20 posts is a lot for some of us as I'd rather not be putting up useless comments like this to get a +1 seen several things I'd have wanted to buy but was not able to post. I can also see how to some people 20 posts is less than a hour of blanking away
Can you not introduce a rule of after a year joining auto acces to classifieds?
The admins and mods have considered and also proposed a number of options on the criteria
This is primarily a forum which is a place of discussion. Classifieds are a side area, and not a core area of the forum
People do come here just for the classifieds, but that's not considered a good enough reason to just open up access to people who aren't in the forum to contribute
The existing 3 options of:
Forum contribution of 20 (non spam) posts over 2 weeks
One year platinum membership
Lifetime platinum membership
.... give a pretty good all encompassing selection of options
Other than the forum, buyers can use paintball retailers (and support the U.K. market), buy second hand on eBay, Facebook, local papers, 'bring and buy' at walkons / events, car boot & jumble sales etc
Some of those are restricted such as the sale of guns, but there are valid and dodgy workarounds (valid - buy from somewhere that's not restricted or working around the rules such as buying a chocolate bar from a limited Facebook group)