcome from Tajikistan" ...

BTW if you want to contact TDs you may perhaps send them an e-mail rather than a PM, in fact i have never sent a PM to a TD, only e-mails. If you can't find an e-mail to a TD you can feel free to ask someone about it in the shoutbox or even open a thread about it, i've been in this game for years and even i have trouble finding TD's e-mail address sometimes. Current website address is usually much harder to find as websites get seized pretty often.